Future scheduling question? (OU and Texas)
Since OU and Texas to SEC looks like it might actually happen, Does this have an affect on our home and home series with either of them?
OU series 2025 away/2026 at home
Texas 2024 away/2027 at home
Does this move impact us for playing them at all? I would think it would if it actually happens. I was looking forward to going to at least one of these away games.
Maybe
Possibly
Indubitably
Perhaps
I think Texas and Oklahoma will be in their conference until at least the end of the 2025 season, so maybe not the first games with each team. I guess they could still back out or we could before then.
To summarize, I don’t know. ?
Sooner
Ahhh! I see. Thanks. So I guess they’ll have to buy their way out of their Big12 contracts. I remember when this kind of stuff was going on around 2012. Things start moving so quickly it’s crazy.
Yes, no and ^^^^^ so.
If OU and Texas move to the SEC, I could see them moving to only one or two non-conference games. What sense does it make in the playoff era to play McNeese State AND Louisiana-Monroe in the same season when you have OU and Texas in the conference?
I believe us playing them was the driving force behind Sankey wanting to add them. The timing wasn't right to add Washington this year.
I cant answer your question, but I highly doubt OU and Texas move to the SEC. This looks like the two heavy hitters in the Big12 are posturing for a new TV deal.
Prominent Big 12 source tells the American-Statesman the Texas-OU move to the SEC is almost done. "They've been working on this for a minimum of 6 months, and the A&M leadership was left out of discussions and wasn't told about it." Move could become official in a week.
Except it gets vetoed if at least 4 current SEC schools vote against it. At least that’s what I have been led to believe.
That is true but the only schools that so far I have heard are actually against it are A&M and Mizzou. Even if Arkansas is holding some grudge from SWC days (over 30 years ago now so nobody in the current administration was there) they would still need another vote.
Plus turns out that "gentlemen's agreement" between Florida, Georgia and SCAR doesn't quite extend to Texas A&M like they were led to believe.
ESPN $$$$$ >>>> 4 butthurt schools.
This is a formality at this point. You do NOT announce your intentions to terminate G-O-R without a pre-positioned option. This has been vetted thoroughly.
I can bet you the Bigten would announce it way before it became a reality and would step right into a pile of shit if it didn’t like usual. Bigten still thinks they are trend setters and they haven’t been for a long time.
That was my initial thought as well especially in the aftermath of OU getting publicly angry about 11am kickoffs. But the amount of smoke going on now feels way more than a posturing event. Texas and OU not joining the conference call last night, Thamel tweeting this morning they have been in back channel communications with the SEC for more than a year. Statements issued by the SEC, Big XII and various teams involved
This feels like it's actually happening.
This did not age well...
Dude you need to read the latest news. This is happening.
I have a feeling this could impact us but thankfully we are their only power 5 OOC games those years so they may still want to keep them.
I would guess if SEC goes to 16 teams they will be adopting a pod system and probably moving to 9 games. Could be at risk for cancellation if they decide 9 SEC games is more than enough and wants 3 G5 OOC.
I guarantee Texas and OU drop all 4 of these games once they get settled into the SEC. They'll both start playing schools like North Texas Bible and Oklahoma Tech
Soon to be replaced with Kansas and Iowa State, wooooo