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Sec conference east and west6/21/2023 SEC West order of finish: 1. Alabama 2, Texas A&M, 3. Arkansas, 4. Here's how it stacks up with Kirby Smart's Aria Gerson, The Tennessean Saban extended: Nick Saban gets contract extension through 2030. This time it's Will Anderson's turn to lift the Heisman, though. If last year was the rebuild, I don't want to see what rebuilt looks like. This SEC (and national) title game matchup won't get old anytime soon. Top coaches: SEC football coaches ranked: Kirby Smart nips at Nick Saban's heels then who? | Toppmeyer Bennett Durando, Montgomery Advertiser : 22 questions I have about SEC football teams for the 2022 season | Toppmeyerīest of the best: Meet the USA TODAY Sports Network Preseason All-SEC football team for 2022 Here is how experts from the USA TODAY Sports Network see that race going, with predictions on the order of finish in each division, the SEC title game, the CFP and the national championship. If past results are any indication of future performance, one or more of those teams will advance to the College Football Playoff. That's the start of a three-month conference title chase where 14 teams will compete to win their divisions and make the SEC Championship Game. SEC football play begins Saturday when Vanderbilt visits Hawaii, and the league a full slate of games scheduled next week. Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC is far from a lock to happen, but it’s fun to speculate on how a realigned mega-conference would look.Watch Video: What SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said about future SEC football scheduling Sometimes where there’s smoke there’s fire on these kind of things. Texas and Texas A&M would be in different pods, and play every other year. Of course with the realignment would come the loss of some annual games. The big crossovers with Texas and Oklahoma in the pod alignment (Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Florida) would be interesting, with at least a couple lined up to happen every year. Some Southwestern Conference throwbacks would also come, annually or not (Texas-Arkansas, Texas A&M-Arkansas). Instead of two divisions, the proposal has four, four-team “pods.” A bump to nine conference games is natural, while maintaining many annual rivalry games (Alabama-Auburn, Oklahoma-Texas, Georgia-Florida, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, Tennessee-Vanderbilt, Georgia-South Carolina).Īn interesting new annual game in this SEC pod realignment (which would also come in the aforementioned division reshuffle) is a Big 8 throwback, Oklahoma-Missouri. SEC Network, the league’s own TV channel, has some ideas. Right on cue, the ESPN-owned SEC Network has already outlined how conference realignment for football could look with Texas and Oklahoma in. Sometimes, media partners help drive stories and narratives. SEC East: Alabama, Georgia, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vanderbilt SEC West: Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri If the SEC maintained two football divisions, here’s how they might look like if Texas and Oklahoma were in. What would realignment look like if Texas and Oklahoma join SEC? Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork said the Aggies want to be the only SEC team in the state of Texas, after leaving the Big 12 themselves. As if it wasn’t already good enough, the SEC would become a super conference with 16 teams. Their exit would lead to the dismantling of the Big 12, and that’s not an exaggeration. Texas and Oklahoma are two of the biggest brand names in college football, even if the Sooners are the only of the two who have backed it up with results on the field lately. An attempt at a denial from both schools naturally followed, as did expected reactions. On Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle reported Texas and Oklahoma have contacted the SEC about joining the conference. Could Texas and Oklahoma join SEC country? If so, here’s what realignment might look like.
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