Florida's SEC opponents revealed for 2025-26 season
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators learned their opponent home and away designations for SEC play during the 2025-26 season on Wednesday. The matchups were announced by the league office.
The Gators will face Kentucky twice next season as their rotational two-game series in addition to their annual permanent home and away series with Georgia and South Carolina under the current scheduling format.
Tennessee is no longer assigned as UF’s rotating two-game series and the Gators will host the lone regular season meeting this season vs. the Vols. Florida also hosts Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU and Mississippi State.
Seven of Florida’s nine home SEC opponents were NCAA Tournament teams. UF travels to Texas for the first time since 1997 and Oklahoma for the third time (Jan. 2017, Dec. 2021) along with Ole Miss, Missouri, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.
2025-26 SEC opponent breakdown
Home and away: Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina
Home only: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee
Away only: Ole Miss, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
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Florida’s non-conference opponents
In addition to the SEC slate ahead, Florida has already announced a visit to Duke (ACC-SEC Challenge), neutral site games vs. Arizona (Las Vegas), UConn (New York) and a Thanksgiving tournament field of Providence, TCU and Wisconsin (San Diego). In addition to hosting Florida State in the annual rivalry, UF will also reportedly play Miami, George Washington and North Florida next season.
Nov. 3: Arizona — Hall of Fame Series (Las Vegas)
Nov. 6: North Florida
Nov. 11: Florida State
Nov. 16: Miami (Jacksonville)
Nov. 27-28: Providence/TCU/Wisconsin — Rady Children’s Invitational (San Diego)
Dec. 2: at Duke — ACC/SEC Challenge
Dec. 9: UConn — Jimmy V Classic (New York)
Dec. 13: George Washington University — Orange Bowl Classic
Todd Golden on non-conference play
“Well, a lot of people talked about us not having it strong enough out of conference last year. That won’t be this year. And again, like, I think you get these opportunities when somebody calls and wants your team to come play on opening night against Arizona in a showcase game in Vegas, that’s a compliment. You gotta really evaluate that, so we want to do that. Same thing with the opportunity to play UConn. We’re not going to turn down an opportunity to play in Madison Square Garden on ESPN against one of the best programs in America. And we took it as a huge compliment that they put us against Duke in the SEC/ACC challenge. Obviously, Duke is the marquee program in the ACC right now. It’s not close. And for us to be picked to go play there, we take that as another huge compliment. So it’s a challenge, all three of those games are going to be incredibly difficult. We have other really challenging non-conference games as well. But there’s different ways to do it. Last year, we went 13-0 in non-conference. I’m not sure we’ll be able to do that this year. But we can still have a really, really successful non-conference because of the level of opponents that we have.”
