Report: Texas and Oklahoma will move to SEC in 2025 despite effort to join in 2024

There’s an update on the conference realignment front regarding the upcoming moves of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. The original deal was for the two Big 12 schools to migrate to the SEC in 2025. However, there was an effort to push that date up to 2024 to get the schools in quicker. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, those efforts were unsuccessful.

Thamel tweeted Friday morning:

“Sources: The effort for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 has stalled and at this point is unlikely to come to fruition.”

Thamel then added that a TV dispute got in the way.

“Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC in 2025, as parties couldn’t come to terms amid a complex negotiation between two schools (OU/Texas), two networks (ESPN/FOX) and the Big 12.”

That’s the latest on Texas, Oklahoma and the SEC. The Sooners and Longhorns still set to join in 2025 despite a longstanding assumption the league would find a way to get them in sooner. Oh well. Two more years in the Big 12 for Texas and OU.

Greg Sankey comments on potential early move

“The short answer is no,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey previously said. “That’s a reality between the Big 12 conference and its members. Texas and Oklahoma are still members. That’s why with their media grant of rights, they’re on track and we set the date for their entry to day after those contracts expire.

“There’s been presentations of openness to change,” Sankey said. “We’ll be prepared because we have the need to settle our football scheduling model. We’ve done the work on most of our other scheduling models, but football still remains. We’ve adapted quickly in the past when we added Texas A&M and Missouri. We had about eight or nine months for that decision-making. We want to use time wisely, but in the next few months, we’ll come to a conclusion on the scheduling model. The Big 12’s decision-making really is the point of question there on timing.”