Texas Football: SEC will try to get Longhorns and Sooners in by 2022
With the process continuing to move fast in the movement of the Texas football program (among other sports) and Oklahoma Sooners from the Big 12 to the SEC, the next thoughts concern what the steps will be from here on out. Texas and Oklahoma have now informed the Big 12 of the intention to leave earlier this week.
And now the Longhorns and Sooners will look to make the move from the Big 12 to the SEC officially as soon as possible. It is clear that these two schools will be playing the next athletic calendar year in the Big 12. But next year doesn’t look out of the realm of possibility for Texas and Oklahoma to start playing in competition in the SEC in all sports.
According to a report from Brett McMurphy on his Twitter timeline on the morning of July 27, the SEC will “now send their lawyer, guns, and money” to get these two schools in the league by 2022. That doesn’t necessarily mean that will be a done deal in 2022, but it is a good sign of how things in this process are moving along.
Brett McMurphy reporting that Texas football and OU could be in the SEC by 2022
Now that Oklahoma & Texas formally sought membership to SEC (& SEC will vote 14-0 to accept the schools) to quote the great Warren Zevon, SEC will now “send their lawyers, guns & money” to get them in league early in 2022
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 27, 2021
It would be very awkward for Texas and Oklahoma to continue to play in the Big 12 for any longer than this fall, especially in football. And with the looming possibility that the remaining eight Big 12 schools could scatter to other conferences in the near term, it wouldn’t make much sense to stick around too long.
If Texas and Oklahoma can get things moving along at this same lightning-fast speed compared with the past five days, then it seems like a very large possibility that the two schools could be playing in the SEC by next fall.
Just one week ago, we thought that Texas and Oklahoma would be playing in the Big 12 for at least a good while longer. None the wiser, the college sports landscape underwent a seismic shift as soon as it became clear late last week that this move for the two schools from the Big 12 to the SEC was no joke.
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Texas and Oklahoma will continue to play in the Big 12 through this fall. It’s hard to imagine that both of these teams won’t have huge targets on their backs throughout the upcoming major sports seasons in this conference, though.