The SEC is going to look quite a bit different once Texas and Oklahoma join the conference, which is tentatively set to happen in 2025. It will become a 16-team league, meaning some changes are going to happen.

That includes with scheduling, as there will be fewer opportunities for schools to play teams from the other division. But there’s also going to be fresh, exciting matchups including the Longhorns and Sooners.

On Friday, Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin discussed the impact of the SEC’s expansion on scheduling during an appearance on “The Paul Finebaum Show.” And Stricklin believes the addition of 2 new schools is only going to make things better in that regard.

“I think it’s an opportunity. In some ways, I think scheduling 16 teams is maybe easier than 14 for the very fact that you can divide 16 evenly more often than you can 14,” Stricklin said on the show. “But I also think it’s going to force our hand to create more rotation, which means you’re going to have fewer permanent matchups.

“Right now, of our 8 conference games, 7 of them are the same every year. That creates staleness in our scheduling, and as great as the SEC is, as special as the 14 schools — soon to be 16 schools — are, that’s an opportunity for us to figure out how to have fewer permanents, but more rotation so we end up seeing everyone else more often. And create more of these kinds of opportunities.

“You think about some of the great matchups, I know you guys have talked about it, but once Texas and Oklahoma come in the league, could you see, you’re obviously going to see Alabama and Texas, and Oklahoma and Florida, and Georgia and Texas. But then, if we can create more rotation, you’ll see more Florida-Alabama and Tennessee-Auburn and some of those games that have meant a lot in the history of our league that we just don’t see very often these days.”

Change is coming in the SEC, and it’s only a few years away.