ACC schools joining SEC
Inside Carolina broke news Thursday in the midst of ACC Media Days that North Carolina and Clemson are among several ACC schools interested in leaving the conference in the future, and the SEC is their top landing spot.
The Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns just joined the SEC last July 1 to expand the conference to 16 members and start a new era. The Sooners certainly took their lumps during Year 1 in the SEC and were much more SEC ready than any school coming from the ACC, so that should be a warning for the likes of North Carolina and Clemson.
Bedlam returning
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State announced together on Thursday that Bedlam will return in women's basketball next season. Paycom Center in Oklahoma City will host a Bedlam doubleheader on Saturday, Dec. 13, when OU and OSU's men's and women's basketball teams will both play.
According to OU's release, fans will be able to watch both games with one ticket. Tickets for the doubleheader will go on sale at 10 a.m. CT on Friday, Aug. 1. Tip-off times have not been announced yet.
The OU and OSU men still met in a nonconference game last season, but the women did not play Bedlam after the Sooners left for the SEC.
Sooner Schooner love
"Since 1964, a slightly shrunken Studebaker Conestoga wagon pulled by a pair of ponies named Boomer and Sooner has hammered its way onto the field before Oklahoma football games, a la the Oklahoma Territory Land Run of 1889. It is steered by the peerless RUF/NEKS, the school's rootin'-tootin' spirit squad. When it works, it's awesome. When it doesn't, it's pretty scary ... but still pretty awesome," McGee wrote.
McGee's other mascot categories included "Costume," "Human," "Live Animal" and "Non-Football."
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