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Texas and Oklahoma officially requested to join the SEC on Tuesday, with the schools eyeing July 1, 2025, as the target date.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey released a statement about the request:
SEC presidents and chancellors will
reportedly hold a meeting Thursday to discuss the logistics of
potentially adding Oklahoma and Texas to become a 16-team “super-conference.”
The meeting will come on the heels of Oklahoma and Texas formally requesting membership beginning in July 2025, when their media-rights agreements with the Big 12 have concluded.
A source told ESPN’s Heather Dinich and
Mark Schlabach on Tuesday there’s still “a lot of legal work” for
the Sooners and Longhorns programs to handle before they could join the SEC, so it’s unclear whether a formal vote—which would require approval from 11 of the 14 current members of the conference—will be held during the meeting.
“There’s a lot to do in a short
amount of time in order to get to a vote by Thursday,” the
source told ESPN.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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