If it's up to Gus Malzahn the SEC's next move may not be conference expansion but rather realignment.

The fourth-year Auburn coach told ESPN's Chris Low he thinks "there will be a discussion" about the Tigers changing divisions to the SEC East.

If the SEC shuffles things, @CoachGusMalzahn wouldn't be opposed to Auburn moving to the East. "I think there will be discussion on that." — Chris Low (@ClowESPN) April 13, 2016

It's unclear whether Malzahn, who is 13-11 in SEC games and 9-9 against SEC West teams as a head coach not including the 2013 SEC Championship, was speaking with knowledge of talks on a forthcoming agenda or merely answering a hypothetical.

The SEC has already announced its schedule of conference football games to be played through the 2025 season, making any potential change to divisions without expansion highly unlikely, as Low has since referenced.

If Auburn were to eventually find itself in the SEC East with the conference keeping its current makeup of 14 teams the Iron Bowl rivalry would have to be the preserved cross-division game, meaning Alabama's annual meeting with Tennessee would become a meeting approximately once every six years.

The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry would remain intact if such a change took place, as Auburn's current permanent cross-division rival is Georgia.

A move by the Tigers would bring back an annual meeting with Florida, a series featuring 83 meetings but none since 2011, but would alter the series with Mississippi State, which has 89 meetings, to once every six years.

If Auburn were to change divisions it would also require a team in the East, most likely Missouri, to move to the West.