Oklahoma and Texas Set to Join SEC in 2024
After long speculation of when Texas and Oklahoma would be able to join the SEC, it seems that the two Big 12 schools will join the conference after this upcoming season. The two universities will be a part of the SEC at the start of the 2024 season.
Last week, it seemed like Texas and Oklahoma were going to have to wait until 2025 before they would be able to move conferences, and that their efforts to join the SEC a year early had appeared to have stalled out. However, after today's news that is clearly not the case.
By joining the SEC in 2024, the two schools will be forgoing $100 million of revenue distribution, Fox will receive $20 million of that. It was also reported that Oklahoma and Texas will not receive full SEC share in their first year in the league in 2024.
The Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma were actually set to play against one another in the upcoming season until the SEC stepped in and made them take each other off of their schedules due to Oklahoma nearing their introduction to the SEC. The two teams were also set to play each other in 2025 as well, but instead, the Bulldogs will now play Ball State in 2023.
Here is the statement that the SEC released in regard to the schedule change:
"Because the second non-conference game in each of the Georgia-Oklahoma and Tennessee-Oklahoma series is scheduled to take place after Oklahoma joins the SEC in 2025, the Conference is directing the postponement of the Georgia at Oklahoma game in 2023 and the Oklahoma at Tennessee game in 2024 until such time that those matchups become part of the Conference rotation of games in future years."
Now the conversation will shift to how the SEC will format schedules once the two teams join the conference. Right now the teams are evenly split up into two divisions, but changes will need to be made with two new schools entering the mix. The expansion of the college football playoff could also throw some wrinkles in how college football teams format their schedules.
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