Times, TV set for four Georgia football games (UPDATED)
DESTIN, Fla. – Georgia officials had hoped for fewer night football games this year, and they appear to be getting their wish.
Starting times were announced Thursday for four Georgia games, and none will be under the lights:
- The Bulldogs’ first two SEC games, Sept. 11 at South Carolina and Sept. 18 vs. Arkansas in Athens, will start at noon and be nationally televised on ESPN or ESPN2.
- The Oct. 2 game at Colorado will kick off at 4:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. MT) and be shown on Fox Sports Net, including Atlanta-based Fox Sports South.
- And the Oct. 30 game against Florida in Jacksonville will start at 3:30 p.m. on CBS.
Starting times for Georgia’s other eight games have not been set. Most won’t be determined until 12 days in advance, per the SEC’s television contracts.
Last season, six of Georgia’s 12 regular-season games were at night, including four of the six home games –- numbers that tilted a bit more heavily toward night than UGA prefers.
UGA President Michael Adams acknowledged at the SEC spring meetings here Thursday that Georgia’s preference is largely inconsequential because TV contracts give the networks power over game times. But he said “it looks like the luck of the draw” may create a day-night balance more to Georgia’s liking this year.
“The typical Georgia fan loves daytime, mid-afternoon football,” Adams said. “It allows a lot of people to get there and to get home. That’s a benefit. The coaches and players like the prime-time [night] exposure. So it’s like everything – there’s a tradeoff.”
The time hasn’t been set for the Bulldogs’ Sept. 4 opener against Louisiana-Lafayette in Athens.
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Other early-season SEC television games announced Thursday:
Sept. 2: Southern Miss at South Carolina, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET
Sept. 4: Miami (Ohio) at Florida, ESPN, 12 noon ET; Kentucky at Louisville, ABC, 3:30 p.m. ET; LSU vs. N.C. in Atlanta, ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
Sept. 9: Auburn at Miss. State, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET
Sept. 11: Penn State at Alabama, ESPN, 7:00 p.m. ET; Oregon at Tennessee, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m. ET; Ole Miss at Tulane, ESPN Classic or ESPN2, 9:00 p.m. ET
Sept. 18: Alabama at Duke, ABC, 3:30 p.m. ET; Clemson at Auburn, ESPN, 7:00 p.m. ET; Florida at Tennessee, CBS, 3:30 p.m. ET
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One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 3rd, 2010
5:45 pm
Reptillicide,
UF usually KEEPS a top 5 ranking. By the way, if they are so overrated, what does that say about your squad?
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 3rd, 2010
5:48 pm
11 Dawg,
You are correct about the home games. That is why UF plays the “cupcakes” they do, so they do not have to make a road trip the next year. Millions of dollars of revenue are lost by not having that 7th home game. I don’t like it but I do undertsand it. Difference in philosophy between Foley and Evans.
DawginOH
June 3rd, 2010
6:02 pm
Who cares what time the games are? Let’s just win them. Do Dawgs!!
DawginOH
June 3rd, 2010
6:03 pm
*Go Dawgs!
UGA SUX
June 3rd, 2010
6:30 pm
Georgia has no fan base outside of georgia. trash your campus as always losers.
11Dawg
June 3rd, 2010
6:41 pm
Well at least we can take solace in the fact that our games are on ESPN and not Raycom or FSSO.
Jim
June 3rd, 2010
7:08 pm
Night games would be nice. Just hope ESPN Gameplan carries all GA games as I live in the MST zone. It sure was nice to see all the UGA games last year via a combination of Gamepaln and the major networks. I hope Coach Richt takes advantage of the opening game to get both the starting QB and the backup some game experiance so three years from now we have another season to start with out an experianced QB. I also think this teams tallent spells wishbone formation with either Murray or Gray at QB. Then add the weapons of Green at wideout and Charles at tightend it would be Katie bar the door! Can’t wait for the season to start!!!
Tide Roll
June 3rd, 2010
7:13 pm
Sturdivant, Glenn, Burnette, Anderson, Davis = Nixon, Johnson, Pouncey, Hurt and Gilbert. We have the exact personnel if not better that Florida has yet we won’t play them. It’s insane up there but that’s Uga. Why in the world would that offensive tackle out of Moultrie go up there. He’ll just sit behind Kolton Houston for four years. Something’s wrong up there and it needs to be looked at.
Figure It
June 3rd, 2010
7:14 pm
It’s UGAy, so who cares what time the game is, or if they even play at all.
The AJC is an Atlanta newspaper. Why does it cover an abominable underachieving Athens team full of illiterate, felonious goons?
Geraldo
June 3rd, 2010
7:20 pm
My prediction:
Florida 42
Georgia 17
Point spread at least 21 points. It won’t matter when or where the game is played!
JUST SIMPLE MATH
June 3rd, 2010
7:25 pm
Figure it, more people are interested in reading about UGA than GT.
Dawgbreath
June 3rd, 2010
8:21 pm
Now I know we will get spanked by USC. That place is an inferno and they are much more use to it.
The Real World
June 3rd, 2010
8:58 pm
Mark Richt will be literally and figuratively feeling the heat during that South Carolina game. Better not sit down on the bench, talk about a HOT seat!!
