Mizzou's annual opponents
On3’s Chris Low has reported who each SEC team’s three annual opponents will be ahead of Tuesday’s official announcement.
You can find Low’s story here.
His report has the Tigers facing Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M each year for the next four seasons before the conference reevaluates the pairings.
The SEC has set Arkansas as Mizzou’s rivalry-weekend matchup since the Tigers joined the conference. The Tigers have a 12-4 advantage in the fight for the Battle Line trophy, including wins in seventh of the past eight matchups.
The yearly matchup with the Sooners continues a revival of the old Southwest Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, Big 6, Big 7, Big 8 and Big 12 rivalry.
The matchup dates to 1902 with nearly yearly matchups from 1910 through 2011. The Sooners hold a 67-25-5 lead in the series but the Tigers won the revival of the matchup in 2024.
The matchup with Texas A&M is less historic, but comes with some old conference hatred.
The teams have matched up 18 times with Texas A&M leading the series 11-7. The Aggies have won the past two matchups in 2024 and 2021, but the Tigers won the first two battles when the pair joined the SEC in 2013.
Before that, the Tigers and Aggies were Big 12 foes, matching up regularly from 1992 through 2012. The Aggies joined the Big 12 in 1996.
The rest of the conference
Here are each team’s three permanent (for the next four years) opponents according to Low’s report:
- Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State
- Arkansas: Missouri, Texas, LSU
- Auburn: Georgia, Alabama, Vanderbilt
- Florida: Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky
- Georgia: Auburn, Florida, South Carolina
- Kentucky: South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida
- LSU: Arkansas, Ole Miss, Texas A&M
- Mississippi State: Ole Miss, Alabama, Vanderbilt
- Missouri: Arkansas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma
- Oklahoma: Texas, Ole Miss, Missouri
- Ole Miss: Mississippi State, LSU, Oklahoma
- South Carolina: Georgia, Kentucky, Florida
- Tennessee: Alabama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky
- Texas: Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Texas A&M: Texas, LSU, Missouri
- Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Mississippi State, Auburn
With the SEC going to a nine-game conference schedule, each team will play their three ‘permanent’ opponents, then will play the other 12 teams at least twice over the next four years. Every team will play a home-and-home across the next four years with their non-permanent opponents.