re: the SEC if you were God

West division:
LSU
A&M
Mizzou
Arkansas

Central division:
Ole Miss
Miss. St
Alabama
Auburn

South division:
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

North division:
UNC
Va Tech
USCe
Kentucky


Balanced divisions (don't split up the largest rivalries and keep one out-of-division rivalry intact yearly for each team), maybe switching Tennessee for Kentucky because that is the division with the most history. It also accomplishes everything the money men want: more markets, more teams that have respectable, profitable athletic programs, all within the region, all in new states, and they don't create a conference that is literally impossible to escape without two losses like adding FSU, Oklahoma, Texas, w/e might.

The other thing that makes it work neatly is that the oldest traditional cross-divisional rivalries are between the Central and the South - so you have the potential to either pair those two divisions up one one side of a four-team divisional champion bracket late in the season, adding the excitement that a playoff elimination game from a traditional rivalry would bring to the table, or you can just make an elaborate series of tiebreakers that function to eliminate the champion of one of those divisions if the divisional champions have identical win-loss, and do something similar with the new teams, creating new cross-divisional yearly matchups which could be lots of fun.