The SEC schedules for the 2023 college football season have been announced, and it revealed that Georgia and Texas A&M will have to wait at least another year before they meet at Kyle Field. The teams have only met once, and have not played at Kyle Field since the Aggies joined the SEC in 2012.

The last time Georgia and Texas A&M met on the field was in 2019 as Georgia won the matchup 19-13.

ESPN’s Joe Tessitore shared on the reveal show on SEC Network, and he had some passionate feelings about the issue.

“It reminds of the other sport that I broadcast at ABC and ESPN, and that’s world championship boxing,” Tessitore said. “We go all these years without getting the fights that we want to see, so we go all these years without seeing Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, why? That’s bad. We need these games to happen and I think we’re all hopeful for what’s happening in expansion of the College Football Playoff, obviously the expansion of our conference, a new scheduling model that’s being well discussed and talked about and seemingly pushed. But it has to take place.”

Tessitore considers both programs in an elite class in college football.

“Just think of it this way: There are only certain programs when you boil it down that realistically can truly know that they’re competing for the national championship in our sport,” he said. “These are 2 of them. There are only certain amount of programs in our sport that are absolute big blue bloods. These are 2 of them. It’s sinful that we haven’t seen it at Kyle Field. To think what the Corps of Cadets would be like there. To think what Midnight Yell would be like the night before the No. 1 team in the country is playing ball there. To think of how loud the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band would be with the Dawgs rolling into Kyle Field and how that sway would be. The pageantry, the colors, the images of those brands together. It has to happen.”