With Oklahoma and Texas playing their first Big 12 road football games as lame duck league members on Saturday, the unintended consequences portion of the schools’ protracted and awkward exits from the conference are poised to begin.
Oklahoma plays at Kansas State, where a vocal student section is positioned behind the bench ready to taunt the Sooners about their departure. TCU fans, who celebrated a departure from the Mountain West a decade ago, get a chance to hiss at the athletic director, Chris Del Conte now of Texas, who orchestrated that move.