Missouri to the SEC: Missouri Officials Meeting, Where Does It Go from Here?

By all accounts, it seems as though Missouri will be heading off to the SEC. But don’t expect any announcement to come until Friday.

“I will probably have nothing to say on that until Friday,” Warren Erdman, Missouri’s Chairman of the Board told the Kansas City Star. “If there is anything to say then.”

He and other university officials will be in closed meetings Thursday and Friday, so a decision could be made today and we would not know about it.

This would be a big move for all of college football. Not only would the SEC be balanced out, but the Big 12 would need to find another member.

The front-runner for that seems to be Louisville. The thing is, Louisville is in the Big East, and they are already desperate for members to keep their qualifying status into the BCS. The other top candidate would be West Virginia, who is also in the Big East. Either way, it looks like the conference will be losing one of its premier members to the Big 12.

Of course, this is all assuming that Missouri does in fact leave, but the move has been called “imminent and inevitable” by the New York Times. The school did not even cast a vote in the Big 12’s revenue sharing deal.

It seems as though all we have left to do is sit, wait and watch for the conference realignment roller coaster to go again.