Georgia’s final SEC date of the season now has a kickoff window, and it lands in prime time.
The Bulldogs will face South Carolina on Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. on ABC in Columbia, South Carolina. It will be Georgia’s last conference game of the year, and the Bulldogs have not played a home night game so far this season. Georgia is 2-0 in those previous spots.
Kirby Smart’s team is coming off a 42-7 win over Ole Miss, a result that gave Smart his first victory at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
“It was good to get that out of the way,” Smart said. “Because there’s been some whoopings in here, man.
We got 0-2, 0-3, I don’t know what it is. But it’s good to get that one.
And there’s a little bit of us that wanted that for the CJ Allen’s and the Cash (Jones)’s of the world. We had to walk off that field that night.
And I don’t think revenge is a big factor in the game ever. Revenge lasts about five minutes, but it makes me proud for those guys.”
Georgia has handled its trips to Williams-Brice Stadium under Smart, going 4-0 there since he took over as head coach. He’s also 3-0 against Shane Beamer, the former Georgia assistant who is now in his sixth season leading South Carolina.
The Gamecocks enter the matchup on a roll after beating Texas A&M to run their winning streak to four games. South Carolina is 6-3 and still in the College Football Playoff conversation.
These two teams last met in 2023, when Georgia won 24-14 in Athens.
Before the trip to Columbia, Georgia will host Missouri this week in a 3:30 p.m. game on ABC. South Carolina will head to Arkansas.
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