Georgia now knows when Auburn is coming to Athens.
The Bulldogs’ Oct. 17 home game against the Tigers is set for a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff, with the broadcast landing on either ABC, ESPN or the SEC Network. The final network assignment will be revealed after Saturday’s games wrap up.
Before that SEC meeting, though, Georgia has a much bigger test in front of it. The No.
2 Bulldogs face No. 6 Alabama in what will be their first top-10 game of the season.
That one is locked in for a 7:30 p.m. start on ABC.
Auburn, meanwhile, gets the week off before heading to Sanford Stadium. It’s the second straight year the Tigers have had a bye before playing Georgia, and it also marks the third straight season Georgia has met Auburn the week after playing Alabama.
That extra rest helped Auburn jump fast a year ago. The Tigers opened with a 10-0 lead, and if Georgia linebackers CJ Allen and Raylen Wilson hadn’t forced a goal-line fumble, Auburn could have stretched it to 17-0 in the first half. Georgia steadied itself from there and came back to win 20-10.
Kirby Smart has controlled this rivalry since taking over in Athens, going 10-1 against Auburn. His only loss came in 2017, and Georgia answered that one by beating the Tigers in the SEC championship game.
Auburn has been tougher at home, but Sanford Stadium has been a different story. The Tigers haven’t won in Athens since 2005.
Even so, Smart isn’t taking the matchup lightly, especially with Alex Golesh now leading Auburn.
“It’s the next week in the SEC, guys,” Smart said after Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt. “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.”
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