New SEC Announces Major Kickoff Times For Fall, So You May Schedule Weddings Now

Brides and grooms and their families throughout the South and beyond can now schedule weddings for the fall with a little more knowledge of kickoff times in the Southeastern Conference.

In addition to adding Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC, the league is also announcing more exact times and time windows for kickoffs in its new scheduling format. All kickoff times below are eastern. 

The first-ever SEC edition of the Red River Rivalry game in Dallas, Texas, between Texas and Oklahoma will be on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 3:30 p.m. on ABC or ESPN. Another huge game is also set. Georgia will play at Alabama on Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m. on ABC in a rematch of the SEC Championship Game last season in which Alabama took Georgia's spot in the College Football Playoff.

Georgia quarterback Carson Beck drops back to pass against Alabama last season in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. (USA TODAY Sports)

The first big game of the season will be Clemson versus Georgia in Atlanta on Saturday, Aug. 31, at noon on ABC. On that first Saturday of the season, Notre Dame will be at Texas A&M with new coach Mike Elko in prime time (7:30 p.m., ABC).

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On that Sunday, Sept. 1, USC will play LSU in Las Vegas (7:30 p.m., ABC) in a game time that was previously announced.

Another huge game will be on Saturday, Sept. 7, with a match-up of defending national champion Michigan and Texas, which reached the CFP Final Four team last season, in FOX's Big Noon Kickoff. The prime time game that night will pit Tennessee at North Carolina State (7:30 p.m., ABC). The Sept. 14 Big Noon Kickoff on FOX will feature Alabama at Wisconsin. 

"New this year is the debut of a new scheduling format for SEC games across all ESPN platforms, with the opportunity for teams and fans to know approximate start times for the entire season," the SEC's release said Thursday afternoon as the conference office wrapped up its annual SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Florida.

Those eastern time windows will be the early games starting between noon and 1 p.m., the afternoon slot between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. and night games kicking off between 6 and 8 p.m. 

Those windows approximations "will be announced for all remaining SEC-controlled games" on June 11, the SEC said.

"Select games will be tagged as Flex games between the afternoon and night windows," the league office stated.

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