Georgia football 2025 schedule: 3 takeaways as Bulldogs get heavy-hitting home slate

Georgia will take on something similar in 2025, as next year’s schedule was confirmed Wednesday.

Below are three takeaways from the announcement.

Georgia football finally gets a great home schedule

For years, Georgia fans have complained about the lack of an exciting home slate. With Georgia often playing in the weaker of the two SEC divisions and the Bulldogs drawing Auburn every other year as one of the two SEC West foes, the Bulldogs didn’t get a chance to host some of the top powers in the league.

That changes in 2025, when Georgia hosts Texas, Alabama and Ole Miss. It also hosts Kentucky, which typically gives the Bulldogs a tough game.

It will be the first time Alabama plays in Athens since 2015. The two teams have met seven times since that meeting, with Georgia winning only one of those games.

Georgia has never played Texas in Athens. The Bulldogs played, and beat, Texas twice this past season. The last time Arch Manning, Texas’ likely starting quarterback next season, was in Athens was as a recruiting prospect during a 2021 game against South Carolina.

Texas gets a bye the week before facing Georgia, while the Bulldogs go on the road to face Mississippi State. Georgia’s byes come before the Alabama and Florida games.

Georgia has the longest home win streak in the country, stretching to the 2019 season. If Georgia still has that streak a year from now, there’s a very good chance it’ll find itself back in the College Football Playoff.

Tricky road trips for Georgia football in 2025

It’ll be imperative for Georgia to win its home games because the schedule doesn’t allow for many breaks.

The Bulldogs have their first real test of the season in Week 3 when they visit Tennessee. Georgia hasn’t lost at Neyland Stadium since 2015, but with Nico Iamaleava returning as the team’s starting quarterback, it might be as good a time as ever for Tennessee.

The other conference road games are a trip to Auburn and a visit to Mississippi State. Auburn should be one of the more interesting teams in the league next season, especially if the Tigers are able to land a quarterback and a strong transfer class. Auburn also gets the benefit of having an off-week before facing Georgia.

As for the other Bulldogs, they were the worst team in the league in 2024, but the Mississippi game comes sandwiched between the rivalry game against Florida and a home game against the Longhorns. Georgia can’t afford to fool around between those two pivotal contests.

Not as tough nonconference schedule

In the wake of the College Football Playoff reveal, there has been a lot of discourse about the value of scheduling tough out-of-conference games.

Georgia opened the 2024 season with a commanding win over eventual ACC champion Clemson. Yet in the later parts of the season, that win didn’t seem to carry much weight.

There is no Clemson-like team on Georgia’s nonconference schedule next fall. Though the Bulldogs have their annual game against Georgia Tech, set for Nov. 29 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and given how this year’s game against Tech played out, the Bulldogs should be prepared for an all-out battle.

But Georgia’s other three nonconference games should not be much of a test. Georgia was set to open the season against UCLA, but the two sides elected to cancel that home-and-home.

Instead, Georgia now will open with a Marshall team that is having to replace its head coach who left for the Southern Miss job. The Bulldogs will also face Austin Peay and Charlotte next season.

The hope is that with a less strenuous nonconference schedule, Georgia can do a better job of getting more reps for young players. Smart lamented Georgia’s inability to get more playing time for its younger players this season, with just three of Georgia’s 13 games being decided by 20 points or more. The Bulldogs had eight such contests in 2023.

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