We are nearly one step closer to the 2024 SEC football season.
The Southeastern Conference will reveal the team opponents for the 2024 SEC football season in an hour-long SEC Now special on ESPN+ and SEC Network on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Here’s what to know about the event coming up on Wednesday night in relation to the 2024 football season. The 2023 football season is already set and stone and can be looked at in more detail here.
2024 SEC Opponent Reveal/Football Season
- The University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma will be added to the SEC during the summer of 2024, prior to the football season.
- The SEC is getting rid of divisional formats (SEC West, East) for the 2024 football season.
- Eight-game conference schedule in 2024 that is set to be reevaluated after the season
- “Creating a one-year schedule will provide a longer on-ramp to manage football scheduling around existing nonconference commitments of our members,” Commissioner Greg Sankey said earlier in June
- Opponents can come from any of the 15 other teams in the conference
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On Wednesday morning, ESPN’s Peter Burns tweeted out that each of the previous 14 SEC teams will play either Texas or Oklahoma during the 2024 season.
247 Sports’ Chip Brown has also reported that Texas’ 2024 schedule will consist of a home game against Georgia, road games at Texas A&M and Arkansas, and a neutral site game in Dallas against Oklahoma.
Whether it’s Texas or Oklahoma, the Tennessee Volunteers are in good shape for that being an ultra-marquee opponent. Texas-Tennessee is always a hot matchup with the “Battle of UT” moniker that has been erupting with conversation on social media on Wednesday morning.
Oklahoma, though, has significant intrigue because it is the school that now-Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel won a National Championship at as the starting quarterback in 2000. Heupel is also on the current 2024 College Football Hall of Fame ballot as a player at Oklahoma.
So whether it’s The Battle for UT with Texas or The Heupel Bowl with Oklahoma and Tennessee, the Volunteers will have plenty of storylines and buzz around that game.
Stay tuned to Rocky Top Insider on Wednesday night for continued coverage of Tennessee’s 2024 football opponents. The SEC Now special will be on SEC Network and ESPN+ at 7:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
