A high-profile nonconference Georgia football game to open the 2025 season finally is off.

The future of the Bulldogs’ scheduled game next season against UCLA in the Rose Bowl and the return game in Athens in 2026 had been in doubt for months.

Now Georgia announced Wednesday that it will instead open at home on Aug. 30, 2025 against Marshall, which plays in the Sun Belt and went 6-7 last season under coach Charles Huff.

Georgia said the UCLA games in 2025 and 2026 are both “canceled.”

The Bulldogs and Thundering Herd have played only once ever with Georgia winning 13-3 in 2004.

The games against UCLA were announced way back in June of 2015 when Mark Richt was still Georgia coach.

UCLA Wednesday called cancelling with Georgia a "mutual agreement," and announced it will play Utah to open the 2025 season instead. It said it also is cancelling a series with Auburn.

Georgia's current 2025 schedule also has nonconference games with Austin Peay and Charlotte at home and a game at Georgia Tech. The SEC schedule includes home games against Texas, Alabama and Ole Miss and road games at Tennessee and Auburn.

The SEC could move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026 and having two other nonconference games against other power conference opponents may not be viewed as ideal.

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