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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
This is all about Bowl money for the conference, especially now that the NCAA is considering expanding the playoffs.
The SEC could routinely dominate the Top 8 rankings and the bowl/playoff money to the conference would be insane.
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They probably could have done that without needing to add two more teams and further divide up the $3 billion media contract they just signed and bowl/CFP money.
Just from a market expansion/potential new recruiting territory perspective, they should have looked east and added UNC and Virginia Tech or Virginia.
That adds new TV markets including Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Washington, D.C. and its Virginia suburbs and also increases their recruiting footprint in North Carolina and Virginia.