Southeastern Conference 2012 Football Schedule
ALABAMA
Sept. 1: vs Michigan in Arlington, Texas
Sept. 8: W. Kentucky
Sept. 15: at Arkansas
Sept. 22: Florida Atlantic
Sept. 29: Mississippi
Oct. 13: at Missouri
Oct. 20: at Tennessee
Oct. 27: Mississippi State
Nov. 3: at LSU
Nov. 10: Texas A&M
Nov. 17: W. Carolina
Nov. 24: Auburn
ARKANSAS
Sept. 1: Jacksonville St.
Sept. 8: Louisiana-Monroe
Sept. 15: Alabama
Sept. 22: tbd
Sept. 29: vs. Texas A&M
Oct. 6: at Auburn
Oct. 13: Kentucky
Oct. 20: tbd
Oct. 27: Mississippi
Nov. 3: Tulsa
Nov. 10: at South Carolina
Nov. 17: at Mississippi State
Nov. 24: LSU
AUBURN
Sept. 8: at Mississippi State
Sept. 22: LSU
Oct. 6: Arkansas
Oct. 13: at Mississippi
Oct. 20: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 27: Texas A&M
Nov. 10: Georgia
Nov. 24: at Alabama
non-conference: Clemson, ULM, New Mexico State, Alabama A&M, tbd
FLORIDA
Sept. 1: Bowling Green
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: Kentucky
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: South Carolina
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: Missouri
Nov. 10: La.-Lafayette
Nov. 17: Jacksonville St.
Nov. 24: at Florida St.
GEORGIA
Sept. 1: Buffalo
Sept. 8: at Missouri
Sept. 15: Florida Atlantic
Sept. 22: Vanderbilt
Sept. 29: Tennessee
Oct. 6: at South Carolina
Oct. 20: at Kentucky
Oct. 27: vs. Florida (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: Mississippi
Nov. 10: at Auburn
Nov. 17: Georgia Southern
Nov. 24: Georgia Tech
KENTUCKY
Sept. 1: at Louisville
Sept. 8: Kent St.
Sept. 15: W. Kentucky
Sept. 22: at Florida
Sept. 29: South Carolina
Oct. 6: Mississippi St.
Oct. 13: at Arkansas
Oct. 20: Georgia
Oct. 27: at Missouri
Nov. 3: Vanderbilt
Nov. 17: Samford
Nov. 24: at Tennessee
LSU
Sept. 1: North Texas
Sept. 8: Washington
Sept. 15: Idaho
Sept. 22: at Auburn
Sept. 29: Towson
Oct. 6: at Florida
Oct. 13: South Carolina
Oct. 20: at Texas A&M
Nov. 3: Alabama
Nov. 10: Mississippi St.
Nov. 17: Mississippi
Nov. 24: at Arkansas
MISSISSIPPI
Sept. 1: Central Arkansas
Sept. 8: UTEP
Sept. 15: Texas
Sept. 22: at Tulane
Sept. 29: at Alabama
Oct. 6: TEXAS A&M
Oct. 13: AUBURN
Oct. 27: at Arkansas
Nov. 3: at Georgia
Nov. 10: VANDERBILT
Nov. 17: at LSU
Nov. 24: MISSISSIPPI STATE
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Sept. 1: Jackson St.
Sept. 8: Auburn
Sept. 15: at Troy
Sept. 22: South Alabama
Oct. 6: at Kentucky
Oct. 13: Tennessee
Oct. 20: Middle Tennessee
Oct. 27: at Alabama
Nov. 3: Texas A&M
Nov. 10: at LSU
Nov. 17: Arkansas
Nov. 24: at Mississippi
MISSOURI
Sept. 1: open date or non-conference opponent
Sept. 8: Georgia
Sept. 15: Arizona St.
Sept. 22: at South Carolina
Sept. 29: open date or non-conference opponent
Oct. 6: Vanderbilt
Oct. 13: Alabama
Oct. 20: open date or non-conference opponent
Oct. 27: Kentucky
Nov. 3: at Florida
Nov. 10: at Tennessee
Nov. 17: open date or non-conference opponent
Nov. 24: at Texas A&M
SOUTH CAROLINA
Aug. 30: at Vanderbilt
Sept. 8: East Carolina
Sept. 15: UAB
Sept. 22: Missouri
Sept. 29: at Kentucky
Oct. 6: Georgia
Oct. 13: at LSU
Oct. 20: at Florida
Oct. 27: Tennessee
Nov. 10: Arkansas
Nov. 17: Wofford
Nov. 24: Clemson
TENNESSEE
Sept. 1: N.C. State in Atlanta
Sept. 8: Georgia St.
