The idea of Auburn moving divisions for football apparently isn't that farfetched.

Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs indicated on Wednesday that he would like to begin a dialogue with other members of the Southeastern Conference that could send his school to the SEC East. Speaking with reporters at the 2017 SEC spring meetings at the Sandestin Hilton, Jacobs said SEC officials and athletics directors will meet later this year to discuss scheduling, and that "everything will be on the table."

That includes, theoretically, eliminating divisions to help ensure a team from the SEC is selected for the College Football Playoff every year. Currently, the winners of the SEC East and West meet in Atlanta for the SEC championship game. There have been informal talks about adding an extra SEC game to regular season schedules, scrapping the divisional format and pitting the top teams in the conference against each other at the end of the season.

"I think all that would be on the table when we talk about football," Jacobs said. "Because when we established the SEC championship, the NCAA rules were you had to have two divisions. Well, that's no longer the case."

For the past three years at SEC spring meetings there have been rumblings of Auburn wanting to move to the East. While SEC commissioner Greg Sankey seemed to shoot down the idea Tuesday, the drumbeat is getting louder. Earlier in the day, Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Auburn moving to the East was "common sense."

"If you look at the way the map is set up, I mean, it's kind of like common sense," Malzahn said. "But it's a lot more to it than that. There is a lot of rivalries involved. There is a lot of moving parts. So, you know, that's probably far away if that ever does happen."

To be clear, Jacobs said Auburn will not sacrifice games against traditional rivals to change divisions. Moving the date of the Iron Bowl, though, might not be out of the question.

"if there was some adjustment that needed to be made, move it up one or two weeks, but it is just so hypothetical, guys, to talk about what it should and shouldn't be," Jacobs said. "But the bottom line is ... we're going to keep playing Georgia and we're going to keep playing Alabama, and wherever we land we land.

"That may mean we stay in the West for the next 20 years. Whatever works out. Whatever we think is best for this league, and gives us the best chance to get to the playoffs is what we're going to do."