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SEC Football Realignment: NW vs SE
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:47 pm
The SEC West is 11-1 the past 12 years in the SEC title game.
I read a bleacher report article from a few years ago. This is what they offered
Northwest Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vandy
Southeast Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, MSU, Ole Miss, SC
Southeast is probably too stacked but it keeps in-state rivals together.
I think a more practical switch would be just bring Mizzou to the West and Auburn to the east. Just would have to figure is Bama keeps UT as cross rival or drops them for Auburn.
Auburn, Georgia and Florida as upper teams in east and Bama and LSU as traditional top teams in the west.
Flame away
I read a bleacher report article from a few years ago. This is what they offered
Northwest Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vandy
Southeast Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, MSU, Ole Miss, SC
Southeast is probably too stacked but it keeps in-state rivals together.
I think a more practical switch would be just bring Mizzou to the West and Auburn to the east. Just would have to figure is Bama keeps UT as cross rival or drops them for Auburn.
Auburn, Georgia and Florida as upper teams in east and Bama and LSU as traditional top teams in the west.
Flame away
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Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:49 pm to Haricougar
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Northwest Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vandy
Just pencil in Jimbo for 9 of the next 10 years.
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:50 pm to Haricougar
Bama couldn’t handle a year without playing their real rival and it’s not the iron bowl
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:52 pm to Haricougar
I really don't care at this point. As long as they choose to alternate the sec title game between sites throughout the sec footprint instead of being in atl every year. Lsu is going to get theirs no matter what the alignment is and who we play. Geaux Tigers.
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:54 pm to Farmer1906
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Just pencil in Jimbo for 9 of the next 10 years
Jimbo at LSU now????
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:56 pm to ImayGoLesMiles
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As long as they choose to alternate the sec title game between sites throughout the sec footprint instead of being in atl every year.
Why do people want this to be a thing? Is it because you want the SEC Championship Game to be in New Orleans every couple of years or something?
Posted on 4/18/21 at 7:57 pm to Haricougar
Wow northwest division is very weak aside from A&M
Posted on 4/18/21 at 8:23 pm to Haricougar
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Northwest Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vandy
Southeast Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, MSU, Ole Miss, SC
This just makes the Southeast Division the new power division.
The real fix is to move Mizzou to the West and Auburn to the East. I don’t think that will happen until the P5 splits off from the rest of the FBS and the SEC likely adds 2 more conference games to each member’s regular season schedule. They’ve got to keep the Iron Bowl. It is worth too much money to the contract broadcasters.
This post was edited on 4/18/21 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:02 pm to Haricougar
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Northwest Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Mizzou, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vandy
Easy mode?
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:09 pm to Haricougar
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The SEC West is 11-1 the past 12 years in the SEC title game.
Yes, and this means the west produced the best team 11 of the past 12 years. However, it does not mean the west is better. A better barometer would be head to head. Now I bet the west wins most years but not 11 out of the last 12. My point is that the divisions are closer than that stat suggest.
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:12 pm to Diego Ricardo
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The real fix is to move Mizzou to the West and Auburn to the East.
Mizzou will likely surpass Auburn in the next few years. Don’t know how this balances things out.
If LSU doesnt fall apart, trading them for Tenn/Vandy is the only way to even things out.
If LSU doesn’t improve much, the divisions will be about the same except for Bama.
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:49 pm to PlateJohnsonIII
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Mizzou will likely surpass Auburn in the next few years. Don’t know how this balances things out.
If LSU doesnt fall apart, trading them for Tenn/Vandy is the only way to even things out.
If LSU doesn’t improve much, the divisions will be about the same except for Bama.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Auburn’s last 3 coaches have won an SEC title, 2 have had an undefeated season, 2 coached in a national title game, and 1 won a national title.. By all indications Mizzou is closer to being a sort of Arkansas of the East: a pretty consistent middle of the division team that sometimes sneaks their way to the SECCG.
I think making this trade is exactly how you balance this out now that it seems Tennessee may never get themselves righted in the new 21st century realities. If it seemed like that Tennessee would unfrick themselves, I’d argue against switching teams around but Tennessee could be the South’s Nebraska. The circumstances that led to the 90s dominance of UT seems to be eroded entirely - their rapid adoption of primarily national recruiting - and their state has never been great for football recruiting. Everyone has a national recruiting program now and the way you recruit well on the national level is consistently winning big. Tennessee needs that national talent to win big but they can’t win big because they don’t have the national talent. They’ve got to have something beats the cycle but one fluke good year ain’t going to do it.
This post was edited on 4/18/21 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:56 pm to Diego Ricardo
You know 7 of those 11 west wins are Alabama. If they were move a team in order to even the divisions, then it would be Alabama. But then Bama would start winning the East, and then the SECCG more often than not like they do now in the west. Nothing really changes. 
Posted on 4/18/21 at 10:23 pm to nicholastiger
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Posted on 4/18/21 at 10:26 pm to PlateJohnsonIII
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Mizzou will likely surpass Auburn in the next few years.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 7:21 am to nicholastiger
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Bama couldn’t handle a year without playing their real rival and it’s not the iron bowl
Yeah, That Tennessee series is long and storied
You might have noticed Alabama does not want to give it up.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 7:31 am to Haricougar
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Flame away
Put the barners in the east. Play 9 conference games like a man. All problems solved.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 7:35 am to Haricougar
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I think a more practical switch would be just bring Mizzou to the West and Auburn to the east. Just would have to figure is Bama keeps UT as cross rival or drops them for Auburn.
This should have been done when Mizzou and A&M joined.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 7:46 am to nicholastiger
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Bama couldn’t handle a year without playing their real rival and it’s not the iron bowl
9&1 the last 10 games and 54-26-5 overall doesn't make for much of a rivalry.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 8:00 am to bamameister
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Put the barners in the east. Play 9 conference games like a man. All problems solved.
Iron Bowl or TSIO would have to end. That would be a deal breaker for many between UT-UA-AU
I like the 9 game schedule, but too many can't get past the unbalanced H-A schedule. I think a 4 home, 4 away, 1 neutral site game could solve that problem. Plus, all of the teams who rarely get a neutral site game can get the experience and split the revenue for an extra SEC game.
It might be unpopular, but LSU actually moving East and Mizzou West seems to solve most problems in balance of power between the divisions for football.
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