The SEC is set to reveal its nine-game schedule for all conference teams in football for the 2026 season on Tuesday. It's entirely new territory for the league, as it transitions from an eight-game slate alongside fellow Power Four conferences like the Big Ten and the Big 12.
As part of the new model, all 16 teams will have three protected rivals, referred to in this instance as "annual opponents." But those three opponents will be reviewed every four years, which opens the door for further scheduling changes in 2030 and beyond.
It's already known that traditional showdowns like the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma , the Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn and the Egg Bowl between Ole Miss and Mississippi State , among others, will be sticking around. But the