re: 20-Team SEC

Missouri should replaced. They bring 0 value to the SEC

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If the Big Ten goes to 20, the SEC will match

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Those "Alliance" colleges are suddenly hearing and seeing Sankey's warning that that 12 team playoff offer may not be there next time. It won't. Even if the Big 10 and SEC stuck at 16 teams each like now, they could offer tv networks a bid option on a playoff (12 team? 8 team?) between those conferences, and they would win the tv bidding war against any other conferences or the NCAA. Those two conferences could also monitor cheaters within each conference better than the NCAA, which has lost its use.

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That GoR won’t stop the biggest players or the networks from getting what they want.

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It will when the rights extend to 2036.

P.S. Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Tulane should all be added before Miami (the trashiest fanbase in the country), and if I'm being honest, I would add Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, and Virginia Tech before Miami, too.

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Simply pointing out your claim of keeping the traditional rivalries when it was really just Ole Miss and Alabama. Also, why would I bitch about being one of two schools to keep two of there primary rivalries. That’s big brain stuff right there.

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It preserves a lot of the major rivalries, notably Georgia-Florida, Alabama-Auburn, Alabama-Tennessee, LSU-OM, OM-MSU, Florida-LSU. Not to mention Texas-Texas A&M, Texas-OU, FSU-Clemson, and Clemson-South Carolina in the expansion divisions.

Georgia probably loses the most here (Auburn and Tennessee), but they keep Florida at least. Best I've tried, I can't come up with a better solution, you're going to necessarily lose some rivalries not matter how you divide up 20 schools into four divisions. And it's almost impossible to balance the power perfectly without having divisions that make no sense on other fronts.

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I don’t care to “do better” on your imaginary conference alignment with schools who are currently in conference. I simply ingested your context and found it shite soup.

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You're posting in a thread called "20-Team SEC" and yet you are complaining about imaginary conference alignment. I think you might need a morning coffee.

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You seem incapable of taking criticism.

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Criticism is great, but we're going to have to disagree that this would qualify as such. You're not offering anything constructive here.

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Sounds like the ACC teams are locked in with their deal. Don't see any reason to have more than 16 teams either. I think either the PAC 12 or Big 12 ended up raiding the other one.

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This is the answer.

Update of divisions.

Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Arkansas
Missouri

Alabama
LSU
Auburn
Ole Miss
Mississippi State

Georgia
Florida
Tennesee
Kentucky
Vandy

Clemson
Florida State
Miami
South Carolina
North Carolina

I like the idea of having Virginia Tech in the SEC. I appreciate their football fan base.

Add West Virginia to this conversation if we go to 24 SEC teams.

Anyone with a lukewarm fan base is a no go for me.

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Bring back Georgia Tech

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Only on the condition of running a modern offense.

*Rough Draft*

B1G divisions with 4-1-3 permanent opponents:

USC - Notre Dame
Oregon - Ohio State
Washington - Penn State
Standford - Michigan State
UCLA - Wisconsin

Wisconsin - UCLA
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Northwestern

Ohio State - Oregon
Michigan - Wisconsin
Michigan State - Stanford
Illinois
Indiana - Purdue

Notre Dame - USC
Penn State - Washington
Rutgers
Maryland
Purdue - Indiana

This division is a no-brainer.

Win and you're in the playoffs.

The top two highest-ranked teams would still get into the playoffs. Keeping fan bases upbeat.