The 2026 SEC football schedule was officially announced on Wednesday. Conference play kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 12 with Alabama at Kentucky.
The 2026 season will be the first for the league with a nine-game conference football schedule format. Each SEC team will also play three non-conference opponents, and one of those opponents is still required to be from a power conference or Notre Dame.
The top two teams in the overall standings will meet in the 2026 SEC Championship Game, which is set for Saturday, Dec. 5 and will be televised by ABC.
Featured non-conference match-ups for each SEC team in 2026 include Florida State at Alabama, Arkansas at Utah, Auburn vs. Baylor (in Atlanta), Florida at Florida State, Georgia Tech at Georgia, Louisville at Kentucky, Clemson at LSU, Mississippi State at Minnesota, Missouri at Kansas, Oklahoma at Michigan, Ole Miss vs. Louisville (in Nashville), South Carolina at Clemson, Tennessee at Georgia Tech, Ohio State at Texas, Arizona State at Texas A&M, and NC State at Vanderbilt.
2026 SEC Football Schedules
- 2026 Alabama Football Schedule
- 2026 Arkansas Football Schedule
- 2026 Auburn Football Schedule
- 2026 Florida Football Schedule
- 2026 Georgia Football Schedule
- 2026 Kentucky Football Schedule
- 2026 LSU Football Schedule
- 2026 Mississippi State Football Schedule
- 2026 Missouri Football Schedule
- 2026 Oklahoma Football Schedule
- 2026 Ole Miss Football Schedule
- 2026 South Carolina Football Schedule
- 2026 Tennessee Football Schedule
- 2026 Texas Football Schedule
- 2026 Texas A&M Football Schedule
- 2026 Vanderbilt Football Schedule
2026 SEC Football Schedule
Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026
East Carolina at Alabama
North Alabama at Arkansas
Baylor vs. Auburn (Atlanta)
Florida Atlantic at Florida
Tennessee State at Georgia
Youngstown State at Kentucky
Clemson at LSU
Louisville vs. Ole Miss (Nashville)*
ULM at Mississippi State
Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Missouri
Texas-El Paso at Oklahoma
Kent State at South Carolina
Furman at Tennessee
Texas State at Texas
Missouri State at Texas A&M
Austin Peay at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026
Arkansas at Utah
Southern Miss at Auburn
Campbell at Florida
Western Kentucky at Georgia
Alabama at Kentucky
Louisiana Tech at LSU
Charlotte at Ole Miss
Mississippi State at Minnesota
Missouri at Kansas
Oklahoma at Michigan
Towson at South Carolina
Tennessee at Georgia Tech
Ohio State at Texas
Arizona State at Texas A&M
Delaware at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026
Florida State at Alabama
Georgia at Arkansas
Florida at Auburn
LSU at Ole Miss
Troy at Missouri
New Mexico at Oklahoma
Mississippi State at South Carolina
Kennesaw State at Tennessee
UTSA at Texas
Kentucky at Texas A&M
North Carolina State at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026
South Carolina at Alabama
Tulsa at Arkansas
Vanderbilt at Auburn
Ole Miss at Florida
Oklahoma at Georgia
South Alabama at Kentucky
Texas A&M at LSU
Missouri at Mississippi State
Texas at Tennessee
Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026
Vanderbilt at Georgia
McNeese State at LSU
Alabama at Mississippi State
Florida at Missouri
Kentucky at South Carolina
Auburn at Tennessee
Arkansas at Texas A&M
Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026
Georgia at Alabama
Tennessee at Arkansas
South Carolina at Florida
LSU at Kentucky
Texas A&M at Missouri
Texas vs. Oklahoma (Dallas)
Ole Miss at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026
Auburn at Georgia
Mississippi State at LSU
Missouri at Ole Miss
Kentucky at Oklahoma
Alabama at Tennessee
Florida at Texas
Citadel at Texas A&M
Arkansas at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026
Texas A&M at Alabama
LSU at Auburn
Vanderbilt at Kentucky
Oklahoma at Mississippi State
Tennessee at South Carolina
