The SEC revealed its conference opponents for the 2024 football season which will see Oklahoma and Texas join the league. The conference decided to maintain an eight-game conference schedule for 2024 and will revisit expanding to a nine-game league slate before the 2025 season.
Here’s how the opponents were determined:
Each of the existing 14 conference members will play EITHER Oklahoma OR Texas – home or away – in 2024.
No school will travel to the same location to which it traveled in 2023 – for example, Georgia plays at Auburn in 2023, the two teams WILL NOT PLAY THERE again in 2024.
Two primary factors were used to determine the conference opponents: traditional opponents and balance of overall schedule strength.
Divisions will be eliminated for the 2024 season. You can check out each teams 2024 opponents here!
While for the most part, the SEC saved several of its traditional rivalries. Alabama will still play Auburn, Ole Miss will still play Mississippi State and Tennessee and Vanderbilt will still get together.
We don’t know if it’ll still be on the Third Saturday in October, but Alabama and Tennessee will meet in 2024 continuing that storied rivalry. Florida and Georgia will still get together in Jacksonville in 2024.
Staying with the Bulldogs, they’ll still play Auburn in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry, and LSU and Arkansas will still play for the Golden Boot.
Among some of the notable matchups that aren’t often seen:
Georgia will play at Alabama, it will be just the 5th time in the last 20 seasons that the two teams will meet outside of an SEC title game or bowl game.
Texas will host Florida and Georgia. It will be the first time since 1958 that Texas and Georgia meet in the regular season and the first time since 1940 that the Gators and Longhorns meet at all.
Texas and Texas A&M will be renewing their rivalry, which came to an end after the 2011 season when A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC. Prior to that, the two in-state rivals met annually since 1915.
Oklahoma will host Alabama as well. It will be the teams’ first meeting outside the postseason since 2003.
