How should a renovated SEC line up their divisions?
By Austin Lloyd
![SEC logo seen during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency in Hoover, Ala., Monday, July 19, 2021. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.]Sec Media Days](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_1080,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape%2Fcover%2Fsport%2F6e3a485894488e8c3c4a15ae578503913fb63935b7085a29acf4f48d6f54efee.jpg "SEC logo seen during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency in Hoover, Ala., Monday, July 19, 2021. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.]Sec Media Days")
SEC West
Despite what some pundits may depict in their own conference realignment plans, the Alabama Crimson Tide must share a division with Oklahoma. Sure, the two powers being in opposite groups would increase the competitiveness between the East and West.
However, the most probable outcome of a concept like that would see Bama and OU battling for the Southeastern crown virtually every year (it does not matter what SEC football fans say, the Sooners would definitely dominate in their league).
Keeping them together would kill any chances of such an outcome, and that is worth bending the geography rules a little bit. But, as previously established, the division will be absolutely stacked as a result. Here is what the West should look like:
-Alabama
-Arkansas
-Auburn
-Louisiana State
-Missouri
-Oklahoma
-Texas
-Texas A&M
Missouri has been added, while rivals Mississippi and MSU have been removed. This is to acknowledge locations on the map, but no so much so that divisional rivalries are somehow compromised.
Now, a look at what the SEC’s East Division could look like.