Georgia-Oregon games canceled; Georgia-Tennessee game time set
Georgia and Oregon have agreed to cancel a home-and-home football series that was scheduled in 2015 and 2016.
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said today that the decision was a mutual one between him and Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens.
On Georgia’s end, the move reflects McGarity’s preference to have seven home games each season. The 2015 game was to have been played in Eugene, Ore., and the 2016 game in Athens.
Since both schools wanted out of the series, no buyout was involved, McGarity said.
“It had to be a win-win,” McGarity said. “I don’t feel comfortable at all about buying out contracts. . . . If [Mullens] had said, ‘We really need to play these games,’ then they would still be on the schedule. We would not [buy out contracts]; I don’t think that’s the right thing to do as an institution.”
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The Georgia-Tennessee football game in Athens on Oct. 9 will kick off at 12:21 p.m. and be televised by the SEC Network, it was announced today.
The game, of course, will mark the return of a Dooley to the sideline at Sanford Stadium — Tennessee coach Derek Dooley, son of legendary former Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley.
The game will be Georgia’s third at home this season. The first two also had noon-ish kickoffs.
Tennessee is 2-2 (0-1 SEC) and plays at LSU on Saturday. Georgia is 1-3 (0-3 SEC) and plays a non-conference game at Colorado on Saturday.
CBS will televise either the Alabama-South Carolina or LSU-Florida game at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, with the other at 7:30 p.m. on either ESPN or ESPN2. CBS will choose between the two games by Sunday.
Saturday’s Georgia-Colorado game in Boulder will kick off at 7:10 p.m. ET and be televised on Fox Sports Net.
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237 comments Add your comment
WinderDogg
September 27th, 2010
3:09 pm
Waiting on him to resign…
Dogs Smell
September 27th, 2010
3:11 pm
Desert Dawg – Bottom line. You have a losing record against Tennessee.
rincon dawg
September 27th, 2010
3:18 pm
Why dont they call this game the powder puff bowl?
WinderDogg
September 27th, 2010
3:21 pm
Colorado – really does it matter..
Tennessee – should be a good game due to the fact they have less players than most high schools and plays some both ways
Vandy – can’t believe UGA has fallen to level of worry on this game
Kentucky – never worried about them before…ever…win – so what
Florida – Miss going to Jax with a purpose of winning…
Idaho State – Should not count as a win….ever at UGA..don’t want to be on that level
Auburn – Always meant something…Auburn’s gaining confidence and plays hard enough to win
Tech – still sucks…used to be guaranteed beat down..who gave them a reason to cheer
CMR has lost the expectations of the Bulldawg Nation…Emotional victories and the right to HATE everyone because they hate UGA for beating their a$$…Go Dawgs!
buffdawg
September 27th, 2010
3:27 pm
this should be a 3 o’clock in the morning game at least i would be a sleeping naturally
Ralph's Mom
September 27th, 2010
3:28 pm
Tech isn’t much better. Josh Nesbitt for Heisman!!!!
Dogs Smell
September 27th, 2010
3:35 pm
Winderdogg, Are you serious? The only reason Auburn would win is because they are gaining confidence? Not because they have better players and are better coached? Its because of confidence? If thats the case Ga had no confidence they were going to beat MSU did they?
Florida ? really ? When was the last time you went to Jax and thought you could win ?” Homer”.
Kentucky. Didnt they beat you last year ? Why would this one be different?
Georgia hasnt beaten an SEC teams A$$ in a long time. I can name a few that have beaten UGA’s A$$ a few times and Tennessee is one of them in recent memory !
This shoulda been....
September 27th, 2010
3:45 pm
A 10:00 game on pay-per-view.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:00 pm
Nice to know the MUTTS can sleep-in for the COLORADO game. The later KICK may allow the dawgs to be rested or Arrested.
Why has RUSS been on the NET looking for the closest AUTOZONE and pricing ANTIFREEZE?
The VOL game being a NOON+ will keep the UGA fans from being so drunk.
BARBRA can have her breakfast and take her time putting on her ORANGE.
What do you bet BARBRA serves Vince Orange Juice as the breakfast drink with FRIED BOLOGNA as the main course?
USN Volunteer
September 27th, 2010
4:01 pm
Remember when both of us were good? Man I miss those days.
