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5 takeaways from LSU’s 2024 SEC opponent reveal

Here are some thoughts about the teams LSU will face when the league expands in 2024.

The SEC released its 2024 matchups on Wednesday evening.

The conference will be different with Texas and Oklahoma joining the fold. Part of that change includes scheduling. Long term, we still don’t exactly know the SEC’s scheduling plan.

The conference is sticking with eight games for now, but many still expect a move to nine.

What we do know is who LSU is playing in 2024 and where those games will be played. LSU will see plenty of familiar faces but with some significant changes, too.

Here are some takeaways from LSU’s 2024 SEC schedule.

Every SEC opponent LSU will face following league expansion in 2024

The 2024 season will be the first after Oklahoma and Texas join — as well as the first without divisions.

The SEC announced the full slate of conference matchups for the 2024 season on Wednesday night during a special on the SEC Network.

The 2024 season will be the first without divisions as Oklahoma and Texas are set to join the league. What that format looks like beyond 2024 remains unclear, but for the time being, the conference schedule will remain at eight games.

LSU’s schedule is headlined by a home game against OU, and it preserved many of the team’s bigger conference rivalries: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss and Texas A&M.

The schedule attempted to preserve historic rivalries, and it guaranteed no team would have to play on the road against the same team in 2023 and 2024. It also ensured each team would face either the Sooners or Longhorns.

We’ll have to learn the dates for all these matchups, but here’s the full list of conference opponents the Tigers will face in 2024.

Full list of SEC opponents that Texas will face and where in 2024

Texas now knows who they will be facing and where for the 2024 season.

The 2024 SEC football schedule reveal took place on Wednesday night. Texas now knows who they will be facing and where for their first season in the conference.

The dates and TV Networks will be released at a later time. However, which opponents Texas would face for their first year in the SEC was the talk of the offseason.

On the plus side, Texas will finally get to play Texas A&M while also keeping their neutral location for the Red River Rivalry intact. On the down side, the Longhorns have a couple tough draws on the road.

Here’s a look at Texas’ 2024 SEC opponents and the location of each matchup.

Alabama, Georgia expected to face off in Tuscaloosa for 2024 season

The Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs are set to meet in the regular season in 2024. The matchup is expected to take place in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

As SEC fans await the 2024 conference opponents to be released, a few noteworthy matchups have found their way to the public’s eye a bit early. One big-time contest will be between the two SEC behemoths, Alabama and Georgia.

According to Chris Low of ESPN, the two programs are expected to meet in the regular season for only the fifth time in two decades. The last time these two programs faced off for a game that wasn’t a championship of some sort was in the 2020 season. The Crimson Tide won that one with a final score of 41-24.

According to Low’s reporting, the 2024 meetup will take place in Tuscaloosa.

The last two meetings between Nick Saban and Kirby Smart were in the same season. Alabama won the 2021 SEC Championship game, but Georgia got the last laugh in the revenge game, which just so happened to be for a national title.

With the addition of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC, scheduling will be done a bit differently, as divisions will be a thing of the past. However, the set opponents for the future have not yet been made public.

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SEC to announce 2024 conference football schedule in prime time on Wednesday

The wait to find out how the SEC schedule will look when Oklahoma and Texas join the conference in 2024 will soon be at an end.

The wait to find out how the SEC schedule will look when Oklahoma and Texas join the conference in 2024 will soon be at an end.

On Wednesday night, the league will announce its football schedule for the 2024 season, the first with 16 member schools and without the East and West divisions, which have existed since 1992. It will be revealed during a special on the SEC Network at 6 p.m. CT.

It will be an eight-game schedule as the league decided against expanding to nine games in 2024 at the recent SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida. Whether the conference will remain at eight games in 2025 and beyond is not clear.

While we don’t know who will be on the schedule for LSU, the SEC Network’s Peter Burns reported on Wednesday that every team in the league will face either Oklahoma or Texas in 2024.

All SEC teams will be required to face at least one Power Five opponent (or Notre Dame) during their conference slates.

Tune in to the SEC Network on Wednesday night to find out who LSU will face in the first season of the conference’s new era.

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Report: UGA to play at Alabama again in 2024

The Georgia Bulldogs will reportedly be playing at the Alabama Crimson Tide as a part of their 2024 SEC schedule

The Georgia Bulldogs will reportedly be playing at Alabama as a part of their 2024 SEC schedule. Georgia last met Alabama in the SEC regular season in 2020. Alabama hosted Georgia and defeated the Bulldogs, 41-24, that year.

Of course, the two programs have met twice since then. Georgia lost to Alabama, 41-24, in the 2021 SEC championship game. However, Kirby Smart and Georgia gained revenge over a month later when the Bulldogs defeated Alabama, 33-18, in the national championship game.

Alabama has won seven of the last eight meetings against Georgia. Despite this, Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide are not happy Georgia has won back-to-back national championships. Georgia and Alabama are the two top programs in college football. Both recruit at an elite level. NFL draft scouts always love when Georgia and Alabama face off.

Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart got the better of Alabama in his last meeting with the Crimson Tide. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

Georgia has not won at Alabama since the 2007 season. The Bulldogs have not played in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with a full capacity crowd since the 2007 game.

Georgia has played Alabama in three SEC championships and two national championships since Nick Saban took over as the head coach at Alabama. The Bulldogs are 0-3 in recent SEC championships against the Crimson Tide and 1-1 in national championships.

Georgia is additionally expected to play at Texas in 2024. Nonconference opponents on Georgia’s 2024 college football schedule include Clemson, Georgia Tech, Tennessee Tech and UMass.

Each SEC team will have its opponents announced for the 2024 season on June 14 in a special prime-time show on the SEC Network.

