The much anticipated 2024 Ole Miss football season is just over three months away and the first quarter of the schedule is in full view.
On Thursday the Southeastern Conference announce kickoff times and television designations for the first three weeks of the schedule, plus Ole Miss and Mississippi State learned of the Egg Bowl’s fate this November.
Sticking with a traditional format once again, the Rebels are playing all four non-conference opponents the first four weeks of the season against Furman, Middle Tennesse, Wake Forest and Georgia Southern.
Three of those four game times are known along with where fans can watch them if not sitting at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium or Winston-Salem, North Carolina watching in person.
Season opener against the Paladins on August 31 will kickoff at 6 p.m. CT, airing on ESPN+ and SEC Network+.
The following week Ole Miss will host the Blue Raiders on September 7 with a 3:15 p.m. CT kickoff on the SEC Network.
Marking the first road trip of the season, the Rebels will play at Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium, taking on the Demon Deacons at 5:30 p.m. CT on The CW.
The Georgia Southern game plus all eight SEC games will learn their kickoff times, or kickoff windows next month. Debuting this season is a new scheduling format for SEC games across all ESPN platforms. Teams will learn all of the approximate start times for all 12 regular season games on June 11.
Television windows for early (12 a.m. to Noon CT), afternoon (2:30 to 3:30 p.m. CT) and night games (5 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT) for all remaining SEC-controlled games will be announced on that date. Select games will be tagged as ‘flex games’ between the afternoon and night windows.
Ole Miss also knows when it will end the 2024 regular season against its in-state rival.
The Battle for the Golden Egg against Mississippi State is moving off its usual Thanksgiving night time slot and getting bumped back a day.
Ole Miss and the Bulldogs will meet in Oxford on November 29 and kickoff the Egg Bowl at 2:30 p.m. CT on ABC. The game is part of a triple-header on ABC sandwiched between Oklahoma State at Colorado at 11 a.m CT and Georgia Tech at Georgia serving as the nightcap at 6:30 p.m. CT.
For the Rebels this is a compromise as fifth-year Lane Kiffin has made his thoughts known on ending the season on a shortened week after playing a SEC opponent five days earlier. Last season Ole Miss hosted ULM the Saturday before the Egg Bowl, but this year it travels to Gainesville to play Florida in the penultimate week of the season.
“I think it’s set up better this year,” Kiffin said ahead of last season’s Egg Bowl. “We were very disappointed in that setup. So, glad this year is much more equal from a setup standpoint about when we’re playing and the type of team we’re playing.”
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