It is 14 months until the Alabama Football 2024 season. Perceptions of 2024 schedules will change enough that whatever assessment is made now is temporary. Reputations of teams will rise and fall during the 2023 season. The changes will be significant enough, that currently ranking the schedule toughness for every SEC team seems almost pointless.
What we can do is look at SEC teams in terms of tiers, with the highest tier designating what teams appear to have the easiest paths to the SEC Championship. For discussion purposes, let’s define the top tier of SEC teams as Georgia, LSU, Texas, Tennessee, and, of course, the Alabama Crimson Tide.