SoTexAg91 said:

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New chatter that the SEC is after Clemson, FSU, Michigan and Ohio State too.
20 team mega conference? Hostile takeover of the NCAA?

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The chatter all stems from one tweet by Jack McGuire, who is the social media manager for the barstool college football podcast. And he's notorious for posting troll bait and satire. Not one serious outlet has reported anything independent of his tweet.

I'll gladly eat crow if it happens, because screw SCar and UF, but people buying into this so readily are making bigger fools of themselves than a lot of the meltdowns on here the past week.

LincolnBorglum79 said:

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The 4 team playoffs has become a bore. Bama and Clemson plus a couple others. Same thing every year. This appears to be the start of the expansion to 24 or even 32 teams into a super league. All games will be conference games.

NFL light. Schedules will rotate like the nfl does now. Heck fantasy football will even be possible with this structure.

You might even see a system where the bottom team drops out each year replaced by the lower level champion.

This probably happening over the next 12 months.

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Yep, this appears to be heading to a super league - and will be bad for all college football. Money will be fine for the teams, especially in the beginning, but the national interest will plummet. Then the money per team will start to decrease.

This league will be NFL Lite like you said. Half the SEC states have no NFL team so won't be much change in those states. But for the rest, why watch when they can tune into the NFL? The college game is different due to rivalries and the pageantry. This gets reduced with less teams. The more the college game turns into the NFL, the lower the interest.

It'll turn into hockey which has great fan interest in those cities but not nationally.

This is already set in motion and SEC will add 4 to 20 and stop pretty soon. You'll have 2 divisions and 4 pods of 5 teams.
For now, there will be 4 teams in each pod.

This has been coming since 2012 and both the SEC and Big 10 have been behind the push. Past 12 months created the bomb and timing. And all of these discussions with all worthy schools outside of those two conferences have been going on for months. Texas didn't approach the SEC, they approached both leagues and then ACC reached out to see if they could be the second big conference before being poached.

You honestly can't blame the SEC for going after the available brands that they could, when they could. Everyone is gonna have a few rivals in their backyards but on level playing field making a buttload of money.

We will have a few years of A&M, Texas, Ou and LSU in the same pod or maybe Arkansas. Not sure how they divide the other two pods of four at the moment but eventually they'll limit travel with pods somehow while being in a Super Conference finally. Auburn probably goes east imho because you'll still have one permanent rival outside of your pod.

My guess is that once 4 more schools are added, most likely Clemson, FSU, and either UNC-Duke or Virginia-VTech, whoever jumps first. Auburn and Mizzou will come back to the Western 2 pods. No way in hell the split the pods North and South as the North would be pretty ****ty. Just my take.

Nino Brown said:

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This is already set in motion and SEC will add 4 to 20 and stop pretty soon. You'll have 2 divisions and 4 pods of 5 teams.
For now, there will be 4 teams in each pod.

This has been coming since 2012 and both the SEC and Big 10 have been behind the push. Past 12 months created the bomb and timing. And all of these discussions with all worthy schools outside of those two conferences have been going on for months. Texas didn't approach the SEC, they approached both leagues and then ACC reached out to see if they could be the second big conference before being poached.

You honestly can't blame the SEC for going after the available brands that they could, when they could. Everyone is gonna have a few rivals in their backyards but on level playing field making a buttload of money.

We will have a few years of A&M, Texas, Ou and LSU in the same pod or maybe Arkansas. Not sure how they divide the other two pods of four at the moment but eventually they'll limit travel with pods somehow while being in a Super Conference finally. Auburn probably goes east imho because you'll still have one permanent rival outside of your pod.

My guess is that once 4 more schools are added, most likely Clemson, FSU, and either UNC-Duke or Virginia-VTech, whoever jumps first. Auburn and Mizzou will come back to the Western 2 pods. No way in hell the split the pods North and South as the North would be pretty ****ty. Just my take.

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Your take is terrible.

Don't like the pod system. Sounds gay.

Pods would allow for conference semi final and championship game. More $$$

Why are they being called pods. We can still call them divisions.

And how long before a team like Vandy gets the boot

BadAggie said:

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I am hearing chatter that this could also include USC, Notre Dame, Stanford, UCLA, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Each team will get one trillion dollars per season.

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I, for one, am shocked they've chosen to leave out the Yankees who's running this coup anyway?!

Everyone fails to see that you don't add two blue-bloods to the SEC conference and change the word division to pod.
You change the name of the conference to where the league teams are geographically.
The SEC hereinafter is to be referred to as either the Every American Territory Mega Expansion (EATME) league or the Half-way to China League.

Yep you can chalk it up for Ohio State, FSU, Clemson, and the likes of Michigan.

Womackster said:

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Michigan is not exactly South East

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Then SEC will annex Canada.