![]() ![]() It begins at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where Georgia will open against Clemson on Aug. The Bulldogs’ 2024 season gets started with a bang. ![]() Georgia also finished with three consecutive home games in 20, but rarely in the years before that. The Bulldogs haven’t done that since 2018, when they closed against Auburn, UMass and Tech. It is somewhat unusual to end the regular season with three home games. Georgia plays Ole Miss in Oxford – there’s another former West team – then finishes with consecutive home games against Tennessee, Massachusetts and Georgia Tech. There will be more of a traditional feel to the last third of the schedule. Explore More AJC coverage of the Bulldogs Did we mention the Bulldogs have two byes in 2024? So does everybody in the SEC, the cyclical product of the fall calendar. After playing at Texas, the Bulldogs will get their customary bye the Saturday before traveling to Jacksonville to play Florida on Nov. Georgia’s only win in the series came in the 1984 Cotton Bowl, where it’s still 10-9. Georgia last played the Longhorns on Jan. 20, 1958, when sophomore quarterback Fran Tarkenton came off the bench to rally the Bulldogs, who still lost 13-8. Georgia is 1-4 all-time against Texas and has played the Longhorns once in Austin. That date and the Tuscaloosa trip were leaked last week. Then comes the Bulldogs’ much-anticipated trip to Texas to take on the Longhorns on Oct. 28, then get Auburn and Mississippi State in successive weeks at Sanford Stadium the beginning of October. In fact, Georgia will play defending SEC champion Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Sept. Ironically, it is the Bulldogs who will get the Crimson Tide and Auburn in back-to-back weeks in 2024. Before that, Auburn-Georgia – the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry – was played in November every year. That’s roughly the place the Tigers have occupied since 2020, when Auburn asked the SEC for some separation from its two biggest rivals, Alabama and Georgia, in the final weeks of the regular season. 2, in next year’s case), the Bulldogs draw Auburn the first weekend of October. But while the Gators will remain in their traditional late-October, early-November spot on the calendar (Nov. ![]() Explore Brock Vandagriff makes decision on where he will transferĪs expected, Georgia was able to keep longtime SEC rivals Florida and Auburn in place. Īrrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, 45 Main Street, South Paris.But The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained an copy of the Bulldogs’ slate from people with knowledge and access into the months-long planning process that has gone into retooling of the SEC schedule to accommodate 16 teams playing eight conference games while preserving whatever rivalries they can. To share memories and condolences with the family please go to. He was predeceased by his wife Barbrah his parents Lorenzo and Evelyn and a sister Margaret (Peg) Bridges. John is survived by his children Lawrence Hackett, Terrence Hackett, and Karen LaFlamme and her husband John grandchildren Shane and Matthew Lewis, Evyn Steger and her husband Ryan, Nicole Hackett, Adeline Williams, and Theodore Hackett great grandchildren Levon and Rolan Steger brother William Hackett along with several nieces and nephews. He enjoyed going on walks, was an avid reader, and love to play in bridge tournaments, attaining the rank of Life Master. One of his favorite trips was to take the family skiing by flying into Mt. John was a private pilot owning his own airplane, a Beechcraft Bonanza. John was an architect and builder, having designed and built two camps and his own house. John attended the University of Maine Orono where he attained his bachelor’s degree, he then continued his education at New York University where he received his master’s degree in electrical engineering. He was a veteran on the United States Army 101 Airbourne division. 25, 1932, the son of Lorenzo and Evelyn (Brown) Hackett. Hackett, 90, of Oxford, died Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Androscoggin Hospice House, in Auburn. ![]()
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