The 2024 schedule is coming together, not just with date adjustments but some newly announced kickoff times and TV info for the early weeks of the upcoming season. Thursday afternoon saw a collection of announcements from all four major conferences, which included some notable changes to a couple historic rivalries. and move to the SEC is one of the big storylines of the 2024 season, and while each team's conference schedule is undergoing a major facelift, their annual rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl remains.
What will be different for the first SEC-based edition of the Red River Rivalry will be the time; the league announced Texas-Oklahoma will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.
m. local). It's only the second time in the last 14 seasons the Red River Rivalry has not started at Noon ET, with the only other instance coming in 2017, a 29-24 Sooners win.
The SEC is where we find another big change from recent tradition as the Egg Bowl between and is going to move to Black Friday, Nov. 29, with a 3:30 p.m.
ET start. According to 247Sports, the Egg Bowl has been played on Thanksgiving 23 times since 1998, including every year since 2017. The game has been played on Black Friday before, like it was recently in 2008, but for many college football fans the rivalry had taken on as traditional a spot in the Thanksgiving routine as turkey or dressing.
But most of the games announced on Thursday across the power conferences were focused on the first weeks of the season. That includes a ta.
