Clemson’s planned future showdown with Georgia is off the board.
According to the Atlanta Banner-Herald, the four-game home-and-home series between the Tigers and Bulldogs was canceled Monday evening. The matchup had been set to stretch from 2029 through 2033, with an open year in between.
The schedule would have sent Clemson and Georgia to each other’s home stadiums for the first time in the series. Clemson was supposed to open things in Memorial Stadium in 2029, followed by Georgia hosting at Sanford Stadium in 2030. After the break in 2031, the teams were slated to meet again in Athens in 2032, before Clemson closed out the agreement at home in 2033.
That setup never got the chance to happen, even though Clemson and Georgia had already played twice in recent years. Those meetings came in neutral-site games, not on campus.
In 2021, Clemson opened the season against Georgia at Bank of America Stadium and fell 10-3. Then in 2024, the teams met in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs rolled to a 38-3 win.
The cancellation comes as college football’s scheduling picture has changed around them. The dates for the series were put together in 2018 and 2019, when both programs were still operating in a very different landscape. Since then, the SEC and ACC moved to nine-game conference slates, and that has pushed plenty of schools to rethink their non-conference plans.
Clemson still has other major games lined up. The Tigers remain scheduled for a 12-game home-and-home series with Notre Dame, and Oklahoma is also on the calendar for 2035-36. They also just finished a home-and-home with LSU, a two-game set that ended with Clemson getting swept.
This move has been building for months as more programs have weighed the future of their non-conference schedules. For Clemson, though, the result is the loss of a notable matchup with a nearby opponent whose campus is only an hour away from the Upstate.
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