The SEC has announced its football scheduling format and list of in-conference opponents for the 2025 season.

In essence, teams will play the same eight in-conference opponents as they will in the 2024 campaign. However, home games in 2024 will become away contests in 2025, and vice versa.

For example, Alabama is hosting LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Vanderbilt in 2025 after visiting those four schools in 2024. The Crimson Tide will welcome Auburn, Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina into Tuscaloosa this season but visit them in 2025.

In addition, teams must play one required opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or major independent.

"We continue to monitor changes across college sports as they relate to future scheduling," SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a press release.

"Continuing with our current format for the 2025 season provides additional time to understand the impact of the changes happening around us as we determine the appropriate long-term plan for SEC football scheduling."

Per the press release, dates for the 2025 slate "will be announced at a later time."

The SEC is moving to 16 teams in 2024 with the additions of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12. The conference is doing away with divisions, so the top two teams in the standings will now head to the SEC Championship Game.

These changes come at a time of seismic shifts in the college football landscape. Of note, the College Football Playoff is moving to 12 teams from four, opening up more postseason spots for the SEC.

If college football had a 12-team playoff last year, then four SEC teams (Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ole Miss) would have made it, with another one (LSU, at No. 13) coming up just short.

So these SEC slates bring in added importance now. A late-season clash between two SEC teams hovering around the Top 10 or 15, for instance, now could be a de facto play-in to be an at-large team in the CFP.

Ultimately, the SEC will be the premier college football conference to watch, as a host of teams jostle for position. Teams will kick off the 2024 schedule on Aug. 31.