Coach Saban believes in playing an all Power 5 schedule against SEC teams and some from the other top conferences.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference announced last week that the league will play an eight-game conference schedule and eliminate the traditional East and West divisions for the 2024 season.
While at a Habitat For Humanity house dedication in Tuscaloosa, Alabama head coach Nick Saban said he believes “there’s good and bad” with sticking to the eight-game SEC schedule for now. “There are some issues going to nine games in terms of the future schedules we’ve put together in terms of trying to play two Power 5 schools each year to go along with the SEC schedule,” Saban told WBRC. “So, I think eventually we’ll move to more involvement in SEC games. But, I think this has happened so quickly, it was really hard to make changes that fast.”
The decision on the 2024 season comes as the conference has been working to decide how to handle the additions of“We have been engaged in planning for the entry of Oklahoma and Texas into the SEC since the summer of 2021, but the change of the membership date from 2025 to 2024 creates scheduling complexities that can better be managed with a one-year schedule,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in
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