5 SEC schools most likely to vote against Texas football, OU joining

Vanderbilt

There really doesn’t seem to be a world where the SEC wouldn’t want to keep the Vanderbilt Commodores as an important member of the conference. But Vanderbilt is also a school that doesn’t often remain too competitive in sports such as football and men’s basketball. Although, the men’s basketball program did well of late.

Vanderbilt is the premier academic institution in the SEC. And it is the lone private institution in the SEC too, which makes it a unique presence in the conference. Vanderbilt might never have the ability to invest in athletics as a whole compared to some of the bigger powers that be in the SEC. And that’s why it makes sense for Vanderbilt to resist bringing in Texas and Oklahoma.

There are two ways to look at this for a school like Vanderbilt.

The first is that Vanderbilt would want to keep the current standing to try and move forward with less resistance in college sports across the board, namely football. Vanderbilt is historically one of the worst football programs in the SEC.

But the second way that the Commodores could look at this is to continue to use the academic standing as its calling card in the SEC and try to build up other programs before getting football up and running.

Vanderbilt could either be one of the easiest or hardest votes to get for Mizzou and Texas A&M to join them in blocking the SEC bringing in Texas and Oklahoma. This will be an interesting one to watch in the coming weeks and months.