Georgia’s 44-41 overtime victory over Tennessee inside Neyland Stadium on Sept. 13 was one of the most exciting and most-watched games of the young 2025 college football season.
Folks will have to savor that one for a while.
The next meeting between the Bulldogs and Volunteers in Knoxville won’t be until 2029, as the border battle is no longer an annual rivalry with the Southeastern Conference moving forward with a nine-game league schedule beginning next season. The league announced last month that it would be moving from eight to nine SEC games, and the new format will have each league school playing every other conference member at least once every two years.
Sanford Stadium will house the Georgia-Tennessee game in 2027.
The SEC officially confirmed Tuesday that Tennessee’s three annual opponents in the nine-game schedule will be Alabama, Kentucky and Vanderbilt. The Vols have played all three of those schools every year since the formation of the SEC in 1933, with the exception of a brief hiatus during World War II.