Georgia football will no longer begin its 2025 season at the Rose Bowl.
The Bulldogs will instead host Marshall, the team announced Wednesday. The decision comes after Georgia and UCLA mutually agreed to cancel their home-and-home dates.
The series with the Bruins was initially scheduled for June 2015, under the supervision of head coach Mark Richt and athletic director Greg McGarity. However, with UCLA’s move to the Big Ten, doubts that it would stand began to arise earlier this year.
Despite efforts to maintain it, the cancellation is now official with what the Bruins called a “mutual agreement” between the two schools. Originally, Georgia planned to open its 2025 season in Pasadena, while UCLA would travel to Athens in 2026.
Now, the Bulldogs will play Marshall on Aug. 30, 2025, in Sanford Stadium. Georgia has only played the Thundering Herd once in program history, when it won 13-3 in 2004 between the hedges.
With the expanded conferences in college football, many schools have had to adjust their schedules. Last year, the SEC recommended Georgia and Oklahoma cancel their home-and-home sets for 2023 and 2031. Tennessee also received direction to scrap its series due to the Sooners joining the conference.
USC, another school moving to the Big Ten, had its matchup with Ole Miss canceled last month, while California, who is now a member of the ACC, and Florida called off their home-and-home Wednesday.
Although UCLA is no longer on the program, Georgia’s 2025 schedule is still loaded. The Bulldogs will host Alabama, Texas, Ole Miss, and Kentucky and visit Tennessee, Auburn, and Mississippi State. The schedule features flipped home and road SEC opponents from the upcoming 2024 season.
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