Is there enough talent remaining to create a super conference that would be competitive with the current SEC?

In terms of recruiting, no, and it isn't close. Combining all the other conferences yields a conference that's vastly inferior to the SEC. In the 5 year recruiting rankings, the SEC will now have 7 of the top 9 schools, with only Clemson and Ohio State coming in at 3rd and 5th.

Let's compare the new SEC to the rest of the world combined:

SEC - Other (5 year recruiting ranking)
Georgia (1) - Ohio State (3)
Alabama (2) - Clemson (4)
LSU (4) - Michigan (10)
Oklahoma (6) - Oregon (11)
Texas A&M (7) - Notre Dame (12)
Florida (8) - Penn State (14)
Texas (9) - Miami (15)
Auburn (12) - Florida State (17)
Tennessee (16) - USC (18)
MSST (22) - Washington (19)
Ole Miss (23) - Nebraska (20)

The list I'm using ends there, but it corresponds pretty will to the 247 team talent ranking.

The rest of the SEC should be around:
South Carolina (~25)
Arkansas/Kentucky (25-30)
Missouri (~50)
Vandy (~55)

I don't expect this comparison to change. I don't think there is enough talent left outside the SEC to produce a conference which is similar, even if you combine the remaining 3.5 conferences and Notre Dame.

The conference has a controlling interest in college football.

As long as everyone is **** posting, why not just completely drop these lying a-holes that run the SEC and join the B1G? That would again solve our t.u. problem, and we could recruit and dominate like never before.

That seems like a good way to have to re-apply to be part of the future of college football later.

Not only that, in the new era of NIL money, the 16-team SEC has 7 of the top 10 largest athletic budgets. The best of all the rest of the conferences combined is still a distant second.

The 4 super conferences theory is now totally impossible. Best case scenario for non-SEC members is combining to form a 1b type of conference, but that still wouldn't be enough as it stands now.

InnerCityAg said:

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As long as everyone is **** posting, why not just completely drop these lying a-holes that run the SEC and join the B1G? That would again solve our t.u. problem, and we could recruit and dominate like never before.

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And it would be,,1980 here we come. Er, I'll vote no.

If you believe the scuttlebutt and read the tea leaves, it looks like eventually the SEC will have almost all the major programs, consist of 30+ teams, end the ncaa, and crown its own champ as national champion. The league(s) of the other castoffs will have their own knockoff brand champion.

I don't like that at all, but it appears to be where capitalism and greed are taking college football.

The SEC National champion and then the NIT football champion