SEC Football: What should happen if Oklahoma and Texas join?

SEC

Since the Southeastern Conference is the one that is getting the ball rolling in all of this, their modifications are pretty straightforward.

They will easily be the strongest Power Five grouping, with a lineup including but not limited to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Texas. Absolutely no one is touching that.

For this SEC to work, though, the Sooners and Tide would have to be in the same division. If not, they would always be in the conference championship game versus one another, with the winner being almost guaranteed a playoff spot every single season.

Assuming that the playoff layout is still open to only four teams at the time of all this happening, that means that just three slots would have even an ounce of wiggle room for a new face to take a shot at the title each year.

Others (such as GO5 conferences affected by departures)

With this model, four Group of Five programs will have been removed from their current conferences. To rectify those alterations, both leagues affected (the American Athletic and Mountain West) will obtain teams that are currently FBS Independents.

The AAC will gain Army and Liberty to make up for the departures of Central Florida and South Florida. This will make Army and Navy conference adversaries and nudge Liberty a little further up the college football totem pole.

The MWC, on the other hand, will obtain New Mexico State upon losing Boise State and Utah State to the Pac-12. This will soil some symmetry in their football divisions, but that can be fixed with the acquisition of FCS powerhouse North Dakota State. It’s rather far-fetched, since the Bison do not wish to move up in competition, and would struggle to do so anyway due to finances. But if both sides of the Red River Rivalry can join the SEC, nothing is off-limits.