2021 SEC football schedule released
The 2021 SEC football schedule was announced on Wednesday afternoon.
The Southeastern Conference announced the football schedules for all 14 SEC schools for the 2021 season, and unlike 2020, the schedule normalizes this fall.
Each SEC team will play 8 conference games and 4 non-conference games. That includes 6 games against division opponents in the SEC East or West, and 2 games against cross-divisional opponents. As per normal, 1 of the cross-divisional opponents is a permanent opponent, while the other is a rotating opponent.
The 2021 season will start on Saturday, September 4 and will end with the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday, December 4.
During the 2020 season, the SEC had an unusual schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the summer, the season looked on the ropes due to the Big Ten and Pac-12 abruptly canceling their seasons; however, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey stayed the course and led the charge for all conferences. The SEC ended up playing 68 of 70 total games as the pandemic continued to have an impact on college football.
In 2020, teams played 10 conference games and no non-conference opponents. The Alabama Crimson Tide finished 13-0 overall and won another national title over Ohio State, its 6th under Nick Saban, while the Florida Gators emerged out of the SEC East under Dan Mullen.
With respect to the Associated Press’ final top 25, 4 SEC teams finished ranked: 1. Alabama, 4. Texas A&M, 7. Georgia and 13 Florida.
Week 1 Schedule
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Week 13 Schedule
Alabama at Texas A&M, October 9th.
I’d rather the Aggies had the bye before that game rather than before Auburn, but we get what we get. Should be a fun season either way.
No bye the entire SEC schedule is a joke
Your bye is before Bama
Yes. BEFORE Bama. We don’t get a bye the entire SEC schedule
I might be confused but it looks like week 4 is our bye. Right before we travel to Tuscaloosa
We play the entire SEC schedule without a bye. Our bye is before our SEC schedule starts
Yep. Yall got screwed. They would never do such a thing to bama.
Why is Bama always on your mind?
SDs… Bama has dominated LSU for so long that LSU fans like footballdumba$& have finally broken.. They thought they had something with Coach O but it turns out what they had left and he is taking LSU right back to the garbage they used to be in the 90s..
All while sweeping sexual assault under the rug… Baylor 2.0
This last season (2020), Bama was scheduled to play LSU at Baton Rouge on 11/14. LSU postponed the game and it was pushed back to 12/12. Coach 0 blamed COVID and wanted LSU at full strength. Needless to say Bama still skull fugged them corn dogs 55-17.
Bama has more wins on LSU’s home field than LSU has total in the series..
Bama owns that garbage program..
what i dont like is the fact that the big 10 loosened the covid protocols so that some of the better ohio st players could play against clemson then ohio st tried to postphone due to “covid reasons” which was just trying to give justin feilds time to heal and sure enough the buckeyes won clemson lost lawrence to covid for 2 games including against notre dame and they did not postphone whereas if any other coach was at clemson they would have postphoned the game
Georgia’s schedule still screwed up to please Auburn.
The SEC screwed the schedule up following the 2012 expansion, somehow Georgia played at Auburn in ’12 and ’13, changing the traditional home-road schedule for Auburn-Georgia and Auburn-Alabama. Used to be it was Auburn at Georgia and Alabama at Auburn (since 1989) in odd numbered years and vice-versa in even numbered years. The SEC’s fix wasn’t to just have Auburn travel to Athens two consecutive years to reset the more traditional schedule, it was to move a traditional November rivalry game to October…as an Auburn man, I am just as perplexed by it as anyone else.
Uhhhhh… does Arkansas not play Alabama next season? Did I just miss it?
Arkansas plays Alabama every year.
Yeah, I know. That’s why I brought it up because it didn’t make any sense. The problem was my screen didn’t load the last 2 game dates. When I refreshed, they were there. I can see them now.
Week 12
@JRSR, Week 12, Arkansas at Alabama
Alright, folks, I’ve got a proposal: SEC moves to nine conference games.
Keep the permanent crossover, and play two rotating games from the other division. As it currently stands, players who stay five years don’t play every other team in the SEC. That’s ridiculous.
Keep the mandate of playing a team from another P5 conference. This gives each team a SOS builder, allowing us to show our conference strength.
If the above is done, everyone gets ten quality games a year, with two pay games for warmup/homecoming.
Whatcha think?
Did you just watch Greg Mcelroy
No, been ranting to my wife about it about three years. But if he agrees, I like it. He’s got a little more pull than I do.
PS, two rotational games a season means that even Bama’s guys who go pro after three years will play every team at least once during their collegiate careers.
Most of their guys go pro after 5 years…you just don’t notice them riding the pine the first 3.
You’re hardly the first person to come up with that idea. And when it went to a vote of the 14 coaches a few years ago, it was 13-1 against. Only Saban was in favor. It’s in their best interest to play 8 with 3 payday games and 1 P5, so that’s what they do.
Never said I was the first, and a few years ago there were eight or nine different head coaches in the league. Could be a different result now.
because the SEC coaches want to play payed games so they dont get embarresed by lower P5 teams and G5 teams some SEC teams every year lose a bowl game even when its against a G5 opponent
Yep because the SEC is weak and the ACC is really tough. I wonder what it’s like to play Wake Forest, BC, Louisville, Syracuse, etc every year. That must be really nice
olemiss there are also SEC teams that suck
vanderbilt, arkansas, south carolina
and the ACC got a whole lot tougher with miami NC state and north carolina all being ranked
1. No, … the permanent rivalry is the problem instead of the center of the universe. All permanent inter-division rivalries should be games that don’t count toward the division championship. Anything else is beyond brainless.
