SEC Announces Oklahoma's Permanent Opponents in Baseball

The Sooners will face some familiar foes along with the new ones when the 2025 SEC baseball season finally arrives.

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SEC Announces Oklahoma's Permanent Opponents in Baseball

By OU Media Relations

NORMAN – The Southeastern Conference announced permanent baseball opponents for future scheduling formats for all member schools on Thursday, including Oklahoma and Texas, which are set to join the league July 1, 2024. OU will face Texas and Missouri in baseball each year beginning with the 2025 season.

The Sooners, which last played Missouri in a conference series in 2012 (but twice in non-conference meetings since), lead the all-time series against the Tigers 128-85. Texas holds a 156-68-2 all-time series advantage, but OU has won 10 of its 18 games against the Longhorns under head coach Skip Johnson, including four in a row.

Beginning in 2025, SEC baseball teams will play three-game series against two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents each season for a total of 30 conference games. Standings will be kept in a single-division format.

The permanent SEC baseball opponents were determined based on a number of factors including geography, traditional opponents and strength of schedule.

Published Nov 9, 2023

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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