From the previous post, it was decided that Georgia will have three standing SEC opponents that will remain for the foreseeable future. Two locks – Florida and Auburn – are pretty much guaranteed in the new nine game formula starting 2026.
The one that’s getting mentioned the most is Kentucky, but I’ve seen some references to South Carolina and some saying Tennessee.
So who is your vote for the 3rd, and why? If it’s not Tennessee, let’s hope this last meeting (for a moment) is another Georgia win, extending the streak a little longer and sweeter, please?
Play Auburn twice, they deserve the double beat down.
You’ve got my vote
Only, if one of those beatdowns is back to the mid November scheduling…#AUBURN SUCKS!!
Damn. I like this idea.
Your suggestion plus 1. Play auburn in Jacksonville, at the cesspool and in Athens, or anywhere anytime. Beat those MF’s 3 times a season and it’s still isn’t enough.
If the plan is to travel to an away game, my choice is Vandy. Kneeland is the worst place to watch a game in the nation, and scu is like sitting in a sauna. Bama would be closer and far easier to drive to than Kentucky.
I’d pick Florida, Auburn and Clemson. Kick out Missouri or one of the Texas schools.
I don’t want to lose the Tennessee game. But Vanderbilt would be an easier drive, a more winnable game, has more history, and a better stadium experience than Obknoxville. But I hate Tennessee and want them to suffer at the hands of Kirby and the Dawgs. If not Tennessee or Vanderbilt, give me Ole Miss.
AU, those MFers, and Vanderbilt
I enjoy traveling to Kentucky and Vandy more than SC and Knoxville, so those would be my preference. I wouldn’t be mad an Alabama or Texas though. It would be nice to have a major opponent visit Athens every other year.
From an interest in watching the game standpoint I would say Tennessee. From a tradition standpoint I would say Kentucky, Vandy, or Ole Miss.
Georgia and Tennessee didn’t play every year until the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina creating the East and West divisions. The Vols were in the rotation with Bama, LSU, and Miss St.
My guess is the SEC will try to balance out the difficulty of the three teams based on historical success meaning it won’t likely be Tennessee. For me if I’m choosing between Kentucky and Vandy which I think are the most likely other options I guess I’d go with Vandy since it is the closest and Nashville is a fun road trip.
Do you really see Ole Miss as a traditional rival of Georgia?
We played them every year from the 1966 until 2002.
With LSU and Mississippi State (who I think will be Bama’s third), presumably Ole Miss’ third will be someone to the west or Vancy/SCAR.
I don’t see Vandy going to any of the top-tier teams, as the others would blow a gasket; only (semi-)”top-tier” team that has a shot at Vandy is Tennessee because they are natural in-state “rivals” and have long history/tradition. Tennessee should be happy with Bama, Kentucky and Vandy, although as others have said would like to see them continue playing Florida each year just to watch those two mules fight over the carrot….
Yep. Ole Miss was my first Dawgs game as a youngun.
Didn’t the original 6-3 proposal have Georgia and Kentucky as annual opponents? Tennessee will have Bama, Vandy and UK. South Carolina made it clear they didn’t want us on their schedule every year.
I don’t like having Kentucky on the schedule every year because Kirby decides he wants every game in Lexington to be a rock fight rather than using superior talent to run them off the field.
Interesting … I had been under the impression South Carolina wanted us on their schedule permanently because they view us a rival.
Florida, Auburn and South Carolina. Those are the rivals with which we have had the most history. I would love to whip Tennessee’s ass every year, but we can only have three. Traditions should still count for something.
Agreed and UGA is South Carolina’s biggest SEC rival.
Tennessee was not play regularly before the SEC split.
I’ll miss trips to Vandy and Kentucky. IMO there should 4 or 5 permanents. I don’t care how often UGA goes to the state of Texas, Arkansas, or Oklahoma.
Auburn, Florida and UNC. They’re going to be in the SEC soon anyway.
I think they will throw South Carolina a bone and make them our third, since South Carolina really needs a close dance partner. I think South Carolina’s other two permanent opponents will be much further to the West, and my sense is the league would prefer that they have at least one close permanent opponent, which would be us, not to mention that we have a long history of playing them, and we are their only geographically adjoining state (but I suppose there is a chance they get Vandy or Kentucky instead).
