Georgia football once again faces a daunting schedule during their upcoming 2025 season. On top of that, the team itself has a lot of questions they must answer after losing countless players to the NFL and Transfer Portal this offseason.
However, ESPN analyst Chris Low believes there is one archvillian Georgia must overcome this season.
“Nick Saban was 5-1 against Kirby Smart, but even with Saban in his first year of retirement last season, Alabama still beat Georgia in a wild 41-34 game in Tuscaloosa the final weekend of September,” ESPN analyst Chris Low said via saturdaydownsouth.com. “Georgia has lost nine of the past 10 games in the series and hasn’t beaten Alabama in the regular season since 2007, Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa, when the Mark Richt-coached Bulldogs won 26-23 in overtime. Georgia has vaulted to elite status under Smart, but a second straight loss to DeBoer — especially with this year’s game being played in Athens — wouldn’t sit well with anybody in Athens.”
Georgia’s season depends on a bounce back performance against Alabama
While Georgia is one of the top programs in the entire country, Alabama is the one team the Bulldogs have not been able to overcome. Sure Georgia beat the Tide a few years ago in the National Championship game, but that is Georgia’s only win over Alabama in their last 10 meetings.
Thankfully Alabama comes to Athens this season for Georgia’s fourth game of the season. A win in this game would cement UGA as a threat to repeat as SEC Champions and make it back to the College Football Playoff, but a loss would seriously hurt their chances at accomplishing both.
But at the end of the day, potentially the biggest reason why Georgia needs to win is so they can get this narrative off their back. Losing to Alabama when Nick Saban was still head coach was always easy to write off, but losing to the Tide in Kalen DeBoer’s first two years as head coach is inexcusable.
So there clearly a lot of reasons why Georgia needs to beat Alabama this season, thankfully Vegas and the rest of the college football world believe UGA will be able to get it done.