Texas & Oklahoma will join the SEC in 2024 [Update at Post #49]

They did avoid the sec championship

 

4 pods

4 team SEC playoff at minimum

= fair schedules
= deserving champion
= preserves rivalries and geography
= maximizes revenue

Something we all have to get used to is that losses are more likely for all teams. An undefeated year now will be closer to a 1-2 loss year in the future. .500 records will fall below .500 as cupcakes are removed from schedules

 

How about this? All the teams that were in the SEC 50 years ago will now be called the Real-SEC Division. All the teams that weren't in the SEC 50 years ago will be in the new Fake-SEC Division. The Real-SEC Division teams will only play other Real-SEC Division teams in conference play. The Fake-SEC Division will only play Fake-SEC Division teams. Then, cancel the Conference Championship Game. Fixed.

Oh, and while we're at it, finish off the reorganization by allowing only those NCAA NIL contracts that were in place 50 years ago to be permissible. So many issues solved...

 

Yes please

 

Nah, just sec champion. No bogus east banners. Four divisions

 

Yep, the only banners worth putting up are SEC titles and nattys.

 

100 million for those two....

yeesh.

 

Figured this would happen. My guess is we go to a 9-game conference schedule with 3 permanent rivals as stated in the article.

 

The last game at the swamp was really fun.

 

or to 12

 

True, with 3 permanent games, it is the closest thing to the "pods" format people were talking about.

 

That's a lot of money but the conference is also bringing in those other teams early as well. The cleaner scenario would be to have UT and OU leave in 2025 and those other 4 teams come in that same season.

 

UF and Okie annually makes no sense. It seems like they got it close, then lumped us in with them as they had a headache and wanted it to be done. Give us Aubie or LSU.

Give the 10 SEC teams preference, then add in the newbies to what makes sense geographically.

 

Not sure about that. Some matchups are no brainers like texas and LSU. Others are tougher to determine. We don't have a great deal of history with OU except for the 08 title game. We make as much sense for OU to play as Tennessee or a Mississippi.

 

I would rather have Georgia, South Carolina and Auburn as our permanent games. UF vs. Oklahoma as a permanent rival makes no sense to me, but who knows how they'll do it. I'm sure there will be a lot of behind-the-scenses politicking going on. Saban will probably get Vandy, Missouri & South Carolina and Georgia will get Vandy, South Carolina and Florida.