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Congrats on the retirement.  

I really just can't see either school waiting until 2024.  I honestly thought they would play in the SEC in 2022 last summer.  

Thanks, Gigem!
I'm ready to see the move take place.  But I think OU is not in such a hurry that they will pay out the nose to leave the Big 12.
Do you have any insight into how the SEC will be organized into pods or divisions?  Or whether it will it be one big group in which each team works rapidly through home-and-home series with the other 15 teams in the conference?

Just my own personal opinion...the SEC knows the new conference will be quite large and somewhat top heavy.  Especially WRT blue chip programs, and near blue chip programs.  And with the CFB powers slowly but surely shifting south I'm sure they are aware that they need to keep the SEC fresh and not stale.  

I think they will not do an East-West configuration, or if they do it will be in name only.  I think they will take a hybrid approach so that they can appease some of the more traditional matchups, but also be able to rotate through an entire conference schedule in a 4 year period.  The current iteration of the SEC barely works.  I don't even think A&M has played at every conference opponent's stadium yet, or maybe just once for all.  It really all depends on how badly they want to preserve the matchups like Bama/Tenn, etc.  
I think they will avoid calling them pods at all costs.  It won't matter anyways because even this new iteration of the SEC will only last < 10 years.  I think the top 50 NCAA teams will break out and form a new super league, and CFB as we know it will officially be dead.  

It really just depends on which rivalry’s they want to preserve the most. There are lots of ways to make it work, but not everybody will be happy about it. 

It will all hinge on what 3-4 schools decide. One will be Alabama.  The rest are debatable. 

Heard on the radio today that the SEC is currently having a "let's figure out what to do with the schedule after OU and Texas get here" meeting.

Speculation is about 3-6-6 or 1-7-7.  I can't imagine that the latter one would be the choice.  It would only allow one permanent rivalry to be preserved.

If preserving as many rivalries as possible is a high priority, 3-6-6 works well, even better than pods.

preserving as many rivalries as possible should be a high priority, 6-6-3 would work better, anything is  better than pods.

Is "6-6-3" a typo or a different concept than the 3-6-6 concept I described above?

Anyone here hear from 94,tain't seen a post for quite some time.Hope things are alright on his end

Yeah, that's a different concept.

What I was talking about, and what the SEC is talking about, is three teams you play every year, 6 teams you play two years out of four, and 6 other teams you play the other two years out of four.  With no divisions or pods.  Teams with the two best records at the end play in the CCG.