I would use the 3-4-4-3 pod system also. Mine would be:

West:
Texas A&M
LSU
Arkansas

Upper:
Missouri
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
Tennessee

Lower:
Ole Miss
Miss St.
Alabama
Auburn

East:
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida

One year the divisions would be Lower-East and Upper-West. Then the next year the divisions would be Upper-East and Lower-West. There would be 8 games a year. 6 games in your division and 2 others.

In the Upper and Lower pods, All schools would have 3 permanent rivals. 2 of them would have one from each of the other pods. Because East and West only have 3 teams, another school would have 2 rivals from the other 4 school pod and a rival from the East. The last school would be the same as the previous school except have its rival from the West.

In the East and West pods, the schools would have only 2 rivals: one from the Upper pod and one from the Lower pod. The East and West pod schools would rotate between each school in the other 3 school pod each year.

To me this is a better system than would we got now. The schools in the Upper and Lower pods play every body every 2 years. The schools in the East and West pods play every school in the Upper and Lower pods every 2 years and play every school in the remaining pod every 3 years.

Plus we can preserve all the permanent rivals we have now.