Sept. 15: Florida
Sept. 22: Akron
Sept. 29: at Georgia
Oct. 13: at Mississippi State
Oct. 20: Alabama
Oct. 27: at South Carolina
Nov. 3: Troy
Nov. 10: Missouri
Nov. 17: at Vanderbilt
Nov. 24: Kentucky
TEXAS A&M
Sept. 1: McNeese St.
Sept. 8: Florida
Sept. 15: SMU in Dallas
Sept. 22: open date or non-conference opponent
Sept. 29: vs. Arkansas
Oct. 6: at Mississippi
Oct. 13: open date or non-conference opponent
Oct. 20: LSU
Oct. 27: at Auburn
Nov. 3: at Mississippi State
Nov. 10: at Alabama
Nov. 17: open date or non-conference opponent
Nov. 24: Missouri
VANDERBILT
Aug. 30: South Carolina
Sept. 8: at Northwestern
Sept. 15: Presbyterian
Sept. 22: at Georgia
Oct. 6: at Missouri
Oct. 13: Florida
Oct. 20: Auburn
Oct. 27: UMass
Nov. 3: at Kentucky
Nov. 10: Mississippi
Nov. 17: Tennessee
Nov. 24: at Wake Forest
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Missouri and Texas A&M will play their first Southeastern Conference games at home Sept. 8, and Alabama will visit LSU in a rematch of the Bowl Championship Series national championship Nov. 3.
The SEC released its first 14-team schedule Wednesday with new members Missouri and Texas A&M as part of the conference.
Missouri will play the 2012 season in the SEC East and hosts Georgia on Sept. 8. Texas A&M will be in the West and hosts Florida. The first conference game will be Aug. 30 when South Carolina visits Vanderbilt.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive praised the league's transition team and athletic directors for handling what he called "significant logistical challenges" in putting together the schedule released Wednesday.
Teams will still play eight conference games, with six against divisional foes and two against the other division. The SEC championship game will be Dec. 1 in Atlanta.
Athletic directors will meet in the spring to decide the formula for future schedules.
David Williams, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor in charge of athletics, said adding Texas A&M and Missouri made it challenging to put together an eight-game conference schedule.
"Fans should keep in mind that this league schedule is only for the 2012 season ...," Williams said in a statement.
There remain plenty of kinks to work out for 2012, though.
Texas A&M is under a 10-year contract to play Arkansas in Dallas, and Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino said recently the Aggies want a home-and-home series now that both teams are in the SEC.
Texas A&M will be the home team for the Sept. 29 game for which the site has yet to be decided. It will be the first league game between these teams since 1991 when both were in the Southwest Conference.
Arkansas released an 11-game schedule with the Razorbacks busy trying to line up a final non-conference opponent. Texas A&M's current schedule has 10 opponents listed. Missouri has three non-conference games to be decided, while Auburn has its non-conference opponents lined up, including Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic with dates yet to be set.
"Unfortunately, there are still several issues to be resolved in our 2012 football schedule, but we wanted to get as much information to our fans as possible so they may begin planning for next season," Arkansas athletics director Jeff Long said in a statement. "We are pleased to have at least seven home games and possibly eight as part of a very competitive 2012 football schedule."
Texas A&M's entry into the SEC will be challenging. The Aggies not only kick off the SEC season against Florida, they still play Arkansas while hosting LSU and Missouri and visit Auburn, Mississippi State and Alabama on Nov. 10.
Missouri visits South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Texas A&M, and hosts Vanderbilt, Alabama on Oct. 13 and Kentucky.
LSU will visit Auburn on Sept. 22 to kick off its SEC schedule before visiting Florida.
Alabama not only hits the SEC road to visit LSU but opens conference play at Arkansas on Sept. 15. Alabama visits Missouri and Tennessee in addition to LSU.
Georgia, the SEC East champ, didn't play either LSU or Alabama in 2011, and the new SEC schedule has the Bulldogs missing both of the BCS teams in 2012. The Bulldogs play Mississippi and Auburn out of the West.
