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As Texas football embarks on a critical 2021 season where there is a lot on the line for new head coach Steve Sarkisian, something still managed to overshadow it all. On the afternoon of July 21, the reports started to come out about how Texas was looking to gauge interest in potentially leaving the Big 12 to join the SEC. This would obviously be a seismic shift, but the reality of it happening is starting to feel a bit more concrete.
It was hard to know, when the report first came out on July 21 from the Houston Chronicle, if this rumor had any actual legs to it.