Sources: SEC sets annual football opponents for next four seasons

The SEC will announce the football opponents of every league school for the next four years on Tuesday in an hour-long television special at 7 p.m. ET on the SEC Network and ESPN2.

In the new nine-team league schedule, each school will have three annual opponents that will be re-evaluated every four years and six rotational opponents, meaning each school will play every other SEC school at least once every two years and every opponent home and away in a four-year span.

The three annual opponents for each school, sources told On3, are as follows:

Alabama – Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State

Arkansas – Missouri, Texas, LSU

Auburn – Georgia, Alabama, Vanderbilt

Florida – Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky

Georgia – Auburn, Florida, South Carolina

Kentucky – South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida

LSU – Arkansas, Ole Miss, Texas A&M

Mississippi State – Ole Miss, Alabama, Vanderbilt

Missouri – Arkansas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma

Oklahoma – Texas, Ole Miss, Missouri

Ole Miss – Mississippi State, LSU, Oklahoma

South Carolina – Georgia, Kentucky, Florida

Tennessee – Alabama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky

Texas – Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma

Texas A&M – Texas, LSU, Missouri

Vanderbilt – Tennessee, Mississippi State, Auburn

The priorities in creating the schedules were protecting traditional rivalries, competitive fairness, rotational frequency and ensuring a home and away balance with a Power 4 non-conference opponent for the 2026 season.

For example, Tennessee athletic director Danny White said Saturday that the Vols will be one of the teams to get five SEC home games in 2026. Tennessee plays a non-conference game on the road next year at Georgia Tech.

The television show on Tuesday will provide matchups and sites for schools’ SEC games over the next four years. The dates of games for the 2026 season will be announced in December.

The SEC announced in August that it would begin playing a nine-game league schedule starting in 2026 after playing eight league games each year since 1992.

Adding a ninth game and using the rotational model will allow for some matchups that haven’t been played with any regularity in the regular season. Among them: Alabama vs. Georgia, Auburn vs. Florida, Auburn vs. Tennessee, LSU vs. Tennessee and Georgia vs. Texas A&M. In fact, Georgia has yet to face Texas A&M in College Station since the Aggies joined the SEC in 2012.