SEC reveals baseball schedule permanent opponents beginning in 2025

The SEC is set to expand in 2024, with Oklahoma and Texas both joining the league. But scheduling remains in flux. Now a little less so when it comes to the SEC baseball schedule.

The SEC has decided on its permanent scheduling options beginning with the 2025 season, the league announced on Thursday morning.

Each SEC team will have two permanent opponents each year, then play a rotating schedule with other league opponents. The conference unveiled the pairings on Thursday.

SEC Baseball Schedule – Permanent Opponents

Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee
Arkansas: Ole Miss, Missouri
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia
Florida: Georgia, South Carolina
Georgia: Florida, Auburn
Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt
LSU: Mississippi State, Texas A&M
Ole Miss: Mississippi State, Arkansas
Mississippi State: Ole Miss, LSU
Missouri: Oklahoma, Arkansas
Oklahoma: Missouri, Texas
South Carolina: Kentucky, Florida
Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Alabama
Texas: Texas A&M, Oklahoma
Texas A&M: Texas, LSU
Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky

With the league sticking to a 30-game conference schedule, the new SEC baseball schedule permanent opponents mean that each team will have two series each year against set teams, then eight more series against other SEC foes.

Many of the rivalries included are traditional rivalries, though some programs have been paired with the league newcomers.

Texas A&M will add Texas ass a permanent opponent, while Missouri will add Oklahoma. Oklahoma and Texas will face each other annually, wrapping up the annual opponents for each of the league’s newcomers.

Other traditional rivalries have been preserved, such as Alabama facing Auburn and Tennessee, Georgia facing Auburn and Florida and Vanderbilt facing Tennessee and Kentucky.

The SEC noted that the permanent SEC baseball schedule opponents were determined based on a number of factors including geography, traditional opponents and strength of schedule. Standings will be kept in a single-division format, eliminating divisional standings.

All in all it should make for an entertaining start to the expanded SEC baseball schedule.