I'm that way with Kentucky and LSU. I hope Kentucky beat every team in the East but us and I hope LSU beats every team in the West.Yea, its Florida then Bama. After that they're all about equal with the exception of Kentucky. I am not a fan, but I pull for them to win unless its against us or their winning somehow affects us negatively.
Put Missouri and Texas A&M closer to the top because they don't belong in the SEC.
Just like West Virginia doesn't belong in the Big 12.
Yea, I was born and raised about 20 minutes from the Kentucky state line. When I was in high school I partied a lot with friends in Franklin and Bowling Green. The ones that were UK fans were always cool and envious, never cocky or arrogant. Like you, I just can't hate on them.I'm that way with Kentucky and LSU. I hope Kentucky beat every team in the East but us and I hope LSU beats every team in the West.
Not a fan of either, just never been able to muster any hate for them.
I'm kinda the same way, but my division goes like thisI actually divide it into groups:
Profound Dislike
Bama
Florida
South Carolina (with Muschamp)
Vandy
Georgia
Casual Disdain
South Carolina (normally)
Mississippi State
Arkansas
Missouri
Ole Miss
Actually Kind of Like Them (when we're not playing them)
LSU
Kentucky
Auburn
A&M
Within the groups there is generally no ranking, though Bama and Florida at the top two spots are deliberate.
Completely agree with you.
I agree entirely with you about Mizzou and West Virginia. Absolutely don't fit their current conferences. But A&M fits better.
Texas, like Missouri, is a gateway state. It links two regions. For Missouri, the linkage is the Mid-west to the Great Plains. Nothing to do with the South.
But Texas links the South to the Plains. In fact, it is such a large state that it is both, part one and part the other. The eastern part of Texas, the part that include Galveston and Houston and so on, that's really just as much a part of the south as, say, Louisiana. The Gulf of Mexico unites them, makes them more similar than different. Meanwhile, the bulk of the state, from San Antonio and Dallas to Midlands to El Paso, that's more the Great Plains region.
A&M is in the Houston-Galveston part of Texas.
So I think it fits pretty well.
Go Vols!
Missouri borders the South
Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Oklahoma all share a border with Missouri.
Since 2 SEC East titles now reside in Missouri, we are forever tied to this conference, more so than the football programs of Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt, all teams with fewer trips to Atlanta.
Granted, some of those schools won SEC titles, but that was all before 1965.