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By Olivia Sayer
Georgia Ike Cousins head baseball coach Wes Johnson walks to the mound during game four of the NCAA Athens Regional between UNCW and Georgia at Foley Field in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Georgia won 11-2. (Photo/Mady Mertens; MadyMertensPhotography)
Georgia baseball’s 2025 SEC schedule is here.
With the expanded conference, the Bulldogs will play a three-game series against two permanent opponents. They will also have eight rotating opponents for a total of 30 SEC games.
Georgia’s two permanent opponents are Auburn and Florida, with the league saying it determined pairings based upon a “number of factors including geography, traditional opponents and strength of schedule.”
The Bulldogs begin conference play on March 14 against Kentucky at Foley Field, a reverse of last year’s SEC-opener in which the Wildcats swept the Bulldogs in Lexington.
Georgia is familiar with Kentucky. This offseason, the Bulldogs pulled assistant coach Nick Ammirati from the Wildcats after hiring hitting coach Will Coggin from their staff a year prior. When asked what Georgia was getting in Ammirati, Coggin said a “real positive” and “calming presence.”
“A player’s coach,” Coggin told The Red & Black in August. “One of the best hitting coaches I’ve ever been around, so it’s going to be a real treat for our hitters to get to work with him every day.”
In addition to Kentucky, the Bulldogs will face Florida and Auburn in March. The Gators provided Georgia with its only series loss at home in the regular season last year and made it to the College World Series for the second-consecutive time. The Tigers, on the other hand, did not even make it to the SEC Tournament with an 8-22 conference record.
This season, Georgia travels to Florida on March 21 and hosts Auburn the following weekend.
April contains the challenging stretch of the Bulldogs’ 2025 SEC schedule, with series against Texas, Arkansas, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. Georgia travels to Texas on April 4 in what will be a homecoming for multiple Bulldogs that hail from the Lone Star state.
The Longhorns also enter the SEC after a slight controversy regarding their head coach. During the College World Series, Jim Schlossnagle’s name was floated as Texas’ main target. However, he was coaching Texas A&M at the time and even admonished a reporter for asking about it during the Aggies’ run in Omaha. Twenty-four hours after doing so, he accepted the position with Texas.
After facing Schlossnagle’s Longhorns, the Bulldogs will host Arkansas, who was ranked No. 1 for part of the 2024 season. Georgia then travels to Vanderbilt on April 17. Last season, the Bulldogs swept the team Corey Collins called the “Yankees of college baseball” for the first time since 2003.
“They’re always good,” Collins, who is now a part of the New York Mets organization, said of Vanderbilt last season. “They’re always a great squad.”
Georgia will host newest SEC member Oklahoma on April 25 before traveling to Missouri in May. Along with Auburn, Missouri was the other school to not make the SEC Tournament last season.
After facing the Tigers, the Bulldogs will travel to Tuscaloosa on May 9 to play Alabama. Georgia pulled the Crimson Tide’s closer, Alton Davis II, from the transfer portal this offseason.
One can expect a raucous crowd in Tuscaloosa for the Bulldogs, who swept the Crimson Tide at Foley Field in their SEC home-opener last year. Fireworks were present throughout the series, as game one ended with a walk-off grand slam and an ensuing ejection due to throwing a helmet in celebration.
Georgia will conclude its 2025 regular season by hosting Texas A&M, who finished as the College World Series runner-up. The Aggies appeared destined to win the title after holding a one-run lead late in game two but eventually fell to Tennessee in the three-game series.
The Bulldogs begin fall practice on Sept. 20 with a lot of new faces on the field. Only three batters in Georgia’s final lineup of the 2024 season are returning. To counteract the large number of departures as a result of eligibility rules and the MLB Draft, The Bulldogs pulled over 20 players from the transfer portal.