RE: If OU brings BOTH rivals to a new conference
Well the most likely 4th should OU and OSU head to the SEC would be Texas Tech, because the Longhorns would likely insist. Ideally it would be Kansas or perhaps W.V.U..
A move to 6 could get complicated unless Kansas could separate from Kansas State.
Perhaps the only way the move could be just Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State would be if Missouri served notice and left with Kansas to the Big 10.
But note this, the SEC has never asked for a school to leave and has never voted a school out and refuses to even consider it. Sewanee bowed out years ago and Tulane and Georgia Tech both left for the allure of "independent profits" back in the mid 60's. As you can tell it sure worked out well for both of them, heh, heh!
So a school can withdraw, but that means one would have to want to do so. I seriously doubt that Missouri wants to leave but that would be the only way the SEC could take those 3 and remain at 16 members.
But my money would be on Texa-homa because the taking of the other state school in each case would probably be the biggest factor in landing OU and UT. Couple that with a better fit for their other sports, closer proximity, especially within the division, and large travel crowds and an average of 131 million per school revenue in the SEC as compared to 116 million in the Big 10 and 108 million in the Big 12 and it would probably make the offer the best they could expect. Add to it the reunion for Texas with Arkansas & A&M and games with L.S.U. (very old rivals but a closer drive) and it's a pretty good deal.
Arkansas, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech makes for about as good a division of schools to play that Texas could possibly find outside of the old SWC.
It also works out very nicely for the SEC East:
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
At 20 you add Kansas to the West and West Virginia to the East and split into 4 pods of 5. You rotate a pod every year so that you play your 4 divisional games and the 5 from the other pod which for that year forms your division.
Every three years you've played everyone and you have 10 conference games: The 9 that form your division that year, and 1 permanent rival.
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2018 11:16 PM by JRsec.)
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