Dogs to open 2013-14 football seasons against Clemson
Athens — Georgia will open the 2013 and 2014 football seasons against Clemson.
The Bulldogs will play Clemson at Memorial Stadium on Aug. 31, 2013, then face the Tigers at Sanford Stadium on Aug. 30 the following year. It will be the first games in this storied rivalry since 2003.
Georgia and Clemson agreed to play in 2013-14 several years ago but just recently settled on the opening dates for those seasons, according to UGA spokesman Claude Felton.
Georgia has played Clemson 62 times — more than any other non-conference opponent other than Georgia Tech — and leads the series 41-17-4. The Bulldogs have won the last five games between the two.
UGA’s other non-confererence home games in 2013 are against North Texas and Appalachian State. They get Charleston Southern and South Alabama in ‘14.
In other scheduling news Thursday the Georgia basketball team announced it will play host to Cincinnati on Dec. 2 as part of the Big East-SEC Challenge.
“Cincinnati will certainly prove to be a formidable opponent for our young team,” Georgia coach Mark Fox said in a statement. “We are happy to be playing this
game in Athens. The move to campus venues, in fact, should give the event a
new feature that will be great for fans of both leagues.”
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ToccoaDawg
May 19th, 2011
10:57 pm
Tuna, we all know CMF is a coach building a championship team and taking on cinci is just another step in the right direction.
Mack
May 19th, 2011
10:58 pm
I have to stop coming to these comment sites, most of the posts on here are from complete morons, I am a big dawg fan but I can not predict what we might do, just like tiger fans are already claiming a win. How about waiting till the game is played and then boast about the victory.
Fussball Fan
May 19th, 2011
11:03 pm
THIS!!!
Fussball Fan
May 19th, 2011
11:07 pm
A Complete Blank
May 19th, 2011
10:09 pm
Why has the UGA football program been so slow to realize that your out of conference schedule is where the national (talking heads and pollsters) respect comes from??? I agree that the SEC is an extremely tough conference if not one of the best…BUT it doesnt matter as much as it used to with the rise of all smaller conferences and teams…. Tennessee played a home and home with Oregon.. Vanderbilt opened at Michigan… GEORGIA hasn’t played Miami since 1967……when did GEORGIA last play.. Southern California..Texas..Notre Dame…Michigan…Oklahoma….Ohio State.. and DONT say you might see one of these teams in a bowl game SOMEDAY so you cant schedule them.. thats CRAP!!
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icedawg
May 19th, 2011
11:08 pm
This turned into a great series in the late 70s and early 80s. Be great to see them play again. Teams have been similar in performance though the Dawgs have probably been the better team over the past 10 years.
ffdfd
May 19th, 2011
11:25 pm
clemson sucks huge ballz academically and in sports
UGA? R U Kidding?
May 19th, 2011
11:52 pm
ball sucking? really ffdfd? I guess you’re sticking with what you know huh?
NJ Dawg
May 20th, 2011
1:37 am
Thrilled to see this rivalry renewed!!!! Go DAWGS!!!!
Stinger2
May 20th, 2011
4:47 am
Chip: In your reference to UGA home non-conference games for 2013 and 2014, you did not name GT for either year. Was this an oversight or do UGA and GT not play at Athens in one of these two years?
walk on OL
May 20th, 2011
5:59 am
i can’t wait, great job!
nowhereroad
May 20th, 2011
6:19 am
Glad to hear this, great rivalry, sorry my family tickets run out when this starts back up……
CFB fan
May 20th, 2011
6:32 am
LSU opens with Oregon in Dallas; Alabama plays at Penn State…and UGA plays Boise State in the “neutral site” of the Georgia Dome and then agrees to take (another) two hour bus ride to Clemson. Pretty impressive!
Sammy Dawg
May 20th, 2011
6:38 am
Two easy wins against the pathetic acc. What, we couldn’t schedule Army.
