The new-look SEC will come one year earlier, as it was announced earlier this month that Oklahoma and Texas will join the conference in 2024 instead of the original plan of 2025. The move will take place after both schools agreed to pay $50 million each to offset media rights fees.
Now that the question of when is Oklahoma and Texas coming over? is settled, now the question that everyone wants to know is which teams will Auburn play on an annual basis?
Scheduling will be a hot topic around the SEC until the spring meetings take place in May in Destin, Florida SEC commissioner Greg Sankey tells Trey Wallace of Outkick.
“We ultimately said if we wait we can learn a lot about (College Football Playoff), other conference media deals, look more deeply at tiebreakers if we’re in a single division,” Sankey said. “We’ve learned an immense amount. We’ve seen some conference membership movement, the CFP format change and that’s going to help us make a better decision.”
Until then, there will be plenty of speculation about what model the SEC will use. No matter the result, there will be plenty of cases made as to which teams will land on permanent schedules, including Auburn.
While we wait on the final copy, Auburn Wire’s Taylor Jones has taken time to explore the possibilities of Auburn’s potential future schedules, and which teams have the best shot at playing the Tigers on an annual basis.
Here’s a look at Taylor Jones’ take on the probability that Auburn has of adding each SEC program to its permanent schedule.