Big moves are coming to college football and a power-5 conference in July of 2023. With just over a year from now, the Big 12 Conference will add four new teams to their roster just before losing the biggest names in college football in 2025.
The University of Cincinnati, University of Central Florida, and University of Houston will be joining the Big 12 on July 1, 2023. Three schools reached an exit agreement with the American Athletic Conference that was announced Friday. This makes the Big 12 committee happy as their initial goal has coming to fruition in getting the three schools from the American Conference into the Big 12 by 2023 along with Brigham Young University, who is an independent until 2023.
This gives the Big 12 Conference 14 schools as Oklahoma and Texas are set to leave for the Southeastern Conference in 2025. Thus, meaning the Big 12 could have 14 schools for two seasons if everything holds and OU and Texas don't exit early themselves for the SEC.
Cincinnati, UCF, and Houston have agreed to pay a total of $18 million each for their exit from the American. The schools have been $10 million already in four annual payments that will go through 2024 in exit fee and now are willing to pay addition $8 million that will spread over 12 payments from 2025-2036 just leave for the Big 12 a year from July.
The Bearcats of Cincinnati are coming off of breaking the glass ceiling and reaching the College Football Playoffs as a Group of 5 school. UCF and Houston have both earned New Year's Six bids in recent years as part of the American.
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