Alabama to face Oklahoma in Norman next season as 2024 football schedule comes together: report
Parts of the 2024 SEC football schedule are starting to come together as games and opponents are being leaked to the public, with enormous intrigue around where newcomers Texas and Oklahoma fit into the rotation of annual opponents, and based on new information, the Sooners are set to host a huge game next season.
Oklahoma will welcome the Alabama Crimson Tide to Norman next fall in a highly-anticipated matchup between head coaches Brent Venables and Nick Saban, according to ESPN college football insider Chris Low.
It is expected that all of the current 14 schools in the SEC will play either Texas or Oklahoma next season in order to fully ingratiate the two members into the conference football schedule going forward.
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Oklahoma has a 3-2-1 record against Alabama all-time dating back to 1963, a 17-0 victory for the Crimson Tide in the Orange Bowl, with Joe Namath under center for the Tide and President John F. Kennedy in attendance.
Alabama also won the most recent matchup, a dramatic 45-34 shootout over the Sooners in the 2018 College Football Playoff Orange Bowl semifinal.
OU won three straight over Bama, in 2002 and 2003 during the regular season, and following the 2013 season in the Sugar Bowl.
That annual SEC slate will still feature eight conference games, not nine, after the league voted to maintain the current eight-game schedule this offseason ahead of Texas and Oklahoma joining in time for the 2024 season, but with the expectation that officials will return to the matter again next year and a high possibility that the SEC will introduce a nine-game schedule potentially in 2025.
(Low)
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