LSU football is in the mix for a five-star offensive lineman, but he's trending to South Carolina ahead of his commitment on Friday.

The SEC on Thursday announced it would implement a nine-game conference football schedule beginning in 2026. In making the announcement, the conference announced the following parameters: Teams play every other SEC school at least once every two years and every opponent home and away in four years

The Southeastern Conference announced Thursday a new scheduling format for football starting in 2026, adding a ninth conference game, keeping long-standing rivalries and mandating all teams play a “high quality nonconference game.

While he prefaced it by saying he didn’t know much in the way of American sports, Paul Martin, the co-founder of Box To Box Films and executive producer of the “SEC Football: Any Given Saturday” docuseries on Netflix, named a coach he’d love to document in a future season of the show:

A look at updated 2026 SEC football recruiting rankings after Tennessee flips Kamari Blair from South Carolina.