Georgia and Clemson have scrapped the four-campus games they had lined up from 2029 through 2033, clearing those dates from a series that had been set years ago.
A document signed March 12 by Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks and Clemson athletic director Graham Neff says the schools “mutually agreed to cancel” the matchups. The agreement, obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald through an open records request on Monday, also states: “The parties have mutually agreed to terminate the Contracts and all of the provisions of those contracts, including payment requirements,”
The canceled games had been scheduled for Clemson on Sept. 15, 2029, then Georgia on Aug. 31, 2030 and Sept. 4, 2032, and back to Clemson on Sept. 3, 2033. The two schools originally agreed to the series in 2018 and 2019.
Brooks said in May that future games with Clemson could end up at a neutral site. “Possibly,” he said then. “Everything’s on the table right now with that.”
That comment came after Georgia and Florida State had already backed out of a home-and-home and agreed to meet at a neutral site in 2028. No site has been announced for that game, though Nashville has been reported as the likely location.
Florida State athletic director Michael Alford, who worked out the cancelation with Brooks, was fired Sept. 14.
Neff, meanwhile, was not exactly pounding the table for a neutral-site arrangement when Tiger Illustrated reported on his comments in June. “We think football games are best played on a college campus - huge believers in that,” he said.
He added: “What becomes of our Georgia-Clemson scheduled series? It’s really uncertain.
But we’ve also got to look at ways to raise revenues. So there’s neutral sites.
There’s opportunities like that, which Josh and I have talked about. But at this point I don’t expect anything like that to come to fruition in order for us to invest in what games look like at Memorial Stadium.”
Georgia and Clemson have met 66 times since 1897, though they haven’t played on campus since the 2013 and 2014 home-and-home. Georgia won neutral-site meetings in Charlotte in 2021, 10-3, and in Atlanta in 2024, 34-3.
The move fits a broader scheduling shift for Georgia, which has already canceled home-and-home series with Louisville for 2026 and 2027 and with N.C. State for 2033 and 2034 as the SEC prepares to move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026. When those cancellations were announced in December, Georgia said it was looking into a neutral-site game against Louisville.
“The reality is when you go to nine conference games and (Georgia) Tech, adding that many games put us in a precarious situation with the number of home and homes we had scheduled,” Brooks said in May. “Instead of just eliminating those games all together, we’re trying to find a way to keep as many of those on the schedule and the simplest way to do that would be to move to a neutral site.”
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