College GameDay is headed back to Tuscaloosa, and Georgia will be in the center of the spotlight again in Week 6.
ESPN’s long-running pregame show announced Saturday night that it will be on site for next week’s matchup between No. 2 Georgia and No.
7 Alabama. It’s the first Georgia game GameDay has featured since last December’s SEC title game, and the Bulldogs’ first regular-season appearance on the show since last October’s meeting with Ole Miss.
Both teams enter the showdown at 5-0. Georgia rolled past Vanderbilt 38-14 at home on Saturday, while Alabama followed with a 56-23 win at Mississippi State.
The Oct. 10 game in Tuscaloosa is set for a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff on ABC. It will be Georgia’s first primetime start of the season and its third game on ABC.
The series history is loaded with Alabama holding a 45-27-6 edge all-time. The teams split last season, with Alabama winning 24-21 in Athens on Sept. 27 before Georgia answered with a 28-7 win in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. ESPN’s FPI gives Georgia a 53.6 percent chance to beat Alabama.
Kirby Smart brushed off the buildup after the win over Vanderbilt, framing the matchup as just another week in the SEC.
"It's the next week in the SEC, guys," Smart said. "Guess what?
Week after that one, there's another week. I mean, they're all big.
There's not one that's not big. This one's big.
Wasn't big to y'all. It's big to us because I have respect.
That team never quits. I mean, there's teams that were up on them.
They came back. I mean, I'm enjoying this victory, and then we're going to turn the page tomorrow.
Come Sunday, we're going to turn the page on that one. Like, that's what we do.
We're really consistent in our approach to things. Let y'all deal with the highs and lows."
This will be Georgia’s 44th appearance on College GameDay, which ranks third-most in college football. The Bulldogs are 23-20 when their game is featured on the show, and they were 3-0 in GameDay games in 2025, with wins over Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Alabama.
College GameDay first aired in 1987 and has been on site since 1993, building its reputation by traveling to the biggest games on the schedule each week. For the schools that host it, the show brings a three-hour showcase for the campus, the crowd and the game itself.
The last time GameDay was at Georgia-Alabama was in 2024, when the teams met in Tuscaloosa and Alabama won 41-34.
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