Auburn football 2024 SEC schedule released, Deep South's Oldest Rivalry survives for now

AUBURN — Auburn football will play SEC opponents Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and Arkansas at home, while playing Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama on the road during the 2024 season. Those games will join non-conference opponents California, New Mexico and Louisiana-Monroe already on the schedule.

The 2024 schedules were determined by traditional opponents and balance of overall schedule.

ZERO MISSISSIPPI: Auburn won’t play Ole Miss or Mississippi State in 2024.

• It’s the first time the Tigers haven’t played the Rebels since 1989.

• It’s the first time the Tigers haven’t played the Bulldogs since 1954.

• It’s the first time the Tigers haven’t played either school in a season since 1936.

It’s also the first time Auburn won’t play LSU since 1991.

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The SEC, which announced during spring meetings earlier this month a one-year plan to go with an eight-game conference schedule without divisions in 2024, announced its 2024 league football schedules during an SEC Network broadcast on Wednesday evening.

The league’s best two conference records will match up in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta at season’s end.

“During this time of change, our fans will continue to enjoy traditional rivalries and begin to see new matchups presented by the addition of two historically successful football programs to the SEC,” league commissioner Greg Sankey said on June 1.

Per multiple reports over recent weeks, one of the concerns for SEC teams about going to nine conference games involved tougher non-conference games already scheduled for that season and how that might affect their chances of landing a spot in an expanded 12-team playoff with a potential extra loss. For example, Texas A&M opens the 2024 season against Notre Dame, and Alabama plays at Wisconsin the second week of the season. Also, Florida plays Florida State every year, South Carolina faces Clemson and Kentucky faces Louisville.

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RECENT CONFERENCE HISTORY FOR AUBURN: Since the 2013 season, Auburn football is exactly .500 in SEC games.

• Auburn is 37-37 in their last 74 SEC games dating back to the start of the 2014 season.

• The Tigers went 7-1 during the 2017 season resulting in a SEC title game appearance. Since, Auburn has two winning records in SEC play with three losing records.

• Over the last 20 seasons, Auburn has lost two or less conference games just six times, while losing three or more SEC games 14 times.

ENTERING THE 2023 SEASON, THE LAST TIME AUBURN PLAYED…

• LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama were all most recently played during the 2022 season.

• Missouri was last played during the 2022 season, with Auburn winning at home.

• Kentucky was last played during the 2020 season, with Auburn winning at home.

• South Carolina was last played during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, both away from home and both resulting in Auburn losses.

• Florida was last played during the 2019 season, with Auburn losing on the road.

• Tennessee was last played during the 2020 season, with Auburn winning at home.

• Vanderbilt was last played during the 2016 season, with Auburn winning at home. The two teams will meet in 2023.

• Oklahoma was last played at the end of the 2016 season, with Auburn losing in the Sugar Bowl.

• Texas was last played during the 1991 season, with Auburn winning in Austin, Tex.

OTHER GAMES OF NOTE: Texas-Texas A&M rivalry renewed, among other things.

• For the Longhorns and Aggies, it will be their first meeting since 2011 — a 27-25 Texas win — as Texas A&M joined the SEC the following season.

• Georgia will travel to Texas, with Alabama traveling to Oklahoma.

• Georgia will play at Alabama, matching up the two teams in the regular season for only the fifth time in the last 20 seasons.

• Oklahoma-Texas will keep their rivalry in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl.