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Oklahoma football: Sooners officially invited to join SEC by unanimous vote

SEC logo seen during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency in Hoover, Ala., Monday, July 19, 2021. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Sec Media Days

It’s all but a done deal. Oklahoma football is picking up its ball and officially moving to the SEC.

The rich just got richer. On Thursday afternoon, the SEC presidents and chancellors voted unanimously to extend invitations to the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas to join the SEC.

A whirlwind week of bombshell news reporting on Oklahoma and Texas’ decision to pick up and leave the Big 12 for the greener pastures of the Southeaster Conference has now cleared the next to the last hurdle in the process.