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Hey, if Tulane joins, my 'Dores will finally have a team to beat every year in football! :)

The Lib-16

Divisions: HOPE & CHANGE

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Texas is ranked 47th, tied with Florida. Texas A&M, the second highest academic school in the Big 12, is ranked 61st. Georgia, the third highest ranked school in the SEC, is ranked 58th. Vanderbilt is ranked 17th. At the top, the SEC is better academically than the Big 12 ever was.

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US News rankings are great and all, but the graduation rates for most schools in the SEC are pretty awful.

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all this shite about being the best conference is overrated. let's just get some shitty teams in here so we have a better chance of winning

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The reason why SEC schools are routinely in the NCG is because of SoS.

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If that were really true they wouldn't have been so content to be in the Big 12 pre-departure of Colorado and Nebraska. Texas is a great school academically but I just don't believe the academics is playing that large of a role in this when it's all said and done. They will talk about it, but I highly doubt that it's that important considering the Big 12's academic status being along the lines, maybe even worse overall than the SEC.
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Well, I totally agree that academics isn't paying any play into the conference alignments.

I thought you were talking about the attitude of the school towards academics in general. As far as that goes, I'd say UTexas cares a lot more than almost all the SEC schools. In my experience, most SEC fans laugh at the very idea of going to school for an education.

Seriously the SEC is still going to be the best conference even if the PAC-10 goes to 16, so I'm not worried.

if the Big 10 stays at 12 and the Pac-10 keeps to 12 or less, I don't think the SEC will expand.

If we start seeing the "super conferences" as big as 16, I think then the SEC will expand.

I stayed the whole game.

Uh, I was in the student section, and maybe it looked different from your angle, but a bunch of students left at the end of the first quarter, and it was half empty by the half. That being said, the student section was the most dense section by the end (but only towards the front rows).