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2026 SEC Football Kickoff Media Days
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The Southeastern Conference announced the appearance schedule for coaches at its annual SEC Football Media Days event, presented by Regions. The event will take place at the Tampa Marriott Water Street and JW Marriott, July 20-23, in Tampa, Fla.
Tampa and the state of Florida will host media days for the first time ever. Dallas, Nashville and Atlanta have hosted the event in the previous three years.
A daily schedule with television information, rotational breakdown, and student athletes attending the event will be available before the event begins in July.
SEC Network will bring the four-day event to a national audience.
Here is the complete list of the appearance list for SEC coaches in alphabetical order by school, not in the order they will appear on the day.
Monday, July 20
Kentucky – Will Stein
Missouri – Eliah Drinkwitz
Oklahoma – Brent Venables
Tennessee – Josh Heupel
Tuesday, July 21
Auburn – Alex Golesh
Georgia – Kirby Smart
South Carolina – Shane Beamer
Vanderbilt – Clark Lea
Wednesday, July 22
Alabama – Kalen DeBoer
Florida – Jon Sumrall
Ole Miss – Pete Golding
Texas A&M – Mike Elko
Thursday, July 23
Arkansas – Ryan Silverfield
LSU – Lane Kiffin
Mississippi State – Jeff Lebby
Texas – Steve Sarkisian
Ryan Silverfield makes his first appearance at SEC Media Days
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Arkansas head football coach Ryan Silverfield will make his first appearance at SEC Football Media Days in Tampa on Thursday, July 23. Silverfield is one of five new head coaches in the league including Florida’s Sumrall, Kentucky’s Stein, LSU’s Kiffin and Ole Miss’s Golding.
The first year head hog will appear on the same day as LSU’s Lane Kiffin, who left Ole Miss to take over the same job in Baton Rouge, Mississippi State’s Jeff Lebby, and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian. His Razorbacks will face the Tigers and the Longhorns every season as annual opponents through the fall of 2029.
As mentioned above, the student athletes that will represent Arkansas and the other 15 SEC member institutions in Tampa will be announced in July ahead of the four-day event.
