Final Southeastern Conference re-alignment (A true "Southeastern" conference)

The SEC West is a cakewalk here

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The SEC West is a cakewalk here

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LSU, Oklahoma and Texas A&M doesn't exactly equate to a cakewalk, but yea the East is hilariously stupid good.

Don't care, would love.

I don’t want Oklahoma in the SEC. I missed that

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I'm Ok with your solution. Dropping Missouri gives the conference a lot of options in the East, and that's why I started with removing them from the equation

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I get it. In hindsight I think anyone will admit that adding Mizzou may have been a mistake. But what is done is done and they are now one of us IMO.

I think adding Oklahoma and Clemson would give us the most bang for our buck.

Big 10 bound for us and this would be sweet.

So we will have two separate 8 team conference with little cross over.

The original expansion failed and the SEC had to settle for Arkansas and South Carolina.

Texas was the #1 target. The Ole Miss chancellor was named head of the SEC expansion because he was a Texas graduate.
Texas Politics got in the way.
Should have been Texas and Florida State in 1990 or Texas and Texas A&M.

Arkansas and South Carolina were options #5 and #6.

Your post is completely incorrect. Frank Broyles intiated the contact with Doug Dickey( one of his former assistants) who was at Tennessee at the time. Broyles and Arkansas were the catalyst for expansion at the time, because the SWC was so corrupt that several programs were either serving probation or had recently. Broyles and the fan base had grown tired, and wanted something else.
Arkansas was option one, and at the time, Broyles felt like he could talk Darryl Royal ( his close friend) and Texas into joining Arkansas.
Politically, Texas could not abandon the SWC, so Florida State was courted afterward. Eventually, South Carolina was settled on to get the twelfth team, so a championship game could be played based on the current NCAA rules in place.
Btw, don’t take my word for it, there’s actually an in depth article in circulation that goes into more detail on the timeline,etc.
I’m sure I left out a few items of note.