re: SEC Network's 16 team pod proposal lumps LSU with the Misses and A&M.

I like LSU and A&M in the same pod.

This is all about throwing A&M a bone since they're the one having a nervous breakdown over Texas coming in.

I like these pods. I think they want to keep building that LSU and A&M rivalry. IT is finally getting good. The pod system takes away all the east/west advantages we currently see. Like LSU having to play Florida, Auburn and Alabama every year. There could be a chance that LSU would face Alabama in the title game. I like it.

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In a pod system you’re playing everyone home and home every 4 years at most so it’s not that big a deal I don’t think

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Unless Florida doesn't want to move its game for a hurricane and fricks everything up, and your AD is Joe Alleva who got worked and, yet, thought he won.

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I like LSU and A&M in the same pod.

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I do too. It’s always been a little sad that LSU hasn’t had a true traditional rival. I think A&M is already on their way to being one, this would cement that. And after a few years of arse-whippins, they’d wish they had Texas to play against instead.

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No way the schools would agree to a 17 game season. (12 game reg season, 2 game SEC playoff, and 3 game CFP assuming we go to 8 teams).

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And no way schools want sit at home while another team with the same conf records go to Atlanta. How do you avoid that? It’s inevitable in this pod system to get this scenario to play out.

ETA and I’d suggest dropping a non-conf game. Things are trending that way anyway. Soon you’ll only be playing power conference teams.

LSU would be the favorite to win that pod most years. A&M would be the main completion .

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Top 2 conference records despite pods?

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Yes

Historically we hate Ole Miss and played MSU like 100+ times so this makes sense. I like the idea

Makes more sense for TAMU and Arkansas to switch. That also isn't trying to make it easier for LSU because you're 100% going to play AT LEAST 2 of Oklahoma, Florida, Bama, UGA, and Texas every year.

And the only reason they didn't pair Bama/Auburn with UF/UGA is because of Bama/Tenn "tradition", and not making one pod super easy and one super hard.

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Why did someone decide on the term "pod"? I guess four four-team "divisions" sounds too much like NFL.

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Because a "pod" is not a division. Two pods make a division, and you would rotate those every year.

One year, the two divisions would be

Division 1: Pod A + Pod B
Division 2: Pod C + Pod D

The next year the divisions would be

Division 1: Pod A + Pod C
Division 2: Pod B + Pod D

The it would be

Division 1: Pod A + Pod D
Division 2: Pod B + Pod C

To make matters more confusing, I've seen it posted elsewhere each team would have a permanent opponent in the other 3 pods, and the years that you are not playing that pod, you will still play your permanent opponent from that pod. They have to do this so that games like Auburn and UGA still get played if they are in different pods (can't put the five teams involved in the four sacred cow games--Bama/UT, Auburn/UGA, Bama/Auburn, UGA/UF--in the same pod, as the limit is 4). So, you'd play your seven divisional games (the 3 teams in your pod, a four teams in the pod assigned as your divisional opponents that year) plus your two permanent opponents in the other pod for a total of 9 games.

This is way too confusing for the public, and still creates the potential for unbalanced divisions. So, if we do go to 16, they should just get rid of divisions, have 3 permanent opponents, and rotate the other 12, six one year, and six the next, with the two teams with the best record meeting in the conference championship game.