Blake Toppmeyer suggests that SEC is in locked down situation when it comes to Greg Sankey's wishes for the CFP format.

There were manifold reasons for Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners to join the Southeastern Conference on July 1, 2024.

The SEC reported a $59 million financial deficit and a downturn in income for the 2024 fiscal year, per the conference's federal tax records, after Texas and Oklahoma joined the league last summer.

AUSTIN — Texas and Oklahoma ... SEC distributed $808.4 million and averaged $52.5 million apiece in payouts to the other 14 member schools that had full participation. Texas and OU didn’t join ...

The SEC saw a healthy jump in revenue in the 2023-24 fiscal year, even before Oklahoma and Texas joined the conference, which commissioner Greg Sankey said will leave its schools “uniquely ...

DALLAS — There was no shortage of reasons for Texas and Oklahoma to move to the Southeastern Conference this past year. But perhaps the biggest one of all was obvious: The money. The SEC's ...

Here's why The distributions to Oklahoma and Texas were a combination of the schools getting back the refundable application fees that they paid to the SEC in August 2021 and receiving transition ...

The SEC announced $808.4 million in revenue distribution to its 16 member universities for the 2023-24 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, 2024. Included in that figure are Oklahoma and Texas ...

Oklahoma and Texas, which joined the SEC on July 1, each received $27.5 million resulting from transition payments from ESPN and refundable application fees returned to the SEC in a prior fiscal year.

The SEC's fiscal 2024 payments were detailed in a document provided by the conference this week in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports. The distributions to Oklahoma and Texas were a ...