AUSTIN, Texas — With the newly expanded College Football Playoff underway, Netflix is stepping onto the gridiron with a new documentary series following one of the top conferences in the NCAA. 

What You Need To Know

  • The series will follow multiple SEC football teams as they battle through the 2024 season and will feature eight 45-minute episodes

  • According to reporting from The Athletic, the SEC gave all 16 teams the option to participate in the series and only 10 teams opted in. The teams that opted out were Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Ole Miss

  • The series is expected to drop on Netflix next summer

The streaming giant announced this week that it is producing a series on college football’s “most dominant conference, the Southeastern Conference (SEC).”

The series will follow multiple SEC football teams as they battle through the 2024 season and will feature eight 45-minute episodes. 

In an article from Tudum, Netflix’s news website, the series is described as allowing college football fans to “gain unprecedented access to the players and coaches that make their favorite (and rival) teams forces to be reckoned with.”

“This behind-the-scenes docuseries will bring all the drama and pageantry of Southeastern Conference Football to a worldwide Netflix audience,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in a news release. “Football in the SEC will be presented in a way never seen before through the elite storytelling skills of Box To Box, the content studio that has produced numerous award-winning Netflix docuseries. We are excited about this new delivery of content for SEC fans everywhere.”

But not all teams wanted to be a part of the docuseries. According to reporting from The Athletic, the SEC gave all 16 teams the option to participate in the series and only 10 teams opted in. The teams that opted out were Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Ole Miss. 

Fortunately, Texas A&M will be featured, so Texas fans may get to relive the return of the Lone Star Showdown in the series. 

The series is expected to drop on Netflix next summer. 

And that’s not the only Texas football docuseries to be dropping on Netflix soon. “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” was renewed for a second season and Netflix announced a new 10-episode documentary on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.”

Netflix is also diving into the NFL world this holiday season by streaming two Christmas Day games, the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens vs. the Houston Texans. Houston native Beyoncé will perform during halftime of the Texans-Ravens matchup.