My thoughts on the '24 Clemson-UGA game

Aug 31, 2018, 9:01 PM

I'm torn on this announcement. 1, I'm excited for the fact that the rivalry is getting renewed. However, I'm disappointed that it's going to be a "neutral" site game in Atlanta instead of the home & home many of us were hoping for when word came out earlier this summer that the 2 schools were looking @ scheduling a game.

Obviously I know several things worked against the home & home. The most obvious 1s are the ACC scheduling agreement w/ ND (which has spread them out & leaves uneven gaps between the years CU & ND play). The other is the fact that the home/away dates for our respective in-state rivalries fall together. Both schools obviously want 7 home games, but someone's gonna have to sacrifice 1 to make a home & home line up. Georgia did that in '13 to come to Death Valley & ended up w/ only 6 home games, on top of playing their 2 biggest rivals away from home (@ GT & Florida in Jacksonville). In '14, it worked out for both. For 2021 & 2024 to have worked for a home & home, someone would've had to cave & I'm willing to bet UGA would've wanted Clemson to return the favor. & given Dabo's comments about playing 7 home games, I'm sure that idea would've flown like a pig tied to a ton of bricks.

Which leads me to the wild card of this...the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff. Both teams have had history playing in it, & it gives advantages to both schools. Clemson played in '08 & '12 there - on even numbered years when we played SC @ home. So we get our 7 home games & play a big name opponent away from home in a city that we travel to very well. Now for UGA, the 2 years they've been it, they've only played 6 games in Athens. But I see that as their out for giving up the 7th home game since the neutral site game is in their home state. & for it to be an even number year, that means they get a big name opponent in their home state & a 6 game home slate that has a big game w/ GT going to Athens. So as much as many of us prefer doing home & home games w/ a big time opponent, it looks like this announcement was, for now, the only way to get Clemson & Georgia on the field.

Now obviously, this leaves us in a bind for 2021 as I doubt a power 5 school is going to want to come to us that year & have to wait several years for us to return the favor. My hope is that we can get a name G5 school like Boise to do a 1 off trip to DV (like TCU did in '09) & that there will eventually be an announcement for a Clemson-UGA home & home somewhere dow the road.

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My thoughts on the '24 Clemson-UGA game

I thought the 21 slate was locked with UCONN, Wyoming, SCAR

So far there's still 1 date open in '21

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