The Real World
June 3rd, 2010
9:07 pm
UGA aka “The Not Ready for Prime Time Players”.
Joe Momma Angie Daddy
June 3rd, 2010
9:33 pm
Being in that crappy stadium in Columbia at 12:00 in early September is not a pleasant experience. If you win it’s not quite as bad, but it still sucks! GO DAWGS!!!!!!
jesse james
June 3rd, 2010
9:49 pm
It is great to be a Georgia Bulldawg! Go UGA Softball!
P T Barnum
June 3rd, 2010
10:18 pm
What a bunch of clowns in Athens ! Can you say Columbia SC will be Mark Richts Waterloo? The hot seat will be on fire guaranteed !
Big D Dawg
June 4th, 2010
12:26 am
wow, Alabama’s OOC schedule is sooooooo tough. Duke and Ga State in the same year. wooo hoo. I’m scared of Alabama. and before you self righteous bammers start. we lost the last one but we’re 3 & 1 in the last 4
JRW7
June 4th, 2010
12:26 am
No way Michael Adams, We UGA fans like the night time games best. Where did u get the lame brain idea that Ga fans like the afternoon games best?
SICKnTired
June 4th, 2010
1:17 am
Just wondering who Adams polled.. They never asked me………
George
June 4th, 2010
5:15 am
Big D Dawg, does your team play anybody as good as Penn State? Nope didn’t think so!!
dawgfan
June 4th, 2010
7:02 am
“The AJC is an Atlanta newspaper. Why does it cover an abominable underachieving Athens team full of illiterate, felonious goons?”
Go to one of the many Georgia Tech noon games this year and you’ll see why. Nobody cares about Georgia Tech football. Not even their own fans.
I digress. A noon kickoff for our first SEC game on the road is a blessing if you ask me. It definitely takes the edge off the home crowd. I always think of when we smacked Auburn around at their place in 2006. We probably wouldn’t even have won that game if it were at night. I could really care less about “exposure” and tailgate time this year. I just want to win again.
Bill King of the ewoks
June 4th, 2010
7:16 am
ESPN hates us… give me a break. You suck, deal with it
orlando Dawg
June 4th, 2010
7:29 am
The way the Dawgs played last year perhaps these start times are justified. That is, until the team plays better on the field then the better time slots will soon follow. I’ll watch the Dawgs at any time of the day or night. As far as the one poster mentioned that UGA has no fan base outside of Georgia, I beg to differ on that. Here in Orlando we have quite a gathering of alumni and Dawg fans that get together every Saturday when the Dawgs play. Jacksonville, Tampa, Melborne are a few other places with a signifcant number of Dawg fans as well. In a sea of orange and blue its nice to see islands of refuge decked in red and black. GO DAWGS….. SIC ‘EM
sunny purdue
June 4th, 2010
8:00 am
It looks like the real SEC does not start until UF plays UT on CBS. Hey dawgs, just be happy to get beat by UF every year in Jax so you guys get to play in the 3:30 game. TV is driven by the number of eyeballs watching the game – lucky for the dawgs they don’t count teeth.
Don’t forget to wear your black jerseys for the big games. BWAHAHAHAHA
Paul's Johnson
June 4th, 2010
8:28 am
Would someone please talk about my gimmick offense.
james T. Kirk
June 4th, 2010
8:37 am
Noon games? hahahahaha!!!! Shows how much faith the networks have in your puppies!!! Noon kickoffs are always reserved for the bottomfeeders!!
if UGA had a better record
June 4th, 2010
9:01 am
maybe they’d get more exposure? ummm yeah, that’s it. 10-10 in their past 20 SEC games says it all
Bill King is a ................
June 4th, 2010
11:57 am
When you have the kind of year we had last year……you get to start during the Bugs Bunny RoadRunner show hour.
Bill Lumberg
June 4th, 2010
1:22 pm
UGA athletic leadership has always been against night games. Reason being is the same rationale behind the UF/UGA game remaining in Jacksonville….to cater to the “old school” south Ga alums.
Dooley rarely scheduled night games at the behest of wealthy south Ga alums who wanted to be home into for church on Sunday mornings. Damon is simply following Dooley’s lead.
This mentality is the reasoning why the Florida game is in Jacksonville (at during the day).
It is basically a “home” game for the south Ga alums. And it is this alumni base and supporters who have traditionally controlled the purse strings with UGA athletics.
UGADawg 27
June 4th, 2010
11:25 pm
“The typical Georgia fan loves daytime, mid-afternoon football,”
You have got to be kidding me. I don’t know anyone who likes baking in the 90 degree weather in a packed stadium. The atmosphere, and temperature, is so much better at night games. People who whine about the drive home should just get a hotel room. Thats what LSU, Florida, UT, and all other SEC fans do.
SCdawg
June 5th, 2010
12:21 am
It is good to have the SC game at noon, it will still be loud, but it is better then throwing Murry out there in a night time game at SC. Cant wait 2c it, friend has season tickets for SC. 31- 17 or 31- 20 DAWGS.
firedawg
August 1st, 2010
2:51 pm
can i watch the georgia vs. louiseanna lafaette game in destin fla.?