Earlier this summer, SEC officials announced that the conference would go to a nine-game conference football schedule beginning with the 2026 season, and as part of that schedule, Oklahoma and every other SEC team will have three permanent conference opponents they play every year while other conference opponents rotate.
The schedule reveal regarding the three permanent opponents that will become an annual part of each SEC school's conference schedule will be announced on Tuesday on the SEC Network.
SEC announcing permanent opponents
Ever since the SEC announcement came out about the expansion to a nine-game league schedule, there has been plenty of speculation about who the permanent opponents would be for every school and how that determination would be made.