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So, UGA plays at DKR in 2027 but the return is in 2029.  A lot can happen in two years.

Right.  For whatever reason, the league office decided to alternate the "other 6" to be every other year, rather than in successive years.

I think it's silly.  As you say, the team makeup can be entirely different over two years, especially in the current portal/NIL world.

This format basically eliminates the "revenge game" which is useful for forming mini-rivalries or at least big emotional matchups from year to year.

If, say, Texas went to Knoxville and lost in 2026, but got the Vols in Austin in 2027, that would be a big deal.  As it is, two years later, whatever emotional charge came with that prior game, will be mostly lost on the fans, and completely lost on the team that is possibly not even 25% the same players as two years prior.

Dumb choice IMO.

I haven’t looked but I heard A&M goes to Baton Rouge two years in a row.

Yup, looks like y'all are playing them @LSU this year, and then again in 2026.

Texas is set.

I'd like to see Florida-Tennessee remain an annual game but I don't know what I'd change to make it happen.  And presumably if those two schools felt strongly about it, then it would have remained.

This isn't very user-friendly, but it does show each SEC team's conference opponents from 2026 through 2029.

Rivalries like UF-Tenn often were spawned from a period a few decades back where both were good.  If you go back further you can find they rarely played when it was a Big Game.

That doesn't mean the rivalry is not "real", just that it's more recent than some like UGA-Auburn.  But if you swap out UK for example for UF for Tennessee, you have to juggle UK to be someone else's rival for whatever reason.  Then it ripples.  There really are only a handful of "real rivalries" in the SEC.