9 SEC games, starting in 2026

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I actually like this - I know some will not and it could very easily result with no team in the conference every being undefeated again - but if you want to be the best you have to beat the best.
 
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Delmar said:
Depends on the definition of “quality” and I guess we’ll find out. Not sure who is going to define that. Should be interesting.
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If only you had read what you posted to "discuss" lol

"SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season."
 
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Voltopia said:
Now you watch. Tennessee will have to surrender one of its oldest rivalries - likely Kentucky - so big baby Bama can be happy too. "What!? They get Vanderbilt and Kentucky? That's not fair!"

That means that this -
View attachment 765850-will go away as a rivalry so those loathsome gumps will shut up about it.
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Alabama's complaint is likely going to be about if they have to match up with Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU yearly, not who Tennessee does or doesn't get.

And honestly, as a neutral fan watching it, I'd be all for Alabama-LSU not being a protected every-year game.
 
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zjcvols said:
Tennessee, Bama, Auburn, Vandy

South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky

Mississippi, Miss State, LSU, Missouri (or Arkansas)

Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Arkansas (or Missouri)
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Guys on Knoxville sports talk, now saying they think Vols 3 will be Vandy, Bama, SCarolina. (Kentucky fans won’t like this).
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Guys on Knoxville sports talk, now saying they think Vols 3 will be Vandy, Bama, SCarolina. (Kentucky fans won’t like this).
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USCjr doesn't make much sense.

*edit, it was talked about in 2024

The Vols likely would play Vanderbilt, Alabama and either South Carolina or Kentucky as permanent SEC opponents.

www.knoxnews.com

Tennessee football schedule 2025: Every SEC opponent Vols will face

The SEC released the conference football matchups for the 2025 season. And there's not much mystery to it. Here's who Tennessee will play in 2025.
www.knoxnews.com
 
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TrueOrange said:
Only took, what, 12 or 13 years of talking about it?
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This should have been done in 2012 when they brought in TAMU and Missouri. It was easy too. You played your 6 in division, you played one cross conference opponent germanely, rotate the 2 every year. I was so mad when they didn't do that.
 
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The next step? Somehow get FCS games either in the Spring or Preseason. That way the lower schools get the extra income but we don't have to watch these stupid FCS games in November
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Guys on Knoxville sports talk, now saying they think Vols 3 will be Vandy, Bama, SCarolina. (Kentucky fans won’t like this).
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South Carolina is interesting though - not much tradition with them - but not sure who their 3 would be.

I think we have more teams that could be labeled as tradition than them. So maybe that is the thought.

I do expect Vandy and Bama to be two of the three.

No doubt Georgia and Florida will not be in the three set teams we play.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Alabama's complaint is likely going to be about if they have to match up with Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU yearly, not who Tennessee does or doesn't get.

And honestly, as a neutral fan watching it, I'd be all for Alabama-LSU not being a protected every-year game.
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Bama has a much longer tradition with Mississippi State than they do LSU. Bama-LSU was barely a rivalry until Saban came to Tuscaloosa. But I'm sure we'll get paired with them because ESPN will want that annual matchup.
 
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zjcvols said:
...then how does 3 permanent rivals work? Dellinger reported that was still the plan.
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Likely in a similar way to how the ACC does it. Each team has 3 protected rivalries that get played each season, and then they have 6 other games on a rotation that's made from the remaining 12 SEC teams and is plotted out over a 4-ish year period.
 
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YankeeVol said:
If only you had read what you posted to "discuss" lol

"SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season."
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True, I did miss that little item. Sorry. But I would still submit that there are different levels of “quality” in those 3 conferences that can be scheduled. Unfortunately not everybody can get Houston, Wake Forest, Rutgers or Purdue at the same time so I guess there has to be a decent nonconference game in there somewhere.
 
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volfan102455 said:
That is also an odd number - so does that imply that one year we have 4 conference home games and the next year we have 5 - so we rotate between 4 and 5 SEC home games each year?
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Yep. Unless you're a UGA-Florida / Texas-OU set up where you've got a neutral site every year.
 
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#50
Wonder if this move means that the Washington series is going to be cancelled. Hope not.
 
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