View the Oklahoma Sooners’ entire 2024 schedule for their first-ever SEC campaign.
NORMAN — Oklahoma will play one more game in 2023 before the program comes to an end and a new one begins in the SEC.
On July 1, 2024, the Sooners and rival Texas will formally leave the Big 12 and join the SEC. The Sooners’ 2024 schedule is now official. Oklahoma’s opponents for its first SEC season were announced back in June; two of those games were disclosed to ESPN last month.
Running back Gavin Sawchuk expressed his excitement about the move, a chance to play in a new conference and against some new teams, on Tuesday following the team’s Alamo Bowl practice. “Just think the opportunity is great.”
Oklahoma’s first-ever SEC schedule features games against six teams, including two playoff teams from Alabama and Texas, that placed in the top-25 of the final College Football Playoff rankings this season. Highlight games for the Sooners include the annual Cotton Bowl Red River Rivalry against Texas, home games against Tennessee and Alabama, and road trips to Ole Miss, LSU, Missouri, and Auburn. The Gamecocks, led by former Sooners assistant Shane Beamer, will visit Oklahoma Memorial Stadium from South Carolina, just as former OU national champion quarterback Josh Heupel will lead his Tennessee team there at the end of September.
On Wednesday night, the SEC held a two-hour televised schedule release special on ESPN and SEC Network to reveal its entire 2024 schedule. In their inaugural SEC campaign, Brent Venables and his team will look like this:
Prior to the 2024 college football season, conferences realign. The SEC gains two new members, Texas and Oklahoma, making 16 total, solidifying its status as the top conference in the country. The SEC released the first football schedule of the new era on Wednesday night, revealing the dates of each game.
As the Longhorns and Sooners prepare for their inaugural season against fresh competition, special attention is focused on them. As teams vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff, many of their games are among the most important and eagerly awaited matches on the schedule. There’s nothing like a thrilling SEC welcome to witness the resurgence of long-standing rivalries and the start of new series against elite programs.
Along with the games involving new members, there are also games like Georgia vs. Alabama, LSU vs. Alabama, and other equally important matchups between current leaders. These games are commodities compared to the fresh, intriguing matchups, but they will be crucial in deciding the league champion and CFP contenders.
Although there hasn’t been a regular meeting since the Southwestern Conference split, this 19th-century rivalry is set to rekindle as Texas and Arkansas will play in the same conference for the first time in over thirty years. With national championship implications in several of the 79 all-time meetings, the history of this series is noteworthy. The last time these rivals faced off, in 2021, Arkansas upset a No. 15-ranked Texas team; however, overall, the Longhorns are ahead 56-23.
