ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football fans will have to wait a while longer to check out College Station, Texas, but Austin, Texas, is on the docket for 2024. So is Oxford, Miss.; Lexington, Ky.; and — get this — Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Those away opponents for the Bulldogs represented just a few of the revelations offered by the SEC when it finally released its eight-game schedule for the newly expanded, 16-team conference in a drama-inducing TV special Wednesday night on SEC Network. Oklahoma and Texas are joining the SEC in July 2024, a year earlier than originally planned. SEC members in Destin last month voted to play an eight-game schedule rather than nine games, at least for that season. The schedule announced Wednesday is only for the 2024 season.
It could be argued that Georgia, coming off back-to-back national championships this year, received a strength-of-schedule wallop. The 2024 slate certainly will be considered a dramatic improvement over the one the Bulldogs will play in 2023. Thanks in part to having to dump a long-scheduled game versus Oklahoma because of the Sooners’ joining the league, the Bulldogs feature one of the weaker home schedules in school history this year.