Funny Bone
September 27th, 2010
4:03 pm
@Dogs Smell…………You Big Mouth Pu$$y ! ! ! UGA beat UF in 07′ you clown, and we go into every game with intention of dominating. Once we get a NEW COACH & STAFF things will go back to normal, because we are the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA !
dawg from a distance
September 27th, 2010
4:05 pm
Who would have thought that Georgia State or Georgia Southern would be the best teams in Georgia?
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:06 pm
USN VOL you should have backed NAVY. The Srevice Academys have class and smart players. The SEC not so much. If you become a Shore Patrol you might get to meet some of the Vol and UGA players.
Ralph
September 27th, 2010
4:08 pm
Hi Mom!! Did you see me on TV with my shirt off with red and black paint laughing during the latest beat down? We kinda of like being laughed at by the southeast – nobody else cares about us anymore.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:08 pm
FUNNT BONE dominating in Arrests and drunk fake blonde suburan bimboes ain’t nothing to be proud of. Go dawgs Lick yourself.
USN Volunteer
September 27th, 2010
4:08 pm
I was born on UT’s campus at the hospital right above Clement Hall. I went to school there, I bleed orange white. I also lived in GA for about 18 years so I have a LARGE vested interest in this game. I will say I have adopted Navy alongside UT.
UT96
September 27th, 2010
4:09 pm
Seriously, we are so beat up right now, by the time we play you guys, we might not have enough players to field a team.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:12 pm
RALPHIE better be careful or he will trample RUSS when he does his RUN into the Stadium. It will not be your fault Ralphie! RUSS is looking to run in your path so he can die rather than represent the UGA Dawgs for just one more game.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:16 pm
Good for you USN VOL. Thanks for your SERVICE to the people of this COUNTRY. TECH celeberated 2 Marines this last football game. 1 was commissioned as a Piolet and the other as a Ground Officer. Be safe and keep the US safe. For all you DO this BUD is for YOU.
Ralph
September 27th, 2010
4:24 pm
Do they play Rocky Top in Colorado after every score like UT? I don’t think I can stand that any better than the all those cowbells last week, and having to hear it for the annual UT beatdown AGAIN along with Florida and Auburn.
Maybe we’ll just not show up for the second halves (like last week).
ce poore
September 27th, 2010
4:27 pm
just a thought,well maybe a reccomendation,start all freshmen this week,see if we have something down their that may give a hundred percent,if your going to lose,loose by a bunch,but al least you’ve tried something new,maybe the over the hill group will wake up,&stay sober & out of jail for awhile.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
I guess people are right! I should proofread or spellcheck before I post.
Ralph
September 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
There is a fine line between the strong emotions of love and hate. Then there is the painful indifference that is coming. But for now ……
Bwaaaahaahaaa, bwaaahhhaha!!
thUGA Dwag
September 27th, 2010
4:46 pm
What Ralph says. He cracks me up. Fellow Dwags, the truth hurts.
thUGA Dwag
September 27th, 2010
4:53 pm
Oh yea, like those OTHER idiot posters – LAST!!!
Sorry Charlie
September 27th, 2010
4:56 pm
No, no. I’M last!
CHECK THIS OUT
September 27th, 2010
4:57 pm
Who in their right mind cares?
GT76
September 27th, 2010
4:58 pm
UGA football team bails on another tough opponent:
“The cancellation is a move away from Georgia’s philosophy under former athletic director Damon Evans of scheduling high-profile nonconference games in other regions of the country.”
Look for more weaker teams to be scheduled to shore up wins for declining UGA football program.
What a pity!
Warhorse
September 27th, 2010
5:01 pm
Diffficult to determine which is the most overrated, Tech or UGA? At least UGA is losing to decent teams that have done something recently. Kansas? Sure, in basketball. N.C. State? Sure in basketball when they had David Thompson and when later when they had a great coach.
But losing to those team in football? Perhaps both state schools need to transfer to the Big Least.
Ralph
September 27th, 2010
5:02 pm
thUGA Dwag did refer to those OTHER idiot posters. So please somebody post after me.
I just can’t stop laughing at thUGA cup award winners and all those coaches and alumni that support them.
Bwwwaaaahhaaaha!!
