(utsports.com)– Tennessee will host five Southeastern Conference games — Texas, Auburn, Alabama, Kentucky and LSU — as the 2026 football schedule dates were unveiled Thursday night on SEC Network.

The SEC announced in August it would play a nine-game conference schedule starting with the 2026 season. In the new format, each SEC school will play every other SEC school at least once every two years, and every opponent home and away over four years.

Tennessee will play five games against opponents who finished in the final Top 25 of the College Football Playoff rankings.

The Volunteers’ first three games are non-conference contests beginning with the season opener against Furman on Sept. 5 followed by a Sept. 12 date at Georgia Tech. Tennessee will play at Bobby Dodd Stadium for the

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