(04-04-2018 10:34 AM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  The only rumors I've heard about Oklahoma are that OU and OSU have to come together, and I don't think the SEC wants (or needs) both. Personally, I'd like West Virginia or Virginia Tech, and Duke or North Carolina. I'd even be willing to take both Duke and North Carolina if they have to come together.

Florida State joining would be awesome, but Florida would be totally against that so it isn't going to happen.

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this almost 150-page thread, but I really like the idea of 16 teams with 4 team divisions. I envision the divisions something like this:

West: TAMU, (insert one Big 12 team or Nebraska here), Arky, LSU
Central: Bama, Ole Miss, MS State, Auburn
North: Mizzou, TN, UK, Vandy
East: Florida, Georgia, USC, (insert one of VT, WVU, NC, Duke, Florida State, whatever)

These would obviously change based on which teams move into the conference, but I see the scheduling like this:

Play each team from your division each season (3 games), 1 permanent rival from another division to preserve rivalries, and then 2 games from the divisions that don't include your rival and 1 game from the division that does include your rival each season. That's 10 conference games, and I realize that's high. So it could be adjusted to a 9 game schedule where instead of the 2 and 1 games in other divisions each team could play 4 games against other division teams on a rotating schedule, with the caveat that each team plays every team in the conference at least once every 4 years. I believe that is doable.

FYI (#2)
The probability that Duke and or North Carolina would ever want to join the SEC is pretty close to zero.