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With Texas State on its way to Pac-12, where does conference realignment stand in Texas?
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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A day off at the pool — and a little sunburn — didn’t stop the Minnesota Twins’ momentum.
Brooks Lee hit a three-run homer as Minnesota scored multiple runs in the first inning for the third consecutive game, and the Twins went on to complete a series sweep of the Texas Rangers with a 9-3 win Thursday.
Minnesota has won four games in a row and scored 25 runs in the three-games series in Texas. The two teams had a rare, mid-series day off on Wednesday with the England-Croatia World Cup game being played in Arlington.
“We’re locked in every day,” Lee told Audra Martin on the team’s broadcast. “Yesterday, taking time off, lay out by the pool, get a little burnt and then right back to it. We did a good job getting focused. I feel like we do that with rain delays, too, just lock back in and we’re doing it.”
Lee’s 12th homer capped a four-run first off Jack Leiter (3-7). Trevor Larnach made it 6-0 in the fourth with a two-run shot to straightaway center that just cleared the extended glove of leaping Alejandro Osuna. Larnach’s third hit was an RBI single in the fifth, and Ryan Kriedler hit a two-run homer in the eighth.
Joe Ryan (5-3) struck out seven but needed 97 pitches to get through five scoreless innings while allowing three singles. Leiter was done after the fourth, and has given up 17 runs while losing three starts in a row.
The Twins never trailed in the sweep that extended their winning streak to four, matching their longest this season. Their 14-5 record at Globe Life Field is the best for any American League opponent since the ballpark opened in 2020.
Wyatt Langford, Ezequiel Duran and Justin Foscue hit solo homers for the Rangers, who have lost five of six games. They are 0-15 when giving up multiple runs in the first inning.
Twins DH Josh Bell, who was born in nearby Irving and grew up in the area, had an RBI single before Lee’s homer. Bell hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the series-opening 4-2 win Monday, and had an RBI single for a 2-0 lead in the first of a 12-2 win on Tuesday.
“We’re just passing the baton each time,” Lee said of the offensive output. “Our guys are hot. They feel good and they came out swinging today. It was awesome to see. We’ve done that for a while now.”
Up next
Twins rookie left-hander Connor Prielipp (2-4, 5.26 ERA) starts Friday at Arizona. The Diamondbacks are scheduled to start right-hander Michael Soroka (8-3, 3.11).
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A Texas state trooper was killed in a crash in the Panhandle, becoming the 244th Texas Department of Public Safety officer to die in the line of duty since 1823, according to the agency.
Sergio Romero, 27, died Wednesday after a semi-truck pulled in front of him as he attempted a traffic stop around 4 p.m. on U.S. 287 in Childress County, DPS said.
In a statement, Col. Freeman F. Martin praised Romero’s courage, integrity, and service.
“Today, we grieve the loss of one of our own,” Martin said. “… Our hearts break alongside his family, friends, fellow troopers, and all who loved him. We will never forget the ultimate sacrifice he made in service of his fellow Texans.”
Romero previously served with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office before joining DPS as part of Class B-2025 in Childress, the agency said.
He is survived by his wife, Francisca, and their two young sons.
Funeral arrangements are pending. The crash remains under investigation.
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