I pondered the good and the bad.

A 4 team pod seems like it could work better on paper with 3 permanent opponents, say LSU, Ole Miss and Texas A&M. And 2 8 team divisions might fair use well. But that will spread the 1 or 2 cross division games out even more that they are now.

I am skeptical that they would do complete away with Divisions of some sort, but if they did I could see these 5 being our permanent opponents just to keep us dead last.

Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, LSU and Ole Miss.

Then our other 3 or 4 conference games will rotate every 2 years so you get a home and home back to back years. That is going to keep some teams from playing to every 4 years, which I guess is better that what we have now.

Example: 3 Non-conference Games and 9 conference games.(which all of our pre-scheduled NCGs will have to be re-visited)

2023

State would play LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama
In 4 straight weeks.

Then play UGA, Missouri, Florida, South Carolina

Before finishing with the Egg Bowl.

With the pod system, we might get Ole Miss, LSU, and A&M just to keep A&M from having g to play Texas every year. There could be some 2-7 years but as the rotation circles there might be a couple of 6-3 or even 7-2 conference years for us too.

But if the go to no divisions you can count on MSU getting screwed on scheduling.