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Nick Saban reacts to SEC’s decision to go with an eight-game schedule 

Earlier this week SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced they’d be sticking with the eight-game schedule at least for the 2024 season.

This week, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced the league would stick with the eight-game schedule, at least for the 2024 season.

He said the conference will reevaluate that decision in 2025 and for the years that follow.

One person who sees both sides is Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

“I think there’s good and bad in both,” Saban told The Athletic (subscription needed). “I know there are some issues going to nine games in terms of future schedules that we put together in terms of playing or trying to play two Power Five schools each year to go along with the SEC schedule.

“Eventually we’ll probably move to more involvement in more SEC games, but I think this has happened so quickly it was really hard to make a lot of changes that fast. Whatever it is, we’re excited about the opportunities and challenges of playing really good games against really good teams whether we play eight or nine (SEC games).”

The decision to stay with an eight-game conference schedule means the Sooners have to schedule two more opponents for the 2024 season, one of which has to be a Power Five school.

What makes the most sense is to find a team in the league they are leaving, the Big 12.

While Sooner fans would love to see Bedlam be that game, that doesn’t sound likely. The Oklahoma State Cowboys would have to cancel one of their 2024 nonconference games to make that work. The team that sounds like a possibility is one Sooner fans would not be excited to see: Kansas State.

Currently, the Sooners only have Temple and Tulane on their schedule. So there’s some work to be done for athletic director Joe Castiglione to make the Sooners schedule right for the 2024 season.

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247Sports forecasts brutal SEC slate for Auburn in 2024

Brad Crawford of 247Sports does not see Auburn benefiting from the SEC’s new division-less structure.

The long-awaited decision regarding conference scheduling within the SEC was officially made on June 1 when the conference announced that it will keep its traditional eight-game model, but will eliminate divisions beginning in 2024.

There is not a set structure regarding permanent opponents and rotations, however, as the eight-game model will be evaluated after the 2024 season. After facing the likes of Alabama and LSU in the western division every season since 1992, will Auburn catch a break with the SEC’s new division-less system? Brad Crawford of 247Sports does not see that happening.

Following the announcement from the SEC, Crawford took time to predict Auburn’s 2024 SEC slate, and it is anything but easy. Crawford projects the Tigers to get its usual dose of Alabama, Georgia, and LSU, followed by four teams that reached bowl games during the 2022 season.

Here’s how Crawford predicts Auburn’s “nightmare” conference slate to appear:

This prediction, if true, will be “business as usual” for Auburn, as the Tigers have grown accustomed to facing Alabama, Georgia, and LSU every season. Mixing in teams that have built a reputation for consistent bowl play in Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Kentucky, and [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] will have quite the challenge as he works to rebuild the program. Welcoming SEC newcomer, Texas, to Jordan-Hare Stadium will be a nice touch, as the Longhorns have not visited the Plains since 1987.

Auburn, as well as the rest of the SEC, will learn about its 2024 opponents on Wednesday, June 14.

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Report: SEC decides on 8-game conference schedule

The long-awaited debate is over, the SEC moves forward with an eight-game conference schedule upon additions of Oklahoma and Texas.

The long-awaited answer to the question of how the 16-team SEC schedule will look in 2024 has arrived. Greg Sankey announced the league will stay with an eight-game conference schedule when Oklahoma and Texas make the move.

Meeting in Destin, Fla. for the annual SEC spring meetings, SEC leadership has been debating a league schedule of eight or nine games. For years, the SEC has played just eight conference games, even as fellow Power Five leagues moved to nine-game schedules.

According to Chuck Dunlap, SEC communications director, SEC members will be required to play their eight conference opponents and at least one Power Five or major independent opponent.

Each team will play one permanent SEC opponent and then rotate the other seven league games. For the Oklahoma Sooners, they’ll face the Texas Longhorns each season. That’s a rivalry too valuable for the league to not have them meet each season in the Cotton Bowl.

In addition to the eight-game proclamation from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, the league will also remove divisions upon expansion. Similar to what the Big 12 will look like in 2023.

No divisions has the league in a situation where each SEC team will play everyone else at least twice in a four-year period.

While the nine-game schedule with three permanent opponents was a popular choice among fans and in some SEC circles, the league couldn’t gain a consensus.

As things stand right now, the Oklahoma Sooners only have two nonconference games scheduled for 2024, hosting the Temple Owls and Tulane Green Wave. The Sooners already replaced their 2023 game against Georgia with the SMU Mustangs, but athletic director Joe Castiglione will have to get busy filling out the Sooners’ schedule for the 2024 season with two holes on the slate.

A popular choice would be to renew Bedlam in 2024, but Oklahoma State already has three nonconference games on the schedule. So unless there was a cancellation, that would be unlikely.

Still, in the constantly moving world of college football, what seems certain today is subject to change tomorrow. Still, with uncertainty about the nonconference schedule, there’s growing excitement about the future.

Oklahoma fans and the program will be waiting with bated breath to find out which SEC cities the Sooners will be visiting in their first season in their new conference. The SEC will announce each team’s schedule during a primetime show on the SEC Network on June 14.

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BREAKING: SEC to eliminate divisions, remain at 8 games in 2024

The full schedule will be announced during a primetime special on the SEC Network on June 14, commissioner Greg Sankey said.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said on Wednesday that a resolution to the future scheduling debate could come by the end of the spring meetings in Destin, Florida, and that proved to be the case.

On Thursday, Sankey announced that the league will eliminate divisions when Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC in 2024 but will keep the conference schedule at eight games.

Some parties — potentially including Sankey — wanted to expand the schedule to nine games like some other leagues have. There were detractors, though, and they won out.

According to Action Network’s Brett McMurphy, Sankey said the schedule will aim to balance fairness with maintaining historic rivalries.

The 2024 schedule will be announced during a primetime special on the SEC Network on June 14.

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