It just means more in the Southeastern Conference.
On Tuesday, the SEC officially announced the matchups and pairings for each member with the newly updated nine-game conference schedule through the 2029 season, including who will be each program's three protected annual rivalry games. REQUIRED READING: It just means more? Maybe not as SEC goes soft, dumps heavyweight football rivalries
The SEC announced in August that it was moving to a nine-game conference schedule starting next season, a decision that put them in line with the Big Ten and Big 12 and later had the ACC follow suit . Each SEC program will have three permanent rivals and six rotating opponents for the next four years, after which the SEC will revisit the schedule pairings and make potential changes to the three an