2. In case anybody missed this, zero inter-division games should count toward an SEC division championship. How stupid can a conference be?
3. In the years that a cross-division rival is scheduled as part of the regular rotation of cross division opponents, then that game would still not count toward the division championship. Because they are not in the same division you dumb ass donkeys. In those years Missouri would simply be free to schedule one more non-conference game besides Arkansas ie..
4. In case someone can’t wrap their head around this, it would mean that Missouri could play Arkansas every year, every other year, or twice in seven years, and none of the results would count toward the SEC Championship game qualification. Pure fun.
I’ve been saying for years, just get rid of the divisions, keep 2 “rivalry” games (i.e. bama keeps Auburn and UT) and play a rotation for the remaining 6 (or 7) conference games.
yeah like the Big12 does except saban would pull some strings and give himself the easiest teams like vanderbilt
once again besides UK Bama has 3x more opponents than all other SEC schools with open date before they play bama. Shades of 2010
I’d rather the Hogs’ bye be after Bama, so they can heal up some afterwards.
Looks like new Auburn coach Bryan Harsin’s getting welcomed to the SEC with the toughest schedule. That is brutal…
All this pi$$ing over schedules, seems like everything is getting back to normal already.
We have to stop screwing ourselves over with War Memorial and Jerry World. We only have two SEC home games this year.
When does your contract end playing in Little Rock?
Both the War Memorial contract as well as the AT&T Stadium contract expire in 2024.
Yikes!
Jerryworld will not be renewed. Good riddance.
Bama at Florida should be fun. Obviously Bama will and should be favored, but both teams lose a ton of production especially on the offensive side. Both teams should have significantly improved defenses, but I’m not too sure how Bama’s defense will be without Barmore and Surtain although it’s Bama so I wouldn’t underestimate them. As a Gator fan, what I’m hoping for is a packed hostile Swamp that will rattle Bryce Young especially since its so early in the year. I’m assuming Bama’s o-line will be inferior to last year, so here’s hoping Florida’s defense has significantly improved by next year. Eitherway other than that Florida game and the Iron Bowl I expect Bama to coast through their schedule. Texas AM will be irrelevant again next year.
Yes Florida will be irrelevant again next year…
Just like your sister will be irrelevant to the rest of your family in a few weeks after they find out you impregnated her. Your daddy and brothers won’t be able to join in on the fun anymore in fear that they might poke the baby’s head. Got to love that Alabama education am I right?
this took a turn reeeeeal quick! yikes man. it’s just football
Florida ain’t nothing next season!!!! Not as long as Emory Jones is THE MAN!!! Now should Florida get some big-time QB out of the transfer portal. Then who knows? Probably still nothing!!! Because they have to have receivers to throw to. ALL THE DANGEROUS ONES ARE IN THE NFL DRAFT AND GOING BYE BYE!
Florida will no doubt lose any defensive player that actually stood out on the defense. Well okay so Florida has the entire defense coming back based on that comment. Because nobody stood out. Unless getting burned badly on highlights also counts as standing out! If so then yep every player they had stood out last season!!!! Is it okay if I’m just not worried about them at all????
I don’t even have to worry about complacency. After this season UGA IS coming for lizard blood!!!!! And it was the backups that they beat. That means our second team is really out for lizard blood!!!!! And I am confident. Unless something drastic happens. I’m confident that EVEN THE UGA B TEAM CAN BEAT FLORIDA’S STARTERS THIS COMING SEASON!!!
I’m willing to bet you. Dan Mullen will talk up Emory Jones just to keep him. But I’m betting if there are any decent QBs in the portal. Mullen is going after them in hopes of finding another Trask! But it was the WRS that made Trask!!!! But I’m betting he doesn’t feel good with Emory Jones as starter!!! He doesn’t want him to transfer just in case. But he is probably already looking!!!!! I WOULDN’T PUT IT PAST MULLEN TO TRY THE MIAMI HURRICANES STRATEGY. OF OPENLY SAYING. MAN I WOULD SURE LOVE TO COACH THIS KID OR THAT KID!!!! They need to IGNORE THE CHEATER!!! He already got Florida on probation. If he does something else. The NCAA has the right to give Florida the death penalty!!!! I wonder how much Floridians would like Mullen then????
But Mississippi state has a decent QB they got from the portal. The one that broke records against LSU. But he wasn’t in there when they played UGA. It was another true freshman who did darn good!!! Our defense was still badly depleted so he was facing backups. But he still did a great job. Either way. If the other QB is still there. Then they can’t both start. I’M ONLY TRYING TO AGITATE FLORIDA FANS. I KNOW WE ALL NEED A GREAT STARTER AND A GREAT BACKUP!!!
PS. Anyone hear about Gunner Stockton and his plan to possibly reclassify? Word on the street is that he might go to auburn. Auburn or UGA. But if he does reclassify that is one that Mullen would be on like a cheap suit!!!
King Negan
Dan Mullen lives rent free in this guys head.
of course the B team on georgia could probably beat the gators because like alabama they recruit 2-3 5 star quarterbacks and have 4-5 star defenders that dont even start
Really like some of the cross conference games this year. Penn State vs Auburn, like a mid season bowl game. Alabama vs Miami- wishing King had not gotten injured for Miami, would have generated more interest.
Georgia vs Clemson, that’s awesome. I’m leaning UGA in that one.
LSU vs UCLA, here’s to hoping it’s a good outing for the tigers.
Enjoyed this years all conference schedule but the renewal of out of conference in state rivals was missed. Florida vs FSU always fun for trash talking here in the state.
Season can’t get here fast enough.
What? Not excited about Aggies v Colorado?