Tennessee AD Danny White issues statement on Oklahoma home-and-home series cancellation

Danny White has come in with a statement after the SEC directed Tennessee and Georgia not to play their agreed home vs. home series against Oklahoma.

Oklahoma and Texas will join the SEC before the start of the 2025 season, the Sooners were originally scheduled to travel to Neyland Stadium during the 2024 season.

UT was to play Oklahoma in 2020 but was canceled due to Covid. Statement from UT AD Danny White: `While we are disappointed that we won’t be hosting Oklahoma in 2024, we are extremely excited about the marquee games that Oklahoma and Texas will bring to Neyland Stadium … (2/2)

— Jimmy Hyams (@JimmyHyams) September 14, 2022

(2/2) White statement continued … `in the future as fellow members of the Southeastern Conference. In the meantime, we are actively exploring the best possible replacement opponents for 2024.”

— Jimmy Hyams (@JimmyHyams) September 14, 2022

It seems easy to assume that Oklahoma will make that trip to Tennessee in 2025 or 2026 as a conference opponent, but none of the future conference schedules have been released yet.

While Tennessee searches for a 2024 opponent, Georgia has already announced a replacement for its scheduled game against Oklahoma in 2023.