What will the East & West divisions look like if 2 western teams join the SEC?

True. The state of Mississippi has always been "barely" SEC as it is.

Historically, though, it does make a little bit of sense, as both LSU & Ole Miss were invited to join in on the original formation of the SWC back in 1914.

LSU did have old rivalries with Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas, and Rice, before we generally stopped playing those teams around the 70's or so ... with the exception of TAMU.

Interesting split there.

Geographically, Ole Miss > Georgia > Miss. State > Alabama in terms of northern latitude.

You could argue that Ole Miss needs to play both LSU & MSU, but on the other hand Georgia needs to play both Auburn & Florida.

Personally, I could live with the LSU vs. Ole Miss rivalry dying. The Rebels aren't worthy.

EDIT: Ole Miss is also farther north than South Carolina, so they really need to be in a Hillbilly Division. South Carolina and Georgia are so close, that it might actually make more sense to put Georgia in a Hillbilly Division and South Carolina in a Coastal Division.

SEC Gulf & Coastal Division
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
LSU
Miss. State
South Carolina
Texas A&M

SEC Hills Folk Division
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Yeah, the Egg Bowl would be their one annual North-South interdivisional rivalry game.

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Vanderbilt being in the Hills Folk division is awesome!

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Wouldn't it be?

Of course it would probably be more to their liking to just call the divisions the "Upper Division" and the "Lower Division" based on elevation above sea level, similar to ancient Egypt.

Stars Division

Bars Division

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SEC West
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

SEC East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee

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How the divisions wash out is really my only concern. I would prefer to keep the standing members intact and build around. If it did have to shuffle up this probably the best split. If it were up to me I would make one of the new schools play in the east division for how ever long it takes to pick up two more schools in the east and then move them back west. I have a feeling we will be at 16 teams pretty quick so they would probably only be inconvenienced for a season.

Come to think of it, none of those would be truly important.

If Alabama and Auburn are in the same division as Georgia and Tennessee, there won't be permanent rivals from the other division anymore. I never had a problem with the permanent rivals like others may have.