I hate No east and west divisions

Pods.

Take down that Bama flag Sport. You're fooling anybody. You actually work for this site. (with your other 20 names)

Naa...You guys always cried about the East being weak.

They had AQ status instead of taking the 2 best SEC teams and the schedules often stayed unbalanced for long periods of time. The east probably hardest in the 2000s, then the west for the 2010s, etc.

The problem now is we have too many teams for anything to really be great. The overall format is better, but with so many teams you can easily get 2 teams that have played the opposite ends of the league in terms of strength.

Oh, and the SECCG is becoming the SEC punishment game for the 2nd year in a row as the best path is sitting at home and being the #5 seed. Top 4 would be great if you didn't have to play in the championship game to get there.

But take a look at Oregon, skips the conference championships gets JMU instead as a cupcake game. Ole Miss gets Tulane - a team they scheduled as one of their cupcakes for this season.

But divisions won't fix that obviously. Probably just gonna end up going win% as the best way if they don't fix the playoffs.

With Oklahoma and Texas joining, who would’ve been sent to the east? Auburn? It was already weird with Missouri being an east team.

I don't want to agree with you, but I do. This "super conference" bullshite sucks.

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With Oklahoma and Texas joining, who would’ve been sent to the east? Auburn? It was already weird with Missouri being an east team.

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Send Oklahoma east, playing Texas as cross divisional rival. All important games preserved.

We’ll never get to buy fake rings again!

Both Alabama schools would go East, Missouri would go west

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Ole Miss gets Tulane - a team they scheduled as one of their cupcakes for this season.

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Fair point, except for the “cupcake.” Tulane isn’t a powerhouse and wouldn’t be in playoffs except as an AQ. But all this talk about playing out of conference “cupcakes” ignores the fact that teams can be a lot better (or worse) than when they were scheduled.

Tulane this year played 8 bowl-bound teams to an 11-2 record, including wins over an 11-win North Texas in the CCG, a win over the ACC champion (even tho it was Duke), and a 3 touchdown win over a 6-6 big 10 team.

Except for OSU, Notre Dame, Miami, and Michigan, Tulane was the strongest out of conference opponent for any SEC school this year. With a head coach just hired in the SEC. Beatable, yes. Cupcake, no.