TCU accepts invitation to join Big 12

Also Monday, Big East school leaders authorized the conference to add enough members to have 12 teams for football. With Syracuse and Pittsburgh leaving 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.

SEC leaders also met Monday for their regularly scheduled fall session but took no action on expansion. The league will have 13 members once Texas A&M joins in July, leading to speculation about whether Missouri or other schools will be added to balance things out.

As for the Big 12, adding TCU would give it 10 members going into next season without further changes.

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said he has "always been in favor of a Big 12 Conference with 12 teams, and two divisions and a championship."

Snyder said he would be sad if Missouri decides to leave.

"They've been a part of the conference ever since I've been in it. There's been some great relationships," Snyder said. "I think it's been good for them from a football standpoint, a basketball standpoint. They add an awful lot to the conference and you know, I'm just hoping they choose to stay."

AP Sports Writers Stephen Hawkins in Fort Worth and Dave Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., and Associated Press writer Jim Vertuno in Austin contributed to this report.