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SEC football has been all about change recently. Divisional play will fade into history next season when the conference morphs into one big 16-team league with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma.
But Tennessee fans still can find familiarity in UT’s 2024 schedule. The dates and opponents on each SEC team’s schedule were announced Wednesday night on ESPN.
UT’s high-value games aren’t much different from the ones of 2023. The Vols will play longtime nemeses Alabama (Oct. 19) and Georgia (Nov. 16), which — barring cataclysmic occurrences — again should be in the running for the national championship.
Oklahoma is a new threat. But when viewed through a ’23 lens, it doesn’t look much different from Missouri, which drubbed the Vols 36-7 on the way to a 10-2 regular season that no one saw coming.
The Vols likely will be an underdog when they play Sept. 21 in Norman, Oklahoma. On the plus side, they won’t have to deal with quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who has transferred to Oregon and will be replaced by former five-star recruit Jackson Arnold. Tennessee fans can size up Arnold against Arizona in the Alamo Bowl.
The nonconference schedule will be accommodating, though not as favorable as this past season when the Vols received virtually no resistance in four games. N.C. State in Charlotte on Sept. 7 surely will be more threatening than Virginia in Nashville was this season.
Former SEC East rivals Kentucky (Nov. 2) and Vanderbilt (Nov. 30), who have a long history of showing up in UT’s win column, again should be manageable. The Vols should benefit from losing Texas A&M and gaining Mississippi State (Nov. 9). South Carolina is off the schedule, but Arkansas (Oct. 5) is of similar caliber. Both of them could be incompetent enough to get their coaches fired next season.
You could say the same for the Florida…
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Author : Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Publish date : 2023-12-14 01:27:57
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