ESPN College GameDay heading to Tuscaloosa for Georgia vs. Alabama in Week 5
ESPN has announced the location of next weekend’s College GameDay broadcast, and it’s a huge one, as the crew will be headed to Tuscaloosa for Georgia at Alabama in Week 5.
Whenever the Bulldogs and the Crimson Tide face off, it’s bound to be a good one. This season’s iteration of the game has some extra juice, after Nick Saban’s retirement, and Georgia looking for some revenge after their loss in last season’s SEC Championship Game. It really was the only place for College GameDay to go in Week 5.
In addition to College GameDay, former President Donald Trump is also scheduled to attend the Alabama–Georgia game at Bryant Denny Stadium on September 28th, according to Mark Halperin. This won’t be the first time Trump will attend an SEC game during the season, and ahead of November’s election, Trump is surely making the rounds.
Trump previously attended Alabama’s game against LSU in 2019, a year before the 2020 election and his bid to win a second term.
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Regardless, Georgia at Alabama should be an awesome showdown, and it’s evident there will be a ton of pomp and circumstance surrounding the matchup. Whoever wins will be set up nicely to make a run to the College Football Playoff, as well.
Kalen DeBoer: Alabama players have ‘more familiarity’ with facing Georgia than coaching staff
Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of experience on the Alabama football coaching staff these days, from Kalen DeBoer on down. But the staff isn’t not entirely the most experienced rolling through the SEC.
So with Georgia visiting Tuscaloosa on Sept. 28, following a week off for the Crimson Tide, DeBoer and Co. are doing plenty to make sure they’re familiar with their foe. One leg up, though? The players he inherited are plenty familiar.
“So we know we’re going to face a well-rounded football team, one that is going to come into our place and it’s going to be a great contest and for our guys, there’s a lot of familiarity,” DeBoer said on his weekly coaches show. “More familiarity, probably, for our players, than there is for our coaches. But, we’re getting that figured out whether it was prep that we did this summer or work that was done now this week.”
Even though Georgia most recently played a bit of a lethargic offensive game against Kentucky, DeBoer knows that Sept. 28 will be a big, big challenge.
“I don’t think I look at that game and feel like — I take it that Kentucky can do some pretty good things, too. And that’s the way I look at it,” DeBoer said.
In just the last three seasons, the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs have met three times, twice in the postseason. And Alabama has gotten the better of the Bulldogs in two of three contests, only falling short in the national championship game in 2022.
And the 2023 Crimson Tide team pulled off a win over the Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game, a key win that helped get Alabama into the College Football Playoff. When the Bulldogs come back to Bryant-Denny Stadium in late September, DeBoer knows it will be time to lock in.
On3’s Nick Kosko and Andrew Graham contributed to this article.