{"id":13019,"date":"2025-10-20T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:21:07","slug":"florida-georgia-game-slated-for-familiar-kickoff-time-wruf-98-1-fm-850-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13019\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida-Georgia Game Slated for Familiar Kickoff Time &#8211; WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dust settled on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2025\/10\/19\/florida-parting-ways-with-head-coach-billy-napier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Napier\u2019s firing as Florida Gators coach<\/a>, the kickoff time for the team\u2019s matchup against Georgia was revealed Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Florida-Georgia game will kick off at 3:30 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWar for the Oar\u201d has kicked off at 3:30 each season since after the 2002 season, when it kicked off at 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the tradition of the rivalry has been the site of the game.\u00a0Florida and Georgia have played in Jacksonville consistently since 1933, with the exception of 1994-95, during the Gator Bowl\u2019s demolition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\"\/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s contest will be the last one in Jacksonville until 2028, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2024\/10\/30\/florida-georgia-football-game-to-be-played-in-atlanta-and-tampa-in-2026-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EverBank Stadium\u2019s renovations will force the game to a new location<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the game will head to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, while the 2027 iteration will take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>On the sideline, the post-Napier era officially begins for Florida when they take on Georgia with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2025\/10\/19\/who-is-billy-gonzales-meet-new-interim-head-coach-for-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interim coach Billy Gonzales<\/a> at the helm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Florida is 6-8 all-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2025\/10\/20\/how-the-gators-have-fared-after-firing-coaches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with interim head coaches<\/a> and 3-2 in their debuts. Gonzales is 6-8 against Georgia as an assistant coach in his career and 5-6 with Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry stood trophyless until the 2009 season, when both school\u2019s student governments began utilizing the Okefenokee Oar as a gift to the winner\u2019s student government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teams don\u2019t receive the trophy directly but it is a symbol of pride for the universities to play for.<\/p>\n<p>Both Florida and Georgia have a bye week this week, following wins in Week 8, before they clash for the 102nd time in program history on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p> Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/category\/college-football\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/category\/gator-football\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gators Football<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As dust settled on Billy Napier\u2019s firing as Florida Gators coach, the kickoff time for the team\u2019s matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7849,10858,11704,28,6082,30,29,11705,11706,116,11707,11708,11709,135,11710],"class_list":["post-13019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-atlanta","tag-billy-gonzales","tag-everbank-stadium","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators-football","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gator-bowl","tag-georgia-bulldog-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-sec-on-abc","tag-tampa","tag-worlds-largest-outdoor-cocktail-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}