Is the Big 12 Falling Apart?

If the reports are correct that Texas and Oklahoma are joining the SEC, then yes, the Big 12 is falling apart.

Rumors started when the Houston Chronicle‘s Brent Zwerneman reported that the SEC could be adding the two Big 12 powerhouses. CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd wrote that “Texas and Oklahoma are expected to declare their intention to leave the Big 12 in as soon as ’24-48 hours.'”

The move to the SEC should shake up other conferences too. Mike Vernon reported that Kansas has also scheduled a call with the Big Ten Conference. For college basketball, this would be a massive win for the conference. However, in college football, Kansas would be one of the worst FBS Power Five teams joining the Big Ten.

Vernon also reported Iowa State in contact with the Big Ten.

According to Jeremy Clark, a TCU insider, Baylor, TCU, and Texas Tech have reached out to the Pac-12 about possibly joining the conference.

This leaves the Big 12 with Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia. Do you know what will happen to those schools? They’ll leave for other conferences. I’m sure other Power Five conferences will bring them in.

Will the SEC become this “football superconference?” How do the Big Ten, Pac-12, and ACC play into the realignment? The American Athletic Conference and the Mountain West Conference could lose members too. Cincinnati, UCF, Memphis are all schools in the AAC that could leave for Power Five conferences. Boise State has one of the best football programs in the Group of Five, so there is a possibility of the Broncos leaving the Mountain West for a Power Five conference.

Could schools drop football or go independent and join these conferences, or even go to the Big East? There are so many possibilities, but the Big East one seems improbable.

These are all speculations, however. Nobody knows what will happen as everything unfolds. Will this realignment be similar to the one that happened from 2010 to 2013? Only time will tell.