With news out that Texas and Oklahoma will move to the SEC a year earlier than expected, in 2024, the conference seems poised to now tackle a pesky subject: its future scheduling format for football.
After a year of debating the subject, SEC administrators are growing closer to, finally, making a decision on what could be a significant change to the structure of future football schedules in the country’s most successful league. SEC athletic directors are expected to make a decision on a future format this spring, possibly as soon as their annual gathering on the Florida panhandle in March.
Last spring, the league narrowed more than 30 scheduling models to two divisionless formats: an eight-game format where teams play one permanent opponent and seven rotating opponents (1–7 model); and a nine-game format where teams play three permanent opponents and six rotating (3–6).
