SEC, Kentucky Volleyball, Announce 2025 League Schedule
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The 2025 Southeastern Conference volleyball schedule was released Thursday morning by the league office in Birmingham, announcing the dates, opponents and locations of all league matches. The times and television assignments will be announced by ESPN at a later date closer to the start of the season in the fall.
The format for the 2025 season is a single round robin with all teams playing 15 games, followed by a conference tournament championship held for the first time in more than a decade. With Vanderbilt joining the league in volleyball this season, there are 16 teams competing with each team playing either seven home games and eight away games or vice versa.
Kentucky will kick off opening weekend of SEC play at home in 2025, hosting South Carolina on opening night, Sept. 24, before playing the Georgia Bulldogs on Sept. 26 inside Historic Memorial Coliseum, home to Kentucky Volleyball. UK will then play its first road match of the league season at Ole Miss on Oct. 3 in Oxford.
One of the biggest matches of the league season follows as Kentucky will travel to College Station to play Texas A&M on Oct. 8 before closing out the three-match road swing at LSU on Oct. 12.
Kentucky will host Florida on Sunday, October 19 against the Florida Gators as the back end of a weekend with UF and Auburn, who UK plays before the Gators on Oct. 15. The Wildcats will play Vanderbilt for the first time in over four decades as it welcomes the Commodores to Lexington on Oct. 31, Halloween night.
UK will visit Texas on Nov. 2 as part of a stretch of three matches in a row against the top finishers from the league a season ago as UK plays Texas, at Mizzou (Nov. 7) and home against Tennessee (Nov. 9) to kick off turkey month.
UK closes the regular season with matches against Oklahoma (Nov. 14) and Arkansas (Nov. 16) in Lexington before heading to Savannah for the 2025 SEC Volleyball Tournament Championship.
2025 SEC Volleyball Schedule – Kentucky
Sept. 24 – vs. South Carolina
Sept. 26 – vs. Georgia
Oct. 3 – at Ole Miss
Oct. 8 – at Texas A&M
Oct. 12 – at LSU
Oct. 15 – vs. Auburn
Oct. 19 – vs. Florida
Oct. 24 – at Mississippi St.
Oct. 26 – at Alabama
Oct. 31 – vs. Vanderbilt
Nov. 2 – at Texas
Nov. 7 – at Missouri
Nov. 9 – vs. Tennessee
Nov. 14 – vs. Oklahoma
Nov. 16 – vs. Arkansas
Nov. 21-25 – SEC Tournament (Savannah, Ga.)
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