Georgia football’s 2019 schedule mimics history, can the Dawgs repeat?

If Georgia football’s 2019 schedule looks familiar, that’s because it almost mirrors the 1980 schedule and we all know how that season ended.

Georgia football has an eerily similar schedule to the last year it won a national championship.

However is it a coincidence or is fate that the Bulldogs could repeat history, almost identically.

According to Sports-Reference, in 1980, the Dawgs schedule looked like this:

Game 1: Sept. 6, Georgia at Tennessee (Dawgs won 16-15)

Game 2: Sept. 13, Georgia vs. Texas A&M (Dawgs won 42-0)

Game 3: Sept. 20, Georgia vs. Clemson (Dawgs won 20-0)

Game 4: Sept. 27, Georgia vs. Texas Christian (Dawgs won 34-3)

Game 5: Oct. 11, Georgia vs. Ole Miss (Dawgs won 28-21)

Game 6: Oct. 18, Georgia vs. Vanderbilt (Dawgs won 41-0)

Game 7: Oct. 25, Georgia @ Kentucky (Dawgs won 27-0)

Game 8: Nov. 1, Georgia vs. South Carolina (Dawgs won 13-10)

Game 9: Nov. 8, Georgia vs. Florida (Dawgs won 26-21)

Game 10: Nov. 15, Georgia @ Auburn (Dawgs won 31-21)

Game 11: Nov. 29, Georgia vs. Georgia Tech (Dawgs won 38-20)

Game 12: Jan. 1, Georgia vs. Notre Dame (Dawgs won 17-10)

A perfect season with wins over some of our biggest rivals. Georgia had to fight hard to get those wins, and the national title was earned with every blood sweat and tears on the field.

Georgia won the national championship in New Orleans, at the Sugar Bowl.

Now let’s look at the 2019 schedule:

Game 1: Aug. 31, Georgia @ Vanderbilt

Game 2: Sept. 7, Georgia vs. Murray State

Game 3: Sept. 14, Georgia vs. Arkansas State

Game 4: Sept. 21, Georgia vs. Notre Dame

Game 5: Oct. 5, Georgia @ Tennessee

Game 6: Georgia vs. South Carolina

Game 7: Georgia vs. Kentucky

Game 8: Nov. 2,  Georgia vs. Florida

Game 9: Nov. 9, Georgia vs. Missouri

Game 10:  Nov. 16, Georgia @ Auburn

Game 11: Nov. 23, Georgia vs. Texas A&M

Game 12: Nov. 30, Georgia @ Georgia Tech

2019’s College Football Playoff Championship will be held on Jan. 13, 2020 at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Do you see the similarities?

Georgia will open on the road against an SEC opponent, in 1980 it was in Knoxville as the Dawgs took on Tennesse. For the 2019 season, the Dawgs open up in Nashville against Vanderbilt.

The Dawgs also faceoff with Notre Dame and Texas A&M like they did in the 1980 season. Georgia played Auburn on the road in 1980 and does the same now.

While there might be similarities, I’m not ready to say it’s fate. Does it look good to fans? Of course, it does. However, I think that the scheduling is a coincidence.

Now if the Dawgs go 12-0 and make it through the SEC Championship and the semi-finals of the College Football Playoff, then I might label it as fate.

I’m not saying that I don’t think 2019 could be a special season because I feel like it can be. However, I don’t think Georgia fans should assume that it’ll end the same way it did in 1980. It is cool to see the similarities, but I don’t want to jinx Georgia either.

For now, let’s take games one at a time and let the team do like the 1980 team did, take it game by game and not look ahead. Georgia had a ton of miracles in 1980, and that might have to happen in 2019 for the Dawgs to mimick history.