With the SEC expanding to 16 teams in 2024, major changes to the league's schedule are afoot.
Gone are the days of the SEC East and SEC West, whose creation for the 1992 season helped usher in the current era of college football. A new, divisionless conference slate will take its place in '24.
That schedule, per a Wednesday afternoon report from ESPN's Chris Low, will include two of the expanded league's most glamorous potential matchups: Georgia-Alabama and Texas-Texas A&M.
Additionally, according to ESPN’s Peter Burns, every current SEC team will play either the Longhorns or Oklahoma in '24.
BREAKING:
— Peter Burns (@PeterBurnsESPN) June 14, 2023
Each of the SEC teams will play either Texas or Oklahoma once in the upcoming 2024 CFB season.
So every SEC team will have Longhorns or Sooners on their 2024 schedule.
Whether they are home or away announced later tonight on @SECNetwork#SECThisMorning
The Bulldogs and Crimson Tide, though rivals and two of the most successful programs of the last decade, meet relatively rarely. Georgia and Alabama have played just twice in the last 10 regular seasons: the No. 13 Crimson Tide hammered the No. 8 Bulldogs 38–10 in 2015, and No. 2 Alabama blew out No. 3 Georgia 41–24 in 2020.
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The two teams, however, also played at the end of the 2017 and 2021 seasons in national championship game, as well as the 2018 and 2021 SEC championship games. The Crimson Tide lead the all-time series 42-26-4.
The Longhorns and Aggies, meanwhile, have not played since Texas A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC after the 2011 season. Texas leads that all-time series 76-37-5.
Per Low, other rivalries preserved by the '24 schedule include Alabama-Tennessee, Alabama-LSU, Texas A&M-LSU, Texas A&M-Arkansas, Texas-Arkansas, Oklahoma-Texas, Georgia-Auburn, Georgia-Florida, Georgia-Tennessee. Additionally, the Bulldogs will play the Longhorns and the Crimson Tide will play the Sooners.
