1. Georgia 2. Tennessee 3. Auburn 4. LSU 5. Bammer 6. Despite our recent basketball success, football is still king at UF and the SEC remains a better football conference than the ACC. So there are now 3 substantial football programs in the ACC -- big deal. That means 8 of them are still programs we would not be interested in playing. I don't want Florida Field to become another Joke Campbell Stadium on the Saturdays when we have to play the part of the ACC that's NOT scUM, F$U, or V-Tech. 7. I'd rather spend away games in the likes of Death Valley (the REAL one, in Baton Rouge), Neyland, Bryant-Denney, Williams-Brice, or Jordan Hare, than in the Goat Pen, the Orange Bowl (we get to go there every few years now as it is, and in my opinion, that is enough), and the rest of the 55,000 seat venues in the ACC. 8. The SEC is fast becoming a basketball powerhouse conference, as well. Although it does not enjoy the traditional reputation in basketball that the ACC does, the SEC has Kentucky (a perennially great program) and Florida, Bama, LSU, Mississippi State, AUbie, and Georgia -- all of which are up and coming programs. In recent years, the SEC has had as many teams invited to the NCAA tournament as have the ACC and the Big Ten. 9. This is a SPORTS conference -- not a Brain Bowl conference -- issue. The "academic prestige" thing is a nonissue. First, Florida already is an excellent school in its own right and doesn't need any real or imagined assistance in that respect from the ACC. Second, being in a sports conference very probably does little to nothing to enhance a school's academics or academic reputation. Clemson is Exhibit A in this regard, and FSU is exhibit B. scUM will be Exhibit C. 10. There is a huge amount of conference pride in the SEC that I don't believe really exists in the ACC. I mean, how many times will you hear a Carolina fan say "I'm going to pull for Duke" if Duke is playing for the conference or national championship? Yet, in the SEC, we will pull for teams who we otherwise HATE during the season -- because of our enormous collective pride as a great sports conference. They can keep their brie and chablis on Saturdays -- give me hot wings, beer, and a good old-fashioned dose of SEC trash-talk! GO GATORS!