The Big 12 Conference voted to accept Brigham Young, Cincinnati, Houston and Central Florida into their league in the wake of the eventual departure of Oklahoma and Texas into the Southeastern Conference.

This is the Big 12 making the best out of a bad situation.

Without any public debate or notice, OU and Texas secretly cut a deal to abandon the Big 12 and go to the SEC.

Whatever the public reason was, most fans think the motivation was money because the SEC pays its members a lot more TV revenue than the Big 12.

Television runs big-time college sports. The networks don’t like OU games with Western Carolina or South Dakota. They covet games when OU plays Alabama, Florida or LSU or when Texas faces Georgia, Clemson or Ohio State. That prestige might have been a factor for the switch.

Oklahoma State, an in-state rival for decades, was seemingly left in the lurch. So was West Virginia, Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, TCU, Iowa State and Baylor.

The Big 12 was left with eight teams. So the addition of three teams from the American Conference (UH, Cincinnati and UCF) plus football independent BYU added a much-needed boost to the Big 12.

When will OU and Texas leave?

Sometime in the next three years.

Will OU continue their annual Bedlam game with OSU?

No one knows for sure.

Will OU and Texas win the SEC championship?

That’s a tall order when you play a Top 25 team each week.

Will this affect fans? Yes, because of the long-distance traveling to Georgia, Florida, etc.

Is this good for college football? Yes and no. It is good because it points to the eventual replacement of the NCAA but it is bad because it damages schools like Tulsa, SMU, Tulane, etc.

It seems all about the money.