SEC Baseball overhauls conference scheduling model for when Texas, Oklahoma join league

The SEC overhauled its conference scheduling model for baseball in preparation for Texas and Oklahoma’s arrival, according to a release from the conference. D1 Baseball’s Kendall Rogers first reported the news.

Texas and Oklahoma are set to join the SEC in 2024, notably for the school’s first football seasons. With baseball entirely set during the spring semester, this new conference scheduling model will begin during the 2025 season.

Basically, it means a lot of conference games and a division realignment.

“SOURCES: Beginning in 2025 with the addition of Texas and OU, the SEC will move to a regular season schedule that will include two series each year against permanent opponents and eight series against rotating opponents for 30 games,” Rogers wrote on Twitter. “The SEC also will go to a single division.”

The SEC announced this is for multiple sports. In addition to baseball, gymnastics, swimming & diving, indoor track & field and volleyball all have changes.

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Texas and Oklahoma reached an agreement with the Big 12 to leave the conference for the SEC in 2024, the Big 12 announced last month.

As a result of the agreement, the two teams will owe a combined $100 million to the Big 12, and much of that figure will go to the eight legacy universities to help account for an expected decrease in revenue in 2024.

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