There is nothing in writing that explicitly states OU must remain in the same conference as OSU, as we’ve obviously found over the last week. But OU’s decision to accept an SEC invite (and to leave OSU behind in the crumbling Big 12) is no doubt fraught with political implications, and we’re seeing that now, too.
Thirty-four legislators from the state of Oklahoma on Wednesday sent a letter to OU president Joseph Harroz, The Athletic’s Jason Kersey reported this weekend. Here’s Kersey with the deets on that as OU (and Texas) accepted invites to the SEC.