re: Should the SEC eliminate divisions?

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UGA NEVER considers SC a rival/must play team.

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If you have 3 permanent opponents, you're going to have some matchups like that. Who besides Auburn and Florida would constitute a "must play" opponent for Georgia? Tennessee? They didn't play UGA regularly until 1992--Kentucky and Vanderbilt have played UGA more regularly. You can't fulfill everyone's preference, and pairing UGA with USC is probably more about providing suitable matchups for USC, since they are on the eastern edge of the conference and lack the long history of playing other schools that the charter members have.

The real point of eliminating divisions is that you would play everyone in the league, home and away, in a four year cycle. Currently, it takes 12 years to do that. The other bonus is that you eliminate the possibility of a championship game mismatch, between an undefeated champion of one division and a much weaker champion of the other division (we have that possibility in the current setup, as evidenced by two Missouri appearances in the title game, and would still have it in a pod system).