Georgia's 2024 Schedule Has Leaked and the Bulldogs Finally Have to Play Some Real Games

No team may be more adversely affected by the additions of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC as well as the elimination of divisions than Georgia. The Bulldogs are finally going to have to play a real schedule every year and everyone in Athens is freaking out about it.

UGA's 2024 schedule is absolutely difficult. It will probably end up being in the 10 or 15 hardest in the country. But to call it a "murderer's row" is asinine. There are MAYBE five games on that schedule that Georgia could possibly lose, and that's if you want to really stretch it to include Clemson coming off a very average season and Tennessee with an unknown quantity at quarterback. Realistically, there are probably three.

Also, welcome to the SEC, guys. Gone are the days of playing South Carolina and Vanderbilt every season while going 17 years between real trips to Tuscaloosa — UGA played Alabama on the road in 2020 in a fake season when the SEC played a 10-game conference schedule, but hasn't otherwise since 2007. Tennessee, meanwhile, played in Tuscaloosa eight times since the Dawgs' last real game in Bryant-Denny Stadium. We're finally getting nonsense like that straightened out starting next year.

The one thing I will give Georgia is that three true home games in the first 11 weeks of the season is pretty nuts, but that's what you get for taking a paycheck to play Clemson in Atlanta rather than scheduling a home-and-home. Other than that, this is not dissimilar to the schedules many SEC teams have been playing for quite some time. Get used to it.

And even if things go sideways, you only have to go 10-2 — and maybe even 9-3 if things break the right way — to make the College Football Playoff. You're the best program in the country. You'll be alright.

The full SEC schedule will be revealed next week. I can't wait.