Georgia football, Florida State eye neutral site game to replace home-and-home
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Georgia football’s home-and-home series with Florida State appears headed towards being replaced by a neutral site game instead.
The teams are looking at playing in the 2028 season in Tampa, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Athens Banner-Herald.
Georgia approached Florida State about the changes. Discussions are ongoing.
Georgia is scheduled to play at Florida State on Sept. 4, 2027, with the Seminoles returning the game to Athens on Sept. 16, 2028. Those games were announced in 2019.
“We’re going to take it one year at a time right now,” Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks said in September about future nonconference games against Power Four opponents. “The first focus is going to be on ’26 and then ’27 and moving on.”
Georgia already is scheduled to play a neutral site game in Tampa in 2027 against Florida at Raymond James Stadium while stadium renovations in Jacksonville are being completed. The Georgia-Florida game in 2026 will be in Atlanta.
“You’d like to have an opportunity to play an opener or a big-time kickoff neutral-site game,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said on his radio show in September. “We’ve played in a lot of those. I enjoy those.”
Georgia announced this week it has cancelled home-and-home series with Louisville in 2026 and 2027 and N.C. State in 2033 and 2034. That came with the SEC going to a nine-game schedule starting in 2026 and the ACC also moving to nine games.
Like those series, Georgia is not expected to be on the hook for liquidated damages for the Florida State games.
Georgia and Louisville are also working to play a neutral site game.
Louisville athletic director Josh Heird said they’re planning for “the early 2030s,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Louisville replaced the 2026 game with Georgia with a neutral site game against Ole Miss in Nashville.
Georgia and Florida State have played 12 times, but haven’t met in the regular season since 1965.
The Bulldogs won 63-3 in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30, 2023 in their last game.
This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Georgia football, Florida State neutral site game in works to replace home-and-home
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