Tag: 2023 SEC Spring Meetings

Report: SEC decides on 8-game conference schedule for 2024 season

The SEC has made the decision for each team to have an eight-game conference schedule in 2024!

The 2024 college football season will be one that fans from around the country will remember forever. SEC expansion will once again be at the forefront of the college football world when the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns officially join the conference.

One of the biggest questions marks for the Southeastern Conference, as they navigate this new endeavor, is how they manage the conference schedule with the 16-team conference. The debate between an eight or nine-game conference schedule for each team has been discussed ad nauseam and it appears that we finally have our answer, at least as far as the 2024 season is concerned.

It is being reported that the SEC and Commissioner Greg Sankey have decided to go with an eight-game schedule for the 2024 season. Also part of that decision is that the conference will abandon the two divisions within the conference.

The decision comes as the conference holds its annual SEC Spring Meetings from Destin, Florida.

It is also being reported by SEC communications director, Chuck Dunlap, that each team’s conference schedule will be released on June 14 on a special primetime show on the SEC Network. Also, SEC members will be required to play their eight conference opponents and at least one Power Five or major independent opponent.

Roll Tide Wire will continue to monitor the future plans of the SEC as expansion continues to shake up the country’s top conference!

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Everything Nick Saban said at the 2023 SEC Spring Meetings

SEC scheduling and NIL among Nick Saban’s talking points in press conference ahead of the 2023 SEC Spring Meetings in Destin!

The 2023 SEC Spring Meetings are happening this week in Destin, Florida. On Tuesday, Alabama Crimson Tide head coach [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] would speak to members of the media for several minutes to discuss the current state of not only the Southeastern Conference, but the Alabama football team, and Alabama athletics in general.

This week’s most notable topic of discussion is the future scheduling model for the SEC relative to staying with an eight-game schedule with just one permanent opponent or adding an additional conference matchup for each team with three permanent opponents.

Coach Saban would address that and more during his press conference. Here is everything the seven-time national championship-winning head coach had to say!