first time since mark richt was hired, it seems like lol
The extent of our schedule strength over UGA is that we play Alabama every year and they don't. Going back to Richt's hire, we have played Alabama all 23 years and Georgia has played them 12 times (7 in-season, 5 post-season). So, as far as looking at final records are concerned, we have 11 more games against Alabama this century than Georgia.
On the flip side, our out of conference schedule usually has not compared favorably to other Eastern Division foes like Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, because those 3 have often played 2 P5 teams out of conference in a year and we haven't played more than 1 since 2003 (Duke and Miami). Going back the last 6 seasons (since one was the pandemic year and all OOC games were cancelled that year) as far as P5 teams are concerned:
Florida has scheduled OOC:
2024- Miami, Florida State
2023- Utah, Florida State
2022- Utah, Florida State
2021- Florida State
2020- Pandemic
2019- Miami, Florida State
Georgia has scheduled OOC:
2024- Clemson, Georgia Tech
2023- Georgia Tech
2022- Oregon, Georgia Tech
2021- Clemson, Georgia Tech
2020- Pandemic
2019- Notre Dame, Georgia Tech
Tennessee has scheduled OOC:
2024- NC State
2023- Virginia
2022- Pitt
2021- Pitt
2020- Pandemic
2019- BYU
So advantage FL/GA there. I still don't think the above OOC compensates for the fact that we played Alabama 11 more times this century than Georgia (and 12 more times than Florida) but otherwise our schedules have pretty much been the same. Of course who the permanent opponents have been in conference have been mandated, and a loss to Alabama never cost us the East title, sadly in the years we didn't win it, we either beat Bama or weren't close enough to the division leader for it to matter. We could have solved all of our division problems by beating Georgia and Florida, which we haven't done any more often this century than we've beat Bama.
God I hate UF.
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