How big will the series with Texas become?

Possibly, but if they go with one permanent opponent from each pod, I think we get paired with Oklahoma and A&M gets paired with Texas. So we would probably only play them once every 3 years in football.

ATM getting paired with their big brother would be awesome

Flip Aggies and Arkansas and it’s perfect
Restore old rivalry

If we win 9 out of 10 games, this isn’t a rivalry.

Next question.

When were the pigs a rivalry game for LSU? Surely you aren't referring to that fabricated battle of the boot.

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The only issue I see there is AUB and UGA are separated.

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But not if each team has a permanent opponent from each other pod. We would then have a 9 game SEC schedule and most rivalries remain intact.

My suggestion would be the following, wherein the columns are the pods and the row are the permanent cross-pod opponents. Georgia and Auburn play every year as well as A&M and Texas. Alabama and LSU remain. LSU and Florida remain. Ark and SC return. Miss State and Kentucky remain. Tenn and Kentucky remain. Alabama and Florida become a rivalry outside of the SECCG where they met more than anyone else. To me, this is the most obvious solution.

LSU Alabama Florida Oklahoma
A&M Auburn Georgia Texas
State Tenn Kentucky Mizzou
Ole Miss Vandy S Carolina Ark

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LSU Alabama Florida Oklahoma

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Yeah...I guarantee that won't be a pod

Not a pod. permanent cross-pod rivals

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Flip Aggies and Arkansas and it’s perfect
Restore old rivalry

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Scatback's is the one that makes the most sense. LSU will not be so lucky as to be the only lead dog in the four pods. They will make sure there are two solid lead dogs in each pod:
Okla-TX
LSU-ATM
Alabama Auburn (Tennessee)
Florida-Georgia

That is the easy part. The hard part is do you have permanent opponents in each of the other three pods or just rotate among the other 12 teams, where you'd play your permanent 3 pod opponents and then play each team every two years.

Or do you pick one permanent opponent in the other three pods? For example,
LSU-Arkansas, Alabama, Florida
ATM - Texas, Auburn, SC
Miss St - Mizzou, Tennessee, Georgia
Ole Miss - Oklahoma, Vandy, Kentucky

It won't be "fair" with permanent opponents but you preserve rivalries. Just depends on what is valued more: fairness or preserving rivalries....it's hard to do both.

Agree Scatback. AUB-GA and ATM-TX are the only two rivalries that matter. As an LSU fan, I'm fine playing Alabama/Florida every other year rather than annually. The SEC presidents have some difficult decisions to make. It's fun speculating though!