The SEC is in an odd position relative to the current round of conference realignment in collegiate athletics.
The league ostensibly kicked off the early-2020s wave of musical chairs by poaching Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 in the summer of 2021. Since then, however, the league has kept a low profile—seemingly content to watch the other four Power Five leagues tear each ofter asunder in an effort to keep up.
With the six Power Five teams on the Pacific Coast about to join the Big Ten and ACC, the SEC’s additions of the Longhorns and Sooners suddenly appears downright sane to the public from a geographic standpoint. With the conference holding a kind of high ground, commissioner Greg Sankey tweaked rival conferences on The Paul Finebaum Show Friday afternoon.
