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pretty easy

Sept 2nd - Texas drops Rice - Sooners drop Arkansas State

or

Sept 16 - Texas drops Wyoming - Sooners drop Tulsa

Cause we all know the Horns are looking forward to their trip to Tuscaloosa on Sept 9th

Fox & ESPN love it

It would be fun to see the B12 attempt to force Texas and OU to breach contract with OOC entities that are already contractually obligated.  

Why would Texas and OU do that, when they can just say "no" and sue the B12 alongside the city of Dallas for breach of contract instead?  

The B12 has had the negotiating leverage to date, which is the only reason Texas and OU aren't already in the SEC.  Why would the B12 forfeit that?  The answer is, they wouldn't.

ESPN will have the Texas and OU content either way, they're effectively neutral.  It's Fox that stands to lose, or not.  They're the one where negotiations are taking place.

None of the "expert" analysts seem to have caught that point.

Do the fans of these teams generally support the move?  I guess it's a done deal anyway.

Yeah, I knew practical considerations were foremost, and I can see fans being sort of split.  I see it as mostly good for both programs, aside from the money.  The first couple of years could be tough, but then Mizzou moved in and won the East twice in a row.

And y'all can perhaps spiff up the moribund SEC site here ....

Probably they have fewer plusses than Texas does.

OU-Arkansas always seemed like a very natural potential rivalry to me.

OU-Arkansas always seemed like a very natural potential rivalry to me.

Yeah, it probably is.
I have a dislike of Arkansas based on mostly growing up in Tulsa. For a long time, Tulsa and Arkansas played nearly every year. And in my lifetime, the games always had to be in Arkansas. I didn't get (and probably wouldn't have cared about) the financial aspects of a major-conference program, and how Arkansas was obligated to play some games in Little Rock. What I got was that TU (that's Tulsa, not Texas, for our Aggie friends) always got the short end of the stick where Arkansas was concerned.
In 1971, Tulsa trailed 20-0 going into the 4th quarter, and came back to win 21-20 in a game I followed on the radio. I can still remember next day's headline in the Tulsa World: "BURNT BACON IN FAYETTEVILLE!" That was the happiest memory I have of a college football outcome to that point in my life.
(OU's win in the '66 RRS--breaking a string of 8 straight losses to Texas--had flown over my head at the time. I had enjoyed the '67 Sooners' win over Tennessee in the Orange Bowl.)
I will concede this to Arkansas. It can't have been entirely fun to be the only non-Texas school in the SWC. Even if there was no actual ganging-up in conference politics, Arkansas folks would have tended to think that there was.