Auburn football: Imagining “Power Three” super conferences
A college football apocalypse is upon us, and in truth, Auburn football joins polarizing fanbases Georgia, Alabama, and SEC newcomers Oklahoma and Texas as part of the Evil Empire conference.
Taking the Big 12’s most historically relevant franchises away and effectively destroying the conference is some pretty bad guy behavior.
So is winning 64% of the National Championships since the Tigers were led to the promised land by the legend Cam Newton. Auburn football’s surprise rise to the top in 2010 will forever be one of the most storied seasons of all time and kicked off an era of dominance from the state and the conference at large.
The SEC’s vaunting ambitions could have them going far beyond the southeast–even beyond the Sooner State and the Lone Star’s star city, Austin–and forming a super conference.
Yesterday, news broke that there could be a super conference even sooner forming in the western half of the United States. The Pac-12 and what’s left of the Big 12 could merge, making the first mega-conference in college football.
It’s hard not to see the possibility there’s more than just smoke in Jack McGuire of Barstool’s blazing scoop that major powers from the ACC and Big Ten could get in on the SEC revenue.
Assuming those two things happen, there’d have to be some third conference with the Big Ten leftovers and the ACC that forms to match up. Fly War Eagle is imagining this new “Power Three” setup:
Auburn football is in the big leagues
Texas and Oklahoma leading to the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, Florida State, and Clemson all joining the SEC would make 7/26/21 a historic day to be commemorated in the halls of the Hoover headquarters of the conference. Even as is, it is a landmark date in history.
A super SEC has been imagined, having been all summed up in McGuire’s tweet. Whether or not the Big Ten loses its biggest legacy rivalry and two producers of some of the greatest NFL players of all time is the biggest fact up for debate, but it’s clear that the SEC isn’t done.
College football could well put Auburn football and the Plains (the #8 revenue-producing college town in the country) in the middle of historic clashes with potential future rivals.
It’s never been a better time to be in the SEC.