We know when Lane Kiffin will be back at Vaught Hemingway Stadium.
The SEC revealed its 2026 football schedule Thursday night and the new LSU coach won’t wait too long to visit his former employer. The Tigers are set to visit Ole Miss in Week 3 on Saturday, Sept. 19.
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Kiffin dramatically left Ole Miss for LSU at the end of the 2025 regular season even though the Rebels were on the cusp of the College Football Playoff. Ole Miss is the No. 6 seed and will host Tulane on Dec. 20 in the first round of the playoff.
Ole Miss will be coached by former defensive coordinator Pete Golding in that game. Golding was promoted to head coach as Kiffin was in the process of heading to Baton Rouge on Nov. 30. While Kiffin won’t be on the sidelines for the Rebels in the College Football Playoff, many offensive assistants who followed him to Baton Rouge will be, including offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.
Ole Miss beat LSU 24-19 in 2025. That game was also in Oxford, Mississippi. The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026 as each team will play a rotating cast of six teams twice over four seasons and three teams every season for the next four years. Ole Miss and LSU are permanent rivals in the current SEC schedule setup, and LSU is making back-to-back trips to accommodate the logistics of the new SEC schedule.
Below is the entire 2026 SEC schedule in full.
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2026 SEC schedule
Week 1
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North Alabama at Arkansas
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Baylor vs. Auburn (Atlanta)
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Florida Atlantic at Florida
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Tennessee State at Georgia
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Youngstown State at Kentucky
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Louisville vs. Ole Miss (Nashville)
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Louisiana-Monroe at Mississippi State
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Arkansas Pine-Bluff at Missouri
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Kent State at South Carolina
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Missouri State at Texas A&M
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Austin Peay at Vanderbilt
Week 2
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Mississippi State at Minnesota
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Tennessee at Georgia Tech
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Arizona State at Texas A&M
Week 3
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Mississippi State at South Carolina
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Kennesaw State at Tennessee
Week 4
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South Carolina at Alabama
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South Alabama at Kentucky
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Missouri at Mississippi State
Week 5
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Alabama at Mississippi State
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Kentucky at South Carolina
Week 6
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South Carolina at Florida
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Texas vs. Oklahoma (Dallas)
Week 7
Week 8
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Oklahoma at Mississippi State
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Tennessee at South Carolina
Week 9
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Florida at Georgia (Atlanta)
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South Carolina at Oklahoma
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Mississippi State at Texas
Week 10
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Vanderbilt at Mississippi State
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Texas A&M at South Carolina
Week 11
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South Carolina at Arkansas
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Auburn at Mississippi Stateate
Week 12
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Tennessee Tech at Mississippi State
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Georgia at South Carolina
Week 13
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Mississippi State at Ole Miss
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South Carolina at Clemson
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