We will not get Tennessee – they will have Bama and Kentucky, and I would think the league would also want to pair them with a third team further west as well…. Will also be interesting to see who Florida gets besides us, as they want to get rid of LSU and presumably don’t want Auburn back (and don’t think Auburn wants them either).
Florida, Auburn and South Carolina. I don’t see how Kentucky can even be considered. They are not a rival and I agree with the statement above about how Kirby always makes that game harder than it should be. If you believe something and say something, sometimes you make it happen (as in Kentucky always being such a hard game to play).
Auburn and Florida are a lock. My best guess is UK or USCe. Looking at those two list of rivals. I would think the league office chooses us for the chickens. If so I hope it’s not a September game in the cesspool hot house.
Please be Vandy. Perfect homecoming partner.
1. Barn, turds, UNC(they comin’)
2. Barn, turds, Ole Piss
3. Barn, turds, FSu
4. Barn, turds, tejas
5. Barn, turds, chickens
I am also interested to see who schools get.
LSU: Texas A&M, Arkansas, and Ole Miss? Bama would go away, and out of the original SEC schools (exxclude the SWC party crashers) Texas has the most history with LSU.
If I’m Arkansas I was annual games with a Texas school if not both and LSU.
Florida: Do they finally get to end the LSU game? I’ll hate to see that one end, odd stuff always seemed to happened. UF gets, UGA, UTk, and Kentucky or S. Carolina?
Tennessee gets, Bama, UF, and Vandy? Kind of a shame for Kentucky to give up the border war they make a big out of.
For some reason I think the SEC wanted to manufacture a rivalry between Ark and Mizzou…so I’m betting they’ll have each other as one of the 3.
I too want to see how this all plays out with the other schools…curious to see who Bama’s 3rd is after TN and AU.
Arky seemed to want that one. They need to recruits outside of their home state and Mizzou was a chance but now Texas is an option which is how they used to build their programs.
Speaking of Texas gets: A&M, OU, and Arky?
OU gets Texas, Mizzou and ???? A&M seems a natural but they weren’t a rival before the Big8/SWC merger.
I like your TX matchups…A&M and OU are definite…R-Kansas has that SW nostalgia…but something deep down tells me the geniuses in Birmingham will screw it up. If it makes sense, they certainly won’t do it
Agreed I’m waiting for B’ham to announce how they screwed this up.
Yours on Tennessee makes sense over mine. I think they are going to try to save the meteor game.
Possibly, I don’t know who UK gets. The games that are a big deal to them are 2nd tier to others.
I figure the end result will include us playing at Auburn again in 2026 on a date of their choosing.
I wish we could get them back to the old rotation with a trip to Jax then 2 weeks later Auburn.
If we went to 5 permanents, I’d like to see Auburn and UF renewed with that game 2 weeks before Jax.
I’m betting it will be the grocery store dumpster down the street from Rupp Arena…personally though, I’d prefer it to be Vandy. Nashville offers a lot more than Knoxville or both Columbias, and especially Lexington…dated a girl from eastern KY many moons ago, that whole place has some dark mojo for me
Given my druthers, Auburn and FTMF and after that maybe Kentucky. I don’t give a tinker’s damn about watch Georgia play Vandy. It does nothing for me. Nashville isnt what it used to be. It’s a bunch of wine moms and Yankees anymore. No thanks. I would be fine with never playing South Carolina again. It’s not a rivalry. I’m going to repeat that, South Carolina is not a rivalry game for Georgia. Their fans think it is. Their fans are delusional and stupid. Everything about them is just dumb. Their stadium sucks. They play techno music at their games and wave towels. Their stadium is at the fair grounds for crying out loud. And it’s always hot as hell’s front porch there. They are a doosh bag program in every way.
As much as I love beating Tennessee and hearing all their excuses and laughing at their delusion about what they are, I would ok leaving them off too. As much as people now seem to think they are a rival they are just a big game. Georgia’s traditional rivals are Auburn, Florida, and Tech. Tennessee is a big game and gets included as a rival mostly because of the Fat Phil days and divisional play.
