The Gamecocks will play the three annual opponents, and the remaining six conference games each year will rotate among the remaining SEC schools from 2026-29. In the new format, South Carolina will play every SEC school at least once every two years, and every opponent home and away over four years.

COLUMBIA — The SEC's list of annual football opponents for the next four years was leaked on Sept. 22, a day before the conference was set to announce all SEC opponents for the next four years, and South Carolina's view has some very familiar names.

The ACC is moving to a nine-game league schedule for football while having teams play at least 10 games against power-conference opponents, though there will be variables due to the league’s odd number of football-playing member schools.

On September 17, live sports reported that with the new season of the Champions League underway, the matches between Athletic Bilbao and Arsenal, as well as PSV Eindhoven against St. Gilloise, are fiercely contested.

Miami football head coach Mario Cristobal doesn't want to return Miami to the glory days and instead wants to establish something new.

Beginning with the 2026 football season, South Carolina will play Florida, Georgia and Kentucky each year for the next four seasons.