The Southeastern Conference is expanding in 2024, and the SEC football schedule needed a custom adjustment to accommodate the additions of Texas and Oklahoma. Back in December, the conference released the full schedule for every team, keeping the SEC's tradition of 8 conference games and 4 non-conference contests.
Many speculated that the SEC would move to 9 games (9 SEC games, theoretically, would require ESPN or another outlet, to pay more money for the conference's television rights) as soon as they could, but according to the league, that won't be happening right now.
An official announcement came from the Southeastern Conference on Wednesday with the 2025 schedule, and it is the exact same as the 2024 schedule. The only difference between the SEC football slate in '25 is that a team's conference games that were played at home in 2024 will be played on the road in 2025, and a team's conference games that were played on the road in 2024 will be played at home in 2025.
It is important to note that the SEC requires teams to play at least one out-of-conference opponent from the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, or the group of major Independents.
Florida-Georgia (Jacksonville, Florida) and Oklahoma-Texas (Dallas, Texas) will be played at neutral sites as normal.
All 14 members of the "old SEC" will play either Oklahoma or Texas in 2024 (and 2025) as one of their conference games, meaning that the league's newest additions will play in every SEC football venue over the next two seasons.
Consistent with the 2024 scheduling rules, 2025 will be the second year in a row in which the SEC does not have divisions. The biggest non-scheduling change that comes with that is that the SEC Championship will be played between the top schools in the overall league standings instead of a "champion" from both the East and West divisions as in years past.