Oklahoma and Texas could declare intention to leave, but exit will take time: sources

Biggest takeaway from the Big 12 meeting

Max Olson, College Football Team Editor: You’d expect fireworks or a lot of aeration on that first call between the Big 12 players, especially with no representatives from Oklahoma and Texas.

Instead, sources say, the conversation between the eight schools and conference leaders focused on what’s to come, the need to stay together and recognize the many options available to them, including including expansion.

The Big 12 do not believe that this SEC exit is far enough along for it to happen in the next few weeks, sources added.

Big 12 prospects moving forward

Nicole Auerbach, editor-in-chief of college football: It’s too early to predict what would happen to the eight remaining schools in the Big 12 if (when?) Texas and Oklahoma left. Right now there appears to be a concerted effort to keep these schools together and possibly add members via expansion down the line.

But decades of conference realignment also suggest the reverse could also be happening: that at least one or more of the remaining eight schools could worry about being left behind and try to move on to another conference on their own. . But it’s worth remembering that the other eight are also still linked to each other through the granting of rights, so it’s too early to say that the league is on the verge of total collapse.

Either way, it’s time to hang up.

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