In early June 2023, it was speculated that Colorado and Arizona were set on joining the Big 12 as well. On the same day, American Athletic Conference teams Houston, UCF, and Cincinnati made commitments to join the Power Five conference. 10th, 2021, it was announced that BYU, an FBS independent, would join the conference. Timeline: As the first conference to learn about losing schools, the Big 12 quickly looked to fill the impending voids of Texas and Oklahoma. Joining in 2024: Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah Joined in 2023: Houston, UCF, BYU, Cincinnati While the schools were originally set to change conferences in 2025, the Big 12 came to a buyout agreement with Texas and Oklahoma on February 9th, 2023, allowing the schools to join the SEC a year earlier in 2024. On July 29th, 2021, the SEC officially invited Texas and Oklahoma to join their conference. Soon thereafter, on July 26th, 2021, the schools informed the Big 12 that they would be leaving the conference. On July 21st, 2021, it was reported that Texas and Oklahoma had approached the Southeastern Conference about leaving the Big 12 and joining them instead. Timeline: Two Big 12 founding teams, Texas and Oklahoma, kicked off the conference realignment craziness in 2021. Seven of the ten Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences have or will undergo membership changes as well.īelow is a breakdown and timeline of what FBS schools are on the move, to where, and when. From 2021-2024, significant changes have and will be ushered into play regarding what schools are playing sports where. Everything we've come to know about NCAA college football conferences has been blown to smithereens over the last few academic years.
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