Georgia-Bama, Horns-Aggies on ’24 SEC slate

• Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterJun 14, 2023, 01:08 PM ET

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play conference newbies Oklahoma or Texas in 2024, and the Longhorns will renew their contentious competition with Texas A&M for the first time because 2011. The SEC launched its 2024 football schedule on

Wednesday night, which features a number of notable matches, including Alabama at Georgia, Georgia at Texas and Oklahoma at LSU.Last month, the SEC voted to eliminate divisions and authorized a temporary eight-game conference schedule to be played in 2024. Editor’s Picks 2 Related SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who has meant his preference for a nine-game schedule, said that the league will continue checking out scheduling alternatives for 2025 and beyond.A long-term eight-game conference schedule would likely consist of only one long-term challenger, keeping alive yearly rivalries like Alabama-Auburn and Florida-Georgia, while diluting other meaningful competitions like Alabama-Tennessee, Auburn-Georgia and Ole Miss-LSU. The 2024 slate of games announced on Wednesday keeps all of those rivalry games undamaged for the time being.Oklahoma-Texas, which is also called the Red River Competition, will continue with the game to be played in Dallas.The Sooners will host Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina and will have trip to LSU, Auburn, Ole Miss and Missouri.The Longhorns will host Mississippi State, Florida, Georgia and Kentucky and will have trip to Texas A&M, Arkansas and Vanderbilt.The total SEC schedule with dates will be announced later this year.Opponents were determined by considering custom and general schedule strength, which was based upon each school’s conference winning portion because 2012. Alabama and Georgia will satisfy for just the 5th regular-season match in

the past 20 years.The two programs have actually combined to win five of the past 8 college football championship games, however they last satisfied in the regular season throughout the 2020 season when SEC schools played a 10-game all-league schedule since of COVID-19. The programs have actually faced each other five times over the previous six seasons, however four of those matches can be found in either the SEC championship game or the College Football Playoff National Championship game.Texas and Texas A&M will deal with one another for the first time considering that the Aggies left for the SEC in 2012. The Longhorns won the first ever meeting in 1894 and lead the general series 76-37-5. ESPN’s Chris Low added to this report.