SEC football schedule released: Neither Iron Bowl nor Egg Bowl will conclude regular season
Auburn and Alabama will not close the regular season against one another per usual. Neither will Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
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The SEC released its full 10-game conference-only football schedule Monday night, and one very notable item is that the Iron Bowl will not be the finale for either Auburn or Alabama. It will be played Nov. 28, Thanksgiving weekend, in Tuscaloosa. The Tigers will then host Texas A&M on Dec. 5 and Alabama will travel to Arkansas that day. Normally, Dec. 5 would have been the date of the SEC Championship Game but everything was pushed back this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The last time Auburn didn't end the regular season with a game against Alabama in the Iron Bowl was 2001, when the Tigers' Sept. 15 game against LSU was postponed to Dec. 1 due to the 9/11 attacks. Before that, the last time was 1947. The last time Auburn wasn't the finale for Alabama was in 2003 when the Tide played Hawaii the week after the Iron Bowl. Reading social media, neither Tigers nor Tide fans are very happy about it.
Alabama will also host Georgia on Oct. 17 in a potential SEC title game preview and visits LSU on Nov. 14 (that's the weekend of the rescheduled Masters). The Tide have back-to-back home games just once: Nov. 21 vs. Kentucky and then the Iron Bowl. They don't have back-to-back road games.
Alabama is the betting favorite at William Hill sportsbook to win the SEC and Georgia the second-favorite. The Dawgs look like potential big winners in terms of regular-season finales as they host Vanderbilt, and surely will be huge favorites, while fellow East Division contender Florida has a tough trip to Tennessee.
The Egg Bowl this season is Nov. 28 from Oxford and that should be must-see TV with Mike Leach now coaching Mississippi State and Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss. It's the first time since 2016 that the Egg Bowl won't be played on a Thursday night. It's the first time since 2001 that Ole Miss and Mississippi State won't end their regular seasons against one another.
Week 1 (Sept. 26)
Alabama at Missouri
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Arkansas
Kentucky at Auburn
Mississippi State at LSU
Tennessee at South Carolina
Vanderbilt at Texas A&M
Week 2 (Oct. 3)
Texas A&M at Alabama
Arkansas at Mississippi State
Auburn at Georgia
South Carolina at Florida
Ole Miss at Kentucky
LSU at Vanderbilt
Missouri at Tennessee
Week 3 (Oct. 10)
Alabama at Ole Miss
Arkansas at Auburn
Tennessee at Georgia
Florida at Texas A&M
Mississippi State at Kentucky
Missouri at LSU
South Carolina at Vanderbilt
Week 4 (Oct. 17)
Georgia at Alabama
Ole Miss at Arkansas
Auburn at South Carolina
LSU at Florida
Kentucky at Tennessee
Texas A&M at Mississippi State
Vanderbilt at Missouri
Week 5 (Oct. 24)
Alabama at Tennessee
Auburn at Ole Miss
Missouri at Florida
Georgia at Kentucky
South Carolina at LSU
Byes: Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Arkansas
Week 6 (Oct. 31)
Mississippi State at Alabama
Arkansas at Texas A&M
LSU at Auburn
Kentucky at Missouri
Ole Miss at Vanderbilt
Byes: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee
Week 7 (Nov. 7)
Tennessee at Arkansas
Florida vs. Georgia (Jacksonville, FL)
Vanderbilt at Mississippi State
Texas A&M at South Carolina
Byes: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Missouri
Week 8 (Nov. 14)
Alabama at LSU
Arkansas at Florida
Auburn at Mississippi State
Georgia at Missouri
Vanderbilt at Kentucky
South Carolina at Ole Miss
Texas A&M at Tennessee
Week 9 (Nov. 21)
Kentucky at Alabama
LSU at Arkansas
Tennessee at Auburn
Florida at Vanderbilt
Mississippi State at Georgia
Ole Miss at Texas A&M
Missouri at South Carolina
Week 10 (Nov. 28)
Auburn at Alabama
Arkansas at Missouri
Kentucky at Florida
Georgia at South Carolina
LSU at Texas A&M
Mississippi State at Ole Miss
Tennessee at Vanderbilt
Week 11 (Dec. 5)
Alabama at Arkansas
Texas A&M at Auburn
Florida at Tennessee
Vanderbilt at Georgia
South Carolina at Kentucky
Ole Miss at LSU
Missouri at Mississippi State
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