Sports
It's Official: Aggies to Join SEC in 2012
The expansion gives the conference 13 teams for the 2012-13 academic year.
The when the Southeastern Conference announced that Texas A&M would become its 13th member in the 2012-13 academic year.
The College Station, Tex., school apparently will compete in the SEC West, giving the league an unbalanced setup. It's the first expansion for the SEC since 1991, when South Carolina and Arkansas came on board. The move had been delayed by legal obstacles.
Last season, the Aggies won three NCAA team titles (men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, women’s basketball) and finished eighth in the prestigious Learfield Sports Director’s Cup all-sport rankings, the SEC office said in a news release.
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