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Getty Images Just nine days after word leaked that Texas and Oklahoma were in talks regarding a landscape-changing move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference, the seismic shift is officially complete. Following Thursday’s unanimous vote by the SEC’s chancellors and presidents to invite the schools for membership starting in 2025, the Texas Board

6:54 AM ET College football’s transfer portal received a lot of attention from coaches building and adding to their rosters this offseason. It’s not the transfer market of old with players who might not make an immediate impact or any impact at all. Nowadays, more high-end athletes are entering the portal, some of whom are

USATSI The Big 12 is concerned that the American Athletic Conference (AAC) is actively attempting to assume all eight remaining league members once Texas and Oklahoma are formally accepted into the SEC, league sources tell CBS Sports. This comes as Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told CBS Sports that ESPN is leading an attempt to

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9:00 AM ET The words “college football” and “stability” don’t go together all that well. Such is life when your livelihood is based on the whims of a pointy ball, eccentric boosters and a bunch of 18- to 22-year-old players. In this sport, drama is never far from the surface and a conference realignment earthquake

USATSI New Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff laid out a clear set of priorities for the conference Tuesday that emphasizes success in football and men’s basketball amid the shifting dynamics of college sports. Speaking before the league’s football Media Days event, Kliavkoff said the Pac-12 “will make all of our football-related decisions with the combined goals

2:15 PM ET How do you gauge your own success when you’re living in a division with a college football monolith? Penn State and Michigan both built themselves into top-10 level programs in the late stages of the 2010s, Indiana just fielded its best team in 30 years, and Michigan State isn’t that far removed

Pac-12 Media Day is underway on Tuesday in Los Angeles, and along with the preseason predicted order of finish, the league got the day started early with the release of the preseason all-conference team.  It should be a fascinating day with the Pac-12 not only getting an update from new commissioner George Kliavkoff on playoff

11:45 AM ET Teams change conferences. It’s a fact of college football life. The more football-obsessed members of the Southern Conference left to form the Southeastern Conference in the 1930s. Conference USA has had almost as many different members at one point or another (24) as years of existence (25). Forty-two schools have called themselves

Amid the shock, fury and endless ripples that have come from Texas and Oklahoma’s imminent departure from the Big 12 to the SEC, one aspect of the seismic shift has been largely overlooked — Texas waving the white flag on its brand dominance. In the past two decades, Texas flexed its institutional ego as relentlessly

Getty Images Following ACC Media Days, the conference released its 2021 preseason poll as voted on by media covering the league. Among the nearly 150 votes cast, Clemson is picked to win its seventh straight conference title. The Tigers, a preseason College Football Playoff favorite as well, received all but one vote to win the

Associated Press Bryant, Rizzo, Bote homer as Cubs beat Diamondbacks 5-1 Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and David Bote homered, Trevor Williams pitched effectively into the seventh inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Sunday. Bryant and Bote each hit two-run shots as Chicago took two of three in the series. Williams

8:25 PM ET The Big 12 executive committee met with the presidents of Texas and Oklahoma on Sunday amid speculation that the two schools intend to depart for the SEC. Texas’ Jay Hartzell and Oklahoma’s Joe Harroz met via videoconference with the committee, which includes Big 12 Chairman of the Board of Directors and Texas

The saga continues for the Big 12-SEC pursuit of the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns. Recently four lawmakers in Texas with ties to Baylor, Texas Christian, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M have presented a bill to preview the Longhorns from leaving for the SEC. That isn’t the only potential idea to keep both Oklahoma and

Getty Images Big 12 officials have discussed a structure in which Texas and Oklahoma would receive additional revenue shares as a way of enticing the two schools to remain in the conference rather than pursue a future in the SEC, conference sources have told CBS Sports. Such a structure would grant the Longhorns and Sooners

Getty Images Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve already heard about the ongoing drama involving Texas and Oklahoma’s flirtation with the SEC. Barring some last-minute changes, it seems likely that the Longhorns and Sooners will bail out of the Big 12 and head to greener pastures in the near future. So where does that

11:07 PM ET ESPN staff The news this week that Texas and Oklahoma have expressed interest in joining the SEC shook the foundation of the Big 12 conference and caught many high-ranking officials in college athletics off guard. Now, it has their full attention, as commissioners and athletic directors from coast to coast are preparing

The historic and axis-shifting move of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC is expected to begin next week, sources told Yahoo Sports. While the drama over whether they are leaving has ended, the pettiness, nastiness and clawing over the details of the exit are just beginning. Around the Big 12, SEC