This ESPN.com article states that Texas A&M "intends" to leave for the SEC. Conferences generally like to have an even number of teams, to be able to provide full dockets of league play each weekend without one of the teams having a bye or playing a nonconference opponent (although the Big 10 went many years with 11 schools after adding Penn State).
Accordingly, rumors are abuzz regarding who else might shift to the SEC, should the A&M move come to fruition. Clemson (in South Carolina) and Florida State, each from the ACC, have been mentioned. The above-linked ESPN.com article gives more prominence than I've seen elsewhere to the possibility of A&M's Big 12 mate Missouri jumping to the SEC. As if the Aggies' (potential) departure wouldn't be devastating enough to the Big 12, a Missouri exit would have the damaging effect of ending the intense Missouri-Kansas basketball rivalry (at least within the context of the same league).
Being at Texas Tech, I've tended to look at the latest round of proposed changes through a Big 12 lens. From a different perspective, a blogger known as "Mr. SEC" reviews what he considers five myths of that conference expanding.
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