Georgia football enters the 2024 season as one of the top teams in the country. But it won’t be all on the shoulders of Kirby Smart to lead this team to another national championship. There will be many twists and turns along the way, with different players being asked to step up.
With that in mind, DawgNation is previewing the upcoming season, looking at the most important names, games and everything in between. Today, the DawgNation team is focused on the most important game of the season. The team all agree that it’s the Sept. 28 game against Alabama that matters the most for the Bulldogs.
Brandon Adams: “Despite road trips to Texas and Ole Miss and home games against Tennessee and Auburn, no game looms larger than the big game coming up in September against the Alabama Crimson Tide.”
Mike Griffith: “Georgia has to slay the Alabama dragon. They have to put Kalen DeBoer in his place and serve notice that Georgia, not Alabama is the supreme program in the SEC. That would give the Bulldogs the momentum they need to what could be an undefeated season.”
Connor Riley: “Kirby Smart is just 1-5 against Alabama, with all of those losses against Nick Saban. He’s got a chance to separate Georgia from the Alabama program and Kalen DeBoer, one that ended Georgia’s season in 2023.”
Jeff Sentell: “This is a statement game. A Georgia win would say that the powers in the college football world have changed. It was not Alabama that was so hard to beat but rather Nick Saban.”
Georgia is set to visit Alabama on Sept. 28. The game will air on ABC in primetime, with kickoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET. This will be the first time that Alabama and Georgia meet in the regular season since 2020, a game Alabama won. The Bulldogs have not win in Tuscaloosa, Ala., since 2007.
That happened to be Nick Saban’s first year in charge. In 2024, Kalen DeBoer will take over the Alabama program, as Saban has retired.
Alabama beat Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship Game, ending Georgia’s quest for a third consecutive national championship. The win pushed Alabama into the College Football Playoff, where the Crimson Tide ultimately lost to Michigan.
