Will Alabama join the athletic programs pushing to not schedule Texas Tech?

Some college athletic programs are pushing not to schedule Texas Tech in any sport after Brendan Sorsby was ruled eligible by a judge on Monday after admitting to placing thousands of bets on sports.

Georgia and Nebraska have both come out and told coaches not to schedule the program in any sport, following the ruling. Those sports also appear to have an opportunity to back out of any future contest that is already scheduled.

The NCAA ruled Sorsby ineligible after it found out he had wagered around $90,000 on sports over four years. Those wagers were placed on college and professional sports. 40 of those bets involved Indiana when he was a member of the Hoosiers’ football team in 2022.

A statement was released by the NCAA after the ruling.

“The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court’s ruling in Sorsby’s case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome — which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports,” The statement read. “The NCAA is committed to supporting student-athlete mental health but must continue to aggressively defend against actions that defraud college athletics and threaten competitive integrity, such as betting on one’s own sport.”

It will be interesting to see if programs like Alabama join their SEC brethren in Georgia with this approach to the ruling.

The last time Alabama competed against Texas Tech in football was in the Cotton Bowl in 2006. Both teams made the College Football Playoff last season but did not square off.