College GameDay announces SEC destination for Week 5
As the SEC moves into its second week of action, a historic matchup will host ESPN’s “College GameDay” next week. It will be in Athens for the Auburn-Georgia game at the location of the “Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry.”
The popular pregame show was last in Athens for the big Notre Dame game last season, but this time, the talk will be about Auburn knocking off Kentucky this week, while Georgia had a sloppy win at Arkansas.
Georgia’s Oct. 3 home opener against Auburn will be the earliest the Bulldogs have played Auburn in a year since 1892, when they played Feb. 20. The teams were set to meet Oct. 10 after traditionally playing mostly in November since the 1920s.
Last year, Georgia clinched the SEC East with a 21-14 victory over No. 13 Auburn.
It’s set for a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN.
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We’re headed to the Classic City for Auburn-Georgia! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Em5wb7Elhi
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 27, 2020
Finally a good game that Gameday is going to!
The way Georgia looked today Auburn def has a decent shot to beat em
I’m interested to see how Vegas reacts to the Week 1 results. Auburn looked pretty much how I thought they would (more diverse and improved on offense).
MSU now looks like they could roll into Tuscaloosa 4-0. I checked 247 and they do have two or three 4-star receivers.
Kudos to Derek Mason. They might win one with the effort they gave yesterday.
As expected, Matt Corral is for real. Even with some advantages yesterday (no game film of Kiffin’s offense, Florida’s safeties depleted) he still looked like he’s going to put up points in that offense.
I think Vegas is going to take a hard look at LSU. There is obvious talent on the team, but Brennan often looked like a true freshman.
Trask for Florida moved extremely well in the pocket and was pinpoint accurate. Looks like Mullen was right about Malik Davis being back and Toney being a true route runner. Toney ran a dig route yesterday that deserves to be on a highlight film, even without the catch. The defense will be fine. They had no film of Kiffin’s offense and had light tackling work because Mullen is concerned about injuries with the COVID roster restrictions.
Alabama looked the part. Saban reportedly practices with more contact (which he can afford to do with his quality roster depth) so the Bama defense had less rust. Jones was very crisp and Najee Harris definitely looks like the third guy in New York. Bryce Young reminded me of the ridiculous hype that gets put on top true freshman quarterbacks. He’ll probably be great, but he needs reps and the idea that he’s going to push Jones aside this year is probably just hype.
Kentucky’s 2018 team put five guys in the League, six including Bowden. This is a solid team, but not on the level of 2018.
Collin Hill looked halfway decent.
Of Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, Tennessee appears to have the highest ceiling. Looks like they’ll have some pass catchers after all. Was happy to see Guarantano get the win.
Georgia. Welcome to Florida’s 2019 offensive line struggles. That game would have stayed tight but Arkansas has no depth and its defense got gassed. Stetson Bennett came in and did a serviceable job but they need Daniels to get cleared. Looks like Jamie Newman was not concerned about getting beat out after all.
You mean my man Jamie Newman wasn’t going to be 3rd string after all? My UGA insider sources all said he bolted cause Mathis was so much better
Mathis was better because Beck was pushing hard for playing time. Stetson must have spiked the Powerade before warmups