Exclusive: Texas, Oklahoma reach out to SEC about joining conference
Brent Zwerneman, Staff writer July 21, 2021Updated: July 21, 2021 3:27 p.m. Comments
HOOVER, Ala. — A decade after major conference realignment shook up college football, big changes might again be on the horizon.
Texas and Oklahoma of the Big 12 have both reached out to the Southeastern Conference about potentially joining the powerful league, a high-ranking college official with knowledge of the situation told the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday.
Now Ohio State, Mich, Clemson. Fl State want to join the SEC. So it will be a division onto its own. Will USC and ND be next, only two teams that matter that hasn't signaled they want to join yet.
Per cowherd it’s a done deal. SEC has been working on it for six months and didn’t tell Texas A&M either . A&M must be frosted. They left to get away from Texas in the first place
Since this appears almost a done deal, and Texas A&M was blind-sided apparently, can we get the Aggies to join the PAC? Maybe bring Baylor too. Hoping a new commish will be aggressive in expansion. Or the Pac, Big12, maybe the ACC can form their own league of conferences. AKA, the new Div 2. SEC and B10, after they too go 16 teams, would be Div 1
Huge mistake for the Pac 10 (then) to take Utah and Colorado instead of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. HUGE!
There is no where for the PAC 12 to go to compete with the SEC. UNLV? SDSU? Boise State? The only big school that would add to the Conference is BYU but for PC reasons the Pac 12 won't take in BYU and won't take in Baylor or TCU or any "christian" school.
With players now earning money they are going to go where the money is the best and the money is best in the schools that have the best and most television exposure and the SEC which has been way ahead is going to get further ahead.
USC and UCLA should benefit from the player money but I don't see any other team in the Pac 12 benefiting that much meaning while UCLA and USC might recruit better but the conference will continue to get worse.
Notre sure that does much for the conference
SEC already has 14 teams and teams in the SEC east go 3-4 years without playing teams in the SEC west and vice versa. If this goes through, then the PAC 12 better add Okie ST and TX Tech, Baylor or Kansas St.
Just watched Paul Finebaum show. He had the reporter who broke the story. He thinks within two weeks a decision will be reached either way but he felt that it was more likely they join the SEC than they don’t FWIW