If you’ve been flustered by the nonstop reshuffling of college conferences and are having trouble keeping track of which schools are competing in which conference, we’ve got you covered.

With the news that Texas State is reportedly taking the final steps to leave the Sun Belt and join the Pac-12 Conference, here is where every notable Texas school stands ahead of the 2025-26 season.

SEC

Texas and Oklahoma made their way to the SEC and are entering their second season in the conference. Leaving the Big 12 behind, Texas and Oklahoma were a package deal. After a long stretch of stability, Texas and OU heading to the SEC was the first domino in the wave of realignment that swept college athletics over the last handful of years.

Texas A&M has been a member of the SEC since 2012.

Big 12

Following the departures of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 added several new schools, including: Cincinnati, Houston, UCF, BYU, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah.

The local Big 12 schools like Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU and Oklahoma State have remained in the conference and shown no signs of a potential exit.

ACC

SMU is the lone local school in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

As the Pac 12 continued to crumble, the ACC decided to get in on the action.

The conference added SMU from the American Athletic Conference and pulled Stanford and California as a package deal from the Pac-12. The Mustangs thrived in their first year in the ACC, as SMU made it to the ACC Championship game and College Football Playoff in its first football season with the conference.

AAC

When the Big 12 plucked Cincinnati, Central Florida and Houston from the AAC, the conference needed to replenish its memberships.

It added North Texas, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, UAB, Rice and UTSA ahead of the 2023 season. UTSA did flirt with the Pac-12 in 2024, but announced its intentions to stick with the AAC.

Conference USA

Sam Houston State made the jump from the WAC to Conference USA in 2023 as a part of the school’s transition from being a FCS program to a FBS program.

Mountain West

UTEP is currently in Conference USA, but is set to join the Mountain West in 2026.

The Mountain West added UTEP amid a flurry of exits from the conference that included Boise State, San Diego State, Utah State, Fresno State and Colorado State. Each of those schools bolted for the Pac-12 and will join the conference in July 2026.

Leftover in the Mountain West are Air Force, UNLV, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State and Hawaii. The conference has also added Grand Canyon and UC Davis as non-football members and Northern Illinois as a football-only member.

Pac-12

Texas State is reportedly joining a Pac-12 that looks significantly different than it did in the past. The Bobcats are set to join the Pac-12 beginning in the 2026-27 school year.

After all of its members except Washington State and Oregon State left, the conference has been rebuilding to the best of its abilities. The aforementioned five Mountain West schools that left for the Pac-12 brought the conference to seven members, the Pac-12 added Gonzaga as a non-football member and Texas State is set to become the eighth football member of the conference.

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The Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring consumers to provide age verification in order to gain access to commercial websites that provide sexually explicit material. It was the first time that the court has imposed requirements on adult consumers in order to protect minors from having such access.

Free-speech advocates argued that while the law’s goal is to limit minors’ access to online sexually explicit content, it is overly vague and imposes significant burdens on adults’ access to constitutionally protected expression. Lawyers for Texas said in their filing, and during arguments, that the law’s opponents had failed to show a single person whose rights have been “chilled” by it.

By a vote of 6-3 along ideological lines, the court agreed with Texas, saying the law “only incidentally burdens the protected speech of adults.”

The Texas measure, enacted in 2023, was aimed at protecting kids under the age of 18 from exposure to sexually explicit material.

It did that by requiring every user, including adults, to first provide proof, typically via a government-issued identification, that they were at least 18 years old. The statute applies to all websites that contain content that is one-third or more “sexually suggestive” in nature and “harmful to children.”

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Just what the term “harmful to children” means is debatable because, according to the websites, the term covers any sexually suggestive material, including romance novels and R-rated movies.

The Free Speech Coalition, an adult industry trade association, and several adult industry producers challenged the law in court, contending that it violated the First Amendment guarantee to free speech and expression.

The groups noted, among other things, that while the statute does bar companies from retaining the identifying information, it does not prohibit transfer of that information or impose any other protection from disclosure to protect adults’ privacy. Moreover, the challengers maintained the state’s defense of the statute fell apart in light of the fact that it exempted from the law’s coverage the search engines and social-media platforms that are the principal gateways for minors gaining access to sexually explicit content.

Federal judge David Alan Ezra, a Reagan appointee, initially barred the law from taking effect, on the grounds that it was likely unconstitutional.

But a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted 2-to-1 to uphold the law, clearing the way for it to take effect. The appeals court said that because the state justified the law as rationally related to its purpose of protecting children, that is all that is necessary. The so-called rational basis test used by the appeals court means essentially that a law passes muster as long as the legislature had any rational justification.

It is the court’s least rigorous standard, and the challengers maintained that it was far too lax and ignored the impact on adult users.

SPRING, Texas (KWTX) – A woman armed with a gun has created a traffic nightmare during a standoff on I-45 South in Spring, Texas, according to the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office.

The constable said the woman “apparently turned her vehicle directly into the path of an 18-wheeler” and caused a collision.

She reportedly then exited her vehicle and sat down in the main lanes of the interstate.

A trained mental health officer has arrived at the scene. Authorities say the woman is saying she wants her kids who are being held hostage.

There is a heavy police presence on I-45 near Cypresswood Drive and the interstate is shut down.

Avoid the area.

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