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Analysis: Sure, Texas and Oklahoma could move to SEC. But there's a lot of roadblocks to sort first.

The myriad questions posed by the speculation that Texas and Oklahoma are weeks away from joining the SEC begins with this: Are we really doing this again?

Ten years after college football's map was drawn and redrawn amid massive realignment, the Longhorns and Sooners have the potential to usher in a brand-new landscape defined by 16-team behemoth conferences that ignore geography, history and rivalry in chase of larger and larger television contracts.

According to a "high-ranked college official" cited by the Houston Chronicle, the first outlet to report the story, the Longhorns and Sooners are poised to leave the Big 12 in favor of the SEC "within a couple of weeks.