Georgia Football Makes Major Announcement in Recent Days

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Dave Holcomb | Last updated Jun 1, 2025 3:08 PM ET

The Georgia Bulldogs will take on at least three rivals at 3:30 pm ET during the 2025 regular season. The Bulldogs will also have two other games kick off mid-afternoon.

Georgia announced kickoff times for five 2025 matchups Thursday. All five of the matchups will have the mid-afternoon start.

Those games include two non-conference matchups in Athens, a non-conference neutral site showdown, a road SEC game, and the neutral site SEC rivalry matchup with the Florida Gators.

Other than the Gators, Georgia's opponents in those 3:30 games will be the Marshall Thundering Herd, the Austin Peay Governors, Tennessee Volunteers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Georgia-Florida kicking off at 3:30 pm ET is no surprise. The rivalry matchup, nicknamed, "The World's Largest Cocktail Party," is almost always the Saturday after Halloween at 3:30 ET.

But last year, Georgia faced Tennessee and Georgia Tech in primetime. Also in the past, the Bulldogs have often played their home non-conference games at noon.

Mark your calendars. Game times locked in.#GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/88Dn9sHy8l
— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) May 29, 2025

As the schedule announcement indicated, Georgia will open the first two weeks of the season at home versus Marshall and Austin Peay. The season opener will air on ESPN while the matchup with Austin Peay will be on ESPN+/SEC+.

Georgia's matchups with Tennessee, Florida and Georgia Tech will be on ABC.

Technically, the Bulldogs-Yellow Jackets matchup is a neutral site game this year, but the rivalry game will still be in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Home to the Atlanta Falcons, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a few miles from Bobby Dodd Stadium and Georgia Tech's campus.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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