BREAKING: UGA Football Makes Announcement on G Day

ATHENS - UGA Football confirmed that it will have G Day on April 12 with kickoff at 1 PM. The game will not be broadcast or streamed. 

Tickets for the event are set at $10. 

Kirby Smart was hesitant to confirm that the Dawgs’ annual scrimmage would take place in the last few weeks. The 10th-year coach said that he wanted to leave all options open. 

“I would be remiss if I said 100 percent I'm dead set we're having a spring game,” Kirby told reporters two weeks ago. “I leave every option open. That's my 15th practice. So, we can do what we want to do. We're planning to have a spring game. I've talked to Josh Brooks about it several times. We've had a conversation. But that doesn't mean it can't change. Last year, I think Kentucky didn't have any defensive linemen healthy. They weren't able to have a spring game. So, there's – I mean, we don't know. Like I can't forecast the future to know exactly what's going to happen 15 days from now. I do know we have to get better, and we've got to practice football. So, when that happens, as it goes, we spread things out over more time than most people. We have five weeks, and we have three practices a week. So, we want to try to get recovery and stay healthy so we can have really good practices. But I like spring games. I want to have a spring game. I think it's important because you allow kids to play that don't typically get to play. You sometimes allow fans to enjoy an experience in Athens that they normally wouldn't get. But I'm not ready to say that it's 100 percent.”
 
UGA announced the game Tuesday afternoon before Kirby was scheduled to meet with reporters for a third time this spring. The Bulldogs are expected to be ranked as one of the top teams in the country. Georgia defeated Texas in overtime in the 2024 SEC Championship Game, and then fell to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to end the season. 

Kirby’s first G Day, so-called 93K day in 2016, was a massive success and kickstarted his time at Georgia.