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Early Thursday evening The Athletic reported that Oklahoma and Texas reached an agreement with the Big 12 to exit the Big 12 one year early (previously expected to leave the conference in 2025) and join the SEC in 2024 for the 2024-2025 academic year and athletic season.
The two schools will pay the Big 12 $100 million to leave the conference as new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark voiced his excitement for being able to move to a 12-team league after the Sooners and Longhorns make their move. The Sooners and Longhorns will now join the SEC when the conference’s new TV deal with ABC and ESPN begins.
Oklahoma and Texas will play in a fourteen-team Big 12 with expansion members BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston in 2023-2024. It will be interesting to see how the SEC schedule looks in all sports and who Oklahoma and Texas’ main opponents will be in the conference a year from now.
2 replies on “Texas, Oklahoma on move to SEC in 2024”
How many different sports does the SEC require that a school participate??
Couldn’t find that online but each school is required to have two more women’s sports than men’s sports.