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May 20th, 2011
7:04 am
[...] No opening-game cupcakes for Georgia. The Bulldogs will open their 2013 and 2014 seasons against Clemson. That’s not following the time-tested bakery formula for SEC non-conference success. Remember, the Bulldogs play Georgia Tech every year in the finale. New AD Greg McGarity said he wanted to take another look at football scheduling, but apparently decided he likes full stadiums. [AJC] [...]
Orance Crush
May 20th, 2011
7:12 am
Pretty red jerseys pretty red britches Fight TIGERS and beat them son xx a Butches.
R Greer
May 20th, 2011
7:15 am
Fussball- considering that the SEC wins the BCS almost like an annual tradition, I see no reason for the best and hardest conf to make it even harder than it already is.
joe suggs
May 20th, 2011
7:15 am
Hey Pawsitive Experience, maybe you can take your sister parking after the game.
Astropig
May 20th, 2011
7:48 am
In ‘13, the Doggies have a chance to be the South Carolina state champions if the beat Clemson,USC and Charleston …
FanSince59
May 20th, 2011
7:51 am
Hopefully, Richt won’t be around in 2013/2014. That’ll break a lot of hearts.
Spike
May 20th, 2011
8:10 am
They have a coach named Dabo.
5 stars equals 7 losses and 11 arrest
May 20th, 2011
8:23 am
it is funny how the dog poops cheer for clempsun to beat GT, well GT fans will now be pulling for Clempsun to beat the dogpoops.
aint scurred
May 20th, 2011
8:23 am
wooo wee nutting breeds rivalry like good ole fashion backyard brawl between these 2! UGA and Clemson, respect the tiger, fear the orange and sort out the laundry bc the reds gonna run!
Dawg Gone
May 20th, 2011
8:25 am
Well have to hand it to our AD..great planning renew a old rivalry, pack the house home and away..get to begin and end the season with smacking down the ACC..perfect !
JB
May 20th, 2011
8:37 am
The current AD did not schedule this game.
David C
May 20th, 2011
8:41 am
Nice that Georgia is playing Clemson in 2013, but the rest of the out conference Schedule is a joke… Guess Georgia wants to make sure they are at least 4-1 in out of Conference Play..
Flat Tire on I-95 In Jacksonville
May 20th, 2011
8:53 am
Wish they would bring this game back every year
KeithB
May 20th, 2011
8:54 am
I like it.
Dawg Gone
May 20th, 2011
8:56 am
JB correct the game was already planned but setting it up as the opener was I think his idea and I think its brilliant. Always enjoyed the Clemson games hated to see the series end.
Flat Tire on I-95 In Jacksonville
May 20th, 2011
8:57 am
David C
Every team has a joke out of conference schedule you dope
I guess you just picked up watching college football or your age is 5 yrs old
Which is it?
Big Orange
May 20th, 2011
8:59 am
Hope they play better than that crummy baseball team of theirs
Go Tigers!
mdawg
May 20th, 2011
9:18 am
i concur “a complete blank”….. clemson is not a team that us new age DAWG fans want to schedule…. i personally hate this rivalry. and never want to play clemson again… their school is a joke. their city is a joke and there is not 1 good thing that can come from this
DawginLex
May 20th, 2011
9:28 am
2003 game was a beatdown like no other. a beautiful thing.
Love playing Clempson
SC govt officials need to plan early though for the 2014 game in Athens.
when clempson has a road game, agricultural economy takes a big hit. No plowing for a whole week.
Tractors have to leave for the game on Sunday.
DawginLex
May 20th, 2011
9:31 am
5 stars equals 7 losses and 11 arrest
May 20th, 2011
8:23 am
it is funny how the dog poops cheer for clempsun to beat GT, well GT fans will now be pulling for Clempsun to beat the dogpoops.
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Hey you inbred moron:
LIST THE UGA FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARRESTED IN CALENDAR YEAR 2011.
I WILL PATIENTLY AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE OF “GIVE IT TIME”.
