(02-25-2020 01:02 PM)Soobahk40050 Wrote:  

(02-25-2020 06:10 AM)XLance Wrote:  If the SEC were to be able to draw any schools away from the ACC it should be: Florida State, Clemson and Miami (to replace the departing and unwanted Vanderbilt).
There should be no further discussion.
Florida State and Clemson are the most SEC like in their approach to football. Plus they are the two biggest stadium schools in the ACC which would allow them to compete, dollar wise, in the middle of the SEC.
In Miami, playing in a pro stadium, and offering some pizzazz to the SEC could and would be competitive in the SEC and secure the entire state for viewership and recruiting.
Should Missouri also depart, which I think is logical, the ACC replacement should be Louisville. Rabid football fans with an expandable stadium, top ten baseball, and a basketball program to challenge Kentucky. Louisville basketball would give relevance to Kentucky and Tennessee (since those two struggle and will continue to struggle to recruit SEC caliber football players) in the modern SEC.


Miami, Florida, Florida State, Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina, Clemson, Tennessee
Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Louisville, Kentucky.

West Virginia and Vanderbilt join the ACC to become a 12 team league, and Missouri rejoins the Big 12 to boost them back to 10.

The SEC would be the undisputed king of college football and would routinely place three teams in an expanded 8 team college football playoff.

I won't critique your team choices, as we all have our favorites. However, I think your "three teams in an eight team playoff" shows why the plan is flawed. Imagine if the three SEC teams were Alabama, LSU, and Texas A&M. That is a third place team in the division, much less the conference. The same could happen in the east with Georgia/Clemson/Florida.

The SEC championship game would no longer matter. In fact, a scenario could exist where:

Georgia 11-1

Alabama 11-1 (with a loss to say Auburn)
LSU 11-1 (with a loss to Alabama)
Texas A&M 10-2 (only losses to LSU and Alabama)

LSU at 11-1 is basically locked in to the playoff because they don't have to play in the SEC championship game, and now that game hurts the loser more than helps the winner. Without the game, Georgia, Alabama and LSU are in. With it, the SEC winner is in, LSU is in, and depending on the score, all of a sudden Texas A&M jumps in.

Also, I think the domino effects of that result would be pretty awful:

3 SEC teams in the playoffs
Sugar Bowl is now 4th place team!
Capital One is 5th place?
Gator/Outback are 6th and 7th place! (Yes, I know they are in the Group of 6, but I still see them as one step above the rest)