Matt Hinton – Rivals
No, you weren't hallucinating*: At last, Texas A&M is officially joining the SEC, swelling its ranks to 13 members next year. The Aggies held a “Kick-off Celebration” tonight in College Station to ring in the occasion. They're all the way in. When they wake up tomorrow, they're going to start working with the SEC on the logistics of running a 13-team conference, and one thing is going to become abundantly clear: They're going to need to get to 14 teams, pronto, before the schedule-makers come down with vertigo. By my count, there are roughly a dozen plausible candidates whose applications wouldn't immediately find their way into the bottom of the birdcage in commissioner Mike Slive's office. They are, in no particular order: [Read More]