The SEC announced Vanderbilt Football’s SEC opponents for the next four years and its three annual rivalry opponents on Tuesday, Sept. 23. In August, the league office revealed that the SEC would be moving to a nine-game conference slate each year, with three annual “rivalry” opponents set for the next four years. The league also mandated that each SEC team face at least one nonconference Power Four opponent each year.
Each SEC school’s remaining six conference games on its yearly schedule will rotate among the remaining conference schools. Teams will face non-rivalry SEC programs at least once every two years and every opponent at home and away in a four-year span.
Vanderbilt will play Auburn, Mississippi State and Tennessee as its three annual opponents. These opponents are only set through 2029, though, as the conference has agreed to re-evaluate matchups every four years.
The Commodores will face Alabama (home), Arkansas (home), Ole Miss (home), Florida (away), Georgia (away) and Kentucky (away) in 2026 to round out their conference schedule. They’ll take on South Carolina (home), Texas (home), Oklahoma (home), LSU (away), Missouri (away) and Texas A&M (away) in 2027. The home/away will be switched in 2028 and 2029.
The dates of these matchups will be released in December.
Vanderbilt has begun the 2025 season in historic fashion, knocking off Charleston Southern, Virginia Tech, South Carolina and Georgia State to begin the season 4-0 for the first time since 2008.
The Commodores will face Utah State at 11:45 a.m. CDT on Saturday, Sept. 27.
