With Oklahoma and Texas now scheduled to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC in 2024, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told ESPN on Friday he's looking forward to seeing some rivalries renewed, but also acknowledged that building the schedule for a 16-team conference needs to be done over the next three months.
Recent conference realignment, which includes USC and UCLA heading to the Big Ten in 2024, and Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU joining the Big 12 this fall, will drastically change the college football footprint, but Sankey said SEC expansion is "really unique" because "we restore rivalries.