UGA Football: Breaking Down the 2020 Schedule for the Dawgs

ATHENS —— Georgia will face three teams ranked in the Coaches’ Pre-Season Top 25 poll in its revised 2020 football schedule, according to an announcement Monday evening by the Southeastern Conference.

The Bulldogs will play Oct. 17 at #3 Alabama, Nov. 7 against Florida in Jacksonville and Oct. 3 at home against #11 Auburn.  The latter game is one of just four home contests for Georgia, the fewest in Athens since a 3-year stretch from 1965-67, when the college football season consisted of a 10-game regular season.  Additionally, every SEC game in the previously announced schedule for Georgia has found a new date.  That includes the annual clash with Florida in Jacksonville, which for the first time since 1991 will not be played on its traditional weekend of late October/early November.

A breakdown of the schedule follows:
Sept. 26 at Arkansas:  As announced earlier Monday by the SEC, the Bulldogs will travel to Arkansas for their season opener on Sept. 26.  Georgia leads the all-time series with Arkansas by a 10-4 margin.  The two programs last met six years ago, when the Bulldogs prevailed 45-32 in Little Rock on Oct. 18, 2014.  Their last meeting in Fayetteville occurred in the 2009 season, when Georgia won 52-41.  The 2020 game will mark the Division I head coaching debut of Arkansas’ Sam Pittman, who spent the previous four seasons at Georgia, the first three as the offensive line coach and the final year as Associate Head Coach in charge of the offensive line.

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UGA Football: Smart, Bulldogs Preview Fall Practice

ATHENS, Ga. —  University of Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart, along with several student-athletes, previewed fall camp Sunday afternoon. They offered the following comments.

Head coach Kirby Smart

Opening comments … 

“Welcome back. It is good to see everybody. I know we are super excited to be back and be here working at the office. What a crazy time it has been the last five months. First, I want to tell our administration here how much they have supported us, how much they have meant to us, how much they have meant to the players. President [Jere W.] Morehead, Greg McGarity — Ron Courson and his staff have been incredible. I have never spent as much time with a staff as I have Ron. We have almost moved in together between the number of meetings we have had together down in his office and also up in my office. We have spent a lot of time together, and I feel very blessed to have someone like Ron that the players trust, the parents trust — they have an open line of communication. It just goes to show you how important it is to have a good athletic trainer who is present during recruiting, because a lot of the relationships that are developed with our players starts with Ron Courson and our staff members. That has been a big part of our support and our process.

“I am going to open it up with updates on some injuries, and I am sure you guys have a million questions about everything going on. I do not want to hinder your questions, but I do want to kind of update some guys on some people. I’ll start with Dom [Dominck Blaylock]. He is not completely cleared to practice or play. He is going to have a black shirt on. He is working out. He is coming off his ACL that occurred in the SEC Championship game, so he is not completely cleared yet, but he has worked really hard. He has been able to do some straight-line running and some workout stuff.

“The next guy we will talk about is DJ Daniel. He has missed some time due to an ankle injury. He is almost back, but this small summer access window we have had where we were able to have a little more time than we normally do — he was not able to do much during that time. So, I would not say he is behind, because he is a kid who played a lot of snaps last year, but he will be back with us kind of full time starting tomorrow.

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