The Georgia Bulldogs have four non-conference games scheduled for the 2030 season, but the SEC has expanded its conference schedule to include nine games, starting this coming fall. Unless UGA is trying to play one of those non-cons in Hawaii, the math isn't mathing, and one of those games is going to get the axe.
Dawn of the Dawg's Trevor Michael has a sneaking suspicion that Georgia's marquee matchup with the Ohio State Buckeyes could be the one that gets the cut over their "Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate" rivalry game with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and matchups with the Clemson Tigers and North Carolina A&T Aggies.
"As it stands today, the Buckeyes do not plan on canceling this series with Georgia. The Bulldogs however, may have no choice as they have four non-conference opponents scheduled for the 2030 season, which would give them 13 games. Georgia won’t cancel on Georgia Tech, so there’s a chance OSU could get the boot," Michael wrote.
"A decision on this series likely won’t come for a few years, but it’s clear that Ohio State is leaving it up to Georgia. Unfortunately, it may be in Georgia’s best interest to cancel this series, but if they wish to be bold then they can cancel on North Carolina A&T or Clemson (who is also on their 2030 schedule)."
The SEC is running scared from Ohio State
The SEC doesn't want that Ohio State smoke.
Despite bragging about how difficult their gauntlet of a schedule is, SEC schools, besides the Texas Longhorns, don't seem willing to step up to the plate and face the Buckeyes buzzsaw. As Paul Finebaum recently revealed, the Alabama Crimson Tide is almost certainly guaranteed to back out of its home-and-home series with OSU.
“I sincerely doubt the Alabama game is going to happen based on what I’ve heard from Alabama’s AD,” Finebaum said on 97.1 The Fan. “He’s got a shaky situation there anyway with a coach who is in trouble. Georgia might do it because they’re a little more in-tune and aligned, but I really don’t think we’re going to go too far and see those games. I know what Ross Bjork has said, and I know what [Chris] Del Conte has said and other ADs have said, but the reality is that the ninth SEC game is going to be very costly for a lot of programs.”
Not everyone is cut out to compete with the best of the best every year. Sure, it's true that the SEC is an overall deeper conference than the Big Ten, but the "It Just Means More" conference may lose that grip soon as wealthy donors continue coming out of the woodwork to support their alma maters in the Midwest and West Coast.
To see Alabama and Georgia, the faces of pre-rev-share dominance, back down from Ohio State is proof that College Football may never be the same again after over-the-table money was added to the equation.