Let’s Just Not and Say We Did

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Well, you knew this had to be coming…

The school announced that it would be cancelling future home-and-home series with Louisville and NC State. Georgia adds that the teams will look to play each other in a neutral site game on a later date.

Georgia had been set to play Louisville in 2026 and 2027. The series against NC State was set for 2033 and 2034.

The SEC announced in August that it would be playing nine conference games beginning in 2026. Georgia’s conference foes for next season have already been announced. The Bulldogs will visit South Carolina, Alabama, Ole Miss, Arkansas, host Missouri, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Auburn and play Florida in Atlanta.

Georgia’s non-conference games for next season come against Tennessee State, Western Kentucky and Georgia Tech. All three of those games will be played in Sanford Stadium.

So much for parity and competitive OOC games. Thank you, Sankey and the CFP.

19 thoughts on “Let’s Just Not and Say We Did”

  2. Just wait. All the games will be cancelled and then next year’s committee will decide the OOC losses won’t hurt.

  3. I’ll still take the DSOR as an annual game over all of the Power 4 OOC games.

    For those who thought a cupcake was going to be the casualty in exchange for the 9th game, I can only say … suckers! I knew this was going to happen because the Fech game for us (it will be similar at Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky).

    Now, let’s watch what happens at other SEC schools where they don’t have an OOC rivalry game with a Power 4 opponent.

    I do hope we keep the FSU and Clemson games on the schedule.

    • Agree about the importance of playing Auburn annually.
      The only way we will be playing an out of conference game at its stadium in the future (other than Tech) will be if we have to play a first round of the playoffs game on the road.

        • I had hoped for that 2/6 model with two permanents, six rotating within the SEC, and the conference mandating two P4 OOC games.

          Hell, the conference could have even said that SEC teams could play against another SEC team but have it be a non-conference game like Virginia and NC State because it was a traditional rivalry but couldn’t be scheduled as a conference game due to the rotation. So, for example, in a year where Georgia and South Carolina don’t play a conference game because of the rotation they could still play a non-conference game that would affect the W/L record and bowl eligibility but not the SEC standings.

  4. Whenever I used to come up with something crazy we should do, my roommate and best friend in college, who was from La Grange, would always say, “Let’s don’t and say we did.” RIP Brother 🙏
    Sage advice…

  5. Do we remember when these games were put on the schedule? I cannot remember but its probably been awhile and the landscape of college football has shifted so much in the last three years.

    Also, I wonder if the majority of these deals (even ones in the past) have been “marketing bait & switch” all along. It was a way to signal to your fanbase and the media that perhaps our actual schedule this year isn’t the best but look how attractive and difficult it will be when we play insert team name here – (Ohio St, Louisville, NC State) in 20XX.

    Every team has been doing this for a long time.

    The economics for a game like this doesn’t work for us. I do remember thinking why would we agree to go on the road to play a school that has 50%, 60% or 75% of our stadium capacity? NC St would have to probably give us the entire gate or tv has to kick in a lot of $$ to make it work.

  6. I’ll reserve judgement with the hope we take on tougher foes than Louisville and NC State.

    But if we’re ditching these two OOC’s in order to load up on patsies, it’s truly a pussy move.

    • My guess is the later. 9 conference games, Georgia Tech, and two G6 teams or a G6 team and FCS team. I expect the same from Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky (if they don’t drop their in-state rival altogether if they can in favor of a lesser P4 team).

  7. I always thought it was nuts to schedule home-and-home games 5 or 10 or 15 years in the future. We saw during COVID that schools can actually schedule a game with less than a week’s notice. Granted, that was what, BYU and Coastal Carolina or something? But still, schools could figure this out in the months leading up to a season. You don’t need to schedule games for the children of your current players to participate in.

  8. I’m sure that someone here knows the answer, but why are we playing Bama and Ole Miss again in 2026 and not playing LSU and A&M? We get three straight years of regular season Bama and Ole Miss and it has been since 2018 that we played LSU in Baton Rouge (and 2013 in Athens) and we’ve never played at Kyle Field since A&M joined the SEC and once against A&M in Athens in 2019? That makes zero sense to me at all.

      • Me too. I thought that we’d drop everyone from the 2024 and 2025 schedules and play all the other teams that we didn’t play in 2024 and 2025.

        • I thought that would be the starting point for the rotating opponents – OU, LSU, TAMU, Arky, Vandy & Mizzou. South Carolina, as you know, is back as a permanent opponent.

          I’m guessing the schedule makers had to thread a needle with opponents who did not play the last 2 years and are now permanent opponents and the opposite.

          I also assume ESPN said they wanted UGA-Bama in next year’s inventory regardless. We got the 4 (OU, Arky, Vandy, Mizzou), the 3 perm (FU, AU, USC) and then put Bama and Ole Miss because of the quality of games this year.

    • Don’t get me started on MSU (God rest the Pirate’s Soul). Granted, they’re mostly a cupcake game, but fuck these guys. To the Sun-Belt with this team.

  9. All the contracts with non conference has a cause about conference realignment or scheduling changes. Adding the 9th game causes havoc with scheduling. I think Kirby will keep the Clemson and fsu because there is more time to work out the dates.

  10. I’d like to know how SEC schools can continue to tolerate a jack-wagon like Sankey being in charge of the SEC. Got deked into the 9 game schedule by the B1G. Knowingly lets member schools conduct predatory coaching raids against fellow league members DURING the season. And he’s the guy who supposedly has the best interests of the league membership as a prime goal? Please.

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