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UGA football loses top 2023 nonconference game

Georgia football won’t play at Oklahoma in 2023. Who did the Dawgs schedule in place of the Sooners? Georgia isn’t scheduled to play Oklahoma until the Sooners join the SEC.

The SEC has requested the Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners not play each other during the 2023 football season. Accordingly, the University of Georgia will now no longer play at Oklahoma on Sept. 9, 2023.

Georgia’s 2023 nonconference schedule features home games against UT Martin, Ball State and UAB. Georgia also has a nonconference road trip to rival Georgia Tech.

The biggest loser of this announcement are the fans. Georgia fans will miss out on a fun game between the Bulldogs and Sooners.

However, the two teams will meet when Oklahoma joins the SEC.

The SEC released the following quote regarding the future nonconference schedules for Georgia, Tennessee, and Oklahoma:

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 nonconference 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.

Georgia football is without a top nonconference game for the 2023 college football season. Oklahoma added a 2023 game against SMU in place of Georgia.

In lieu of today’s news, the Georgia Bulldogs have scheduled a home game against Ball State for Sept. 9, 2023. Georgia’s chances for an undefeated 2023 college football season just went up.

Why is the 2023 game at Oklahoma cancelled?

Georgia would not have been able to play the return game with Oklahoma in Athens during the 2031 season. The same goes for the Oklahoma-Tennessee series.

Based on today’s news, Georgia probably isn’t going to play Texas in 2028 and 2029 unless it is a part of the expanded SEC’s schedule.

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Georgia Bulldogs football: ten best games of the decade

We take a look back at Georgia’s top ten games of the decade. The Bulldogs football team played in some classic games in the 2010s

Picking the ten best Georgia games of the decade is no easy task. The Bulldogs had many triumphs and their fair share of heart-breakers this decade. Georgia fans know the ups and downs of college football perhaps better than any other fan base.

The Bulldogs went 99-36 over this decade. The decade is split between the Mark Richt and Kirby Smart era. Smart went 43-12, while Richt went 56-24. The 2010s started with UGA’s first losing season since 1996: the ugly 6-7 2010 season. It’s been much better since then. Now, the team enters every season with college football playoff expectations.

I will only say it once: these are the best Georgia games of the decade, NOT the best Georgia wins. Unfortunately, Georgia has been on the losing side of some of these incredible games. They’ve won some barn-burners as well. Here we go:

10. September 28th, 2013: Georgia 44, LSU 41

The ninth-ranked Bulldogs knocked off the sixth-ranked LSU Tigers in Athens. The shoot out featured: Todd Gurley, Keith Marshall, Aaron Murray, Chris Conley, Odell Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry, and Jeremy Hill.

Aaron Murray led Georgia on a clutch drive with the Dawgs trailing and completed a touchdown to Justin Scott-Wesley with under two-minutes to play. Georgia’s defense stepped up and shut down LSU on their final drive of the game, including a clutch Leonard Floyd sack.

Sep 28, 2013; Athens, GA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Michael Bennett (82) celebrates a touchdown with wide receiver Justin Scott-Wesley (86) in the second half against the LSU Tigers at Sanford Stadium. Georgia won 44-41. Credit: Daniel Shirey-USA TODAY Sports

9. September 10th, 2011: South Carolina 45, Georgia 42

Jadeveon Clowney and the 12th-ranked Gamecocks knocked off the unranked Bulldogs 45-42 in Athens. The game featured a back and forth final quarter, where the teams combined to score 39 total points. South Carolina got the last laugh when Clowney strip sacked Aaron Murray to score a late touchdown.

Was this the peak version of South Carolina? They were quite stacked back then, when they had Clowney, Melvin Ingram, Alshon Jeffery, and Marcus Lattimore. I’d say they were better without Stephen Garcia at the helm. Connor Shaw was much more consistent than Garcia and didn’t turn the football over as much.

September 10, 2011; Athens, GA, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks running back Marcus Lattimore (21) runs in for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. South Carolina beat Georgia 45-42. Credit: Daniel Shirey-USA TODAY Sports
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