Texas and Oklahoma are heading to the Southeastern Conference in 2024, a year earlier than originally planned.
FILE - The Big 12 conference logo is seen on a pylon during the first half of an NCAA college football game between Texas and Southern California in Austin, Texas, Sept. 15, 2018. Texas and Oklahoma are heading to the Southeastern Conference in 2024, a year earlier than originally planned, after Big 12 officials cleared the way Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, for the storied programs to exit their league.
“By reaching this agreement, we are now able to accelerate our new beginning as a 12-team league and move forward in earnest with our initiatives and future planning,” Yormak said in a statement announcing the agreement. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement that the schools will become full members of the conference on July 1, 2024.
Oklahoma and Texas have combined for 10 national championships as determined by The Associated Press, but none since the Longhorns’ 2005 season championship. TCU, which made it the College Football Playoff championship game last season, joined Oklahoma as the only Big 12 teams to make the playoff. Money has been a driving factor in the shifting landscape of college athletics realignment. The SEC reported a revenue distribution of $49.9 million per school for the 2021-2022 school year, exceeding by more than $7 million what the Big 12 distributed to its members for the same period.
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