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The SEC is acceptable connected Tuesday to merchandise its caller nine-game docket for 2026, which volition diagnostic an overhaul successful however the docket traditionally works.
The biggest enigma hovering implicit the caller nine-game docket is the 3 repetition opponents, which are acceptable successful spot for the adjacent 4 seasons, sources confirmed to ESPN.
The repetition opponents are balanced by the teams playing each league hostile each 2 years, a acold outcry from the SEC's aged divisional play erstwhile teams could spell six seasons without playing each other.
The repetition opponents are arsenic follows:
• Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State
• Arkansas: 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, Vanderbilt
• Missouri: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M
• Oklahoma: 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 officials designed the docket by some honoring accepted longstanding rivalries -- specified arsenic Georgia-Florida, for illustration -- and attempting to equilibrium schedules arsenic champion arsenic possible.
The wide format of the caller docket includes 9 league games -- 3 yearly opponents, six rotating opponents and an yearly powerfulness conference/Notre Dame opponent. Along with playing each league squad wrong a two-year span, the SEC teams volition sojourn each venue implicit the four-year span.
The look of records the SEC utilized to cipher however to slot teams came from a combined league grounds from the past 4 years. Ole Miss, for example, was fourth...
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