I think for Arkansas, beating Texas is so fun....the last game a few years ago was great fun....even for Georgia fans to watch.

There will perhaps be a change when traditional rivals come into the conference - For example, bringing back the Aggies and Longhorns and bringing Red River Raid into the conference. If there is this 18 team thing with FSU and Clemson, then you get two premium rivalries with current members in UF/FSU and SC/Clemson. Rivalries take a long time to develop and wax and wane. So in that regard, the original expansions splitting certain old conference rivalries was a mistake. Now that some of those can come back together under a single roof again, then you will see some positive school impact. I am very curious though - when does the conference get so big as to become unwieldy and it breaks down into a version of the old SEC and SWC in how the schools actually function and think of themselves - you mentioned this with Arkansas - and the current SEC becomes little more than just another NCAA-ish umbrella over the actual function units of the 8-10 schools or more roughly west of the Mississippi (or bordering) and the 8-10 East.

No it hasn't. I've noticed that none of the current non-founding members (Texas A & M, South Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri) have won the SEC championship. I am not counting Texas or Oklahoma because they haven't played in the SEC yet.

I do think if the conference does something with scheduling to split these teams up to where the old SWC acts as some kind of division and those teams play more often you could see those rivalries happen more with OU, Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, ect. Then you’re really just getting all the southern states. Just split up east/west of the Mississippi. Get rid of Missouri.

What has been accomplished is the revelation of how over rated the SEC actually is. Take Missouri, the former Big 12 bottom dweller, over all record in football vs SEC teams: 6 wins vs 5 losses to Florida, 5 wins to 6 losses vs Tennessee, 7 wins vs 1 loss to ole Miss, 2 wins vs 2 losses to LSU, 2 wins vs 2 losses to Miss State, etc. To add insult to injury, state flagship institutions like Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, etc are not members of the elite Association of American Universities. Pathetic. Many can certainly see why you want the 5 former Big 12 teams, 4 0f which are elite AAU members, out of the SEC.