re: Malzahn lobbying to move AU to the East

This seems to be the topic for Auburn every offseason but Auburn moving to the East would make things terribly unbalanced. Aside from the anomaly a few years ago of OM and State turning the West into a murder division for a very short time, the divisions are pretty much 3 teams on either side with Bama's ridiculous run making them a favorite every year.

UF beat LSU last year while UGA beat Auburn and Tennessee lost to Bama. The W-L records reflect a lot of parity.

Where the West has shown to be a better division has been in terms of the traditional cellar dwellers stepping up with OM and State having finally built programs that are better than UK and Vandy. TAMU seems destined to be a consistently good to mediocre team whereas SCAR has had both highs and lows in recent years. And of course, Mizzou had two decent years, particularly the first year they won the division (that was a really good team but it ran into a buzz-saw with AU being a team that really should've won a National Championship that year).

With Mullen at State, I think they will continue to be a respectable if up and down program. OM is in a mess and who knows how that will work out. At the same time USCe matches the rise of State. I'm not certain that Mizzou sees similar success again with everything going against them.

All that said, if it didn't imbalance things so much I'd love to see Auburn in the East. I just don't think it would be the sure fire way to win a division the way so many West homers and media seem to think. The available facts don't really support that.