Alabama will host Georgia in first 2024 SEC football game announced

The 2023 SEC Championship game rematch will take place in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 28 as Kirby Smart will again try to get the better of his old boss.

The 2024 SEC football schedule will be released Wednesday night, but the conference dropped a teaser in the morning to get everybody excited.

The Georgia Bulldogs will travel to Tuscaloosa to play the Alabama Crimson Tide on Sept. 28, a night game that will be broadcast on ABC.

The two programs combined to win the last three national championships, with Alabama winning in 2020 and Georgia taking home the trophy each of the past two seasons. The two met earlier this month in the 2023 SEC Championship, with Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide getting the better of Kirby Smart and Georgia for a 27-24 victory. The loss ended a 29-game win streak for the Bulldogs, a conference record.

Kirby Smart, Saban’s former defensive coordinator from 2008-2015, took the Georgia coaching job ahead of the 2016 season. In his tenure as a head coach, he’s faced his old boss six times. Alabama won five of the games, but Smart’s lone victory was a big one, beating the Crimson Tide 33-18 in the 2021 CFP National Championship game.

The rest of the 2024 SEC Football schedule will be revealed at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday in a broadcast aired on ESPN.