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Texas and Oklahoma Reportedly Skip Big 12 Conference Call

In wake of their potential move to the SEC, the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners reportedly skipped the Big 12 conference call on Thursday

Matt Galatzan

Hour by hour, the rumored move to the SEC seems less like a possibility and more like an eventuality than a possibility for the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners. 

On Thursday morning, the Longhorns and Sooners informed the Big 12 of their intentions not to renew their media contracts with the conference, which were set to expire in 2025. 

Now, the two universities have taken it another step further, with the pair of rivals, according to a report from Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger, opting to skip a Big 12 conference call on Thursday night, which was meant to discuss the potential move. 

READ MORE: Report: Texas and Oklahoma Will Not Renew Media Contracts With Big 12

So what is next from here? Well, things could begin to move very quickly. 

Without any meaningful incentive to offer to either school in the discussion to this point, Texas and Oklahoma hold all of the leverage on the Big 12 side. 

On the SEC front, the only things standing in the way are former Big 12 members Texas A&M and Missouri, who are the only schools rumored to be attempting to block the move. 

And unless the Aggies and Tigers can get two more teams to join them in their opposition of the re-alignment, such as South Carolina, Kentucky or Vanderbilt, the Longhorns and Sooners could have their path to join College Football's most prestigious conference cleared sooner, rather than later. 

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Matt Galatzan
MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.

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