I was searching old posts for a totally different reason when I ran into this thread from one year ago. I had totally forgotten that there were rumors about Texas and OU joining the SEC even back then - supposedly just for that one season.
Of course, a year ago a lot of rumors that would be considered “wild” in any other year were being floated, because of the uncertainty of Covid. For that reason, I think, these stories got much less attention than they otherwise would have, and kind of flew under the radar… In retrospect, it appears there may have been much more “fire” there than smoke.