Texas and Oklahoma not Expected to Join SEC in 2024

According to reports, Texas and Oklahoma are longer expected to join the SEC a year early and are now set to switch conferences in 2025.

According to reports, Texas and Oklahoma are no longer expected to switch from the BIG12 to the SEC a year early and are now expected to join their new conference in 2025. There were talks of the Sooners and Longhorns getting to make the switch a year early, but those efforts have now stalled out. 

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."

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.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 3, 2023

In the coming years, there will be quite a few college programs switching conferences. USC and UCLA will eventually be joining the BIG10, and several schools including UCF and Cinncinati will be joining the BIG12 as well. Most of the conference realignment that will occur across college sports is expected to be completed by 2025. 

With Oklahoma and Texas joining the SEC there has been discussion about how the conference will manage schedules now, especially for football. Several ideas have floated around about what the SEC could ultimately decide to do, but there has still not been an official decision announced. 

Regardless of what the SEC decides to do, they will have an extra year to do so and the SEC will have at least two more seasons before Oklahoma and Texas join one of the most coveted conferences in the sport. 

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