As we eclipse the midway point of the 2023 SEC football season, programs and fans are still left wondering what schedules will look like in 2024 as Oklahoma and Texas join the league.

In seasons past, the SEC has released the next year’s schedule in mid- to late-September.

Obviously, now mid-October, the SEC will be a little late in releasing next year’s schedules. And according to a report from FBSchedules.com, that wait will likely extend beyond the 2023 regular season.

“According to a source with knowledge of the plan who confirmed it to FBSchedules.com, the 2024 SEC football schedule will likely be released between the end of the 2023 regular-season and the start of bowl season,” FBSchedules.com wrote Wednesday.

Considering Selection Sunday is scheduled for Dec. 3, if FBSchedule.com’s report holds true, the SEC is likely to unveil football schedules for the 2024 season anytime between Dec. 4 and Dec. 15.

A spokesperson for the SEC told AL.com Wednesday that they “would anticipate the 2024 football schedules being announced sometime in the next few months.”

The SEC unveiled opponents and locations for all 16 of its member football programs in June, in addition to other scheduling details.

During the 2024 season, which SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said will be a “one-year schedule,” SEC teams will play eight conference games and four non-conference games. Of those four non-conference games, one opponent is required to be from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or be a major independent, such as Notre Dame.

The SEC is also set to eliminate divisional standings in 2024 and instead place the top two teams in the conference standings into the SEC Championship Game.

One of the biggest questions around the new format has had to do with how it will effect rivalries within the conference.

Just recently, Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze was asked about his feelings towards the prospect of Auburn’s rivalry matchup with Georgia being nixed from the Tigers’ annual slate of games.

“I’ll miss playing Georgia every year,” Freeze said during a speaking engagement with the Monday Morning Quarterback Club in Birmingham.

Freeze’s comment initially raised some eyebrows as some wondered whether the Auburn coach knew something about future scheduling that others didn’t.

Later in the day as he stopped by another speaking engagement in Mobile, Ala., Freeze walked back the comment to clear the air.

“Let’s really clarify that,” Freeze said. “I have no clue what’s going on with future schedules and that hasn’t come to the coaches (for review) at all. What I totally meant by that was, there’s a lot of great rivalries in our conference and there’s new teams coming and I think it’s going to be an exciting brand of football for people to see Texas (and Oklahoma).”