Pac-12 May Expand To 16 Teams
NORMAN, Okla. (CBS/AP) -- University of Oklahoma president David Boren says multiple conferences have shown interest in the Sooners recently and he expects to decide whether to leave the Big 12 or not within the next three weeks.
Multiple sources are reporting the Pac-12 has been in contact with the Sooners and the Texas Longhorns.
Boren said Friday that he has received "interest from other conferences and other universities, so it's really a tribute to the strength of our program at the University of Oklahoma that there is so much interest in us."
Boren said Oklahoma will carefully evaluate its options and suggested the process could take as little as three days but likely no longer than three weeks.
Texas A&M announced this week that it planned to leave the Big 12 next year. That would reduce the 12-team league to only nine members.
If the Pac-12 is going to expand, it will move to a 16-team "super conference", reportedly inviting Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech.
The new 16-team conference would have two divisions with those four schools joining Arizona State, Arizona, Utah and Colorado in one division and USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State forming the other division.
