Sources: UGA-Bama, Horns-Ags on ’24 SEC slate

• Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJun 14, 2023, 01:08 PM ET

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Alabama and Georgia will satisfy during the 2024 regular season in Tuscaloosa, which will be just their 5th regular-season matchup in the previous twenty years, sources informed ESPN on Wednesday.With the complete 2024 schedule set to be launched Wednesday night (7 p.m. ET, SEC Network), a few of the other highlights, sources informed ESPN, consist of Texas at Texas A&M.

With Texas and Oklahoma joining the league in 2024, the SEC voted to remain at 8 conference games for the 2024 season in a bridge schedule prior to determining a more long-term schedule for the future, that includes possibly adding a ninth conference game.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Alabama and Georgia have actually integrated to win 5 of the previous 8 college football national championships, however they last met in the routine season throughout the 2020 season when SEC schools played a 10-game all-league schedule since of COVID-19. The programs have faced off against each other 5 times over the past six seasons, however four of those matches was available in either the SEC championship game or the College Football Playoff Championship game game.The two-time defending national champ Bulldogs won 33-18 in the national championship game to

cap the 2021 season. The Crimson Tide have won seven of the past 8 games in the series.For the Longhorns and Aggies, it will be their first meeting because 2011– a 27-25 Texas win– as

Texas A&M signed up with the SEC the following season.The SEC made it a top priority to keep the historical rivalries in 2024. Alabama will dip into Tennessee and LSU, for example, while

Texas A&M will face LSU in the house and Arkansas at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Also, Texas will travel to Arkansas in a conference of old Southwest Conference competitors, and Oklahoma and Texas will continue their yearly competition at

the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Georgia will keep its annual competitions with Auburn, Florida and Tennessee.All 14 existing SEC schools will play either Oklahoma or Texas in 2024, with sources telling ESPN that Georgia will check out Texas and Alabama will travel to face Oklahoma.One of the concerns for SEC teams about going to 9 conference games involved harder nonconference games currently arranged for that season and how that might affect their opportunities of landing a spot in a broadened 12-team playoff with a prospective extra loss. For instance, Texas A&M opens the 2024 season versus Notre Dame, and Alabama plays at Wisconsin the second week of the season. Likewise, Florida plays Florida State every year, South Carolina faces Clemson and Kentucky deals with Louisville.