Georgia vs. Oklahoma home-and-home series cancelled
Georgia will not be making a trip to Norman to take on Oklahoma until it joins the SEC. The SEC has announced that the home-and-home series between the Bulldogs and Sooners, scheduled to begin on September 9, 2023, has been cancelled. Seth Emerson of The Athletic was the first to report.
The game is being cancelled due to the fact that Oklahoma is joining the SEC. That’s expected to happen on July 1, 2025. Texas will also be making the move. The SEC directed both Georgia and Tennessee to cancel their upcoming series with the Sooners.
“The Southeastern Conference has directed the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee to postpone scheduled football games versus Oklahoma because the transition of Oklahoma into the SEC will not allow for the involved institutions to fulfill their respective contractual non-conference home-and-home appearance obligations.
“Because the second non-conference game in each of the Georgia-Oklahoma and Tennessee-Oklahoma series is scheduled to take place after Oklahoma joins the SEC in 2025, the Conference is directing the postponement of the Georgia at Oklahoma game in 2023 and the Oklahoma at Tennessee game in 2024 until such time that those matchups become part of the Conference rotation of games in future years.”
SEC’s official statement
The two teams agreed upon and executed a contract for a home-and-home series in 2019. There was going to be a pretty substantial gap between the two games. The Sooners were set to make the return trip to Athens on September 13, 2031. Of course that game has also been cancelled.
The two programs have only played once before and that was a little over four and a half years ago in the Rose Bowl. UGA and OU locked horns in the College Football Playoff semifinal with the Bulldogs winning an instant classic by a score of 54-48 in double overtime.
Georgia trailed 31-14 late in the first half before Rodrigo Blankenship helped seize some momentum with a 55-yard field goal. That started a run of 24 straight points by Kirby Smart’s team to make the score 38-31. The Sooners fought back to tie and take a seven point lead but Jake Fromm led the Bulldogs on a game-tying touchdown drive that ended with a Nick Chubb score from two yards out.
The two teams traded field goals in the first overtime but Lorenzo Carter blocked Oklahoma’s field goal try in the second overtime. Sony Michel took a direct snap following that blocked field goal and ran it 25 yards for the game-winning touchdown.
