Texas To SEC Soon? Officials Discussing Adding Longhorns To Schedule

Because the SEC prepares for the arrival of Texas and Oklahoma, the query stays what’s going to occur to the divisions and enlargement. Will Commissioner Greg Sankey merely added the Sooners to the SEC East and Texas to the West? Maybe vice versa? 

Extra particularly, what might be fabricated from the Longhorns and Sooners becoming a member of the convention within the coming years. As of now, it seems Sankey is making ready for a sooner enlargement than initially thought. 

In response to a report from Saturday Down South, the colleges on the SEC Conferences in Destin, Fla. are discussing future scheduling codecs with the intent of including each Texas and Oklahoma to the dialog. The Longhorns and Sooners didn’t ship representatives as a part of the 2022 conferences because of their prior dedication to the Huge 12. 

Sankey spoke earlier this month on probably eliminating divisions altogether and focusing in on the perfect groups making it to the SEC Championship. One other thought course of could be for the league to maneuver to 4 pods as a substitute of divisions of eight. 

“Properly, nearly a year-long dialog after we acquired to 16 groups, what divisions will appear like or what our schedule will appear like,” Sankey said Tuesday. “These prospects embody no divisions. It’s on our checklist. We’re not going to do it in a knee-jerk manner. The divisions work rather well for us, however after we acquired to 16, that risk is front-and-center for the SEC. Except the sentiment of our league modifications drastically, the division format works, and after we go to 16, that might be the time for an adjustment.”  

In response to a number of experiences, the convention is arguing in regards to the standing of the approaching schedule as soon as the 2 colleges arrive. At the moment, the 2 plans in movement could be an eight-game schedule with just one everlasting opponent and 7 rotational opponents or a nine-game schedule with three everlasting opponents and 6 rotational opponents every season. 

The Longhorns made the transfer to the SEC together with Oklahoma in hopes of holding the Purple River Showdown alive in faculty soccer’s prime convention. Ought to the league spend money on just one everlasting opponent, relying on the construction of a division or pod system, a Texas vs. Texas A&M yearly matchup wouldn’t be a assure

The 2 colleges are anticipated to affix the SEC no later than 2025, however issues could possibly be altering with the current strikes within the Huge 12. BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston all will now be a part of the convention in 2023, thus bringing the overall to 14 groups for 2 years if the 2 colleges stay by means of their present contracts. 

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