SEC logo seen during SEC Media Days at the Hyatt Regency in Hoover, Ala., Monday, July 19, 2021. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Sec Media Days
We are entering an entirely new era of Oklahoma football.
The first thing that came to mind after rumor became reality that Oklahoma would be changing conferences for just the second time in its 127-year history is where the Sooners would be placed in the SEC structure.
Let’s begin with a short history lesson.
Oklahoma’s first conference affiliation was in 1915 — a decade after the school first fielded a varsity football team — when the Sooners became founding members of the Southwest Conference along with Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, Rice Southwestern University and Arkansas.