SEC North/South Bama to North

No thanks

Geographically, this is off. Georgia and South Carolina are north of the MS/AL schools. If Missouri comes in, it looks more like this:

North: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

South: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M

Even if you assume Georgia and Tennessee will return to prominence, this is still off-balance. That's especially true if Texas A&M becomes great, which I think they will (AAU school, great football tradition, the only Texas school in the SEC which helps with Texas recruits.)

I think this only works if you replace Missouri with Oklahoma, or Virginia Tech at minimum. And I know we can geographically fudge it a little bit, i.e. putting Missouri in the East. But I think many will be uncomfortable going overboard with it, including me.

The whole problem with the new conference set up is permanent cross division match ups. It is probably the worst thing about our conference other than the SEC offices in Birmingham.

We don't need to hold back the majority of the conference because a couple teams want to pick their damn schedule.

considering AU is further south than :

SC
UGa
MSU
Ole Miss