re: Who are the largest Winners and Losers In the New SEC?

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arkansas is probably the biggest winner, they picked up neighboring state conference members, got a regular game in texas to help recruiting, and became just less peripheral in general to the majority of the SEC

Missouri gained stability and will benefit by being able to really recruit both florida and texas (missouri and lsu are the only schools in the SEC who will play both florida and A&M). They are not going to be a top notch football school in the SEC but they have a good head coach, a great offensive coordinator and are not going to get destroyed like kentucky does.... except in baseball... they are going to get ridden like seattle slew during baseball season

LSU is yet to be determined, playing A&M and florida on top of in state recruiting is an advantage but they were already recruiting texas very well and the danger for them is A&M eventually hires the right coach and becomes the football power they have always had the potential to become (drying up some of the LSU/Texas pipeline).

A&M is out from underneath big brother. They can market themselves as the Texas SEC option and with the right coach they have a ceiling equal to Florida IMO

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You honestly think Missouri will recruit Florida? Arkansas has a hard enough time in Florida and we are much closer. Yet, we won't be playing them every year... Now as for the games in Texas I completely agree with you.

I think LSU is helped out just as much as Arkansas for the reasons you listed. The luxury of LSU is having 80 D-1 players while Arkansas had 40 D-1 players and Missouri had 25 D-1 players. (2010 kids that signed) Thus, giving LSU a chance to cheery pick better talent than they previously had. Even thought since Saban and Miles LSU hasn't had much of a hard time recruiting but it is a new advantage.

Texas A&M has ALWAYS (and UCLA) had massive potential but they've never achieved this level. Part of the reason is the military mystique and College Station isn't as fun as Norman or Austin in the same area. Now you are adding in Fayetteville as also a better college destination. Not to mention those schools listed have better coaches.

The Big12 did damage control with adding TCU in the metroplex to stop the bleeding of kids in Texas heading to the SEC. However, TAMU has opened up the door.

With that being said what do you think of Ole Miss?