Alabama-Georgia, Texas-Texas A&M on 2024 SEC schedule

The SEC announced its new football regular-season schedule for the 2024 season on Wednesday, featuring Texas and Oklahoma and several must-watch matchups.

Among multiple highly anticipated contests is Alabama hosting Georgia and Texas visiting Texas A&M.

It'll be only the fifth regular-season meeting in the past 20 years between the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs, who have faced each other four times in the last six seasons in either the SEC title game or the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Crimson Tide and Bulldogs last squared off in the regular season in 2020, when the SEC played a fully in-conference schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alabama and Georgia have won five of the last eight national titles combined.

In another notable meeting, Texas and Texas A&M will meet for the first time since 2011. The Aggies joined the SEC the following season, halting their rivalry series.

The SEC is keeping several historic rivalry matchups, including the Red River Showdown between Oklahoma and Texas. The Longhorns snapped the Sooners' four-game win streak in the series with a 49-0 victory last year.

All current SEC schools will play either Oklahoma or Texas in 2024. Alabama visits Oklahoma next year, while Texas hosts Georgia, marking the Bulldogs' first visit to Austin since 1958. Here are the Longhorns' and Sooners' SEC opponents in their first year in the new conference:

The SEC - which will eliminate divisions in 2024 - stated that traditional opponents and balance of overall schedule strength were determinants for the league in finalizing its schedule for the 2024 campaign. No team will travel to the same locations in 2024 that it did in 2023.

With Texas and Oklahoma joining from the Big 12, SEC teams will play eight conference games in 2024 and face one opponent that either hails from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, or Pac-12 or is a major independent. The SEC is expected to keep that format for a single season before figuring out a more permanent schedule.