We’re still more than a year from the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns officially joining the SEC. However, that move has created so much anticipation that the conference was able to take advantage of the addition of the Big 12 blue bloods with a reveal of the Red River Rivals’ 2024 SEC opponents in a special on the SEC Network.
It had the college football world buzzing and for good reason. It’s a monumental move that sets up the SEC to have a number of incredible matchups throughout the 2024 season and beyond that it can promote to further enhance its brand.
Oklahoma’s SEC schedule has a great many intriguing matchups. And that intrigue is fueled by the strength of the schedule.
“I’m so excited to watch these teams play week in and week out in the SEC,” Tim Tebow told SEC Network’s Peter Burns. “But I gotta tell you, Peter, dang, the SEC gave Oklahoma a gauntlet in 2024. … They got to play Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, LSU, Auburn, Ole Miss and Mizzou. Come on man. Like, what a gauntlet Year 1. Hey, that’s like, you know, giving someone a hug and a spanking at the same time.”
— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) June 15, 2023
The Oklahoma Sooners SEC opponents for 2024, no doubt, are daunting. But that was kind of the point of the SEC move. To get into the best conference in the country and compete week in and week out.
As Ric Flair so poignantly put it, “to be the best, you have to beat the best.”
There’s no doubt the SEC has been at the top of the mountain for some time. Their teams have dominated the national championships landscape for much of the last two decades. Among Georgia, Alabama, LSU and Florida, they’ve won 14 of the last 17 national titles. An absolutely ridiculous run.
Aside from maybe getting Vanderbilt on the schedule, there wasn’t going to be anything about Oklahoma’s 2024 conference schedule. But the Sooners wouldn’t want it any other way.
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