Georgia opens 2026 as the defending SEC champion, ranked No. 3 – and playing the league’s first-ever nine-game conference schedule: Oklahoma visits Athens, the Bulldogs travel to Alabama and Ole Miss, and the Florida game leaves Jacksonville for the first time since 1995, landing in Atlanta while EverBank Stadium gets renovated.
Here’s every date on the slate. Kick times and networks land 6-12 days out, so this page fills in as the season goes.
2026 TEAM SCHEDULE
Georgia Bulldogs
Defending SEC champs, nine league games
PRESEASON RANK
No. 3
Fresh off the 2025 SEC title
NEW THIS YEAR
9 SEC games
The league’s first nine-game conference slate
THE ROAD TEST
Oct. 10
At Alabama – the SEC title game rematch
THE MOVE
Florida in Atlanta
Out of Jacksonville for the first time since 1995
The full 2026 schedule
Home games at Sanford Stadium; rankings are preseason AP
| Date |
Opponent |
Time / Result |
| Sat, Sept. 5 |
vs. Tennessee State |
TBA |
| Sat, Sept. 12 |
vs. Western Kentucky |
TBA |
| Sat, Sept. 19 |
at Arkansas |
TBA |
| Sat, Sept. 26 |
vs. No. 10 Oklahoma |
TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 3 |
vs. Vanderbilt |
TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 10 |
at No. 13 Alabama |
TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 17 |
vs. Auburn |
TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 24 |
Bye week |
– |
| Sat, Oct. 31 |
vs. Florida (Atlanta) |
TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 7 |
at No. 9 Ole Miss |
TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 14 |
vs. Missouri |
TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 21 |
at South Carolina |
TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 28 |
vs. Georgia Tech |
TBA |
The games that will decide the season
Circle these four
| Game |
The stakes |
| At Alabama, Oct. 10 |
The rematch of the 2025 SEC Championship, in Tuscaloosa – Kirby Smart’s programs have made this the league’s defining fixture |
| Oklahoma, Sept. 26 |
Only the second-ever meeting – the first was the legendary 54-48 Rose Bowl overtime in the 2017 playoff – and the Sooners arrive ranked 10th |
| Florida in Atlanta, Oct. 31 |
The Cocktail Party relocates to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for two years – a rivalry institution in a temporary home, with SEC East bragging rights as usual |
| At Ole Miss, Nov. 7 |
A top-10 November road trip to Oxford – the nine-game schedule’s cruelest addition |
SCHEDULE FACTS
Two first-time guests
Tennessee State has never played Georgia, and Western Kentucky’s only visit ended 48-12 in 2006 – September stays gentle.
The Cocktail Party tour
Atlanta in 2026, Tampa in 2027, then back to a renovated Jacksonville – Georgia-Florida becomes a traveling show for two seasons.
Old rivals, new math
Nine league games means Auburn AND the full road gauntlet in the same year – the expanded schedule spares nobody, champions included.
A Champion’s Schedule, Expanded
The SEC’s move to nine conference games lands hardest on its best teams: Georgia draws Alabama and Ole Miss on the road, Oklahoma at home and the relocated Cocktail Party in between – a slate the committee will love and the roster must survive to reach the bracket covered in how the College Football Playoff works. The season’s framework is governed by the NCAA.
The Bottom Line
Nine SEC games for the first time, Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Oklahoma in Athens, Florida in Atlanta and Georgia Tech to close – the defending SEC champs get the hardest version of the league’s new world, which is exactly what a No. 3 ranking buys.
