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re: SEC announces nine game conference schedule starting in 2026
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:21 pm to AHM21
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:21 pm to AHM21
Alabama will certainly have Auburn and Tennessee as permanent.
The third game will either be LSU or Mississippi State depending on how things shake out in building out other school's rivals.
The third game will either be LSU or Mississippi State depending on how things shake out in building out other school's rivals.
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Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:21 pm to AHM21
I'm for it. I just hope our administration doesn't take the chickens hit approach and use it as a pretense to drop the Louisville game. Sack up CAYTS
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:21 pm to TigerLunatik
Only pussies are mad about this
Dont yall remember how awesome the Covid year was where every week it was 2/3 banger matchups?
You cant say with a straight face you'd prefer a late Nov night game against Mercer than another SEC team
Dont yall remember how awesome the Covid year was where every week it was 2/3 banger matchups?
You cant say with a straight face you'd prefer a late Nov night game against Mercer than another SEC team
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:22 pm to AHM21
B1G is a 2 team league. They will get more participants in the payoffs.
I hope LSU doesn't lose Bama as a permanent.
I hope LSU doesn't lose Bama as a permanent.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:22 pm to AHM21
Interested to see if LSU-Bama is kept every year
Since Saban got this plan shut down a few years ago over LSU being put as Bama's 3rd annual opponent
Since Saban got this plan shut down a few years ago over LSU being put as Bama's 3rd annual opponent
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:22 pm to bulldawger
LSU- Ole Miss, Alabama, Temu Ags (although I would strongly prefer Florida or Auburn, I see what’s coming)
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:23 pm to AHM21
aggy so mad now
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:23 pm to UnluckyTiger
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They couldn’t announce the rivalries already? wtf sec so lazy and just taking their sweet time
They may not have them finalized. Last time they wanted the top half of the SEC to have a harder 3 permanent opponents, but that could leave some teams with really hard 3. I think Bama had LSU, Auburn, and Tenn. Ole Miss was considered a "bottom half" team meaning they got a much easier 3 which is kind of unfair since they are much better lately.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:25 pm to AHM21
The Playing three annual opponents tidbit is what I am interested to find out. Cant let the blue bloods like Bama, UGA, Auburn, etc have too easy of schedules.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:25 pm to PurpleSingularity
We better keep Florida or clamdip will wrekt shite.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:25 pm to AHM21
Alabama has two P4 opponents booked each season for the next decade or so. Curious if we keep that with 9 SEC games, especially if the committee keeps showing it cares more about win total than win quality. I hope we do.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:26 pm to PurpleSingularity
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LSU- Ole Miss, Alabama, Temu Ags
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I would strongly prefer Florida or Auburn, I see what’s coming)
Nah we need someone putting Ole Miss back into their place.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:26 pm to AHM21
That's awesome! The schedules have been out of balance ever since the conference expanded in 2012. Now we're going back to the way it was before, where each school plays the whole conference within two years, and every Senior had a chance to play each school home & away. This is great for the fans that like to travel to away games. No more going 12 years in between visiting an away stadium. Finally, the SEC office made a great decision. 
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:26 pm to AHM21
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:26 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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LSU - nobody considers LSU as their biggest rival, so who the frick knows
Arkansas, Ole Miss and Alabama I'd guess.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:27 pm to MillerLiteTime
They added a stipulation that every SEC school must schedule a P4/Notre Dame every season OOC.
Which I'm glad...keeps the Louisville game intact for us.
Which I'm glad...keeps the Louisville game intact for us.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:27 pm to AHM21
I suspect this may be the end of SEC / ACC rivalries every year like UGA/GT, UF/FSU (that one may be required by state law?) USC/Clemson and UK/Louisville. May get iterations every few years at a neutral site but annual tilts against CFP programs with a pulse outside of 8 SEC teams is probably too much annually. GT is already playing the UGA/GT game at a neutral site and making a pile more money doing so than playing it on campus so its not in UGAs interest to do that every other year going forward anyway. If it does continue in conference rivalries at neutral sites like the cocktail party and the shootout may go away. 9 conference games is probably the right thing to do but its going to have to come at a cost somewhere.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:28 pm to AHM21
Hope they fix the number of teams you play that are coming off of bye weeks fairly.
They haven't in the past.
They haven't in the past.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:28 pm to dallastiger55
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the Covid year was where every week it was 2/3 banger matchups?
I remember a few scrimmages.
No real games during covid year though….
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
The should reveal the pussy schools who opposed a 9 game schedule.
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