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SEC football Week 1 schedule: Florida, Auburn in primetime

2019 SEC Week 1 football matchups
By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 15, 2019

Auburn against Oregon Aug. 31 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be the first ABC Saturday Night Football game this season.

The start time for Saturday Night Football has been moved up 30 minutes this season to 7:30 p.m. ET.

SEC Week 1 schedule

Thursday, Aug. 24 
7 p.m., ESPN: Florida vs. Miami (in Orlando)

Thursday, Aug. 29 
8:30 p.m., SECN: Texas State at Texas A&M

Saturday, Aug. 31 
TBD, ABC: Ole Miss at Memphis 
TBD, ESPNU: Mississippi State at Louisiana-Lafayette
3:30 p.m., ESPN: South Carolina at North Carolina 
3:30 p.m., ESPNU: Georgia State at Tennessee 
3:30 p.m., ABC: Alabama vs. Duke (in Atlanta) 
4 p.m., SEC: Portland State at Arkansas 
7:30 p.m., ESPNU: Georgia Southern at LSU  
7:30 p.m., CBSS: Missouri at Wyoming 
7:30 p.m., SEC: Georgia at Vanderbilt 
7:30 p.m., ABC: Auburn vs. Oregon (in Arlington, Texas)

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