Georgia and UCLA Set Future Home-and-Home Football Series
While it's a decade away from happening, college football fans can look forward to another pair of high-profile games between the SEC and the Pac-12.
On Wednesday, Georgia and UCLA announced a home-and-home series for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. The two teams will open their campaigns in Los Angeles on Aug. 30, 2025 and then in Athens on Sept. 5, 2026.
The news was first reported by the Athens Banner-Herald's Marc Weiszer.
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"This home and home series provides an opportunity for our students and fans to enjoy a great matchup of two tradition-rich football programs in two of the most iconic venues in sports the Rose Bowl and Sanford Stadium," Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said in a statement. "These games will attract significant national attention on the opening weekend of the college football season, and we are thankful to our peers at UCLA for making this series happen."
The two teams have met only twice in their history, with Georgia holding a 2-0 record over UCLA. The Bulldogs defeated the Bruins 9-0 in the 1943 Rose Bowl and 19-8 in Athens in 1983.
UCLA now has three home-and-home series scheduled against SEC opponents. The Bruins play Texas A&M in 2016 and 2017 and then pick up a series against LSU in 2021 and 2024.
This Georgia-UCLA series will be another in a growing list of notable matchups between the SEC and the Pac-12 over the next decade, which includes a couple of one-off neutral-site games.
| Texas A&M vs. Arizona State | Neutral Site (Texas Kickoff) | 2015 |
| Alabama vs. USC | Neutral Site (Cowboys Classic) | 2016 |
| Texas A&M vs. UCLA | Home and Home | 2016, 2017 |
| Ole Miss vs. Cal | Home and Home | 2017, 2019 |
| Auburn vs. Cal | Home and Home | 2020, 2021 |
| LSU vs. UCLA | Home and Home | 2021, 2024 |
| Mississippi State vs. Arizona | Home and Home | 2022, 2023 |
| Georgia vs. UCLA | Home and Home | 2025, 2026 |
A spike in scheduling between the two conferences is partly due to a new SEC rule. Starting in 2016, each SEC team will have to play at least one nonconference opponent from a Power Five league.
While a lot can change between now and 2025—the players who will face off in this series are currently in elementary and middle school—a series pitting two Power Five teams who are consistently in the Top 25 is definitely good news for fans of the Bulldogs, Bruins and college football.
Justin Ferguson is an on-call college football writer at Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @JFergusonBR.
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