{"id":593822,"date":"2026-04-08T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:18:08","slug":"sec-announces-appearance-schedule-for-2026-football-media-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593822\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Announces Appearance Schedule For 2026 Football Media Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211;\u00a0 The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday the appearance schedule at its annual SEC Football Kickoff Media Days, set to take place July 20-23 at the JW Marriott and Tampa Marriott Water Street in Tampa, Fla.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis will be the first time the event is held in Tampa, as it becomes the fourth city outside Alabama to host the SEC Football Media Days, joining Atlanta, Nashville, and Dallas. The event, which annually kicks off the college football season, brings together SEC coaches, student-athletes, and media from across the country for interviews and coverage leading into the fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA more detailed daily schedule, including full television information, rotational breakdowns and the student-athletes attending, will be available at a later date.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSEC Network will once again bring the four-day event to a national audience.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNames below are listed alphabetically by school and are not an indicator of the actual order of appearance. Media registration for the event will begin in mid-May.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMONDAY, July 20<br \/>\nKentucky \u2013 Will Stein<br \/>\nMissouri \u2013 Eliah Drinkwitz<br \/>\nOklahoma &#8211; Brent Venables<br \/>\nTennessee \u2013 Josh Heupel<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTUESDAY, July 21<br \/>\nAuburn \u2013 Alex Golesh<br \/>\nGeorgia \u2013 Kirby Smart<br \/>\nSouth Carolina \u2013 Shane Beamer<br \/>\nVanderbilt \u2013 Clark Lea<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWEDNESDAY, July 22<br \/>\nAlabama \u2013 Kalen DeBoer<br \/>\nFlorida \u2013 Jon Sumrall<br \/>\nOle Miss \u2013 Pete Golding<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M \u2013 Mike Elko<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTHURSDAY, July 23<br \/>\nArkansas \u2013 Ryan Silverfield<br \/>\nLSU \u2013 Lane Kiffin<br \/>\nMississippi State \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jeff-lebby\/3086\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3086\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Lebby<\/a><br \/>\nTexas \u2013 Steve Sarkisian<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the most up-to-date information on the Bulldogs, follow MSU football on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HailStateFB\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, like them on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HailStateFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and join them on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0by searching for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hailstatefb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HailStateFB<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2013 HailState.com \u2013<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211;\u00a0 The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday the appearance schedule at its annual SEC Football Kickoff Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-593822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}