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Seems as though that would be a lot cooler for Texas than Oklahoma.

The rich getting richer in the SEC...

Which lucky school gets kicked to the East?

It would make much more sense to have OU and UT in the B1G. The West gets a helmet boost, to 3 total, matching the East.

Mizzou goes West, the Alabama twins head East. 

For Texas it is the dream scenario. They would be in a division with their three biggest rivals in aTm, Oklahoma and Arkansas. 

Then on top of that they get to develop a rivalry with LSU.

It sucks for the Mississippi sisters, as they are basically not even in the SEC anymore. 

Texas A&M as a condition of not blocking it

Do you really think aggie would dodge us and go to the east

I dont think so

I don't think permanent divisions work with a 16 team league.

The SEC plays eight league games per year. If there are eight teams in a division you'd only have one non-divisional game per year. If you had a fixed crossover you would NEVER play any of the other teams.

Even without a fixed crossover it would take eight years to play each of the non-divisional teams and you'd go 16 years between hosting each non-divisional opponent.

Think about that in lifetime terms with a team that your team hosted when you were in college at age 19, the hosting in your lifetime:

• Toddler 3
• College student 19
• 35
• 51
• 67
• 83

no law says you have to play everyone in your division every year

you could play 5 division games per a prearranged schedule and 4 other division games per a prearranged schedule

still leaving 3 ooc games

As has been discussed in the before time, a 16-team conference can be split into 4 pods and can be scheduled so that every team plays all the others every other year. 
9 game conf schedule of:
the other 3 teams in your pod (every year)
2 from each of the other 3 pods one year, the other 2 from each pod the next
3 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9
You see everyone else every 2 seasons
You play at your place and their place every 4 seasons
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I doubt the SEC would do this, as it makes too much sense.  Plus, the pods would be all wacky if the original 4 schools held the rest of the conference hostage again (although Tennessee might not want to play Alabama every year anymore).
If those 4 did insist on being in a pod together (AL, AU, UT, UGA), it would leave Florida with Carolina, Vandy, and Kentucky.
Texas, OU, A&M, and Arky would be a pod.
That would leave LSU with OM, MSU, and Missou, which would be a casserole, basically.
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Or people might insist LSU and Florida are in a pod, and you'd be left with some kind of toilet bowl pod remaining.