How a 30-team SEC would resemble college football’s past?

The Southern Conference was founded in 1921.

Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee were the founding members of the Southern Conference.

Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt participated in the Southern Conference in 1922.

Other current Power Five schools that have joined the Southern Conference were Duke (1928), Wake Forest (1936), and West Virginia (1950).

In 1932, 13 schools of the Southern Conference, located west and south of the Appalachians, left to form the Southeastern Conference.

Southern Conference schools of Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt left and became the founding institutions of the newly formed SEC.

The split to form the new SEC conference was in part from a greater focus on better athletic administration with fewer teams from the Southern Conference’s 23 schools. The Southern Conference also planned to increase admission requirements.

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After UCLA and USC leave the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten, Vols Wire looks at current Power Five schools that could join the SEC to resemble the Southern Conference of the past.

Below are schools that can form an SEC of 30 teams in a super conference. The 30-team SEC would be a combination of former members of the Southern Conference, current SEC schools, future SEC teams in Oklahoma and Texas, and teams that are ideal complements.

Alabama