With the SEC shifting to a nine-game model for 2026 and beyond, programs learn new three-team permanent rivals. The SEC's official reveal comes Tuesday night, but LSU is expected to receive Arkansas , Ole Miss and Texas A&M , while playing the rest of the league's dozen teams on a rotational, every-other-year basis.

That includes Alabama , against which the Tigers played every year since 1964. That's not going to happen with the SEC's revised scheduling, however.

"I'm fine with the way it's set up because within four years you're gonna play them home and away," LSU coach Brian Kelly said . "You might not get them every year, but you're gonna get them enough where it continues to take the big game approach to playing Alabama. So, the way the schedule's set up, I think I fe

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