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Football season cometh.

Which conference will have the National Champion?

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Some SEC news from OU….

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February 9, 2023
Dear OU Family,

Today we announced that the University of Oklahoma and the Big 12 Conference agreed to terms that will enable us to officially join the SEC for the fall 2024 athletics season, pending final approval of the OU Board of Regents. This comes one year earlier than originally expected, and we are pleased we could arrive at this decision in close collaboration with Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and other Big 12 Conference members.

Together, we created a path forward that delivers the stability and certainty we have all sought over the past 18 months.
From the beginning, we have been committed to fulfilling our contractual obligations to the Big 12. As time progressed, we, Commissioner Yormark, and everyone involved recognized our common interest in an earlier departure. With a new era of collegiate sports fully upon us, we took advantage of the opportunity to explore a mutually beneficial earlier exit.

With this agreement to join the SEC in 2024, we have immediate clarity and command of our own future. It gives us the chance to quickly reap the benefits of this transition – from exciting competition on the finest stage in collegiate sports to a top-tier fan experience, to more appealing game times and a greater national visibility that will allow us to share the OU story to people across the country. Moving to the SEC will most obviously impact OU Athletics, but this move will ultimately benefit our entire university, as it affords us the ability to aggressively invest in our academic and research missions. Our Strategic Plan includes our ambition to join the Association of American Universities – a prestigious coalition of tier one research universities – and moving into a conference with more AAU institutions offers an opportunity to align OU to our aspirational peers.

Our nearly three-decade tenure in the Big 12 has brought us many historic rivalries and exhilarating memories with esteemed opponents, and we look forward to finishing our remaining time in the league with intensity and sportsmanship. As we prepare to face our new conference rivals next year, we are eager to contribute our iconic traditions and competitiveness to the SEC. It’s our belief that the undeniable power of Sooner Magic will only make us, and our new conference partners, stronger.



Live On, University,



Joseph Harroz, Jr.
President
 
Griz882 said:
Again…the SEC won nothing…the credit goes to the University of Georgia.
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I will have to disagree.

Speaking of conferences, was listening to Late Kick with Josh Pate and he put forth some opinions that, strangely enough, the Big 12 was in decent shape while the ACC is worried about losing FSU and Clemson (massive buyouts) and the PAC-12 is in serious trouble having lost Southern Cal and UCLA.

Interesting times in college football.
 
Randy Daytona said:
I will have to disagree.

Speaking of conferences, was listening to Late Kick with Josh Pate and he put forth some opinions that, strangely enough, the Big 12 was in decent shape while the ACC is worried about losing FSU and Clemson (massive buyouts) and the PAC-12 is in serious trouble having lost Southern Cal and UCLA.

Interesting times in college football.
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I agree that the conference realignment is both frustrating (to those who don’t like too much change and respect geography) and fascinating (as in how they structure game times, travel and such) but in the end the “conference” is a meaningless cash generator for the things that matter…the individual schools and teams. Times change and as we are seeing now the perpetual winners are no longer perpetual - and the same will go with conferences. One day the PAC-12 will be the new hotness and everyone will rush to join there and the next ACC will be “it” and so on.

Basically a long, dull way saying teams matter, conferences do not - especially now.
 
173 days and counting until the first big weekend of college football. Last year of the 4 team playoff, 2024 starts the 12 team playoff.

Happened to see this commercial and got a chuckle:

 
Interesting draft strategy from the Philadelphia Eagles - taking the University of Georgia’s 2 time defending national champion defense player by player.

Eagles select fifth Georgia defender over 2 NFL drafts​


www.espn.com

Philly Dawgs: Eagles add Ringo to UGA draft haul

The Eagles selected Georgia CB Kelee Ringo in the third round, bringing the total to five UGA starters picked by Philly over the last two NFL drafts.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
Randy Daytona said:
Interesting draft strategy from the Philadelphia Eagles - taking the University of Georgia’s 2 time defending national champion defense player by player.

Eagles select fifth Georgia defender over 2 NFL drafts​


www.espn.com

Philly Dawgs: Eagles add Ringo to UGA draft haul

The Eagles selected Georgia CB Kelee Ringo in the third round, bringing the total to five UGA starters picked by Philly over the last two NFL drafts.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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The photo next to the headline confused me for a second; I thought it was an article from The Onion where Philly literally drafted Uga.
 
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