HOW WE GOT HERE After Oklahoma and Texas announced their plans to join the SEC, the league officially entered the new decade with Bob Bowlsby handing off the conference commissioner title to Brett Yormark with the goal of recreating the brand. The former engineered the package of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF beginning with the 2023-24 school year. Shortly after, the conference completed its Southwest stake adding Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah from the Pac-12 of old.