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SEC's Shift To 9-Game Conference Schedule Pauses Some Longtime Rivalries

It used to be the biggest rivalry game of the week, the month — maybe the entire season. In 2026, Florida and Tennessee will be complete strangers. Their once-a-year matchup that, back in the day, featured Steve Spurrier, Peyton Manning, Phil Fulmer and snark that sometimes even outweighed the stakes — "You can’t spell Citrus without ‘U-T'" — is absent from the schedule for the first time in 37 seasons. Alabama-LSU — that’s gone too, for the first time since 1963. The Gators and LSU — they’ll miss each other for the first time since 1970. Such is the price of progress in the Southeastern Confe...