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Texas and Oklahoma Reportedly Skip Big 12 Conference Call
In wake of their potential move to the SEC, the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners reportedly skipped the Big 12 conference call on Thursday
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Hour by hour, the rumored move to the SEC seems less like a possibility and more like an eventuality than a possibility for the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners.
On Thursday morning, the Longhorns and Sooners informed the Big 12 of their intentions not to renew their media contracts with the conference, which were set to expire in 2025.
Now, the two universities have taken it another step further, with the pair of rivals, according to a report from Sports Illustrated s Ross Dellenger, opting to skip a Big 12 conference call on Thursday night, which was meant to discuss the potential move.
Understanding the Texas/Oklahoma move from a MAC fandom perspective
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If you thought expansion talk had reached its zenith five years ago, when NIU was seriously being considered for membership in the Big 12 Conference, Wednesday showed that the cultural appetite for college football hasn’t gone away. If anything, it’s only gotten more outrageous.
The news was a bit inescapable on Wednesday, as both the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference, who had either recently or were currently conducting their respective media days, were both caught off-guard by a report from the
Texas and OU Contemplating a Jump to the SEC?
The off-season or I guess in this case preseason for college football always gets interesting. Especially when conferences host their annual media days. The Southeastern Conference recently wrapped up their mid-summer gabfest in Birmingham.
Oddly enough one of the bigger stories coming out of those media days sessions involved two schools that are not even members of the conference. I am speaking of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma. That story was first reported by the
According to the story in the
Chronicle, an announcement concerning the possible addition of Texas and OU to the SEC lineup of schools could be coming in the next couple of weeks. Should that happen it would bring the total number of SEC member schools from 14 to 16. It would also make the SEC the undisputed best football conference in the nation.
Political maneuvering begins as SEC expansion buzz continues
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More than 24 hours after the explosive report from the Houston Chronicle rocked the college football world by breaking the news that the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners are ready to abandon the Big 12 in favor of a move to the SEC, the forward momentum hasn’t stopped.
But one key detail about what prompted Texas and Oklahoma to pursue options beyond the 27-year conference emerged with Brian Davis of the Austin American-Statesman reporting that the Big 12 asked its member institutions to sign a five-year extension of their television rights. The Longhorns are expected to formally decline that request next week.