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The Southeastern Conference is getting greater and, some way or another, considerably more grounded. 

Three other major meetings have framed a union, whatever that implies. 

Furthermore, the Big 12 is dead man strolling. 

After a time of relative steadiness, school football heads into another season wobbling from the delayed repercussions of another serious quake. 

Not even Nostradamus would go out on a limb on how everything will shake out. 

However, this at the very least is quite obvious: the SEC will turn into a 16-group behemoth with the expansion of Big 12 forces to be reckoned with Oklahoma and Texas, a move that happens by 2025 at the most recent and likely sooner. 

The Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference and Pac-12 have all dropped back on safeguard, trusting that some kind of dubious organization will some way or another hold the SEC back from spreading its appendages much farther. 

Which forgets about the Big 12 as the odd man, apparently bound to join the Southwest Conference and others in the pantheon of old alliances, recalled exclusively by the individuals who get a set of experiences book. 

The SEC's intentions are clear: combine its tight grip on school football — and, likewise, all of school games. 

However, the quickly gathered organization reported for this present week between its three most suitable Power Five challengers (in addition to Notre Dame, a semi ACC part) should think of a plainly characterized vision assuming it needs to hold the SEC in line. 

That is not a simple undertaking. 

Consider the awkwardness of the Big Ten-ACC-Pac 12 partnership — 41 schools extending from Boston to Los Angeles, from Miami to Seattle, a mishmash of establishments that share little practically speaking other than ensuring the SEC doesn't obstruct all the daylight. 

Given how rapidly this all needed to meet up, possibly it's not shocking that little was offered in the method of subtleties. 

"There's no agreement. There's no marked archive," Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said. "There's an arrangement among three men of honor and a responsibility from 41 presidents and chancellors and 41 athletic chiefs to do what we say we will do." 

All things considered, we as a whole ability much respectable men's arrangements and non-legally binding responsibilities are worth in the relentless universe of school games. 

Honestly, we'll bet 1,000 bills to your dollar that each of the 41 schools will keep on zeroing in principally on what benefits them separately, not the aggregate great. 

Hell, they couldn't consent to concede to what position they'll take on a proposition to extend the College Football Playoff from four to 12 groups (a move that looked sure to occur until everybody hit the re-set catch after the SEC ate up the Oklahoma and Texas like a type of Pac Man go crazy.). 

"This isn't a democratic coalition. We've not focused on casting a ballot together on anything," Kliavkoff said, each word making this sound less and less like a practical collusion. "We've resolved to talk about these issues, and to attempt to concoct arrangements that are to the greatest advantage of long haul school games." 

Okey-dokey. 

For the present, the coalition's just genuine target is by all accounts some kind of relaxed responsibility not to pursue each other's individuals. 

However, assume the SEC comes sniffing around Clemson — an ACC stalwart that has been one of its couple of genuine challengers? Or on the other hand maybe Florida State, if the Seminoles can indeed become applicable in school football? 

As we probably are aware, the SEC generally gets what it needs. 

The meeting has basically been the sun that the remainder of school football rotates around since its first significant development thirty years prior, which exploded the natural gathering model that had administered the game through its advanced presence. 

At the point when the SEC poached Arkansas from the Southwest Conference (as a component of an extension that additionally included then-autonomous South Carolina), split into two divisions and set up a meeting title game, it always changed the appearance of the game. 

The Southwest Conference disintegrated, the Big Eight meeting plunged in to look over the remaining parts (turning into the Big 12), the Atlantic Coast Conference snatched Florida State before the SEC could, and the Big Ten started scrambling for schools to join its eleventh part, Penn State. 

The SEC took its next large action in 2011, swiping Texas A&M and Missouri from the Big 12. The Big Ten and ACC were occupied with growing, as well, becoming 14-group alliances, while the Pac-10 developed into the Pac 12. 

The Big 12 shrank to 10 schools yet figured out how to make due by keeping Texas and Oklahoma in the crease. 

However, that was consistently a dubious plan, best case scenario, and it at last feel separated with word this late spring that both the Longhorns and the Sooners had furtively been in converses with join the SEC — pulling the trigger on a rewarding move that has practically been on the radar since the start of this 30-extended realignment scramble. 

Presently, there's no expectation for the Big 12 — particularly after it was excluded from the new collusion orchestrated by the other Power Five individuals. 

All it got were empty words. 

"We need a lot the Big 12 to progress admirably," ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said. "The Big 12 issue in school sports." 

Not intended for any longer. 

Iowa State and Kansas could end up in the Big Ten. Oklahoma State and TCU are potential contender for the Pac-12 (regardless of the class demanding Thursday it has no designs to grow). West Virginia fits topographically with the ACC. Texas Tech, Baylor and Kansas State may need to drop down to a Group of Five meeting like the American or Mountain West. 

In the case of nothing else, hopefully a feasible challenger arises to the SEC. 

The gathering has managed school football for a really long time, guaranteeing 11 of the last 15 public titles and giving no indications of dialing back, absolutely not insofar as Nick Saban is at Alabama. 

At the point when Oklahoma — positioned No. 2 behind the Crimson Tide in The Associated Press preseason survey — and Texas get on, the overall influence will tip significantly further in support of its.