Ole Miss Football Receives SEC Opponents Through 2029 Season

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss football has received its opponent designations for each of the next four football seasons through the 2029 campaign – which includes annual opponents LSU, Mississippi State and Oklahoma – as announced by the Southeastern Conference on Tuesday night.

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, making it the most fair and balanced schedule in the history of the Conference.

Under the new format, each school will play three annual opponents – focused on maintaining many traditional rivalries – and each team's remaining six games will rotate among the remaining conference schools. The SEC will continue with a single-standings, non-divisional structure.

Annual Opponents

Annual opponents were determined with consideration given to traditional rivalries, competitive fairness, geography and alignment with existing non-conference home/away commitments
Annual opponents will be evaluated after each four-year cycle to maintain continued competitive balance

Rotating Opponents

The remaining six conference games will come from a rotating pool of the other conference teams
The rotating schedule is designed so that a team will play every other conference opponent at least once every two years and twice (once at home and once away) over a four-year period

Balance

With nine conference games, eight schools will play five home games each season and eight schools will play four home games
Home/away determination was made with the intent of providing seven home games for each school while balancing existing home/away commitments to annual non-conference rivalry games.
To meet the scheduling priorities established by the conference and its members, the 2026 conference schedule includes cases where schools play at the same venue in back-to-back years. This has occurred in the past when the SEC has changed football scheduling formats.

In addition to the conference opponents, SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season.

Below are the full opponent slates for Ole Miss for each of the next four seasons. The complete 2026 SEC schedule, including dates, will be announced later this year.

2026
LSU
Mississippi State
at Oklahoma
Auburn
Georgia
Missouri
at Florida
at Vanderbilt
at Texas

2027
at LSU
at Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Alabama
Kentucky
South Carolina
at Arkansas
at Tennessee
at Texas A&M

2028
LSU
Mississippi State
at Oklahoma
Florida
Vanderbilt
Texas
at Auburn
at Georgia
at Missouri

2029
at LSU
at Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Texas A&M
at Alabama
at Kentucky
at South Carolina

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