When Oklahoma and Texas formally announced their desire earlier this week to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC -- a move that would create a seismic shift in the power structure of college athletics -- college football was already on the precipice of historic change with the proposal of a 12-team College Football Playoff.
Now the two plotlines are entangled, with no definitive date for either to become a reality.
"It's unfortunately likely to delay approval of a CFP expansion plan," first-year Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff told ESPN on Thursday.