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SEC Commish: Texas, Oklahoma Likely To Be In Big 12 For 2023 Season
SALT LAKE CITY – When BYU joins the Huge 12 Convention on July 1, 2023, they may seemingly be league mates with Texas and Oklahoma. That’s in line with SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey.
The Longhorns and Sooners are contracted into the Huge 12 by their Grant of Rights till June 30, 2025. After that date, the 2 bell cow manufacturers within the Huge 12 will transfer on to the SEC.
Huge 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark mentioned at Huge 12 Media Days in July that he was “not towards” negotiations that might enable Texas and Oklahoma to go away sooner than June 30, 2025, if it served the Huge 12 properly.
These feedback by Yormark have left individuals to surprise if there could be an early exit for Texas and OU. Then the SEC moved round some non-conference video games that featured Oklahoma towards future SEC foes Georgia and Tennessee; it ramped up the hypothesis about an early exit.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey spoke on Texas/Oklahoma
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey spoke to reporters within the press field in the course of the Miami-Texas A&M recreation in Faculty Station on September 17. He mentioned why the SEC moved these non-conference video games with Oklahoma.
“ these are non-conference contracts that couldn’t be fulfilled on either side. And the sensible factor to do was say, ‘these are going to be convention video games. If we decide the precise [scheduling] format, you’re going to see these with nice frequency.’ However since we couldn’t fulfill these appropriately, it was the precise time to make the announcement.”
In 2023, there’s additionally a rematch of Texas/Oklahoma in Tuscaloosa on September 7, 2023. Sankey was requested by Austin American Statesman reporter Kirk Bohls, if that recreation was nonetheless on as at the moment scheduled.
Texas, OU not becoming a member of SEC any earlier than 2024. SEC commish Greg Sankey informed us in A&M press field that UT-Bama return recreation in Tuscaloosa in 2023 will probably be performed, including, “That is a reasonably good signal that the (present) convention alignments are going to remain” the way in which they’re now.
— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) September 18, 2022
Sankey replied, “Which is a reasonably good signal that convention alignments are going to remain that method subsequent 12 months.”
We are going to get a clearer thought of the make-up of the SEC and Huge 12 for the 2023 season quickly. The SEC and Huge 12 Convention sometimes launch their convention soccer schedules in October of the earlier 12 months. So if the Longhorns and Sooners are gone to the SEC in 2023, some motion might want to occur.
Huge 12 Convention would have 14 groups in 2023
If Texas and Oklahoma stay members of the Huge 12 for the 2023-24 tutorial 12 months, the Huge 12 Convention membership could be at 14 groups. At the moment, the Huge 12 options 10 establishments. Subsequent 12 months, they may add BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston to the Energy 5 convention.
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and host of the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports activities Saturday (Saturday from 12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Observe him on Twitter: @Mitch_Harper.