9/4 vs. San Jose St.
9/11 vs. Penn St.
9/18 at Duke
9/25 at Arkansas
10/2 vs. Florida
10/9 at South Carolina
10/16 vs. Mississippi
10/23 at Tennessee
10/30 OFF
11/6 at LSU
11/13 at Miss. St.
11/20 vs. Georgia State
11/26 vs. Auburn

1 & 2) Not very good. You have 2 straight undefeated regular seasons. The odds of doing that 3 times in a row, especially in this conference, does not look promising. The OBC’s Florida teams could never do that and they were the class of the conference for a number of years. I cannot say who it will be but I’m fairly certain that the first loss will come in that 5 SEC games in 5 weeks strectch(9/25-10/23). I could see you finishing with 1 loss though…
3.) Florida. I want it to be Georgia but we all know the common result in Jacksonville.
4.) An undefeated Boise who beats VT, VT wins the ACC, and Boise beats the shit out of all other comers? Probably. Despite the overall competition in the conference schedule, that program may be due the ultimate reward for a decade-worth of consistently strong teams.
5.) I do not like that thought. All conferences play more than just football. I like the SEC the way it is made up now. I do not see the “super-conference” as pratical.

1) Less than 20%. (insert comment about how everyone gets a bye week before Bama waah)

2) South Carolina or Arkansas. USC is good. Arkansas’ offense against a young defense could spell trouble: it’ll be early in the season so the green defense will be at its greenest. Also, it’s the week before before playing Florida (which, despite both teams being depleted, will still be viewed as a monster game by both teams’ players). Also, Arkansas has approximately 84 starters back and could be pretty good.

3) South Carolina or Georgia. Georgia doesn’t have the red ninja and has a million starters back. USC has a lot back too. Maybe OBC can finally get over the hump. But I think the East is the most wide open it’s been in years.

4) This question is close enough to me that I don’t think I can give an answer without seeing how the opponents of the other teams shake out, and margin of victory & related stuffs. But you want an answer, not a cop-out, so I say 1 loss SEC, but Boise over 1 loss any other conference ESS EEE SEE SPEED

5) I’ve thought long and hard about this. I don’t think any of us know enough about the economics to figure it out, so I’ll discount that a bit. For 16 teams, I say add Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, DA U. I don’t think Texa$ feels like an SEC school, but the it does have one more $ than Vanderbilt in the name, so maybe that too.

1. 12:1 against.

2. Florida’s the obvious choice, but I say Arkansas.

3. Winner of Florida-Georgia. So, Florida, obviously.

4. No. 2 quality wins + 10 cupcakes = a nice invite to play the SEC also-ran in the Sugar Bowl. That said, BSU will start in the top 10 and creep up as better teams get picked off, and probably get into the big game w/a 12-0 record.

5. I’ve spent way too much time thinking about re-alignment for a supposed adult, but if the SEC were to expand I say ditch Arkansas, add FSU, Clemson and Georgia Tech (FSU and Vandy to the West, Clemson and GT to the East.)

1. I think there’s a good chance Bama gets through without a loss this year. I’d say 60%. The Tide are just re-loading on defense and have their weapons back on offense. I’m not sure about the OL, but (unlike UGA) they seem to just re-load there too.

2. One of the two road games at the front: Arky or Carolina.

3. Probably Florida. They’re replacing a lot, but Georgia is re-engineering its defense and starting a RS-Fr QB. Plus, the Dawgs - one would think the consensus #2 pick in the East - can’t win in Jax nor has the offense shown that it’s willing to play to its strengths (see 2009: asking Joe Cox to be Matt Stafford). Will Bobo ride those horses in the backfield or will he want to show off Murray? If South Carolina or Kentucky are ever going to compete for a slot in the SECCG, they need to do it now when UF is transitioning to the post-(FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK) Tebow era and Georgia is going through structural changes on D.

4. Yes. If they beat Va Tech and roll the WAC, their track record of success against BCS teams and in BCS bowls should give them a chance to play for the BCS title. (FWIW, I bet they start in the top 5 pre-season).

5. If the SEC goes to 16, two of the teams should be Texas and Texas A&M. The other two should be Clemson and Florida State. The league doesn’t gain a whole lot with the Clemmers, but if you just locked down the two major programs in Texas, then you pretty much captured all the market you’ll ever need. Any reasonable expansion based on markets where people watch college football is going to focus on Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. There are no two other teams that are going to bring anyone that kind of exposure. (And save me the whole Big Ten getting into the eastern TV markets: the day New Yorkers of Philadelphians start to give two shits about how Rutgers or Syracuse does in football, let me know. Those are pro-sports towns whose CFB markets are shit compared to Texas.) And you more or less lock down the largest followings in Florida.

And it’s simple: just add Clemson and FSU to the east, the Texas schools to the west.

In lieu of Clemson, I’d take Va Tech (if they’ll part ways with WaHooWa).