Knowshon Moreno helped lead Georgia to an overtime victory at Alabama in 2007, but next year’s meeting between the Bulldogs and Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa is no longer a certainty with Texas A&M’s arrival into the SEC.With Texas A&M now in the Southeastern Conference family, league commissioner Mike Slive soon will belly up to the table and renegotiate television contracts with CBS and ESPN.
Those discussions should result in additional revenue for the SEC’s 13 members, but what remains unknown is how future football schedules will shake out. Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said that issue will start getting addressed within the next two weeks, and he is confident the SEC will not opt for nine league games any time soon.
“We are locked into nonconference games with very high liquidated damages for both parties in some games through 2016, so I don’t foresee a nine-game schedule happening,” McGarity said. “If the conversation goes to nine games, then you’re going to have a number of institutions that already have signed agreements on nonconference opponents on set dates.
“I fully expect to play every one of our nonconference opponents on the Saturdays we have fully executed contracts with.”
Georgia has all four of its nonconference opponents set through 2014, which includes a home-and-home series with Clemson in 2013-14 and the annual season-ending game with Georgia Tech.