SEC announces move to nine-game schedule beginning in 2026 season

The big, bad SEC has finally relented. On Thursday, the conference announced that it voted to adopt a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026, finally coming in line with what the Big Ten does.

In the past, the SEC has claimed that its conference is tough enough that it didn’t need to add an extra game, instead opting to play four nonconference games each year while the Big Ten continued to have a Power Four game already set on the calendar.

The move is a welcome one for college football fans because it brings the comparisons closer to an apples-to-apples comparison in a world where it’s hard enough to hold teams up to the same light. Now, with arguably the two best conferences in college football both playing nine conference games, it should make things a little more equitable and fair.

Things should get interesting when this gets implemented, we just have to make it through one more season of inequality with these conference schedules, but that’s nothing different than we’ve been playing with in the previous season.

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Publish date : 2025-08-22 03:11:00

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