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Tennessee football will have five SEC home games in 2026 season, athletic director says
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Tennessee football will be one of the teams to get five SEC home games for the 2026 season, UT athletic director Danny White said.
With the league moving to nine conference games next season, some teams will get four home games, others five. The Vols will have a total of seven home game next season.
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"We'll be at Georgia Tech, and then it flip-flops," White said on the "Big Orange Countdown" on the Vol Network on Sept. 20. "So it's lined up for us through all of our non-conference games that are scheduled right now. And now that we have that set in stone, that rotation four to five, I don't anticipate to change."
The years the Vols will have four SEC home games, White's goal is to have a Power Four nonconference game at home. When they have five SEC home games, the Power Four nonconference game will be on the road.
The home-and-home with Georgia Tech will be played in 2026 and 2027, replacing the series with Nebraska that the Cornhuskers backed out of in February.
The SEC is set to announce each team's three permanent rivals , along with the teams and sites for all nine conference games, on Sept. 23. The six games outside of the permanent opponents will rotate among the remaining schools, and the league will continue with a single-standing, non-divisional structure.
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"I think (SEC deputy commissioner) Charlie Hussey in our conference office has done a really good job working with us really over the last few years," White said. "I have been hesitant to move forward out to many years with non-conference scheduling because I wanted to see where we landed on eight games versus nine games. And if we are at nine games, I want to make sure that our home versus away mix matches up with what our five SEC games would be versus four."
This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Tennessee football: AD says Vols will have five SEC home games in 2026