WHY? BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN “NONE”, “ZERO”, “ZILCH”
Come up with some new material son. Even the TROLLS are complaining.
roartiger
May 20th, 2011
9:38 am
Heyes mdawg, Clemson is a helluva a lot better than that ghetto Athens. I’d rather be shot in a hunting accident I’m Clemson than shot up in a drive by in ur dirty town.
FBFan
May 20th, 2011
9:41 am
Maybe they can broadcast the games on the history channel. Have a narrartor talk about the few times in the 1980s when maybe the games were slightly relevant. Without a history lesson no one under the age of 50 will care! At half they could show clips from the “good ole days” when the Dawgs actually had decent teams.
One thing about it Clemson sucks so they should be a couple good games.
CMR you da man!
Gator Mike
May 20th, 2011
9:57 am
I admire UGA for re-igniting the rivalry with Clemson. I wish UF would open with Miami or someone like Ohio St. etc. instead of some patsy.
Good on McGarity and UGA.
1eyedJack
May 20th, 2011
10:18 am
“UGA’s other non-confererence home games in 2013 are against North Texas and Appalachian State. They get Charleston Southern and South Alabama in ‘14.”
I guess even Chip don’t consider GT worth mentioning anymore.
Matthews Dawg
May 20th, 2011
10:18 am
It’s a game that should be scheduled EVERY YEAR! Great games and I hope they start playing yearly! Go Dawgs!!
Footballrules
May 20th, 2011
10:22 am
ffdfd….you say Clemson sucks balz academically? Hmmmm….I believe in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking, UGA was rated somewhere around the 58th best school in America, with Clemson only two or three places behind. What’s good for the goose…..
sportspaige
May 20th, 2011
10:30 am
hey Complete Blank, seems to work fine for Florida.
Rabid Dawg 84
May 20th, 2011
11:03 am
CFB and Blank, we just finished home-and-homes with Ok St., Arizona St. and Colorado. Y’all don’t know what the crap you’re talking about. UGA/Clemson look good on the field together. Go Dawgs!
coloradobulldog
May 20th, 2011
11:16 am
Great news! I recall fondly going to Clemson-UGA games as a kid. Always seemed like the games were close & exciting. Death Valley is a fun stadium and you can take a boat instead of an RV to tailgate. The proximity of schools and fans make this a great rivalry to renew. Hope Dawgs sweep the orange (CU, UT, UF and Auburn).
bevin kutler
May 20th, 2011
11:35 am
Tee it up, baby…….
Dawg Man
May 20th, 2011
12:07 pm
Clemson will probably forfeit rather than be run off the field by our National Champ dawgs !!!!!
King Saban
May 20th, 2011
12:16 pm
Hmmm. Two ok but not great teams playing an interconference game- both of them being 1 club members. 1 club means one nc. No thanks. I think I’ll watch 2 much weightier traditions Alabama and Penn State instead.
DawginLex
May 20th, 2011
12:19 pm
don’t worry king, the trailer park Bammers will have run you out of Bama by then after you underachieve a couple of more times as the preseason #1 team and lose 3 games, including blowing a 24 point lead at home to your hated in state rival.
hammerhead
May 20th, 2011
12:54 pm
I rarely post, but had to after reading a Clemson fan refer to our 30-0 win as a fluke. Dear Lord. Getting beat by 30 points in your own backyard is a lotta things, but a fluke ain’t one of ‘em. And, King Saban, if Georgia claimed all of the silly “National Championships” handed out by magazines and newspapers back in the days of leather helmets, we’d be in something greater than the “1 Club”… National Championships in college football are all mythical. Until the NCAA sanctions one, there will only be those willing to fly a banner claiming the mythical NC.
danny ford
May 20th, 2011
2:37 pm
roartiger where did you learn to spell? oh that’s right at Clemson.
Lamer
May 20th, 2011
4:13 pm
but, but that’s not teh out of region game! It doesn’t count unless UGA travels at least 2,000 miles to play a non-conference team!
npgator
May 20th, 2011
4:16 pm
I wonder who will be coaching the Dawgs then?