UGA adds Charleston Southern, Georgia Southern to future football schedules
Georgia has added Charleston Southern to its home football schedule for 2014 and Georgia Southern for 2016, UGA associate athletic director Arthur Johnson said this morning.
The Nov. 22, 2014, game will be Georgia’s first ever against Charleston Southern, while the Nov. 19, 2016, game will continue the Bulldogs’ trend of playing Georgia Southern once every four years.
Georgia will pay Charleston Southern $450,000 and Georgia Southern $525,000 for making the trips to Athens.
Both schools are Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) members. FCS teams command payouts considerably smaller than Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) teams. The going rate for getting a FBS team to play in your stadium without demanding a return trip is close to $1 million.
Georgia typically plays one FCS opponent per season.
Charleston Southern played at Florida last season and lost to the Gators 62-3. Georgia is 4-0 against Georgia Southern; the teams played in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2008 and also are scheduled to play in 2012.
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Does Uga
October 1st, 2010
2:28 pm
Be glad those panties were red, they could have been orange or blue hehehehe
Glory Glory
October 1st, 2010
7:18 pm
Will all the Georgia Southern losers PLEASE leave! We’ll see you toothless joes soon enough.
Smiling Jack
October 1st, 2010
7:52 pm
Supportive Bulldawg fans, it seems we have lost a perfectly good blog site to the little guys with a lot of hate…Well, hate is a mental and spiritual cancer eating away the soul. For those bent on hateful misery, just step aside and let them rush head long to hell.
Smiling Jack
October 1st, 2010
7:53 pm
Go Dawgs!!!!!!!
Ed
October 1st, 2010
7:58 pm
What, Eastern New Mexico wasn’t available?
phillip
October 1st, 2010
8:48 pm
I saw McGarity roaming around LaGrange last week. Figured he was dropping by Troup High School to check on Quan Bray for Coach Richt. Then I saw him taking what looked to be ink pens, and legal papers into the office of LaGrange College’s athletic director. Could a match up between the ‘Dawgs and the mighty Panthers be in he offing?
Southside Drug Rep
October 1st, 2010
8:55 pm
We drop Oregon for these two? Say what you want about Damon but we had some good out-of-conference opponents for a change.
Don't want to play creme-puffs
October 1st, 2010
11:04 pm
For those that like to say that it was “proven” that UGA had the toughest schedule last year – below are the Top 20 of the toughest schedules according to certified NCAAF data. UGA was 12th while GT was 14th toughest. You all may be surprised that Oregon was Number 1 as the TOUGHEST schedule in Div I football last year.
2009 Toughest Schedules – as certified by NCAAF
# Strength Rating
1 24233 Oregon
2 23877 South Carolina
3 23867 Mississippi State
4 23855 Florida State
5 23794 Washington
6 23725 Washington State
7 23655 LSU
8 23539 Virginia
9 23534 Virginia Tech
10 23523 Alabama
11 23384 Arizona
12 23355 Georgia
13 23304 Arkansas
14 23266 Georgia Tech
15 23072 Auburn
16 22997 Southern California
17 22954 Tennessee
18 22909 Miami (Florida)
19 22816 Florida
20 22604 Minnesota
wolfbait67
October 2nd, 2010
8:36 am
UGA playing HS teams……..maybe Fritzgeraldine..always thought better than they really are…..might even get into a fight will their low class fan base………ask Wilcox Co
Dustin
October 2nd, 2010
9:00 am
I say, lets drop the stupid Georgia Tech game every year and that way we can get a real team on the schedule. I am tired of playing the stupid bees every year!!!!
Ben Jones
October 2nd, 2010
10:50 pm
Guess they want a couple “sure” wins, if there is such a thing at UGA now!
SMac
October 2nd, 2010
11:05 pm
The dawgs have to schedule someone they can beat. That “SEC” speed was amazing against Colorado!
Pathetic excuse for a college team!
