SEC Expansion Question

The SEC has already said we aren’t doing pods or divisions.

IF Google or Apple give the SEC enough money, they will go to pods or whatever they call them.

It may be that we end up with 2 more playoffs.
G5 and P5.

I said OVER 16 teams WILL require divisions/pods because non-divisions will almost guarantee schools with the same records.

Say, for example, you have 18 schools. Keeping 3 perm makes it a 3/7/7. Yet UGA will vote AGAINST a 10 game conf. schedule because in a 12 game season, you only have 1 free slot for anybody (GT will be #11) while eveybody else has 2 slots.
20 schools is 3/8/8, 2 10-team groups, or 4 5-team groups.

As you can see, anything OVER 16 will require some kind of format.

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That way you can play at least one home and one away game against every sec team in a four year period.

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This is the dumbest thing when you can play H/A & NOT lose any important games in a 6 year format (4 sets of 4 teams)
Y1/4: Groups A/B vrs. Groups C/D
Y2/5: Groups A/C vrs. Groups B/D
Y3/6: Groups A/D vrs. Groups B/C

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Think about this:
1 - The B1G WILL EXPAND again.
2 - Whether #1 happens or not, the XII &/or ACC will collapse...therefore those teams will go to B1G or SEC. (You honestly think the ACC will keep steady for another 12-13 years?)
3 - P12 is on life support. They'll either dissolve (moving teams to B1G or elsewhere) OR they'll drop to a G5 status. (However, you know Oregon WILL be snagged by somebody...probably making #1 a definite reality.)

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The B1G will expand to 16 teams. So will the ACC and PAC12. Both are already actively courting new members. Add the SEC and there are your four super conferences.

The PAC 12 will absorb worthy Big 12 leftovers ... losing the LA market, with the loss of SoCal and UCLA, is painful for them but not a killer. The ACC, already at 15 members, will absorb a worthy Big East leftover or maybe a Conf USA member or former Big 12 member like WVA. Maryland really hurt the ACC when they bailed to-go to the B1G. The ACC would actually like to expand to 20 if they coukd add the states they're currently missing along the east coast plus add Memphis State in an effort to get some of the Tennessee market and, in doing-so, they could claim to-be the largest land mass conference in the country.

The ACC's problem is, and always has been, Tobacco Road.

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I doubt we expand beyond 16.

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I disagree.

The end game of all of this is for the Big 10 and the SEC to both go to somewhere between 20 - 24 teams. Then, their champions play for the national title. All of the $ that matters is shared between those 2 conferences.

My prediction ... before there is more talk about additional expansion, there will be the discussion about what to do about replacing Texas - if the SEC even bothers - when the Short Horns leave for greener pastures. My only question is if Oklahoma follows them to the PAC-Whatever.

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SEC Expansion Question by ScoggDog
My prediction ... before there is more talk about additional expansion, there will be the discussion about what to do about replacing Texas - if the SEC even bothers - when the Short Horns leave for greener pastures. My only question is if Oklahoma follows them to the PAC-Whatever.

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So, you'll think they leave despite the increase in $ staying in the SEC?

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doubt we expand beyond 16.

10 or 12 is a conference.

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Is there money to be made in expanding? Yes, assuming it's the right teams. Therefore, we will expand.

Candidates:
Kansas
Arizona
FSU
Clemson
VT
UVA
NC State
UNC

There are rumors FSU has found a way to get out of the ACC Grant of Rights. If true, the B1G and SEC will split the valuable ACC teams.