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SEC reveals opponents and locations for 2024 football schedule
06.14.2023 | Football
The Longhorns will host Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State, while visiting Arkansas, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, and being the designated visiting team against Oklahoma in Dallas.
AUSTIN – The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday revealed the opponents plus home and away designations for games on its 2024 football schedule, the first season in which the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma will participate in SEC competition.
For Texas, the home contests will feature Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State coming to Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Meanwhile, the Longhorns will visit Arkansas, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, along with being the designated visiting team against Oklahoma in Dallas. A complete 2024 SEC football schedule that includes dates of games will be announced later this year.
Additionally, Texas has announced a home game against ULM on Saturday, Sept. 21, to round out its 2024 non-conference slate, which includes home games against Colorado State (Aug. 31) and UTSA (Sept. 14), and a road game at Michigan (Sept. 7). The Longhorns and Warhawks will also play in Austin on Sept. 1, 2029.
As previously announced, SEC teams in 2024 will play eight conference games plus one required opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or major independent during the 2024 season when the SEC becomes a 16-team conference.
The slate of home and away designations in 2024 was built with the provision that no school will travel to the same location to which it traveled in 2023. The 2024 SEC opponents were determined based on two primary factors: traditional opponents and balance of schedule strength.
Balance of schedule strength was based on each school's conference winning percentage since the last expansion of the SEC in 2012. The winning percentages for the performance of Oklahoma and Texas in the Big 12 since 2012 were included in determining 16 positions ranked by winning percentage.
Each school's schedule in 2024 will include four opponents – two home and two away – whose winning percentage ranked among the top eight conference winning percentages since 2012.
Also, each school's 2024 schedule will include four opponents – two home and two away -- whose winning percentages ranked among the second eight conference winning percentages since 2012.
While no school will travel to the same location to which it traveled in 2023, it should be noted that when a long-term schedule format is determined, it may not be possible to structure a schedule that does not include some schools playing at the same location in back-to-back years in the first year of a new format.
It was also previously announced the SEC will eliminate divisional standings beginning in 2024. The SEC Championship Game will feature the two top teams in the Conference standings at the end of the regular season.
Texas leads the all-time series against Florida, 2-0-1, with most recent coming in 1940 in Gainesville, a contest won by the Longhorns, 26-0. The previous two were played in Austin, resulting in a 12-0 win for Texas in 1939, and a 7-7 tie in 1924.
Texas and Georgia have met five times with the Longhorns holding a 4-1 advantage, including a 28-21 win in the Allstate Sugar Bowl following the 2018 season. The Bulldogs won the previous matchup, 10-9 in the 1984 Cotton Bowl, which was the Longhorns' lone defeat of the 1983 season. Texas also prevailed, 26-7 in 1957, and 13-8 in 1958, in a home-and-home series played in Athens and Austin, respectively. The Longhorns won the first-ever meeting, 41-38, in the 1949 Orange Bowl to conclude the 1948 season.
There has been only one previous meeting between Texas and Kentucky, a game the Longhorns won in Austin, 7-6, in 1951. Meanwhile, UT has split four contests with Mississippi State with the Longhorns winning, 38-11, in the Cotton Bowl after the 1998 season, and 54-7 in the first meeting-ever meeting in 1921, which took place in Austin. The Bulldogs then won both games of a home-and-home series, first 13-6 in Starkville in 1991, then 28-10 in Austin in 1992.
Three of the four games away from home will be against teams Texas has previously shared time with in either the Southwest Conference or the Big 12 Conference.
The Longhorns will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., where they faced Arkansas as recently as 2021 in a game the Razorbacks won, 40-21. However, Texas leads the all-time series, 56-23, including 26-10 on the road, after the schools were in the Southwest Conference together from 1915-91. Arkansas has won four of the six meetings since then with Texas prevailing 22-20 in 2004 in Fayetteville, and 52-10 in 2008 in Austin.
Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC together after being in the Southwest Conference from 1915-19, and the Big 12 from 1996-2023. The Longhorns lead that all-time series, 63-50-2, with a majority of those games taking place at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas where the teams will continue their rivalry after Texas won last year's contest, 49-0, and will also play in 2023.
Texas and Texas A&M will renew their rivalry in College Station where the Longhorns won the last meeting, 27-25, in 2011. They had been in the Southwest Conference together from 1915-95, followed by the Big 12 from 1996-2011 with Texas leading the overall series, 76-37-5, including 25-22-2 in College Station. The Longhorns have also won nine of the last 12 overall contests since 2000.
Oklahoma is not the only opponent Texas has played a majority of its games against in Dallas. Vanderbilt leads the all-time series with the Longhorns, 8-3-1, however all of those came in 1928 and earlier with seven of those played in Dallas. The Commodores are 4-0 in Nashville, including the first meeting in 1899, along with games in 1905, 1906 and 1925. The teams have only met once in Austin, which was the lone tie, 5-5, in 1903.