Texas joining the SEC makes no sense for them. It brings up a great question of why the Sooners would want to leave a conference they know that they can win in just to lose to the powerhouses every single year. Despite tremendous regular-season success against the SEC, the Sooners have yet to beat them when it truly mattered. They have lost to an SEC team in three of those four attempts. However, they have yet to make it past the first round of the playoffs in four tries. They have been the best of the Big 12 consistently. Since 2000, Oklahoma has won 14 Big 12 championships. However, as far as football goes, that is a completely different question. Therefore, it makes financial sense for them to switch to the SEC so they don’t have to be the only big money makers. For the last 20 years, they have been the only teams to find postseason success.
Oklahoma and Texas each won one of those two championships. In that same period, Oklahoma and Texas’ current conference, the Big 12, has only won the national championship game twice. The tremendous success the SEC has had in this century has allowed them to bring in an incredible amount of money for their member schools. They have had a team appear in the championship game 17 times over that timespan. Since 2000, a team in the SEC has won the championship 11 times. While the college football world was absolutely stunned, it is a move that makes sense for both schools as far as money goes. On July 30, 2021, both the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma accepted invitations to join the SEC. Their transition was the first domino to fall in what will likely lead to the end of several of the group of five conferences.
Before the start of the 2021 college football season, the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference, the best football conference in the country.