SEC Announces 2026-29 Football Opponents

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The Southeastern Conference announced its new nine-game conference schedule for the 2026-29 seasons on SEC Network Tuesday night. Each school is slated to play three annual opponents and each team’s remaining six games will rotate among the remaining conference schools.

The Wildcats’ three annual opponents will be Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.  Each school will play the remaining 12 schools twice – once at home and once away – during the 2026-29 period.  The annual opponents will be re-evaluated for the next scheduling cycle beginning in 2030.

2026

FLORIDA

@ South Carolina

@ Tennessee

ALABAMA

LSU

VANDERBILT

@ Missouri

@ Texas A&M

@ Oklahoma

2027

@ Florida

SOUTH CAROLINA

TENNESSEE

AUBURN

GEORGIA

MISSISSIPPI STATE

@ Arkansas

@ Ole Miss

@ Texas

2028

FLORIDA

@ South Carolina

@ Tennessee

MISSOURI

TEXAS A&M

OKLAHOMA

@ Alabama

@  LSU

@  Vanderbilt

2029

@ Florida

SOUTH CAROLINA

TENNESSEE

ARKANSAS

OLE MISS
TEXAS

@ Auburn

@ Georgia

@ Mississippi State

Annual Opponents

• Annual opponents were determined with consideration given to traditional rivalries, competitive fairness, geography and alignment with existing non-conference home/away commitments

• Annual opponents will be evaluated after each four-year cycle to maintain continued competitive balance

Rotating Opponents

• The remaining six conference games will come from a rotating pool of the other conference teams

• The rotating schedule is designed so that a team will play every other conference opponent at least once every two years and twice (once at home and once away) over a four-year period

Balance

• With nine conference games, eight schools will play five home games each season and eight schools will play four home games

• Home/away determination was made with the intent of providing seven home games for each school while balancing existing home/away commitments to annual non-conference rivalry games.

• To meet the scheduling priorities established by the conference and its members, the 2026 conference schedule includes cases where schools play at the same venue in back-to-back years. This has occurred in the past when the SEC has changed football scheduling formats.

In addition to the conference opponents, SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season.

The complete 2026 SEC Football Schedule to include dates of games will be announced later this year.