STARKVILLE — The 2024 Southeastern Conference football season begins a new era, with new teams in Oklahoma and Texas and a new league schedule format without divisions.
The conference voted at this month’s SEC Spring Meetings to keep an eight-game league schedule for the 2024 season, with opponents being selected based on traditional rivalries as well as “fairness and balance.”
For MSU it meant its annual Egg Bowl rivalry against Ole Miss would remain on the schedule, along with its four non-conference games against Eastern Kentucky, Utah State, Massachusetts and at Arizona State.
With Wednesday night’s schedule reveal, the rest of the Bulldogs’ schedule was finally known.
Here is the full list of Mississippi State’s home and away opponents for 2024:
HOME: Eastern Kentucky, Utah State, Massachusetts, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri
AWAY: Arizona State, Ole Miss, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas
NOTES
- Texas and MSU haven’t played since 1999 at the Cotton Bowl. The Bulldogs haven’t been to Austin since 1992.
- Alabama and MSU had met every year since 1948.
- Arkansas and MSU have played every year since 1992 with the Bulldogs winning four of the past six matchups.
- Auburn and MSU had played every since 1955.
- LSU and MSU had played every year since 1944.
- Texas A&M and MSU have played every year since 2012 with the Bulldogs winning the last two matchups.
- Florida and MSU haven’t played since 2018 with the Gators winning the most recent matchup. It will be Florida’s first trip to Starkville since 2018.
- Georgia and MSU last played in 2022 in Starkville with Georgia winning the last four overall matchups. MSU hasn’t been to Athens since 2020.
- Kentucky and MSU had played every year since 1990, with MSU winning last year’s matchup.
- Missouri and MSU haven’t played since 2020 with the Bulldogs winning the last two matchups. The Bulldogs haven’t been to Columbia since 2015.
- Tennessee and MSU haven’t played since 2019. The Bulldogs haven’t been to Knoxville since 2019.
Justin Frommer is the Mississippi State sports reporter for The Dispatch.
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