So if Texas and Oklahoma join does Auburn go to the east? Possibly Bama too?

No "if" to it. 14-0 ruling passed. They comin'. Also, wouldn't bet on there being West and East divisions any longer.

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For the millionth time. They’re doing 4 team divisions. So stop asking.

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There will not be PODS.

LSU, A&M, the MS schools

UT, OU, MIZ, ARK

Bama, Aub, Tenn, Vandy

UK, UGA, SC, UF.

Do you mfs live under a rock? This model has literally been everywhere online and TV the past 4 days. It’s a better model than 14 teams because you see every SEC team on your campus in a 4 year period and on the road in a 2 year period. We’d play Bama every other year rotating. Only teams we play yearly are the ones in our division. Aka we keep our classic Magnolia Bowl rivalry

Yep. Auburn and Alabama move to the SEC East and Alabama instantly makes UGA and Florida their bitch.

LSU replaces Alabama in the SEC West as the top dog, and because all of the best of the best recruits want to play for the top dog, LSU will inevitably get the greater bulk of them because no one in the SEC West will be able to compete with Ed O on the recruiting front.

Meanwhile, LSU and Alabama will still play on an annual basis, but on a neutral field for the SEC title.

Then when the new expanded College Football Playoff begin in the not too distant future, both LSU and Alabama will be in it every year.

Hence, as an LSU fan, I support the addition of OU and Texas to the SEC West, with Auburn and Alabama moving to the SEC East. As geographically it makes the most sense.

This is going to be it. You’ll play every team home and away every four years. Play your pod and then play 6 additional games. It’s the most even way to load the pods so that they’re not top heavy nor one school gets easiest path.

Ole Miss, State, LSU, A&M
Arkansas, Mizzou, Texas, Oklahoma
Auburn, Bama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky USCe

No

When a&M and mizz was on the verge of being added, auburn said they would move east. Anything is possible.

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Pods won't happen.

How can you have a championship game with no divisions or round robin? What if three teams go 9-0? That can happen with pods. So they just take the two teams ranked highest in the CFP rankings? Then non-conference games are the difference in determining the SEC champion.

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In your scenario, I would use winning % of the teams each of those 3 teams defeated (only SEC games). The 2 that beat the most challenging schedule, advance.

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How can you have a championship game with no divisions or round robin? What if three teams go 9-0? That can happen with pods. So they just take the two teams ranked highest in the CFP rankings? Then non-conference games are the difference in determining the SEC champion.

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Posted elsewhere but this is a better thread for it.

Have two pods form a division with the two rotating around. Pods A & B form a division for two years, then pods A&C, then pods A&D. Same with the other two. Each team plays each other in the division plus one or two others.

1. Pretty simple format
2. Nice round robin of play with playing each non-pod team at least 2 of every 6 years (some more depending on how you fill out the 2 extra games).
3. Even get to compete directly in a division against every other team.
4. Retains the yearly games with pod members.

This isn't necessary now but if they expand beyond 16 you are going to have to do something like this or you'll end up with essentially two divisions that almost never play each other.

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o if Texas and Oklahoma join does Auburn go to the east? Possibly Bama too?
LSU, A&M, the MS schools

UT, OU, MIZ, ARK

Bama, Aub, Tenn, Vandy

UK, UGA, SC, UF.

Do you mfs live under a rock? This model has literally been everywhere online and TV the past 4 days. It’s a better model than 14 teams because you see every SEC team on your campus in a 4 year period and on the road in a 2 year period. We’d play Bama every other year rotating. Only teams we play yearly are the ones in our division. Aka we keep our classic Magnolia Bowl rivalry

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I wouldn't be so confident in your PODS are they are set up and how you rotate. Over 50 plus years old, saw my first LSU game in 1970 when Archie Manning came to TS.

Consider myself to be an historian of the league and as you get older you sort of see other Teams fans perspective regarding certain Traditions.

So as I have stated in several other posts, there are in the History of the SEC 4 games that meet the definition of "rival" game. By Rival I mean every alum of these schools, every Admin, every former and current player, and former and current coach and the average fan from age 5 to 100 views as a rival. These 4 games are

1) Auburn/Bama
2) UGA/Florida
3) Bama/TENN
4) Auburn/UGA

Your POD system as you described it does not maintain the UGA/Auburn game. So not happening unless you go to a 3 POD plus 1 permanent cross over and you rotate the other teams (1 to 11).

FYI, Ole Miss and State and Vandy and TENN are also games that will and should be played but your POD system takes care of those.

In addition, Texas/OU and Texas A&M and Texas. Those 2 games would also meet the definition of Rival games with lots of panache. Your POD system does not account for Texas and Texas A&M playing.

So each team having 3 mutually agreed Permanent opponents (which what your POD does based on some basic geographic clustering) with 6 teams in years 1 and 2, then the other 6 in years 3 and 4 will maintain all historic non-negotiable rivals and allow for every team to play every other team twice (home and home) in 4 years.

LSU's like permanents would be Ole Miss (game is viewed by segments of both fan bases as rival and is 1 of the 2 teams LSU has played the most), Texas A&M a game that has history before A&M came into the SEC and is a natural rival game (LSU with Texas would be A&M's top 2 rivals), and 3rd Florida (if they agree to it). LSU/Florida has the feel of a rival game and while the rhetoric with the fans as cooled down (good thing) now that Alleva and Foley are both gone, among the Players, this game is intense (always chipping going one). LSU would be after UGA, Florida's #2 SEC rival.

If Florida does not work out, then I would think Miss. State who with Ole Miss are the two teams we have played the most.