Does the addition of a 12th college football game starting in 2006 mean a glut of cupcake opponents for SEC teams?

Not necessarily. Look around the SEC, and athletic directors already are scheduling intriguing foes such as:

• Georgia: On Tuesday, Colorado and Georgia agreed to a home-and-home series beginning in 2006. The Buffaloes will play in Athens on Sept. 23, 2006, and Georgia will return the visit in the 2010 season. The Buffs will receive $750,000 for their trip, the biggest payout the Buffs have ever gotten for a road game. Georgia will get $825,000 for the return trip.

Georgia will play host to the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 2006 and has scheduled a home-and-home with Arizona State in 2008-09.

• Mississippi State: Starting in '06, State has a home-and-home series with Big East Conference member West Virginia. Each road team will receive $200,000.

• Ole Miss: The Rebels are close to signing a deal with Wake Forest of the Atlantic Coast Conference, with a home game in Oxford in '06 and road date at Wake in '09. The Rebels already have a home-and-home contract for 2010-11 with Georgia Tech of the ACC.

Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone also is trying to line up Tulane and Division 1-AA power Northwestern (La.) State for the '06 schedule. Northwestern is the alma mater of new Rebel coach Ed Orgeron.

• LSU: The Tigers turned to their oldest football rival - Tulane - and signed a 10-year, home-and-home contract with the Green Wave.

While the renewal of the series already has created a firestorm among LSU fans who have filled New Orleans talk shows saying that LSU doesn't benefit from playing Tulane, the Tigers got a sweetheart deal on ticket distribution.

In LSU's five road games vs. Tulane in the 69,767-seat Louisiana Superdome, LSU's ticket office will sell a minimum allotment of 40,000 tickets, and some LSU fans may have access to the Superdome's luxury suites.

But in LSU's five home games against the Wave in 95,000-seat plus Tiger Stadium, Tulane gets just an allotment of 7,000 tickets, as well as a $600,000 payout per trip.

The Tigers also have lined up one big-name opponent for the next several years - Arizona State this season, Arizona in '06, Virginia Tech in '07 and at Arizona State in '08.

• South Carolina: New coach Steve Spurrier is pushing for a series against North Carolina. "We could play the game in Charlotte, and split the tickets and the gate," Spurrier said.