SEC fans, and thus by affiliation, fans of Auburn football, have been talking about teams that seemed like jealous outsiders just a few days ago but are now set to join the premier college football conference.
Texas and Oklahoma have set off a chain reaction that has reports surfacing about the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, and Florida State abandoning their respective ships and joining the sport’s most storied programs in the southeast.
It is causing the way we think about the sport to turn on the side of its head. Depending on where you are in the country, that could either be a good thing or flat-out disastrous.
Down here on the Plains, this could be the beginning of a major growth period for the entire area, especially after NIL laws gave players and business entities the ability to market products together.
Growth is inevitable at this point. With the imagination already running wild about trips to the Midwest for regularly scheduled conference matchups, we here at Fly War Eagle decided to get even more creative and think about who else the SEC could steal from other conferences.
So, in the spirit of Booker T, we’re looking for *in loudest Booker T voice*, “five schools, five schools, five schools, five schools, five schools” from Group of Five conferences the SEC should poach to join the likes of Alabama, LSU, and Auburn football in the winningest conference of this millenium:
Team #1 we’d like to see join Auburn football in the SEC: UCF
I mean, come on. The story writes itself.
Former Auburn football coach Gus Mazlahn is now in Orlando with the Knights, joining the team that beat him three and a half years ago to cap the 2017 season.
With Malzahn’s arrival having players hungry for a National Championship and the fanbase wanting to qualify for the CFP year in and year out as the top team in the Sunshine State, a jump to the SEC would put them on the fast-track to their goals.
A rivalry with Auburn football seems like a natural trickle down effect from UCF joining the SEC given their interwoven history.