October 2nd, 2010
11:13 pm
Brookwood? Lassiter? There goes two more losses for UGA!!!
stendek
October 2nd, 2010
11:18 pm
Field goal kicker missed gimmee earlier. Bulldogs lost by how many? Hmmm. Mark Wretch and Mike Dodo. Poor man’s Abbott and Costello. Fans cry. They laugh all way to bank. Truly sad and unjust. STENDEK
stendek
October 2nd, 2010
11:20 pm
Just do not schedule teams like Valdosta or Lowndes. Could prove insurmountable odds. Hear School Of Blind has a schedule opening. Got 50-50 shot in that one. Check it out. STENDEK
Stinger
October 2nd, 2010
11:26 pm
What a friggin disgrace. Why don’t you play Ga. School for the Blind?
Stinger
October 2nd, 2010
11:29 pm
Good thing that Louisiana Laf-a-lot was on your schedule this year, otherwise you may not win a game.
Stinger
October 2nd, 2010
11:34 pm
Does Bobby Cremins coach basketball too? If he does, maybe he could coach this team too.
Buzz ME
October 3rd, 2010
12:11 am
That should help you little mutts win…Colorado obviously proved to be too tough.
HA HA HA HA HA
Charles
October 3rd, 2010
6:57 am
Georgia will never be in the big time national stage with two to three cream puffs on it schedule each year. Drop Oregon home and home and use the excuse it is to far to travel, one of those two year. Talk about a lame excuse. Georgia if you want to be taken seriously as a nation power then you need to play some teams in Division 1A instead of these cream puffs. Your win /loss record may look better, however, it does not mean much when you play teams like Charleston and Georgia Southern. The way Georgia has been playing I am not sure if these two cream puffs aren’t to much.. The second most profitable program in the NCAA. How much longer do you think that will last playing Georgia Southern and Charleston. Not to mention in recruiting players who do you think is going to get the top recruits. A Georgia who seems to be going no where or Alabama whose program has in three short years won a national championship and likely could repeat this year. Georgia needs to wake up and get serious about competing in the top level of football. You will never make it with scheduling two to three cream puffs a year. .
Monday Murphy
October 3rd, 2010
7:02 am
Change your schedule to Friday nights….
OLD GA FAN
October 3rd, 2010
8:49 am
How much does GA plan to pay the season ticket holders for putting these teams on the GA schedule?
michaelgee
October 3rd, 2010
10:28 am
Maybe UGA should call Portal High School a call too. I hear they have an open date and that may be a team that UGA could contend with.
Dump Richt NOW!
michaelgee
October 3rd, 2010
10:30 am
It looks like Georgia Southern found a cream puff in UGA,
1-4 isn’t ANYTHING TO BRAG ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE NOT BASICALLY PLAYED ANYBODY YET AND WIN 1 OUT OF 5.
michaelgee
October 3rd, 2010
10:31 am
Maybe UGA could hire Chan Gailey, at least Chan NEVER lost 4 out of 5 games.
michaelgee
October 3rd, 2010
10:36 am
Glory Glory,
How many teeth does it take to go 1-4?
Your mongrels are pretty lousy, maybe you should crawl back under the porch and stop growling until you have done something to growl about. Tech will slaughter you much worse that Darth Visor already did.
Old Darth Visor owns Athens now.
ivebeenworkingontherailroad
October 3rd, 2010
10:36 am
I think we should drop out of the SEC before we are asked to leave and go Independent. This way we can schedule who we will look good playing against, say Clarke Middle School. This may be the type quality opponent that our coaches can coach up against. Well …, maybe not.
AMG
October 3rd, 2010
10:45 am
WOW they have decided to become an FCS team, good luck to thUGA in the endevor to find a program as pathetic and crooked as there own.
dawg gone
October 3rd, 2010
11:34 am
Drop Oregon and pick up these two high school games? Buford might be willing to play? However, they’re pretty strong, might not want to go there.
What a joke this program has turned out to be!
stendek
October 3rd, 2010
12:33 pm
Remember these wonderful times?
http://stendekk.wordpress.com/bulldogs-sink-to-new-low-in-loss-at-colorado/
IT WAS A FLEA FLICKER NOT SO SAINTLY MARK WRETCH!
stendek
October 3rd, 2010
12:39 pm
The losses I have to bear. Being lied to by head coach is something I will not tolerate! Mark Wretch knows the fumble was on a botched flea flicker! If not then that is ground for immediate dismissal. Lying to protect a worthless friend (Mike Dodo) is still lying. How much does the Bulldog Nation shell out to this unsaintly and Christan wanna be liar? Hmmm. Not good at all. STENDEK