Overview

• Beginning in 2026, each SEC team will play nine league games with three annual opponents and six rotating foes, ensuring every matchup occurs at least once every two years and home-and-away over four.
• Reported annual trios include Texas facing Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Arkansas; Auburn keeping Alabama and Georgia with Vanderbilt added; and Tennessee drawing Alabama, Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
• Alabama will no longer play LSU every season, with its three set as Auburn, Tennessee and Mississippi State, while LSU’s trio is Arkansas, Ole Miss and Texas A&M.
• Florida–Tennessee is also off the yearly slate in the initial cycle, with Florida paired with Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina.
• SEC officials used recent combined records, including Big 12 data for Texas and Oklahoma, to balance assignments that will be reviewed after 2029, and the format retains a requirement to schedule a nonconference Power-4 or Notre Dame opponent each year.