SEC Baseball Reveals Scheduling Model in 2025 Following Conference Expansion

How will the baseball programs in the Southeastern Conference play out their scheduling once Texas and Oklahoma join the league?

Since news broke that the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners were set to join the Southeastern Conference in the 2024-25 athletic calendar, the focus has been on how the conference will handle its football scheduling.

Just as important in SEC Country, however, is the format of the baseball schedule. Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball broke news on Tuesday morning that the conference will adjust how it schedules its baseball games once it adds two new programs.

SOURCES: Beginning in 2025 with the addition of Texas and OU, the @SEC will move to a regular season schedule that will include two series each year against permanent opponents and eight series against rotating opponents for 30 games. The #SEC also will go to a single division.

— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) March 14, 2023

According to Rogers, the SEC will move to a regular season format that has two series each season against permanent opponents and eight series against rotating opponents for a total of 30 conference games. To join that, the SEC will depart from its current "East and West" division model in favor of a single division.

How will this affect the Ole Miss Rebels? One would assume that Ole Miss would have a permanent matchup against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, but given the Rebels' history with other rivalries in the conference, who gets the final permanent slot?

Arguments could be made for the Arkansas Razorbacks, LSU Tigers and Vanderbilt Commodores, for sure, but the jury is still out on who Ole Miss will face each spring on a consistent basis.

Speaking of Vanderbilt, that's who Ole Miss will travel to face in the opening of SEC play this weekend. First pitch on Thursday is set for 6 p.m. CT, and the game will be broadcast on ESPNU.

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