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Oklahoma Football: 3 Reasons why Sooners aren’t leaving Big 12

By Michael Collins

Oct 10, 2015; Dallas, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners ruf-nek carries an Oklahoma flag after a score against the Texas Longhorns during Red River rivalry at Cotton Bowl Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 10, 2015; Dallas, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners ruf-nek carries an Oklahoma flag after a score against the Texas Longhorns during Red River rivalry at Cotton Bowl Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jul 11, 2016; Hoover, AL, USA; Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey speaks during SEC media day at Hyatt Regency Birmingham-The Wynfrey Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 11, 2016; Hoover, AL, USA; Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey speaks during SEC media day at Hyatt Regency Birmingham-The Wynfrey Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Butch Dill-USA TODAY Sports /

No Room At The Inn

In case Oklahoma fans who are begging for this move hadn’t noticed, there really isn’t a lot of room in the SEC to add another team right now. The league is packed tight with 14 teams and two divisions, with complaints already that certain teams barely get to play each other in-conference.

For the SEC to add a single team, they’d most likely have to escort someone else out the door. So who would leave?

The newest members – Missouri and Texas A&M – aren’t likely to want to give up the financial windfall and increased recruiting power they’ve seen since joining the SEC. The longtime stalwart members of the conference certainly aren’t going to give up their toeholds either.

The only team who could viably be looked at as replaceable is Vanderbilt, and it’s doubtful the members of the SEC East will want to give up their yearly breather against the Commodores for a bloody turf war against Bob Stoops’ Sooners.

Unless another conference makes an offer which can’t be refused to someone in the SEC, that conference is probably set with the 14 current members for quite a while.

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