I’d add Clempson to the list of Auburn, UF, and GT. You may say that we beat Clem’s Son regularly, which is correct, but… the same could be said for the Crocs. After, Spurrier and Urban IIRC the closest was still a UGA lead in the series of 9? games. They barely cracked being a decade away from leading the series assuming annual games.
At least one of our top competitors for the SEC crown will have Vandy as a permanent opponent if we don’t. Is you dislike of “wine Moms” so intense you are fine with Alabama or Texas having an almost guaranteed win every year while we battle a much more difficult team?
I wouldn’t. Someone has to get the Vandy wins. Why should it not be us?
“wine moms and Yankees”. That’s funny right there.
Yankees are gross.
Yes they are. I guess Gaskildawg likes wine moms since he wrapped it in quotes like I made a slur or some sort. Go to Nashville and walk around and see if you can swing a dead cat without hitting five wine moms. Gives me the jimjams just thinking about it. Women with names like Bree. Dear God.
I think it’s Tennessee. We have more history with South Carolina but Tennessee has been a much better opponent for quite some time.
If we went to 5:
Auburn
Florida
Ole Miss (bring that one back)
Kentucky
South Carolina
I do like Vandy being on the schedule. Easy trip to make and tickets may cost less than going to Athens.
I disagree with UTk being on the list and agree with other that it was a product of Phil and the division play. UTk and UGA did not play for long stretches and I’d be ok with going back to that. It does make the game more memorable when they do play. LSU and Bama are share some of those aspects.
As I said in a comment on the last post, our third will be Kentucky to start. Who knows if that changes, but I have doubts that it will unless we are forced to change due to someone else’s run of bad luck. My preference would be Kentucky from a competitive standpoint (we need a break every few weeks), but Tennessee from a rivalry standpoint.
Florida, Auburn, and KY would be my choice, but I figure we’ll get Sackerlina, which is okay, too.
We’ll get Barn and UF. They’ll give us to USCjr because, well who else are the cocks going to play that “might” be considered a rival for them?
I’d hate for the annual LSU/UF turnip fight to go away, if only because I’ve really come to enjoy the annual replay of the shoe toss each Fall…
So we have played these 10 teams the most in our history:
Auburn – 129 games
GaTech – 116 games
Florida – 103 games
Vanderbilt – 83 games
Kentucky – 78 games
South Carolina – 76 games
Alabama – 74 games
Clemson – 66 games
Tennessee – 54 games
Ole Miss – 48 games
With the new conference schedule, we are definitely keeping the Top 3. I would prefer we keep Vanderbilt because that is a consistent good road trip city of us. Good town to visit and we usually get a decent victory. However, I didn’t realize that we have a better record against Kentucky. I hope it is either one of them.
I can see where some in the conference (esp USC) would prefer us to have USC on the schedule. We have beaten them at about the same rate as Vandy, but they have been a thorn in our side at less opportune times.
As heard about this deal though, I am particularly impressed that Sankey got everyone on board with 9 games AND one non-conference game with a ACC, Big 10 or Big 12 opponent. Only 4 teams had that on their schedule (us, UF, UK, USC) each year. I suspect that Sankey got them to agree because of $$$ and an expanded playoff field. I can see the SEC having three conference “challenges” ACC vs SEC, etc. similar to basketball each year.
USCjr isn’t because of what they mean to us, it is what we mean to them. For the conference that is something I’d accept.
Who does USCjr have.
UGA 76 games
UF 44 games
UTk 42 games
UK 36 games
I don’t see that as our problem. I see that as South Carolina problem. That’s what they get for sucking so much.
South carolina may resemble a sucking like sound….#AUBURN SUCKS!!
Be particularly impressed ESPN got everyone on the same page. Sankey had zero to do with it other than the “negotiation.” The WWL saw the ratings of games that should be played every year but wouldn’t under a 7-1 model and said we’ll pay you more if you’ll do something to guarantee these games continue to be played in 2026 and forward.
Pretty pathetic only the 4 have a semi-decent OOC game on their schedules, the other 12 should be embarrassed (but they have no shame!)….