Auburn football: Ranking the top 3 SEC realignment scenarios

Yesterday was one of the most significant days the SEC has seen in a long, long time. News broke that the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners have reached out to the conference about making the jump from the Big 12, giving Auburn football two more tumultuous tussles year in and year out.

Or at least one. The Tigers are one of seven SEC teams that have won more games than Texas in the last decade. Mississippi State is even on that list.

UT may have trouble maintaining their top-15 recruiting resume if they end up no longer being one of the top players in their conference. In the SEC, it could be a rude awakening. OU isn’t off the hook either.

While the Sooners did top Auburn football in their last meeting, they have lost their last meeting against Alabama, Georgia, and LSU in the CFP, all in the last three years. They’d no longer be the expected conference winner each year. Or even be guaranteed a spot in the top 3 of their division.

It’d be an exciting new world with the two Big 12 powerhouses in tow no matter what, though. New rivalries would form between states that haven’t interacted as much, and the SEC would dominate the airwaves even more, picking up the Longhorn Network and two of college football’s most relevant programs.

How exactly would the conference shake out, though? Today, Fly War Eagle is ranking the top 3 realignment scenarios we might see happen if OU and UT came to the SEC: