You could hear the buzz around the cold room at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover back in 2021. The Houston Chronicle reported Texas and Oklahoma would join the SEC, overshadowing Adam Luckett’s show-stopping encounter with Nick Saban. The excitement from the news quickly followed with the question, “When are they getting here?” We finally have a set day, July 1, 2024.
The new-look 16-member SEC will kick off just in time for the expanded 12-team CFB Playoff. We know how this is happening a year earlier than expected (by paying a bunch of money to the Big 12), but what exactly will it look like?