The 2026 football schedule dropped yesterday, and it’s just as murderous as you’d expect a nine game SEC slate to be. Check out this October. Alabama faces a tough stretch in the middle of October.

Southeastern Conference football fans are finding out what the recent move to a nine-game league schedule looks like in reality.

New for 2026 is a nine-game conference schedule with three annual opponents. Mississippi State's annual opponents for the next four seasons are Ole Miss, Alabama and Vanderbilt. The Crimson Tide will play at Davis Wade Stadium on Oct. 3.

Will Stein’s first season as Kentucky football coach will feature one of the most difficult schedules in program history.

Arkansas drops new schedule, nine-game grind featuring Georgia, Texas, LSU and plenty of familiar frustrations