The Sooners, Seem To Be Holding The Cards, Not Texas!

The rivalry between Texas A&M and Texas seems to be no longer. Texas had told the aggies if they leave the Big-12 conference they will never play them again. When Texas was in the Southwest conference and Oklahoma was in the Big-8 they had the "Red River" shoot out. The best part of the Texas State Fair was the state of Oklahoma against the sate of Texas. With that October game at the state fair, with corny dogs, hot dogs, hamburgers, cotton candy, and all those rides. The next best thing was Texas and Oklahoma fighting it out to see which team or state had all the bragging rights for a year.

Most of the time it could have an affect on which team could play for the National Championship. When the Southwest conference disolved as a conference Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor joined the Big-8 conference to make up the Big-12 conference. When the Big-8 conference was expnded to twelve teams, they had a championship game. What has happened to the Big-12 conference? The once powerful conference is now down to ten teams, next year would only have nine teams. If Oklahoma and Oklahoma State move out west their would only be seven teams, and the Big-12 conference will be no longer.

Last Friday Oklahoma's coach Bob Stoops was excited tohave a chance to move out west, to joing the Pac-12 conference. Stoops felt like it would be a great opportunity for the University of Oklahoma, but also for college football.. If Oklahoma decides to move out west to joing the Pac-12 conference, their inter-state rival Oklahoma State would join them. Not only was Texas A&M upset about Texas having their own network, Oklahoma was to. Oklahoma can see a good recruiting tool, when they see one.

Oklahoma the other big school that carries a lot of weight is going to do what is best for their program no matter what Texas plans on doing. Oklahoma knows, if they move west and take Oklahoma State with them it would force Texas and Texas Tech to make a decision on what they are going to do. Oklahoma said that the Texas/OU rivalry could already be in jeopardy even moving to the Pac-12. If Oklahoma moves west, and Texas ends up in the Pac-12, the rivalry game could be determined on how the Pac-12 conference does their scheduling of opponents within the conference.

Texas and Texas Tech could stay, hoping that Dan Bebee would get some other schools to be like the old Southwest conference. The conference would not have the same clout as other BCS conferences.. Whether Texas and Texas Tech move to the Pac-12 or another BCS conference. It's hard to imagine Texas and Texas Tech staying around to try to keep the conference together.

Texas has been working on getting the "Bevo" network for five years. If Texas moves to the Pac-12 conference or any other conference, they would not be so quick to grant Texas their own television network.
Texas and Texas Tech staying would not really be in the best interest for their programs. Since the conference would not have the same clout as a BCS conference, it would hurt both schools rather than help them.

Questions Still Arise: 

What about the other schools in the Big-12 conference?

Where would Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri, go?

"Texas A&M can move to the SEC conference, if no other schools in the conference or moved out of the conference did not sue them." That could cause a huge problemm, Baylor already wants to sue the aggies for turning their back on the conference. Nebraska and Colorado, who have moved to different conferences already, had to pay their way to move to a new conference.

Texas A&M was allowed to move to the SEC, without paying their way.

Will Colorado and Nebraska come back and sue the aggies?

"What a BIG mess!"

Too much greed messed up one of the best conferences up. "If Texas did not want their own network none of this would have happened." The best rivalries Texas and Oklahoma in the traditional "Cotton Bowl" at the state fair every October and Texas and Texas A&M every Thanksgiving weekend. Both games had people turning on their televisions to watch two of the fierces rivalry games every year. Regardless of their records.

"Hard to believe, it could be NO MORE!"

"THE RIVALRY GAMES MAKE-UP, THE EXCITEMENT OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL"

"The Sooners and Longhorns are not only divided rivals on the field, their both rivaling on which team is going to play in what conference. They still may be going to play in the same conference the "Pac-12." Only time will tell! Time will be coming up "real, real soon." I'm afraid "SOONER" than the Longhorns would like!!