The 49ers program is certainly on the rise but they're far, far away from SEC consideration.
You may be surprised to hear that college football writers are discussing conference alignment during this college football offseason.
While there have been some mild rumblings surrounding the Big XII potentially, maybe considering adding two additional members, most of the articles making their way around the blogosphere are either really presumptuous or in the case of ESPN's Ryan McGee, just a fun diversion to fill the offseason content dearth.
McGee wrote an interesting article this week in which he bolstered each P5 conference into 16-member super conferences as part of a likely inevitable P5/G5 governance split.