2015 GEORGIA SCHEDULE
Sept. 5, Louisiana-Monroe
Sept. 12, at Vanderbilt
Sept. 19, South Carolina
Sept. 26, Southern
Oct. 3, Alabama
Oct. 10, at Tennessee
Oct. 17, Missouri
Oct. 31, Florida (Jacksonville)
Nov. 7, Kentucky
Nov. 14, at Auburn
Nov. 21, Georgia Southern
Nov. 28, at Georgia Tech
Georgia will play four of its first five games at home next season, play host to Alabama for the first time in seven years and retain its open date the week before the Florida game.
Those were some of the revelations unveiled Tuesday evening when the SEC released the schedules for the 2015 season.
The Bulldogs will play seven home games, play three of them against lower-tier, non-conference opponents. Georgia will open the season at home against Louisiana-Monroe on Sept. 5 and also welcome Southern University (Sept. 26) and Georgia Southern (Nov. 21).
“Fifteen will be a year where we only schedule one non-conference from the ‘Power 5,’” Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity said. “On the other hand, over a period of time, a decade or so, I don’t think people can say Georgia is taking an easy road. We’ve played a lot of great non-conference teams and will continue to do so. I don’t think we take a back seat to anyone in that regard.”
In the current decade, Georgia has played Colorado (2010), Boise State (’11) and Clemson the past two years. The Bulldogs are scheduled to play Notre Dame in 2017 and ’19 and are still working to add non-conference opponents in 2016 and ’18.
In one notable switch next season, South Carolina will not be Georgia’s conference opener, as has been the case in most seasons since 1992. The Bulldogs will open the SEC slate against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn.
That also splits the back-to-back games against Tennessee teams at home or on the road that Georgia has experienced in 18 of the past 19 years.
Also, Southern University represents the first time UGA will host a historically black university at Sanford Stadium.
“We’re really looking forward to the opportunity to do that,” McGarity said. And it’s really great to have Alabama back here.”
The SEC office announced schedules for all 14 league teams in a live broadcast Tuesday night on the SEC Network.
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