Potential Iron Bowl rematches? A final season of the SEC on CBS? The 2024 college football season will bring enormous change and new possibilities for the sport, particularly in the SEC. Here's what to expect:
If the proliferation of the transfer portal and NIL was not enough, college football is about to change again.
When the SEC decides upon its new scheduling format this spring to accommodate Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference in 2024, the SEC is very likely to eliminate divisions. That has been the consistent message from commissioner Greg Sankey since last year, and Sankey has also shot down the idea of using four-team “pods” or mini-divisions of four teams each that were once floated.
Assuming the SEC moves forward with a nine-game schedule, Alabama’s non-conference schedule would shrink to three games beginning in 2024. The Tide has four known non-conference opponents in 2024 and 2025 , so those schedules would need to be tweaked.The SEC’s expected new 9-game scheduling format would feature three permanent opponents and six rotating opponents.
That means this upcoming season is the last time the four-team system, adopted in 2014, is used. Alabama made the first five College Football Playoff fields but has missed it two of the past four seasons. The hope from college football’s leaders is the new system maintains a wider scope of interest in many teams into November, instead of the current system that tosses teams onto the scrap heap if they lose two games.We knew Alabama’s Iron Bowl game last November was the final game in Bryant-Denny Stadium for the 2022 season, and we know Alabama’s Nov. 18 game against Chattanooga this fall will be the final game in Tuscaloosa for the 2023 season.
It would take Alabama and Auburn to both make the 12-team playoff, then for one of those schools to host the other in a first-round playoff game. Or, they could meet in a later round of the 12-team playoff, which will include quarterfinal, semifinal and the national championship game at bowl-game sites.
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