Could we see major realignment within the conference?

Moving to 13 and eventually 14 teams raises major problems with how the SEC schedule works.

#1- We won't move to 9 conference games. The revenue being made by the schools for the rent a win home games and the season opening neutral site games is too much to give up. Athletic Departments already write in these revenues when filling out their budget each year. They simply won't want to give up a home game every other year.

#2- If we stay at 8 home games, that raises a competitive balance issue. We all know there is no way games like Auburn-UGA and Alabama-Tennessee get dropped, but of you keep a permanent opponent from the other division and drop to 1 rotating game, you open the door for issues where one team with a significantly easier pair of games from one division has an advantage going into the year. Right now with 3 such games from the other division you pretty much always ensure you have one traditionally strong opponent, one traditionally weak opponent and your permanent rival. This would not longer be the case.

So what's the solution? I'm not sure, but one way would be to either reshuffle the divisions so that a permanent cross division opponent is no longer necessary (divisions would no longer be geographically based) OR get rid of the divisions and give each team 4 permanent opponents and rotate the other 4 from the remaining 9 teams.