Georgia announced this morning that the Bulldogs will host UMass at Sanford Stadium on November 17, 2018. Interestingly UGA will also travel to Amherst to play the Minutemen in basketball in 2017-2018 before hosting them in Athens for a return engagement the following season.
We’re seeing more of these multi-sport scheduling deals these days, which are a good way for schools like UMass to leverage their football programs for other sports. The odds of Georgia traveling to UMass for a basketball game would have been much better when the Minutemen were a perennial hoops power. Since that’s no longer the case, the gang from Amherst has to get creative if they want to bring Power 5 schools to town.