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When the Big 12 folds, and that is on the way, the SEC will have its choice of teams and they will go after the biggest TV markets.


Definitely. If the SEC could get Oklahoma, OSU, West Virginia, Texas, Kansas, and convince Louisville, Miami, Clempson and FSU to leave the ACC, they could reconfigure not only the league divisions but possibly the entire football landscape with essentially half the country's TV coverage from West Virginia to the Desert Southwest and much of the Midwest.

Despite ESPN overpaying for rights fees and feeling it now, the potential TV deals for each division, the Division Championship Games and the SEC C'Ship Game -- imagine that, an SEC Playoff for the SEC C'ship AND the probable lock for the overall playoffs -- would be astronomical.

Or, the SEC somehow adds enough teams to go to four 4- or 5-team divisions with a North, South, East and West setup. Then it has division champions who are in a playoff for the SEC C'ship and the SEC Network keeps those Division Championship games for itself but sells the SEC title game. Huge money possibilities.

That would be wild, a 20-team "Southeastern" Conference with four 5-team divisions that play each other, three non-conference games and three other conference opponents on a rotation. Probably won't get that large, though.


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