Auburn football: 2 SEC schools to relegate to make room for OU and UT

Mizzou has not fared well in the SEC so far…

When the Missouri Tigers initially came to the SEC, it took a year before they got going. They certainly got going after a hiccup of a debut season in the conference, winning two straight SEC East crowns en route to losing to Alabama in 2014, and Auburn football the year prior during the season of their BCS National Championship appearance, the last year of the BCS era before the CFP.

Since those two seasons, it’s been rough go for the Tigers in their transition from establishing themselves as an upper echelon program in the Big 12. Unfortunately for Mizzou, they don’t have a defining rivalry in the conference considering the distance from them and their SEC East rivals.

The closest school to them (Arkansas) sits in the SEC West, which is now going to get even more stacked with Texas and Oklahoma en route. Eli Drinkwitz was a fine head coaching hire, but it’s an uphill climb for Mizzou to reach any notoriety in the SEC.

If they were to be one of the defectors returning to the conference they occupied from the days of the Big 6, to when they finally reached their current form in 1996, they’d instantly elevate their profile and have backers of the anti-SEC monopoly.

While Vanderbilt is a worse football program, they add too much to the SEC with their baseball program. Mizzou would be the easiest loss to stomach.