Takeaways from Georgia football's 2025 schedule

The Georgia Bulldogs have released their schedule for the 2025 college football season. The schedule will feature all of the same SEC opponents, except in opposite stadium of 2024, meaning if Georgia played a team at home this year, next year the Bulldogs will play them on the road.

Georgia starts their season against Marshall from the Sun Belt Conference and Austin Peay from the Ohio Valley Conference, both at home. The Bulldogs start SEC play on the road against Tennessee. After a bye week, they return to play Alabama and Kentucky in Weeks 5 and 6. They travel to Auburn in Week 7 and play Ole Miss at home in Week 8 before their second bye.

In Week 10, the Bulldogs go to Jacksonville to play Florida in another edition of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Georgia’s Week 11 features a matchup vs. Mississippi State before they play two more home games against Texas and Charlotte. The game against Georgia Tech will be in Mercedes Benz Stadium in 2025 and not Bobby Dodd Stadium.

HERE ARE FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM the release of Georgia’s Schedule:

Home games are electric

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After the SEC championship win, Kirby Smart took a shot at the SEC commissioner Sankey when he mentioned that Georgia was being sent on the road all year against difficult opponents.

Well, now that will be flipped. In 2025, the Georgia home schedule will be absolutely insane, with Georgia playing Alabama, Ole Miss, and Texas in Sanford Stadium. Georgia enters the season on a 31 game home winning streak.

Ole Miss will be losing Jaxson Dart, along with their lead back, leading receiver, and leading defensive back in interceptions, but the Rebels currently have the 17th ranked recruiting class and the fourth-ranked transfer portal class.

Texas and Georgia get more rivalry fortifying

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Speaking of home games, Georgia’s home game against Texas is perhaps the most anticipated game of the 2025 college football season. The game will be another chapter in a budding SEC rivalry.

Georgia has beaten Texas twice already; once in the regular season and once in the SEC championship. However, the Longhorns will still be considered a juggernaut in the SEC regardless of the results against Georgia this year. If Texas wins, this rivalry could really blossom.

Georgia’s matchup at Tennessee looms large

The biggest game Georgia has on the road in 2025 is against Tennessee. That game also starts Georgia’s SEC schedule. Georgia will hope to start the year off on a high note against the Volunteers.

The Bulldogs currently have an eight-game winning streak against Tennssee and will be looking to tie the longest winning streak of the rivalry. However, this game has important implications because of next week.

Georgia plays Alabama in the Bulldogs’ next matchup after the bye. Alabama has a much more favorable schedule coming into the Georgia matchup. The Crimson Tide has also won nine of their last 10 games against the Bulldogs.

If Georgia lost to Tennessee and Alabama, the Bulldogs could be 2-2 and unranked for the first time in several years.

Neutral site rivalry game will be an interesting twist

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In normal circumstances, Georgia would head to Bobby Dodd Stadium to play Georgia Tech next year. However, the next chapter of “Clean, Ole Fashioned Hate” will be played in Mercedes Benz.

Obviously, Georgia Tech is in Atlanta as well, so people would expect the stadium filled with yellow. However, Georgia fans travel extremely well, so this game could see the true extent of both teams’ support in the rivalry.

Even with Georgia boasting a seven-game winning streak, Georgia Tech has lost close in the past two matchups, with the Bulldogs needing eight overtimes to defeat the Yellow Jackets in 2024.