Georgia football 2023 schedule announced
One of the great things about being a college football fan is that it’s never to early to start looking forward to next year. Some have to do it, others enjoy the present and multitask. The Georgia faithful fall in that latter category and on Tuesday, it and the rest of the SEC learned what the 2023 schedule will look like.
September 2 – UT Martin
September 9 – Ball State
September 16 – South Carolina
September 23 – UAB
September 30 – at Auburn
October 7 – Kentucky
October 14 – at Vanderbilt
October 21 – OPEN
October 28 – Florida in Jacksonville
November 4 – Missouri
November 11 – Ole Miss
November 18 – at Tennessee
November 25 – at Georgia Tech
All of the non-conference games and dates were known coming into Tuesday. Games played outside the league have to be agreed upon with executed contracts well ahead of time. Ball State was announced last week when the SEC made it known that it was directing Georgia to cancel its home-and-home series with Oklahoma.
Since the Sooners are set to join the league in 2025 and Georgia wouldn’t get the 2031 return game in that series, the SEC wanted it cancelled. Both teams complied and Georgia got Ball State to fill the September 9 void.
South Carolina and Georgia will play in September for the third straight season. The placement of that game gives the Bulldogs four straight home games to start the season.
Playing the Gamecocks in September is nothing new but playing Auburn in September is very new. In fact, 2023 will be the first time it has ever happened. The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry has traditionally been a November kickoff but was recently moved to October.
Georgia will be gunning for its seventh straight home win against Kentucky on October 7, 2023. A trip to Vanderbilt will follow that week and the Bulldogs will have a bye after that before taking on Florida in Jacksonville on October 28.
Nearly a month will pass between Georgia home games. After hosting Kentucky on October 4, the Bulldogs won’t return home for a game until November 4 when Missouri comes into town. The Bulldogs will be at home in back-to-back weeks, facing the Tigers and rotational SEC West opponent Ole Miss. Georgia last played the Rebels in 2016, Kirby Smart’s first season as head coach. Ole Miss blew the Bulldogs out.
Georgia will end its 2023 season with two games on the road, playing at Tennessee and at Georgia Tech, a place where the Bulldogs haven’t lost since 1999. The Tennessee game has essentially swapped spots with Auburn on the Georgia schedule. The Dawgs have traditionally played the Vols in October but it has been in November the past two seasons.
