re: Speaking of diluting the annual SEC rivalries by adding conference teams...

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Only if you want to take away LSU's very advantageous position the addition of OU and Texas to the SEC West and the movement of Auburn and Alabama to the SEC East gives to LSU.

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You think that will happen? No reason to think geography will play a part in this unless they go to pods.

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Moreover, please explain how an SEC Championship would be decided with four pods? Would there be a four pod playoff system set up within he SEC to decide the champion on the field? Which would entail additional games on top of the additional games the new expanded playoffs system would require. I mean, that would mean that some SEC teams would have to play more games than most NFL teams.

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Think several systems that are relatively simple have been advanced here and elsewhere. My son and I have discussed this and like this one (not that our opinions mean anything, but they should, damn it )

4 Pods, call them A, B, C, & D.

Each pod plays one other pod plus 1 team from each of the other two pods. That is 9 games total.

The pod you play rotates each year so that each team plays every other team every three years minimum.

How you select the team you play from each pod is the conundrum. Permanent opponent or some other metric?

I like using some sort of relative ranking. I could see it being like the NFL, play the team that finished at the same position as you the previous year. Some years that would create a disparity but I think most years there are not great leaps in position.

Maybe power ranking preseason but not sure that would be any better.

SEC Championship game would be the top team from each POD pairs since each team played one another. Pod tiebreakers first, just like division tiebreakers now, for pod ties. Then simply use head to head tie breaker for a tie at the top of the pod pair.

Seems logical to me