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The SEC has announced Georgia football's 2026 schedule, featuring a move to a nine-game conference format with three permanent rivals—Florida, South Carolina, and Auburn—while rotating the others, leading to the end of traditional rivalries with Tennessee and Kentucky. The schedule also includes non-conference games against Western Kentucky, Louisville, and Georgia Tech, with some matchups subject to change.
Tennessee football has been assigned three permanent SEC opponents—Alabama, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt—for the next four years as part of the SEC's move to a nine-game conference schedule, with the matchups subject to reevaluation every four years.
The SEC has announced the league's permanent baseball opponents for conference play starting in the 2025 season, as part of the conference's realignment and expansion with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas. This move reflects the changing landscape of college sports and the modifications in scheduling that come with larger conferences.