SEC Shorts highlights the fit and the challenges for Texas and Oklahoma

Ready or not, Texas and Oklahoma are now official members of the SEC. The two squads officially transferred over from the Big 12 at midnight to expand the SEC to 16 teams.

As the two mid-western teams now look to assimilate with a new group of fan bases, the popular online series SEC Shorts greeted the two teams into the conference the only way they knew how to.

Welcome To The SEC

Set in a school cafeteria, the five-minute video speaks to two truths with Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference:

1. The Longhorns and Sooners are two brand names to be respected
2. They are not going to be treated like the kings they were in the Big 12

See in the Big 12 the whole conference revolved around the two. Yes teams like TCU, Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Baylor had ways of making things interesting, but when push came to shove the conference always reverted back to the two participants of the Red River Rivalry.

Texas had their own TV network. Oklahoma had a free path the college football playoffs during a stretch of four out of five seasons.

That won't exist in their home.

As we highlighted earlier today in the wake of comments from Texas QB Quinn Ewers, Florida Gator fans won't be in awe of their new conference mates. Gator fans will nod in approval when Texas or Oklahoma pop up on the schedule, but very few teams and fanbases will have their games against those two circled as their must-win game of the year.

Also, just in case you are keeping score at home, the Big 12 has won a grand total of one game in the College Football Playoff over its ten-year history, and it wasn't from Texas or Oklahoma.

That was TCU.

So welcome Texas and Oklahoma. Just know life is different here in the SEC.