The SEC is defined Tuesday to publish its new calendar of nine games for 2026, which will start a redesign of how the calendar traditionally works.
The biggest mystery oscillating on the new calendar of nine games, which will be officially published at 7 p.m. on Tuesday (TV: SEC Network / ESPN2), is the three repeated opponents, who are set up for the next four seasons, sources told ESPN.
Repeated opponents are balanced by the teams playing each opponent of the League every two years, to a big cry from the former DIA Divisional Game when the teams could spend six seasons without playing.
Repeated opponents are as follows:
• Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State
• Arkansa: LSU, Texas, Missouri
• Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, Vanderbilt
• Georgia: Auburn, Florida, South Carolina
• Florida: Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina
• Kentucky: Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee
• LSU: Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Arkansas
• Mississippi state: Alabama, Ole Miss, Vanderbil
• Missouri: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A & M
• Oklahola: Missouri, Ole Miss, Texas
• Ole Miss: LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma
• South Carolina: Georgia, Florida, Kentucky
• Tennessee: Alabama, Kentucky, Vanderbilt
• Texas: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A & M
• Texas A & M: LSU, Missouri, Texas
• Vanderbilt: Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennessee
SEC managers have designed the calendar by honoring both traditional rivalries for a long time – such as Georgia -Florid, for example – and the attempt to balance the schedules as best as possible.
The general format of the new calendar includes nine championship games – three annual opponents, six adversaries in rotation and an annual power / opponent of Notre Dame. In addition to playing each league team in a period of two years, the SEC teams will visit each site during the four -year period.
The records of the recordings used by the dry to calculate how the creation teams came from a combined league record of the last four years. Ole Miss, for example, finished fourth among the 16 dry teams in this time and Auburn finished 14th. Oklahoma and Texas transported three seasons from Big 12 to data.
The schedules will be built with a clean slate for the next four years, which means that there could be hiccups, such as repeated games from last year. Some of the matches could also be awarded to the unbalanced calendar – five home games and four road games or vice versa. A priority for balance was given to the teams for 2026 because they are more likely to obtain five home games if he had an electric conference match on the road.
