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First Texas-UGA recreation in Athens tops SEC’s 2025

The SEC introduced its 2025 soccer schedule Wednesday, which shall be highlighted by the third assembly between Georgia and Texas in lower than a yr.

Texas will journey to Georgia subsequent season on Nov. 15. The Bulldogs received each video games this season, a 22-19 time beyond regulation win within the SEC championship recreation final Saturday and a 30-15 win in Austin on Oct. 19. The recreation subsequent season will mark the primary time the 2 groups, each on this yr’s College Football Playoff, will meet in Athens.

Some of the dates of rivalry video games have been pushed up and/or again within the schedule. Georgia and Tennessee will play on Sept. 13 in Knoxville, the earliest the 2 groups have met since 1995. Florida and Tennessee will sq. off in Gainesville the next-to-last week of the season on Nov. 22, the primary November matchup between the groups since 1955.

Alabama and Georgia will play on Sept. 27 in Athens. They final met in Athens in 2015 when present Georgia coach Kirby Smart was in his last season as Nick Saban’s defensive coordinator at Alabama.

Georgia performed one of many hardest highway schedules within the nation this season, however that flips in 2025. The Bulldogs will face Alabama (Sept. 27), Ole Miss (Oct. 18) and Texas (Nov. 15) all at house. In addition, after opening the 2024 season in Atlanta in opposition to Clemson, Georgia will open the 2025 season at house in opposition to Marshall.

Alabama would not depart the state for its last 5 video games. After an open date on Nov. 1, Alabama faces LSU, Oklahoma and Georgia State all at house earlier than closing the season at Auburn.

Missouri has eight house video games in 2025, the primary time at Faurot Field, and would not play a highway recreation till the Tigers go to Auburn on Oct. 18.

Oklahoma has what appears to be like to be one of the crucial difficult second halves of the 2025 season. The Sooners play 4 SEC video games in 4 weeks and not using a break, and just one is at house. That stretch begins with the annual rivalry in opposition to Texas in Dallas on Oct. 11, then a visit to Georgia on Oct. 18, a house recreation in opposition to Ole Miss on Oct. 25 and highway date with Tennessee on Nov. 1. Following a bye week, Oklahoma faces Alabama, Missouri and LSU to finish the season.

Arkansas has back-to-back highway video games in opposition to LSU on Nov. 15 and Texas on Nov. 22, and the Hogs’ recreation with Texas A&M subsequent season is at house on Oct. 18 in Fayetteville and never in Arlington, Texas, the place it has been performed 10 of the previous 11 conferences between the faculties. South Carolina, which closed this common season with six straight wins, has two big house video games subsequent season in October — Oklahoma on Oct. 18 and Alabama on Oct. 25.

Among the highest nonconference video games involving SEC groups: LSU at Clemson (Aug. 30), Texas at Ohio State (Aug. 30), Tennessee vs. Syracuse in Atlanta (Aug. 30), Michigan at Oklahoma (Sept. 6), Texas A&M at Notre Dame (Sept. 13) and Florida at Miami (Sept. 20).

Ella Bennet
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