South Carolina Football: How to watch tonight’s 2024 SEC schedule release

The SEC announced several weeks ago that the conference would be sticking to an 8-game conference schedule in 2024. With Oklahoma and Texas joining the league, the now 16-team conference will play a custom schedule that includes every team playing 8 games in-conference and requires every team to play at least one out-of-conference Power-5 team.

The decision comes down, primarily, to money. The SEC has the potential to add obscene amounts of revenue through a new television deal with ESPN, but the conference does not have any pressure to add a ninth game in 2024. ESPN’s parent company is Disney, and Disney is still recovering from the financial crunch that most of the country is still feeling in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

At some point in the future, likely once Disney and ESPN are ready to offer a record-breaking television deal, the SEC will play nine games in-conference. That will not be in 2024. The 8-gamer will be a one-year format, and the league is expected to continue to utilize custom schedules until the nine-game format comes into play.

Shortly after the announcement of the 8-game schedule, the SEC also revealed that the custom one-year schedule would be released on a primetime SECNetwork broadcast.

Today is the day for that schedule release, and SEC football fans cannot wait to learn who they will play next fall. The custom schedule, reportedly, was created with the intention of upholding as many historic rivalries as possible.

For South Carolina football, Georgia is the program’s biggest SEC rival, but the Bulldogs have multiple historic rivalries. It is unclear whether or not the Gamecocks and Bulldogs will match up as one of these rivalries, so the South Carolina schedule is still a mystery.

The no-divisions, custom schedule will be released on a special edition of SECNow on the SECNetwork tonight (June 14th) at 7:00.