Add in Ohio State and Clemson, kick out Vanderbilt and Tennessee, and you could shut down the rest of college football.
It’s time to put college football out of its misery. Just shut it down. Let the NFL run its own farm system. If some students want to play football as a club sport, fine. But no scholarships, no tv, and no highly paid coaches.
When will SEC stop meaning “Southeast”?
Woke
College Football is dead. I expect a lot of schools to drop football in the coming years.
UT and ou will get clobbered over there. At least for a while.
They might as well go Pro/Reg like in soccer.
Have a “Premier League” of the best 15 programs, with each team playing each other, and the bottom three teams dropping to the next level the next season.
Arkansas, A&M, Nebraska and Missouri all wanted out of a conference (SWC & Big Twelve) which had UT as a member. Why would three of them allow UT to join now? A&M will fight this and I can’t imagine Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, LSU, Georgia or Auburn going along. How would it benefit them?
I also don’t believe the Oklahoma state legislature would allow OU to leave Oklahoma State behind.
Donnie also made the singular worst head coaching decision in the history of OU and possibly in the history of the entire sport of college football, quite frankly.
Don't want to say too much about situations involving "anybody else" though so let's just leave it at that...
I think it would be kind of stupid for UT or OK join the SEC, they would at least have a chance in making the CFP where they are now, in the SEC they would have to face Bama, GA, and FL to get in.
In fact if you want to see the future of college football, look at Professional Soccer in England since the Premier League.
Basically 20 clubs have all the money, and now many of the other clubs are going under, to the point where, whereas once there were hundreds of professional clubs in England, there will eventually be under 50.
College amateur sports is dead...just bury it already.
Texas is getting crushed in the recruiting wars. That is not going to change. Texas A&M is more attractive to top Texas HS players because they play in the SEC.
The best chances for Texas and Oklahoma to get into the playoffs is to stay just where they are in the Big 12.
Don’t understand why Texas would want to join the SEC when they can’t even win the Big 12? The only way this works is if Alabama and Auburn switch to the East Division so it winds up:
SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
SEC West: Arkansas, LSU, Missouri, Mississippi St., Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas, Texas A&M
Still a very daunting schedule when you add in a conference championship game and then an 8 or 16-team playoff.
UT has it’s own TV station. Will they share the $$$ it generates with fellow SEC members?
The dealbreaker every other time was the Longhorn Network (LHN, owned by ESPN/Disney). That contract does not run out until 2031 and it seems unlikely Texas will let go of it before then unless they are bought off.
Some are claiming this a master stroke to take the spotlight off A&M during their media day. I kinda think the Pac-12 is a better fit for Texas and Oklahoma, particularly given Austin’s fascination with everything Californian.
Changing the subject, this is some sad news
Bobby Bowden ‘at peace’ after being diagnosed with terminal medical condition
Bowden is one of the classiest guys who ever coached the game. I took great joy whenever we beat him, but he was a solid Christian man, and a patriot.
Ohio State Buckeyes at Minnesota Golden Gophers: (Time TBD, FOX)
Cant Wait!
Eliminate Ole Miss..no real reason. Just shits and giggles.
The SEC was formed so that southern schools could play against other teams that enforced the color line as it existed at that time.
That rationale no longer exists.
Of course, the rationale for “student athletes” no longer exists either.
The best course of action is to kill the whole deal and help college students learn to read and write.