{"id":224805,"date":"2026-04-09T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:17:11","slug":"sec-announces-team-schedule-for-2026-media-days-in-tampa-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224805\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC announces team schedule for 2026 Media Days in Tampa, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Southeastern Conference;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Southeastern Conference&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Southeastern Conference<\/a> released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secsports.com\/news\/2026\/04\/sec-announces-appearance-schedule-for-2026-football-media-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:appearance schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;appearance schedule&quot;}\" class=\"link \">appearance schedule<\/a> for the 2026 edition of SEC Media Days on Wednesday, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/oklahoma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma Sooners;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oklahoma Sooners&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a> won&#8217;t have to wait long to grab the mic for &#8220;talking season&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>SEC Media Days 2026 runs from July 20-23, in Tampa, Florida, and will hosted at the Tampa Marriott Water Street and JW Marriott. OU and head coach Brent Venables will appear on Day 1 of the event, July 20th. Also appearing on Day 1 are Will Stein and Kentucky, Eliah Drinkwitz and Missouri, and Josh Heupel and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The year will mark the third time that the Sooners have attended SEC Media Days, with the event in Dallas in 2024 and in Atlanta last year.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma will open the 2026 regular season on September 5th at home against UTEP, and the Sooners will also be bringing back the annual spring game this year, which will be held on April 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Venables&#8217; Sooners impressed last year with a 10-3 record and a trip to the College Football Playoff, after going just 6-7 in the program&#8217;s inaugural SEC season. Now, Venables heads into Year 5 at the helm with key returners like quarterback John Mateer, wide receiver Isaiah Sategna III, and linebacker Kip Lewis back to try and chase another spot in the CFP this year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SoonersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@SoonersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@SoonersWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@SoonersWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/SoonersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Oklahoma news, notes, and opinions.\u00a0You can also follow Aaron on X<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaron_gelvin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@Aaron_Gelvin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@Aaron_Gelvin&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@Aaron_Gelvin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/sooners\/football\/2026\/04\/09\/oklahoma-football-sec-media-days-brent-venables\/89527602007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sooners to speak on the Day 1 of SEC Media Days this summer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sooners to speak on the Day 1 of SEC Media Days this summer&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sooners to speak on the Day 1 of SEC Media Days this summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Southeastern Conference released the appearance schedule for the 2026 edition of SEC Media Days on Wednesday, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[101231,26772,101554,28,101555,21659,31314,60,101556,12287,39171,6790,10922,135,137,7410,136,10195],"class_list":{"0":"post-224805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-appearance-schedule","9":"tag-brent-venables","10":"tag-eliah-drinkwitz","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-isaiah-sategna-iii","13":"tag-john-mateer","14":"tag-josh-heupel","15":"tag-kentucky","16":"tag-kip-lewis","17":"tag-missouri","18":"tag-oklahoma-football","19":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","20":"tag-southeastern-conference","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-tampa-headlines","23":"tag-tampa-marriott-water-street","24":"tag-tampa-news","25":"tag-tennessee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}