(04-14-2022 02:30 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-14-2022 01:57 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  32? What the heck.

SEC - west
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Arkansas
Baylor
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Kansas
(Texas & their old buds again? SEC is asking for headaches.)

SEC - central
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Mizzou
Arkansas
Texas A&M
(Let Mizzou, Texas A&M, & Arkansas have their freedom from the first group.)

SEC - east south
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Clemson
NC State
Miami
(I like this one the most.)

SEC - mid-atlantic
Virginia
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Duke
Vanderbilt
Louisville
Kentucky
(Not the toughest, but need one with respectable compatibility.)

Here are the likeliest to the least likely options:

SEC at 20:

Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Auburn, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida State/Miami

Alabama, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt

Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M


SEC at 24:

Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia, Virginia Tech

Clemson, Florida, Florida State/Miami, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina

Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M


SEC at 32 (at this size a P2 only emerges and I have a hard time seeing the upside)

Duke, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, South Carolina, Tennessee

Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt

Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech

I had to correct my post. Screwed-up placing LSU & had Arkansas incorrectly.

Yes, I expect to be fewer also.

Incremental adding may happen vs a larger bulk at once. Adding ACC schools may be the exception.

B12 schools can sit where they are until someone comes calling. I seriously doubt the SEC wants to pursue schools such as Baylor and TTU.

Wake, GT, and Miami, for example, may be a stretch as to being ACC schools that end up in the SEC. But I won't say it is impossible.