re: Malzahn lobbying to move AU to the East

What do the Missouri fans think about this? I guess the idea would be to move Missouri to the West.

Missouri would get A&M back on the schedule permanently.

Guess the Mississippi schools and LSU are closer than Georgia, Florida, and USC.

If somehow Kentucky or Vandy were the permanent cross opponent I think it would be a better deal honestly. But what do Mizzou fans think?

Hmmmm, assuming Auburn went to the east...

Do we really know for certain that Auburn/Alabama doesn't go away?

Remember they didn't play each other for 30 or 50 years or something till they picked it back up.

Who would the permanent opponents be in this situation?

LSU/Florida has been a thing since 71 or something. Though I think I've read both schools aren't so excited about having a perennially great team as the permanent opponent.

But:

LSU/Florida?
Alabama/(Tennessee or Auburn)?
Mississippi/
MSU/?
Arkansas/?
Missouri/?
A&M/(Please God, not South Carolina)

Probably make more sense for Auburn to play Alabama, and Tennessee/A&M.

So here's my pitch:

LSU/Florida
A&M/Tennessee
Alabama/Auburn
Mississippi State/South Carolina
Mississippi/Vanderbilt
Missouri/Kentucky
Georgia/Arkansas

Perfect. Tennessee and Georgia get the long road trips. Missouri gets as good a deal geographically as it can in this league.

The LSU/Florida game has been around for a while and it will be continued.

The rest of the SEC gets to stick an upraised middle finger in Bama and Tennessee's face. After roughly 90 years it's time.

What's not to like? Only thing that bugs me is whether MSU and Kentucky are attached to their particular game. My take is it means as much to them as the Arkansas game meant to USC fans. Not sure but I think the commute distance between our three schools is about the same regardless of pairing.