South Carolina football and the rest of the SEC found out their schedules for the 2024 season tonight in a special edition of SECNow on the SECNetwork. If it seems a little late to find out next year’s schedule just over a year before the games begin, it should. However, the SEC is in a unique position heading into 2024.
The Southeastern Conference is adding two teams in Oklahoma and Texas in 2024, and the schedule had to be tweaked. A nine-game conference schedule is appealing to the league long-term, but ESPN (and its parent company Disney) are not in a financial place to pay fair market value for the addition game, so keeping an eight-game format was the right call.