Texas, Oklahoma may join SEC as early as 2022, per report

The “Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC” train is moving FAST. The news broke on Wednesday that the two schools were interested in leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, and now, there are reports that the move could happen as soon as next year. Even though Texas and Oklahoma’s grant-of-rights TV partnership with the Big 12 doesn’t end until 2025, Brett McMurphy told Greg McElroy and Cole Cubelic that he believes lawyers will strike a deal to let the schools leave sooner.

“The one thing you mentioned that this can’t happen until 2025, I think they would prefer, I think the goal of Texas and Oklahoma and the SEC is to have this in place in 2022,” McMurphy said on McElroy and Cubelic In The Morning. “The lawyers will come together and come up with a settlement. I don’t think you make this decision to move to a conference and then spend four more years in that conference. That’s not good for everybody.

“I think the lawyers are going to make a lot of money but I think ultimately they come to an agreement if that decision is made and I expect it to be made. I would expect Oklahoma and Texas to be in the SEC in 2022.”

Would we really have to wait until 2025 to see Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC?@Brett_McMurphy from @Stadium told Greg & Cole that the move could happen much sooner than expected… pic.twitter.com/lFLe4xedTq

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McMurphy also tweeted this morning that Texas and Oklahoma officials reached out to the SEC in late December/early January about coming on board as a package deal. Pete Thamel is reporting the talks have been going on even longer, for more than a year, and the schools are expected to start the process of joining the SEC next week. So, while this bombshell is news to all of us, it’s really been in the works for a long time.

Here we go.