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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 289688, member: 19"]
Not really sure I agree with this comment:
 
"If the mighty SEC deems the Big 12 worthy to have their respective champions play each other, then by extension, the SEC sees the Big 12 as an equal."
 
We obviously know that the SEC sees no one as an equal.  Especially a league that they just poached for 2 schools, and another 2 recently left to go to other major conferences.
 
I can see a couple reasons why the SEC wouldn't want to align with the ACC in a major bowl.
 
1.  Even though the SEC knows it's superior, they also know what FSU and Miami once were, so they're not going to help provide an avenue that could prop up the only two schools in their geographic footprint who have successfully stolen headlines from the SEC in recent history.
 
2.  SEC and ACC already have a few annual OOC games that most in the nation know about.  Florida-FSU, SC-Clemson, Georgia-GT.  A newer low level academic rivalry in Vandy-Wake (probably shouldn't be included in the same sentence, but the leagues work out so oh well).  The new B1G-Pac-12 regular season game notwithstanding, you can generate more interest in a major bowl between 2 conferences that don't typically face each other.
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