TCU is scheduled to join the Big East in 2012, but it received an invitation to the Big 12 on Thursday. TCU has not officially accepted but that seems little more than a formality, with its board of trustees expected to vote soon. TCU must pay the Big East a $5 million exit fee but isn’t required to give 27 months’ notice to leave, since it is not an official conference member.
Syracuse and Pittsburgh already have announced they are leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Big East would be down to six football schools without TCU: West Virginia, Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Rutgers and Connecticut.
West Virginia and Louisville have been mentioned as possible targets if the Big 12 adds more schools.
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