Jeff Brohm wanted to put Georgia in the crosshairs, but the comments he made about Louisville’s canceled series with the Bulldogs tell a messier story.
The original setup had Georgia and Louisville opening a home-and-home this season, with the Cardinals hosting first and Georgia returning the trip in 2027. That plan is off the board now. Reports said Georgia and Louisville mutually agreed to cancel the series, and there has been no sign the schools are working toward a new date.
Louisville has since lined up Ole Miss in a neutral-site game this year, and Brohm was asked how that came together. He pointed back to the Georgia situation and made clear where he thinks the blame belongs.
"We had Charlotte, so Charlotte was the team we were supposed to play. We had been trying to add Ole Miss for a few years, we've been trying to add Tennessee at one point, we've been trying to add some tough Power Four opponents... We had Georgia this year and last year on our schedule and I'm supposed to say it was a mutual agreement (to cancel the series)."
Brohm didn’t spell out why he believes the matchup disappeared, but the message was obvious: he sees Georgia as the one that backed away. The interviewer pushed even further, suggesting Georgia must be afraid to play Louisville, and Brohm never shot that down.
Still, there’s another side to this. Georgia likely had to make room because the SEC is moving to nine conference games starting this season. The Bulldogs already had four non-conference games on the slate, and with Georgia Tech already in place as a Power Four non-conference opponent, Louisville ended up being the game that got dropped.
The official line says the cancellation was mutual, but Georgia has shown before that it’s willing to reshuffle its non-conference schedule. The Bulldogs also canceled future games against NC State and Florida State before later setting up a neutral-site meeting with the Seminoles in 2028.
That said, Louisville is hardly blameless here. Brohm himself admitted the Cardinals have had trouble getting games lined up with multiple Power Four programs, which makes it hard to pin everything on one school.
What doesn’t hold up is the idea that Georgia was ducking Louisville.
There just isn’t much reason for that. Louisville sits as a middle-of-the-pack ACC team, while Georgia is the current top dog in the best conference in the sport.
And the history between these two programs doesn’t exactly give Louisville a case for intimidation, either. They’ve met only once, in the 2014 Belk Bowl, and Georgia won that game 37-14.
Louisville has every right to be frustrated that the series fell apart. But the notion that Georgia canceled because it was scared?
That’s a bridge too far. Kirby Smart may want to take notice anyway, because getting Louisville back on the schedule would at least give Georgia a chance to answer these comments the old-fashioned way.
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