TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The SEC is all about tradition and, in that vein, celebrates its traditional rivalry games, of which Alabama versus Georgia does not exist.<\/p>\n
But in the case of the Bulldogs and Crimson Tide, the programs\u2019 SEC dominance has led to an intense series that\u2019s put fans on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next meeting this season.<\/p>\n
The Alabama players at SEC Media Days feel it, too, as Tide receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams noted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve made it a rivalry,\u201d Coleman-Williams said when asked by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the series\u2019 significance. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have the same feeling as the Third Saturday in October (Alabama-Tennessee rivalry), or the Iron Bowl (Alabama-Auburn), but it\u2019s definitely a rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Coleman-Williams\u2019 point, Georgia has its traditional rivals, too: Florida, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Tennessee chief among them.<\/p>\n
But beating Alabama holds a special place for the Bulldogs, as they have taken over the mantle as the league\u2019s premier team as reigning back-to-back SEC champions and appearances in eight of the last nine league title games.<\/p>\n
Georgia\u2019s biggest win of all over the Crimson Tide came in the CFP Championship Game, 33-18, following the 2021 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not really a rivalry, but I can tell you the view from the die-hard Alabama fans,\u201d said the SEC Network\u2019s Paul Finebaum, who hosts a daily call-in show. \u201cThey think Alabama owns Georgia. I hear it from every single one of them. Alabama fans think Georgia is an automatic win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps, but the Bulldogs own current bragging rights by virtue of their decisive 28-7 win over the Tide in last season\u2019s SEC Championship game.<\/p>\n
Come Oct. 10, the game will once again ignite, as UGA travels to Tuscaloosa to play the Tide.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a place Georgia hasn\u2019t won since 2007, when NFL MVP Matthew Stafford led a Mark Richt-coached team to a 26-23 overtime victory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cGames with Georgia, they come down to a handful of plays, two to five plays, that really change the whole game,\u201d Alabama cornerback Zabien Brown said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s a first down or completed pass, those games are chess matches, (so) I think it\u2019s definitely a rivalry in terms of how often we play and how much we do know each other. We know what they\u2019re going to do, and they know what we\u2019re going to do, and it comes down to execution.\u201d<\/p>\n
This season\u2019s game is projected to feature two top-ranked teams that are favored to be undefeated when they meet for what will be the 10th time in the past 10 seasons.<\/p>\n
This, even though it will only be the fourth scheduled meeting in that span, as the other six meetings will have taken place in the postseason with a championship of some sort on the line. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just think when you look at the games over the past years, they\u2019ve all been really, really big games, two talented teams, heavy matchups,\u201d Tide safety Bray Hubbard said. \u201cYou face them in the regular season, you face them in the postseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best teams are going to end up playing each other, that\u2019s just part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alabama\u2019s Bryant-Denny Stadium is just one of three SEC football venues where coach Kirby Smart has yet to win a game he has led the Bulldogs into, LSU\u2019s Tiger Stadium (0-1) and Ole Miss Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (0-2) the others.<\/p>\n
Georgia has not played at Oklahoma, which joined the SEC in 2024.<\/p>\n
Georgia vs. Alabama <\/p>\n
(Kirby Smart era, 2016-current)<\/p>\n
2025: UGA 28, Alabama 7 (Atlanta)<\/p>\n
2025: Alabama 24, Georgia 21 (Athens)<\/p>\n
2024: Alabama 41, Georgia 34 (Tuscaloosa)<\/p>\n
2023: Alabama 27, Georgia 24 (Atlanta)<\/p>\n
2022: Georgia 33, Alabama 18 (Indianapolis)<\/p>\n
2021: Alabama 41, Georgia 24 (Atlanta)<\/p>\n
2020: Alabama 41, Georgia 24 (Tuscaloosa)<\/p>\n
2018: Alabama 35, Georgia 28 (Atlanta)<\/p>\n
2018: Alabama 26, Georgia 23, OT (Atlanta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The SEC is all about tradition and, in that vein, celebrates its traditional rivalry games,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5183,2234,1976,399,681,105290,398,396,397,7702,99],"class_list":["post-781297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama","tag-championship","tag-college","tag-football","tag-georgia","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sec","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}