Super conference expansion is unfolding in college athletics.
Oklahoma and Texas are slated to begin Southeastern Conference competition in 2025.
UCLA and USC will begin Big Ten competition in 2024.
Vols Wire looks at further SEC expansion from a historical standpoint.
The Southern Conference was formed in 1921.
Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Washington & Lee were founding Southern Conference members.
Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tulane and Vanderbilt joined the Southern Conference in 1922.
Other current Power Five schools that joined the Southern Conference were Duke (1928), Wake Forest (1936) and West Virginia (1950).
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In 1932, 13 schools of the Southern Conference, located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains, departed to form the Southeastern Conference.
Southern Conference schools Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt became the founding institutions of the newly formed SEC.
A 32-team SEC super conference could consist of two 16-team divisions.
One division could consist of the 12 founding Southern Conference schools: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina State, North Carolina, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The division could also consist of the four additional founding SEC members: Florida, LSU, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt.
The second division could consist of current SEC schools that joined during the 1992, 2012 and 2025 expansions, along with ideal additions.
Below are two divisions that could makeup a 32-team SEC super conference.