Georgia and Clemson To Engage in Hostilities Twice More
Georgia and Clemson have signed up to play each other in the season openers for the 2013-14 seasons. Our Georgia blogger (and noted UGA sports historian) T. Kyle King is excited, and the news is important for two reasons.
First, UGA and Clemson have a long history together. They've played each other at least twice each decade since the dawn of the 20th Century, including all but two years between 1962 and 1987. It's a series that means something.
It also shows that Greg McGarity is not exactly the same kind of scheduler as his old boss Jeremy Foley is. As of a couple years ago, Florida refuses to schedule any BCS teams in the non-conference (other than FSU) to ensure the team gets seven home games a year.
There was a fear that McGarity would do the same after he cancelled UGA's series with Oregon while extolling the seven-home-games-a-year scheme. However, this new series plus the Bulldogs' Georgia Dome game against Boise State this year show that he's willing to keep the non-conference slate interesting beyond Georgia Tech. Good on him, I say.
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This is actually old news for the most part.
The new news is that it’s going to be the season opener. It was previously listed as TBA on future schedules. The other SEC team affected by the recent announcement is Vandy. Clemson dropped that series to add Kent State at home (and presumably another game down the road against a non-BCS school). Clemson still has Ole Miss on the schedule in 2015 and 2016.
by OrangeBritches on May 19, 2011 12:01 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks, I was wondering what happened to that series.
Not that Vandy is any better off now, with a 2013 road game at Ohio State as the replacement, plus Northwestern and Wake Forest.
The Commodore fanbase is forbidden from ever having any semblance of hope.
That makes more sence
When you hear about team announcing series for the 2020-2021 years, I was wondering how they got this home and home series together so fast.
In my perfect world
this rivalry would resume every year. At a minimum, every 3 to 5 years. There is no reason for Georgia to funk around with the Arizona State’s and Oregon’s of the world when you have an established backyard brawl just waiting for to happen. It generates tremendous regional and sometimes national interest, depending on the fortunes of either squad from year-to-year. Back in 1982, the now defunct Sport magazine listed this rivalry as one of the nation’s top 5. Those were some intense damn games back then.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
The news isn't that the games are being played; we knew that in 2005.
The news is that the two games are going to be the season openers for both teams. The news isn’t as big, I’ll admit, but it’s still news, because it means both teams kick off those campaigns with big-time openers.
Also, Greg McGarity has mentioned Clemson specifically when talking about non-conference scheduling. His position is that he doesn’t want Georgia traveling outside the South to play Arizona State, Colorado, or Oregon; he is, however, willing to schedule regional games (Boise State in Atlanta, at Clemson) of note. Given McGarity’s pedigree—-he was a student and administrator in Athens from the 1973 through 1991 football seasons, so he was there for the heyday of the border rivalry between Georgia and Clemson—-I think it’s safe to say these will not be the final series meetings.
Go 'Dawgs!
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Ah, Florida has played USF and Miami recently.
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