re: If A&M joins the SEC

Actually 3 + 4 for LSU so 7 out of 18, roughly half the time I'd say is pretty often. Plus it's a wash for Miss st. and closer for Ole Miss if they ever make it.

Would rotating it really be that horrendous? It's done for SEC bball tourney, why not football?

Nothing is wrong with Atlanta...

...and nothing is wrong with Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, etc.

God forbid we try something new.

When it moved from B'ham to Atlanta...was their resistance from the gumps?

Distance to Atlanta from:

Baton Rouge 525 miles
Fayetteville 698 miles
Starkville 287 miles
Oxford 330 miles
Auburn 110 miles
Tuscaloosa 202 miles

Athens 72 miles
Knoxville 213 miles
Gainesville 332 miles
Nashville 250 miles
Columbia 211 miles
Lexington 380 miles


eta: driving distances

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Oxford 330 miles

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You can just throw this one out of the comparison since it will never factor in.

One team would be traveling right back to Nola les than a month later, it would be less beneficial to more teams than it would benefit.

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Distances from Dallas to:

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SEC schools to Atl.. 10 of them less than 380 miles.

SEC schools to Dallas.. 1 of them less than 380.

That won't be happening.

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if A&M joins the SEC we'll finally have a new rival!

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It will be more of a rivalry than the force rivalry with Arkansas.

I know the Sugar Bowl is in N.O., but for the sake of argument...

Distances from New Orleans to:

Baton Rouge 80 miles
Fayetteville 614 miles
Starkville 297 miles
Oxford 359 miles
Auburn 362 miles
Tuscaloosa 290 miles

Athens 539 miles
Knoxville 597 miles
Gainesville 531 miles
Nashville 531 miles
Columbia 673 miles
Lexington 744 miles

from 10 teams having less than 380 miles to travel to Atl, going to N.O. would cut that in half, with only 5 teams travelling less. So an increase from 2 teams, to 7 teams travelling more, I just don't see it happening. It hurts way more than it helps.