Ole Miss at Texas
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026
Missouri at Arkansas
Florida vs. Georgia (Atlanta)
Auburn at Ole Miss
South Carolina at Oklahoma
Mississippi State at Texas
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026
Arkansas at Auburn
Oklahoma at Florida
Alabama at LSU
Georgia at Ole Miss
Vanderbilt at Mississippi State
Texas at Missouri
Texas A&M at South Carolina
Kentucky at Tennessee
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026
South Carolina at Arkansas
Missouri at Georgia
Florida at Kentucky
Texas at LSU
Auburn at Mississippi State
Ole Miss at Oklahoma
Tennessee at Texas A&M
Alabama at Vanderbilt
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2026
Chattanooga at Alabama
Samford at Auburn
Vanderbilt at Florida
Wofford at Ole Miss
Tennessee Tech at Mississippi State
Kentucky at Missouri
Texas A&M at Oklahoma
Georgia at South Carolina
LSU at Tennessee
Arkansas at Texas
Friday, Nov. 27, 2026
Texas at Texas A&M
Saturday, Nov. 28, 2026
Auburn at Alabama
LSU at Arkansas
Florida at Florida State
Georgia Tech at Georgia
Louisville at Kentucky
Mississippi State at Ole Miss
Oklahoma at Missouri
South Carolina at Clemson
Tennessee at Vanderbilt
The Thanksgiving weekend schedule is just as I predicted.
However, the Lone Star Showdown should be on Thanksgiving night, like it used to be very often, as the headliner of a tripleheader of CFB games on ABC that day, as part of an effort by CFB to compete more heavily with the NFL on Thanksgiving Day as retaliation for the NFL intruding on Black Friday, which previously belonged exclusively to amateur football.
Texas-Texas A&M would get killed in the TV ratings by the NFL. The NFL is the one sport that college football just can’t compete against, and ESPN knows that. They will put an American Conference game on Thanksgiving night just for the people that will watch any college football over the NFL, but that’s it. They are not going to pick a fight with the NFL.
Black Friday is still relatively safe ground because the NFL can only stream games on Fridays until mid-December. The last thing college football wants to do is tick off the NFL and have them start lobbying congress to change the law.
Do not want to do this to you Z-Man ABC would show regularly scheduled programs on black Friday if games were played on actual Thanksgiving & remember networks have restrictions on televising CFB on Thanksgiving weekend.
CFB is extremely important on Black Friday buddy.
Also, Z-Man please be focus CFB on Thanksgiving weekend & do not be concerned about NFL they have their own business.
An SEC game was on Thanksgiving night as recently as 2023.
SEC prefer play on Black Friday than Thanksgiving evening.
NFL still rules on Thanksgiving Z-Man favor or opposed.
I really want ABC to show Harvard-Yale from Fenway Park at Noon followed by two SEC games at 3:30PM & 7:30PM 11/21/26.
Excellent to see SEC improving on having more conference games on next to last weekend of regular season.
I don’t
Illininoles97 This is just a suggestion & it would be very nice that Harvard-Yale would be on Over The Air Television like ABC.
Traditional noon kickoff is most important part of Harvard-Yale similar to Michigan-Ohio State.
Furthermore, I do not expect whole nation to watch Harvard-Yale however it worth to take a try to have it on ABC & if CFB fans want to watch other games at noon time slot that will be excellent with me for example Ohio State at Nebraska on FOX, Kentucky at Missouri on ESPN, Houston at Texas Tech on ESPN2 or Syracuse at Boston College on CW.
To everybody this is only a mock schedule & I do respect conferences & networks deciding games in 7–12-day window.
Texas will come to Baton Rouge to face LSU in 2026.
Finally, Georgia will play Oklahoma week 4 & they were supposed to play a few years ago before Oklahoma became an SEC member.