Listen Now! Podcast breaks down what occurred at the 2023 SEC spring meetings in Destin

If you think the 2023 college football season is going to be great, just wait until 2024.

That’s when Texas and Oklahoma will officially join the Southeastern Conference.

However, many questions remain unanswered as the SEC gets ready to become a 16-team super conference.

Scheduling is foremost among them.

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Under the current format, SEC teams play eight games against conference opponents.

However, with a 16-team league, the idea has been to expand that to nine in-conference games.

Each team would play three annual opponents while rotating the other six games.

Is that going to happen? After hearing what athletic directors and coaches had to say at this week at the SEC spring meetings, probably not — at least in the near-term.

It’s just one of the topics that was tackled this week at the meetings held in Destin, Florida.

There were also many other topics discussed.

What were they?

Kevin Brockway, the Florida Gators beat writer for the Gainesville Sun, was in Destin to cover the meetings, and he joins “The *State* of Florida Sports Podcast” to discuss what he’s heard.

Among other topics, Kevin will discuss how all of this will affect the Gators.

Kevin will also talk about the issue of fans storming the fields and courts after games.

Alabama players had a hard time getting off the football field when Tennessee fans stormed it after the Volunteers upset the Crimson Tide in 2022.

There have also been issues with crazed fans harassing opposing basketball teams after victories.

Could a home team potentially lose a home game if its fans storm the field?

There were plenty of other topics of interest such as gambling and so much more.

If you’d like to hear them all, you have to tune in to hear what Kevin has to say.

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