Earlier this week at SEC Football Media Days, Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman said he wasn’t worried about Texas and Oklahoma defecting from the Big 12 to join the SEC.
He may want to start now.
With reports on Friday that the Sooners and Longhorns will be declaring independence from the Big 12 by early next week, the move now seems imminent. There is different speculation on to how quickly the move may happen.
If the two schools left before 2025, they’d have to pay what essentially amounts to a fee of $80 million to the Big 12 for leaving before the expiration of the current TV right contract.