What To Watch For: SEC Football Opponent Release For 2024

The SEC will release in-conference football opponents for the 2024 season on Wednesday. Here’s what to know before the big release for the Tennessee Volunteers.

On Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, the SEC will announce each school’s football opponents for conference play in 2024 via a special edition of SEC Now on SEC Network. This is highly anticipated for Tennessee fans and fans of the other 13 programs in the conference. 2024 will be the first season for Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC after their entry was moved up by one year. Each of the 16 teams will find out their eight opponents for conference play after some big news just a couple of weeks ago.

On June 1, the SEC announced that it would be sticking with an eight-game conference schedule for the 2024 football season after many suspected that the additions of Texas and Oklahoma, pushing the conference to 16 teams, would cause the conference to add a game. In 2024, which the SEC announced would involve a temporary scheduling format, each team will be required to have at least one opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, or Pac-12 or a major independent on their schedule. The 2024 season will not involve divisions, with the teams with the top two overall conference records earning a trip to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.

Whether the SEC will increase its conference schedule to nine games for 2025 and beyond has yet to be determined. It was reported that only Georgia, Florida, LSU, Missouri, and Texas A&M favored adding a game. Many fans have heard of the idea of a pod format, with each team playing three traditional rivals each season. For Tennessee, this could mean Kentucky, Alabama, and Vanderbilt. This has not been finalized, though. Regardless of what happens in 2025 and beyond, this release is extremely important and something new for a conference that has had a concrete format with rotations in the past.

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