COLUMBIA, S.C. —

Beginning with the 2026 football season, South Carolina will play Florida, Georgia and Kentucky each year for the next four seasons as part of the Southeastern Conference’s nine-game schedule format, announced Tuesday by the league office.

The Gamecocks will play the three annual opponents, and the remaining six conference games each year will rotate among the remaining SEC schools from 2026-29. In the new format, South Carolina will play every SEC school at least once every two years, and every opponent home and away over four years.

For 2026 season, in alphabetical order, the Gamecocks will host Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas A&M and travel to Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma.

The schedule in 2027, in alphabetical order, has Carolina

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