The Southeastern Conference wrapped up its spring meetings Friday by announcing scheduling formats for six sports once Oklahoma and Texas join the league in 2025.
Football, however, was not among them.
The SEC's presidents and chancellors approved formats for men's and women's basketball, soccer, men's and women's tennis, and softball. Whether football moves forward with an eight- or nine-game conference schedule will be determined in the weeks and months ahead.
Men's basketball teams will continue playing 18 conference games but will now have two permanent opponents, one rotating opponent home and away, and the 12 remaining foes either home or away. Having two permanent opponents will be down from the existing three, so Tennessee currently plays Kentucky, South Carolina and Vanderbilt twice every season but will play only two of those three twice starting in the 2025-26 season.
All 16 teams will play in the SEC men's tournament in a single-elimination format, with each of the top four seeds continuing to receive a double bye to the quarterfinals.
In women's basketball, every SEC team will play one permanent opponent twice plus the 14 remaining teams for a total of 16 league games. The women's conference tournament will be identical to the men's version.
Soccer will use two eight-team divisions, with each season consisting of games against every team in your division plus three cross-division foes that will rotate for 10 conference games. There will be no changes to tennis, as each school will play a single round robin against every other team in the league.
In softball, each team will play a three-game series against eight rotating opponents for a 24-game league schedule. The SEC softball tournament will remain in its current format but with two additional games.
Though no format was announced in baseball either, the league did reveal that its conference tournament would remain at Hoover Met in Hoover, Alabama, for the next two seasons.
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