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Georgia football replaces Oklahoma with Ball State for 2023 schedule
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Georgia football replaces Oklahoma with Ball State for 2023 schedule
With the SEC calling off the Georgia-Oklahoma home-and-home, the Bulldogs will now host Ball State in 2023, with the game set for Sept. 9. The game will be played in Athens, Ga.
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This sucks. Another crappy home non-conference schedule. Here we go again getting the shaft from the SEC. I’m tired of this and I bet a lot of other fans are too.
A. UGA has known for at least a year that we would likely lose the Oklahoma games; this is far from a surprise and not the SEC's fault that we'll have a weak home slate.
B. UGA CHOSE to replace OU with Ball State. They could have looked around for another quality Power 5, non-SEC opponent to play. With all the shifting in college football right now, there has to be a few other Power 5 teams out there who have (or will have) their schedules disrupted and need to find replacement opponents.
C. I might be the only one thinking this, but I think that once OU and Texas come into the league, and they adopt a 9-game conference schedule, I think the marquee non-conference game to start the year will be a thing of the past for Georgia. The only way that changes, is if we drop Georgia Tech. I don't think Kirby wants to play 10 bruising games a year, with the possibility of an 11th if Tech should ever get its act together.
Go Dawgs!
Anytime the SEC gets horny, it scr*ws Georgia!
Horrible. Not even sure what state Balls State is from. Outside of Ole Miss what a horrible home schedule. I bet most of our home schedule will be noon kickoffs too.
This bites! SO, NOW we've got an even easier cupcake schedule in 2023....UT Martin, Ball State, and UAB. Egads. Bring on App State and Marshall instead!! At least we've got to play Lane's boys from Ole Miss at home as our cross-division game.
Well, I'll be hiking in the Italian Dolomites next early September, so no need to setup the DVR for Ball State!
I agree with @DallasDawg in that UGA knew as soon as the destroyers of conferences (SWC, Big 8, Big 12) were joining the SEC it was obvious that those games would never be played. So they had an entire year to make contingency plans. It is also not at all the SEC office's fault that UGA's 4 SEC home opponents in 2023 stink. (Although TBF, both Kentucky and Ole Miss might win 10 games next year.) Like the SEC office told Mizzou to hire Eli Drinkwitz instead of Sam Pittman or Mel Tucker or something. Or for that matter told South Carolina to hire Will Muschamp for his second shot before giving Pittman and Tucker their first. (The idea that he was going to somehow do better with mostly 3 star players that UGA and Clemson left behind for Columbia than he did with his pick of 5 star players in Gainesville was always dubious.)
Also, it was UGA's choice to take the path of least resistance. They could have called around to find out if any P5 or major G5 team was willing to ditch their cupcake openers in favor of Oklahoma's home-and-home slot. If so, schedule it, then write Tennessee-Martin a check and promise to make it up to them down the line. It's not hard. Schools do it all the time. There were also schools who would have been even willing to give up their 9/9 cupcakes for a home-and-home with UGA. They could have at least tried and then found an FCS school at the last minute had they failed. Granted they didn't want the stigma of playing 2 FCS schools, but who was it that told them to schedule an opener with UTM in the first place? Not the SEC office.
Sorry guys, feel free to be angry at the SEC office for UGA never getting that home game against Auburn back for the next 100 years if you like. (Although in the process please be aware that Auburn over the decades has suffered far more from the SEC office at the hands of a blatantly pro-Alabama SEC office than has UGA.) But the SEC's hands are tied here: they had no options other than to tell UGA and OU to pull the game in order to not have to deal with the 4D chess nonsense required to make absolutely sure that UGA and OU don't play each other twice in 2030. It was the UGA athletics department's job to find a better alternative than Ball State, which you should notice that Oklahoma had no problem doing.
The UGA home schedule is truly getting to be ludicrous and now 2023 is a prime example. I realize schedules will be changing with the new conference alignments but the time for the Ga-Fla game in Jacksonville is over. I’ve been a season ticket holder for 40+ years but frankly I really have no desire to go to games with Kent State, Ball State or whomever. I realize that the powers that be don’t really care and I’ll keep sending my money but I won’t be in my 40 yd line seats for any of those games.
I think your third point is spot on, except that it won't be limited to Georgia. I think a 9 game conference schedule all but guarantees that the non-conference schedule conference-wide will be pure fluff every year. So 9 of each team's 12 games every year will be from the same group of 16 teams, with the other 3 being against opponents that aren't worth mentioning (with the few power 5 rivalry exceptions) - games which no one will have any reason to remember after a week, barring disaster. Call me crazy but I just don't see how that's an improvement for the conference or the sport at large.
For God Sakes please change UGA / uf to home and home!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe Georgia did look around for other power 5 opponents but none wanted to come play us in Athens. Based on what Kirby keeps saying about not shying away from competition, I don’t think the other 2 games, plus tech, would both be cupcakes. One more than likely will be a cupcake and 2 occasionally. Go Dawgs!!
BAWL State-hand me the kleenex.
Any thought to other Big 12 teams? I can think of Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State. Anyone of these would be 100 times better then David Letterman State!
Who the hell made the Ball State decision??? If your goal is to work to be #1, you've got to play the best competition....Ball State ain't it...neither is UAB, Samford, UT Martin, Mercer, etc. and for that matter GT. Switch GT for Clemson and add GA Southern and GA State.....at least with the "cupcakes" you're getting some competition.
I'd like them to try bringing in a service academy as well. Kind of cupcakey, but occasionally have pretty decent teams.
Ball State? What a joke. If Kirby Pretty-****-Smart wants a first class non-conference opponent, why not Ohio State? Or Penn State? Or Southern Cal? Or so on.