re: League Imbalance Update: The march towards 0-14

If the SEC weren't planning any more expansion they should split the SEC along actual nearer geographic lines:



East:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn

West:
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Vandy
Missouri

This not only actually puts teams in a more correct geographical locations and addresses the imbalance you cite but eliminates the justification for the "permanent opponent" as Alabama vs. Tennessee and Auburn vs. Georgia are now intra-divisional games and Alabama and Auburn can continue to play each other each year, which seems to be the major consideration of the SEC in scheduling. Then the SEC could get to a true rotation of the opposite division and have each team play all conference teams more often than once a decade.

But since this would conceivably benefit LSU I know I will be accused of proposing it simply for that reason. I also don't think we'd see any talk of this until the SEC gets to 16 teams and where those teams come from (say we get NC State and Virginia Tech- they obviously go East; Oklahoma obviously goes West).

Personally, I see a lot in the the roommate switch to like, but I know that realignment isn't really the subject at hand.