SEC Nation will be heading to Athens for a Week 12 collision between conference powerhouses who know a little bit about each other.
The popular Saturday morning pregame show on SEC Network will be broadcasting live in the leadup to Saturday night’s heavyweight battle between Texas and Georgia. The Longhorns and Bulldogs will kick it off at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC, with both programs looking to keep driving toward a College Football Playoff berth.
The other big thing both teams are looking at is a possible SEC title game berth, which was the big moment that they shared last season in Atlanta. In the 2024 SEC Championship Game, Georgia outlasted Texas, 22-19 in overtime, and both teams went on to the Playoff.
This time around, the teams will be hooking up in a late regular-season game with implications everywhere. Texas is coming off a bye and is at 7-2 overall with those Playoff hopes still intact, although with 2 losses already the Longhorns have no wiggle room. They must go to Athens on Saturday night and beat the Bulldogs, who are 8-1 and coming off a Week 11 victory at Mississippi State.
The pregame show will begin at 10 a.m. ET from Athens, which follows Marty & McGee at 9 a.m. ET.
There won’t be confetti falling on the turf after Saturday night’s showdown, like there was last December in Atlanta. But there will still be a ton on the line for this mid-November matchup at Sanford Stadium.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
