The Georgia Bulldogs’ 2026 schedule was released Thursday night, revealing one of the program’s more demanding slates in recent years. Matchups against Oklahoma, a road trip to Alabama, another at South Carolina, and the regular-season finale against Georgia Tech headline the challenge.
Georgia’s full 2026 schedule
- vs Tennessee State
- vs Western Kentucky
- @ Arkansas
- vs Oklahoma
- vs Vanderbilt
- @ Alabama
- vs Auburn
- Open
- vs Florida (in Atlanta)
- @ Ole Miss
- vs Missouri
- @ South Carolina
- vs Georgia Tech
One long-time rival missing from Georgia’s 2026 schedule
One notable omission stands out on Georgia’s 2026 schedule: Tennessee. The end of the annual matchup was expected after the SEC announced Georgia’s permanent opponents in September, but seeing the schedule without the Vols still feels unusual.
For the first time in 34 years, Georgia’s newly released 2026 schedule doesn’t include a matchup against longtime SEC East rival Tennessee. It’s a milestone moment that marks the end of a continuous annual series dating back to 1992.
The last time Georgia didn’t play Tennessee was back in 1991, but that was far from the only time the two schools didn’t meet before 1992.
Here’s a list of all the gaps in the Georgia and Tennessee series before the SEC created the SEC Championship Game and with it, the East and West divisions:
- 1990-91
- 1982-87
- 1974-79
- 1970-71
- 1938-67
- 1926-35
- 1911-21
- 1904-05
- 1900-02
Before the creation of the SEC divisions and the Conference Championship Game, Georgia played Tennessee just 21 times. Ten of those times came after the SEC was formed in 1933.
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Now that the SEC has gotten rid of divisions again, Tennessee is back off Georgia’s annual schedule. Given the series’ history, that seems like the right thing to do. Looking at their history, maybe these two were merely divisional rivals rather than historical ones.
It will be weird not being able to see games like the overtime thriller in Knoxville this year on an annual basis, though. That was the game where Gunner Stockton really came into his own as Georgia’s quarterback. When he hit London Humphreys for a touchdown on 4th down, you just knew the Dawgs had something special. Georgia went on to win that one 44-41.
Georgia has dominated the series in recent years, winning nine straight since 2017. Tennessee’s last victory came in 2016 on Josh Dobbs’ infamous Hail Mary — the ‘Dobbnail Boot’ — a moment that still stands out in the rivalry’s modern history. With the SEC’s new scheduling model resetting traditional matchups, the Georgia–Tennessee game now returns to what it historically was: an occasional conference pairing rather than an annual rivalry. For the first time in decades, the Bulldogs’ path through the SEC will not run through Knoxville.
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