With all of Texas and Oklahoma’s athletic programs set to join the Southeastern Conference during the 2024-25 athletic calendar, like football and every other sport, the SEC was forced to shuffle around its baseball scheduling format.

As announced Thursday morning, SEC baseball programs will play a three-game series against a pair of permanent opponents, as well as three-game series against eight rotating conference opponents beginning in 2025. Meanwhile, standings will be kept in a single-division format, eliminating the SEC’s previous East and West divisions.

When figuring a team’s permanent opponents, the SEC weighed geography, traditional opponents and strength of schedule.

In the case of head coach Butch Thompson and the Auburn baseball program, the Tigers draw in-state rival Alabama and bordering rival Georgia as their permanent SEC opponents, the league announced Thursday morning.

Between their meeting in 1994 and their most recent meeting last spring, the Crimson Tide hold a 60-51 series advantage over the Tigers, with the Auburn on a three-game skid.

Meanwhile, Auburn holds the advantage over Georgia with a 42-30 record between 1994 and the programs’ last meeting in March of this year, when the Tigers won the series 2-1, but lost the series finale.

The rest of the league’s permanent opponent designations are as follows:

Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee

Arkansas: Ole Miss, Missouri

Auburn: Alabama, Georgia

Florida: Georgia, South Carolina

Georgia: Florida, Auburn

Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt

LSU: Mississippi State, Texas A&M

Ole Miss: Mississippi State, Arkansas

Mississippi State: Ole Miss, LSU

Missouri: Oklahoma, Arkansas

Oklahoma: Missouri, Texas

South Carolina: Kentucky, Florida

Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Alabama

Texas: Texas A&M, Oklahoma

Texas A&M: Texas, LSU

Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky