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Florida Gators 2026-29 SEC Opponents Announced

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Gators Breakdown

Football, Sports

4.6641 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE The Southeastern Conference (SEC) announced the opponents and sites for Florida’s conference games for the 2026-29 seasons on Tuesday. The SEC announced in August it would play a nine-game conference schedule starting with the 2026 season.  In the new format, each SEC school will play every other SEC school at least once every two years, and every opponent home and away over four years, making it the most fair and balanced schedule in the history of the Conference. Under the new format, each school will play three annual opponents focused on maintaining many traditional rivalries and each team’s remaining six games will rotate among the remaining conference schools. The SEC will continue with a single-standings, non-divisional structure. Florida’s annual opponents through the 2029 season will be Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky. 2026 SEC Opponents Home – South Carolina, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma Away – Kentucky, Auburn, Missouri, Texas Neutral – Georgia (Atlanta, Ga.) 2027 SEC Opponents Home – Kentucky, Arkansas, LSU, Texas A&M Away – South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi State, Tennessee Neutral – Georgia (Tampa, Fla.) 2028 SEC Opponents Home – South Carolina, Auburn, Missouri, Texas Away – Kentucky, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma Neutral – Georgia (Jacksonville, Fla.) 2029 SEC Opponents Home – Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi State, Tennessee Away – South Carolina, Arkansas, LSU, Texas A&M Neutral – Georgia (Jacksonville, Fla.) Annual opponents were determined with consideration given to traditional rivalries, competitive fairness, geography and alignment with existing non-conference home/away commitments. Annual opponents will be evaluated after each four-year cycle to maintain continued competitive balance. The remaining six conference games come from a rotating pool of the other conference teams. The rotating schedule is designed so that a team will play every other conference opponent at least once every two years and twice (once at home and once away) over a four-year period. To meet the scheduling priorities established by the conference and its members, the 2026 conference schedule includes cases where schools play at the same venue in back-to-back years. This has occurred in the past when the SEC has changed football scheduling formats. In addition to the conference opponents, SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference opponent from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season. The complete 2026 SEC Football Schedule to include dates of games will be announced later this year. #FloridaGators #GatorsBreakdown #GoGators #CFB #SECFootball #CollegeFootball JOIN Gators Breakdown Plus: https://gatorsbreakdownplus.com Get Florida Gators merch at Fanatics: https://fanatics.93n6tx.net/DVYxja Questions or comments? Send them to gatorsbreakdown@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Because there's never a dull moment in Gator Nation

0:08.5

The Gators Breakdown podcast is ready to go.

0:15.4

I'm your host, David Waters.

0:16.7

You can find me on social media at Gator Dave underscore SEC.

0:22.8

And we've been teasing it long enough.

0:26.1

The SEC teases long enough with it on Monday night.

0:35.3

You heard, well, Miles and I get together, and we discussed that, hey, we found out Florida's annual opponents for the 26 through 29 seasons.

0:37.9

That would be Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky.

0:43.1

But then on Tuesday, of course, we're going to get the rest of the schedule for the 26 through 29 seasons.

0:44.9

And that's what we'll talk about right here on this episode of Gators Breakdown.

0:48.8

Don't know how long we'll go with this cut busy night.

0:51.2

My daughter in middle school, she was cheering a game tonight.

0:54.4

So I was going to miss the Live reveal on SEC Network, but certainly knew I'd be home in time

0:59.4

to get an episode out tonight and talk with you guys about it.

1:03.0

So hit that light button, leave some of those comments.

1:05.6

Let me know what you think about this.

1:07.4

We'll get into it really, really soon right here.

1:09.1

But initially, El Wolf

1:12.4

coming in and says, SEC had this ready for a year. Seems like it, pretty much. And then

1:18.8

Harrison Sanchez says, at least our schedule is getting easier, Dave. And Harrison, that's funny

1:24.3

because on the Gage Breakdown Plus Discord, Peyton, I believe it was. Perused in there, I was trying to get ready for the episode as fast as I could, but I wanted to see some reaction to this. And look, I don't even remember, have it memorized by heart or anything. So it's kind of going to be a surprise to me going through this, guys, with you. I know some of it.

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