Georgia Football vs. Oregon: How to watch, listen, stream

Georgia Football is back in action this weekend, ranked No. 3 in both the AP and Coaches polls and taking on the No. 11/12 (AP/Coaches) Oregon Ducks. The Bulldogs, led by head coach Kirby Smart entering his seventh season, look to defend their 2021 National Championship with another strong campaign while the Ducks are hoping to get off to a strong start with an upset win in the first game for first-time head coach Dan Lanning, who served as Georgia’s defensive coordinator on the run to the title last season.

“On a personal level, I don’t think the game has anything to do with that, and neither Dan nor I will be worried about each other during the game,” Smart said this week when asked about coaching against his pupil. “It’s not about that. He’s fighting to do the best job he can for his organization and his players, and I’m doing the same here. We have mutual respect for each other. Always will, always have. Just it’s what competition is about. You love to go compete, and it’s about our players getting a chance to compete against their players. As far as the familiarities of the two systems, you know, they’re probably is a little overlap there in terms of defense and they’re watching our defense and we watch our defense to get ready for them. They have got coaches on their staff from other places. We’ve gone out and looked at the history of their other defensive coach for ideas and things they’ve done at other places. At the end of the day it’s about how you execute. It’s not about Xs and Os. It’s about who has got the best players and do the best players play the best in the biggest moments.”

Leading the Georgia offense into the 2022 season is quarterback Stetson Bennett. A sixth-year senior from Blackshear, Ga., Bennett announced his decision to come back to Athens for his final year of eligibility and another shot at glory. That was on the heels of winning Offensive MVP in both of Georgia’s College Football Playoff wins last season – the Capital One Orange Bowl over Michigan and National Championship Game against Alabama – as Bennett threw for a combined 537 yards and five touchdowns in those two games.

Around Bennett are plenty of weapons too. Kenny McIntosh and Kendall Milton look to carry on the tradition of Georgia as ‘RBU.’ A.D. Mitchell made arguably the biggest catch in Georgia Football history last season as a freshman to give the Bulldogs the lead in the National Championship. He’s back for a second season along with last year’s SEC Freshman of the Year Brock Bowers who led the team in all three major receiving categories. Needless to say, there’s reason to be excited about Georgia on the offensive side of the football.

Meanwhile, on defense, some are concerned. Georgia lost eight players – including five first rounders – from an NFL record-breaking draft class that saw 15 Bulldogs selected. That’s leaving plenty of spots up for grabs and competition for playing time across the field. Still, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith and Kelee Ringo give Georgia an All-American caliber player at every level of the defense while others like Zion Logue, Jamon Dumas-Johnson and Kamari Lassiter look to break out.

Georgia and Oregon have met once before in 1977 with the Bulldogs beating the Ducks 27-16.

How to Watch, Listen and Stream

Kickoff Time: 3:30 p.m. ET

TV: ABC (Sean McDonough – Play by Play, Todd Blackledge – Color Commentator, Molly McGrath – Sideline Reporter)

Streaming: WatchESPN

Radio: Atlanta (750 AM/95.5 FM), Athens (960 AM/106.1 FM), Augusta (580 AM/95.1 FM), Brunswick (1440 AM, 107.7 FM), Columbus (1270 AM/102.5 FM), Macon (106.3 FM), Savannah (1400 AM/104.3 FM), Sirius XM (Channel 80 – National, Channel 81 – Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network), Online at www.georgiadogs.com/watch/

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