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Where does Mizzou end up in divisions?

I had to read up on Baton Rouge history when writing my Book 3. 

I think it makes the most sense to move Mizzou to the West, so you can move both Auburn and Alabama to the East.

Also, geographically, it makes sense for Mizzou to be in the West.

looks like the SEC and the Big 12 to me

except ya swapped out the Mississippi schools for Okie St and Texas Tech

same same

Where does Mizzou end up in divisions?

I had to read up on Baton Rouge history when writing my Book 3. 

I'm no help there.  State history was 8th grade, and I got moved to GA for that, so I learned all about Georgia, and never about Louisiana.  Formally, anyway.  I've got some books I bought in my 20's because I felt like I missed out on something.  

I still remember miscellaneous facts about GA from 8th grade.  Don't know why.  Maybe because I spent the whole year irked that I was forced to learn about a state I planned on leaving asap.  Moved back to LA between 9th and 10th grade and resumed being a coonass.  I thought it was a wasted 2 years at the time.

In retrospect, there was a fair bit to like about GA.  Speaking as an old fart, the seasons were better.  Macon had an actual fall and the leaves turned some nice colors.  Also some nice hills, which I like.  You don't get that around here.  

It is where I uncovered the SEC family snob mentality, though.  This was the earlyish 90's, LSU was pretty bad, my dad used to try to change the subject to baseball when people talked sports, LSU was dominating that at the time.  But occasionally he'd encounter a Tech fan and roll his eyes and explain to me afterwards that "we" can abide UGA fans, because they're of our tribe, but Tech is just an SEC throwaway that played in a wuss conference, against wuss teams, and was in no way to be thought of in the same sense as UGA.  In other words, if UGA give you grief, well, our home team is just going to have to do better, take your lumps and wait for fortune to turn.  If a Tech fan yaps at you, they are not worthy, throat punch them if they don't shut up.

Well....okay, that's not what he said, but that seems to capture the overall gist.  

Here's the Divisions and x-div rivals I listed on the Pods/Divisions thread on the SEC board.  You could change up the x-div rivals if there are some that make more sense, of course.

East                        West
Alabama                  LSU
Auburn                    Ole Miss
Georgia                    Miss State
Florida                      Texas A&M
Kentucky                  Arkansas
Vanderbilt                Missouri
Tennessee                Texas
South Carolina          Oklahoma

South Carolina?  Thanks for nothing.

Absolutely nothing? 

I mean, I guess there's a case to be made that 10-15% of the Civil War wasn't about slavery--not sure how good of one--but not at all about slavery?  That stretches credulity, even for Alabama public education.  

Lately I've had interest in reading some topic-specific history that references and cites original sources.  It's been neat because I never thought much about how historians know history.  I've learned a bit about their methodology, criteria for holding that historical documents are likely accurate and true, and found some of these documents online to read for myself. 

There's been a few mild surprises in what historical sources actually say compared to what I remember learning in history books.  Not anything major, like we covered up aliens or something.  Just some things here and there that look like authors either didn't process the full scope of available material or else decided to skip over a few things.

In most cases.  There are some things in widespread use out there that are egregious.