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Not even 48 hours have passed since the biggest piece of news in college sports since the last great news item the NIL. Per CBS Sports: “Texas, Oklahoma expected to declare intent to leave Big 12 in '24-48 hours' with SEC as landing spot.” This is despite the objections by the current Texas SEC team: Texas A&M,

Matt Miller @nfldraftscout

Hmm...I wonder who that could be lol

Kirk Bohls @kbohls

The SEC currently is hoping to vote to offer invitations to Texas and Oklahoma as soon as "sometime next week," an SEC source tells me. "The vote will be 13-1."

This move neuters the Big 12 as a conference since besides Texas and Oklahoma all other teams do not have the historic or the recent success needed to maintain the conference at the Power 5 level. With that in mind, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about what the rest of the Big 12 would do (Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, University of Kansas, and West Virginia).

Some schools have begun reaching out to other conferences like the Big 10. Which with the addition of KU would provide the conference with a

Mike Vernon @M_Vernon

There is a sense that Iowa State is involved with the Big Ten as well. KU has the head start here and would be trying to bring ISU along, if anything.

Mike Vernon @M_Vernon

KU REALIGNMENT HEARINGS: KU has a call set up with the Big Ten.

As a whole, they have truly become desperate and have reached out to the Pac-12 to form the ...

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Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini

From @skhanjr and @BruceFeldmanCFB: "Reaching out to the Pac-12 about a potential 20-school merger was discussed during Thursday’s Big 12 leadership call. Such a move seems to be a more favorable alternative for the Big 12 than bringing in new members.”

theathletic.comSources: Texas and Oklahoma to inform Big 12 of exit next week, with plans to bolt for SECOnce UT and OU inform the Big 12 that they don’t intend to extend their grant of rights, the SEC can officially begin engaging the schools.

The thoughts on flying from Morgantown, WV to Berkeley, then back, then to Seattle Washington? In the words of the WVU fans:

RedDirtSport @RedDirtSport

WVU flying coast to coast every 3 days for sports in the #Pac20

Of course, the college football Twitter has been having a lot of fun at the expense of the two defectors:

no context college football @nocontextcfb

Or at the expense of the Big 12:

RedditCFB @RedditCFB

Barstool ISU @BarstoolISU

Current state of the Big 12 @BarstoolKU

Or just pointing out how dependent on the Texas and Oklahoma the Big 12 teams are:

RedditCFB @RedditCFB

The gang finds themselves on The Island of Misfit Teams.

Maryland and Cal can both agree that Texas is merely running away from the clearly superior flagship state colleges.

Maryland Terrapins @umterps

And some SEC coaches got in on the fun as well :

Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy

Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz: “(The big question) from yesterday is 'Horns down' gonna be a 15-yard penalty in the SEC? I asked Commissioner Sankey and he said ‘no comment."