Auburn football Head Coach Bryan Harsin shakes hands with Commissioner Greg Sankey in the main media room in the Hyatt Regency during SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala., Thursday, July 22, 2021. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Sec Media Days Auburn
Change is coming to the world of college sports, and Auburn football cannot escape it. Players have begun announcing NIL endorsements left and right, and now the news has surfaced that the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns will be joining the SEC.
Though the Big-12 teams have announced that they’ll remain in their conference until their grant of media rights expires in 2025, it’s very possible that both schools could be on SEC schedules as early as 2022-2023.