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Final 20-year tally of six-team divisions shows remarkable parity.
It's out with the old, in with the new in SEC football Gone are six-team divisions that played out fairly evenly over 20 years. They're replaced by seven-team divisions -- Texas A&M in the West and Missouri in the East -- that raise new questions about division strength as SEC schedules become more unbalanced.
No one can predict the competitiveness of the divisions moving forward. For that matter, it's not even clear how long these divisions will stay intact. Outgoing LSU Chancellor Michael Martin said in June some schools still want different East and West divisional alignments and thinks it will be revisited in a year or two.
When asked if divisions could be revisited, SEC Executive Associate Commissioner Mark Womack said, "I think we'll continue to monitor all aspects of the conference scheduling process as we go forward." The SEC is in the process of building schedules for about the next four or five years after 2012, Womack said.
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It's out with the old, in with the new in SEC football Gone are six-team divisions that played out fairly evenly over 20 years. They're replaced by seven-team divisions -- Texas A&M in the West and Missouri in the East -- that raise new questions about division strength as SEC schedules become more unbalanced.
No one can predict the competitiveness of the divisions moving forward. For that matter, it's not even clear how long these divisions will stay intact. Outgoing LSU Chancellor Michael Martin said in June some schools still want different East and West divisional alignments and thinks it will be revisited in a year or two.
When asked if divisions could be revisited, SEC Executive Associate Commissioner Mark Womack said, "I think we'll continue to monitor all aspects of the conference scheduling process as we go forward." The SEC is in the process of building schedules for about the next four or five years after 2012, Womack said.
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inkbiggrin: I'm sure it would be murder in the future on the east, but divisions are jacked up and that drives me crazy. Maybe do a north/south thing, but I think that will make it difficult to do. I see the Bama/Barn thing as a better option than no divisions like what they did with basketball. Granted it is more difficult because there are not as many football games as b-ball, but I have heard the no division thing thrown out there for football as well.
