SEC finally releases its 2014 football schedule

By David Paschall August 22, 2013 3 min read

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The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday finally released its 2014 football schedule, which will open with South Carolina hosting Texas A&M on a Thursday night SEC Network telecast.

South Carolina and Texas A&M will become permanent cross-divisional opponents next year, as will Arkansas and Missouri. The Razorbacks and Tigers are scheduled to play on the final Saturday of the 2014 regular season.

The rotating cross-divisional pairings for 2014 are Florida at Alabama, Georgia at Arkansas, Tennessee at Ole Miss, South Carolina at Auburn, Kentucky at LSU, Missouri at Texas A&M and Vanderbilt at Mississippi State.

“This might have been the most difficult schedule for the SEC to complete since the beginning of the league,” Vanderbilt athletic director David Williams said. “There were many obstacles to overcome with Missouri and Texas A&M still being worked into the rotation and the launch next August of the SEC Network.”

The absence of an Alabama-Georgia pairing next year means that the two teams that vied for last December’s SEC championship will have at least a six-year gap between regular-season meetings. The last such matchup between the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs occurred in 2008.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.