One of the annual staples of the Auburn football program’s schedule, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry game against the Georgia Bulldogs, is in danger of being lost as the SEC potentially moves to a 1-7 schedule that gives every SEC school one fixed rivalry game and seven bi-annually rotating rivals. The conference is currently holding its annual spring meetings in Destin, Florida to figure out what the conference will look like when Texas and Oklahoma join in 2024.
Opelika Auburn News’ Justin Lee has a solution that would keep the yearly matchup between AU and UGA that would simultaneously keep the game on the television schedule and keep TV executives at CBS and ESPN happy, though.