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The 2026 season path
Every schedule has a stretch that decides it. This is where Tennessee's is. A schedule is a rhythm, not a list — this is the shape of it.
Heights are 2025 ratings. No 2026 games have been played, so no team has a 2026 rating yet. These are last season's finished numbers — the best available guide to who these teams are. They start moving the week real games are played, and rosters turn over in between, so read the ridge as a shape rather than a forecast.
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12
Games
7
In Neyland
9
SEC games
The peak is Texas A&M in week 11 at 13.3; the softest rated opponent is Kennesaw State at -2.6. Ratings are points above or below an average FBS team, the same numbers published in the Data Lab.
Every game, in order
Wk 1 vs Furman
Sep 5 · Neyland Stadium
—unrated
Wk 2 @ Georgia Tech
Sep 12 · Bobby Dodd Stadium · Atlanta, Ga.
+5.49-4 in 2025
Wk 3 vs Kennesaw State
Sep 19 · Neyland Stadium
-2.610-4 in 2025
Wk 4 vs TexasSEC
Sep 26 · Neyland Stadium
+10.810-3 in 2025
Wk 5 vs AuburnSEC
Oct 3 · Neyland Stadium
+5.45-7 in 2025
Wk 6 @ ArkansasSEC
Oct 10 · Fayetteville, Ark.
+2.72-10 in 2025
Wk 7 vs AlabamaSEC
Oct 17 · Neyland Stadium
+11.611-4 in 2025
Wk 8 @ South CarolinaSEC
Oct 24 · Columbia, S.C.
+2.54-8 in 2025
Wk 10 vs KentuckySEC
Nov 7 · Neyland Stadium
+0.85-7 in 2025
Wk 11 @ Texas A&MSEC
Nov 14 · College Station, Texas
+13.311-2 in 2025
Wk 12 vs LSUSEC
Nov 21 · Neyland Stadium
+5.37-6 in 2025
Wk 13 @ VanderbiltSEC
Nov 28 · Nashville, Tenn.
+12.610-3 in 2025
Opponent ratings are this site's own opponent-adjusted numbers, built from ESPN results. Teams outside the FBS pool — Furman, and anyone else without enough rated games — are shown as unrated rather than given an invented number.