Evansdawg
September 27th, 2010
5:07 pm
Just so we don’t play on a Thursday. When we suck so long that we resort to a Thursday night kickoff in Athens, we have hit the bottom. So far, so good. Now…figure this crap out Richt so I can continue to support you. If you can’t, get out of the way.
Running Scared
September 27th, 2010
5:11 pm
Don’t want to take on strong competition is totally a Pus-ca-tore (sp?) move by the new AD.
Glenn
September 27th, 2010
5:15 pm
Is Bobo making the trip to Boulder, if so I have two tickets if it want cost me too much to get rid of them.
5150 P.O.A.D
September 27th, 2010
5:19 pm
I have no life!
Delbert D.
September 27th, 2010
5:22 pm
Ralph – “Do they play Rocky Top in Colorado after every score like UT?”
No, they play Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”. The university is in The Peoples’ Republic of Boulder.
Delbert D.
September 27th, 2010
5:24 pm
EvansDawg – “Just so we don’t play on a Thursday.” Once the program is winning again, it’s inevitable. ESPN.
Sven Ottke
September 27th, 2010
5:28 pm
Skeered of Oregon and they don’t want to take the hit on their SOS.
We Suck
September 27th, 2010
5:28 pm
What’s inevitable? ESPN or thUGA ever winning again?
Bag on my head
September 27th, 2010
5:33 pm
I don’t want us to EVER be on a sole football night on an ESPN national audience where the whole country laughs at us instead of just some from the Southeast on Jefferson pilot at noon while other games are being watched. Besides, most people skip those noon games – better for us to play then.
Bag on my head
September 27th, 2010
5:35 pm
We could agree to play at night if they promise not to turn the lights on so nobody will see us. Does Elon have any open dates?
Delbert D.
September 27th, 2010
5:36 pm
Mike Slive will decide when Georgia plays on Thursday night.
Ralph
September 27th, 2010
5:42 pm
Forgot about the Peoples Republic of Boulder. We might get Obamaized as well as humiliated.
Dawg
September 27th, 2010
5:45 pm
Sorry to see that the Oregon games won’t be played. Went to Tempe and Stillwater the last two years and had a great turnout of Georgia fans at both. I’ll be in Boulder by Wednesday! I understand having seven home games make sense, but please try to schedule a respectable opponent and not some of those schools Florida plays. As for Richt, I have been to every game he has coached. At this point, he has 8 games to prove to me he deserves to be back next year. 5-3 won’t be enough for me in the next 8. He needs to show improvement each week as well. He got a break last year and was allowed to make the changes he felt he had to. Obviously, many more changes needed to be made at that time and he didn’t see it. Now is the time to make it happen.
uncle buds fish house
September 27th, 2010
5:46 pm
PJ owes me 12.95$.
bruce mac
September 27th, 2010
5:51 pm
Tell me this isn’t Tommy Tuberville like. Change of coordinators, excuse making, beat Bama/Tech many times, nice guy, out coached often, see ya later is just around the corner. CMR’s last year or at best next to last year. what could possibly change to stop this run away train? Once you are this far gone there is no resurrection.
MyPatooti
September 27th, 2010
5:52 pm
Being out of state now don’t know if Reidsville State Prison still exists or not, but if it does, that would be a very appropriate place to move the game to. I’m sure they have a suitable field there, and you just know they would have a “captive” audience. MR and DD could even do some recruiting while there.
LHardingDawg
September 27th, 2010
5:53 pm
I was looking forward to the home and home with Oregon. Being a season ticket holder for years, I am not wanting a 7th. home cream puff game. A game like Florida Atlantic or Tenn Tech cost me a miminum of $160.00 for four tickets which I won’t even use. I really enjoyed playing Ok State, AR State, Colorado, and Universities away from the South. Right now, we are getting ready to travel to Colorado for the game on Saturday. So Bullcrap on a 7th. home cream pull game.
poopdawg
September 27th, 2010
5:55 pm
Dawg , What about the changes Richt has made from the SC game to the Miss St game . Zero ! Hire Dabo Swinney from Clemson now.
Vol One
September 27th, 2010
5:55 pm
Tennessee 27, Georgia 17.
poopdawg
September 27th, 2010
5:59 pm
Vol one thanks for that info , who knew?