UGA Football Releases Captains for Season Opener vs. No. 14 Clemson Tigers
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ATHENS - Kirby Smart’s No. 1-ranked UGA Football released its captains for the clash with No. 14 Clemson in Atlanta.
The Bulldogs will take on Dabo Swinney’s program at Noon in Atlanta in a game that will be televised by ABC. The game is the start of a tripleheader on ABC that will feature the Dawgs and Tigers, Miami (FL) at Florida and the nightcap of Notre Dame at Texas A&M. ESPN’s College Gameday is set to broadcast from College Station.
UGA QB Carson Beck, UGA DL Mykel Williams, UGA OL Tate Ratledge and UGA LB Jalen Walker were named UGA Football's captains for the first game of the season.
Georgia owns a lopsided 43-18-4 advantage in the series. There was a time the Bulldogs and Tigers met each season - with the ten years between 1977 and 1987 as the most notable in the series. But with the SEC’s expasion in 1992, the series slowly went away. The two programs have only met eight times since then with UGA winning seven of those ball games.
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Georgia is 7-1-1 against Clemson at neutral sites, including the most-recent game between these two. That came in Charlotte at the start of the 2021 season. No. 5 UGA beat No. 3 Clemson 10-3 when Christopher Smith returned an interception of DJ Uiagalelei 74 yards to score the only touchdown of the game.
Georgia is 100-27-3 all time in season openers. The Bulldogs have won their last ten openers - all since defeating Clemson 45-21 over Clemson in Athens in 2014. Georgia is 3-2 vs. Clemson in top 25 matchups between the schools.
Clemson will appear in the Aflac Kickoff Game for the fourth time in the program’s history, having won its last two appearances 41-10 over Georgia Tech in 2022 and 26-19 against Auburn in 2012.
Georgia is also making its fourth appearance in the Aflac Kickoff Game. The Bulldogs most recently defeated Oregon 49-3 to open the 2022 season and North Carolina 33-24 in Kirby Smart’s first victory as a head coach in 2016.
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