After two non conference wins to begin the season, Tennessee football opens up SEC play Saturday afternoon in a marque showdown against rival Georgia. The eyes of the college football world are on Knoxville this week with ESPN’s College Gameday coming to Knoxville for the rivalry showdown. With College Gameday comes ESPN’s top broadcasting crew. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Holly Rowe are on the call for ABC.
Despite all the big game attention, Tennessee-Georgia kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET and not in the 7 p.m. ET primetime spot. LSU’s SEC opener against Florida is the ABC night game with the network making the decision before the season began.
But after South Florida upset Florida in Gainesville this week, ESPN changed course and took College Gameday and its top broadcasting crew to Knoxville instead.
Other top games in week three of the college football season include Florida-LSU, Georgia Tech-Clemson, Wisconsin-Alabama and Notre Dame-Texas A&M.
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Tennessee football is off to a 2-0 start to the season, dominating both Syracuse and ETSU to begin the season. The Vols have climbed nine-spots in the AP Poll over the first two weeks of the season and now comes in at No. 15 ahead of the rivalry matchup.
Georgia is also off to a 2-0 start to the season, dominating Marshall the first week of the season before looking much less inspiring in a win over Austin Peay last week. The Bulldogs first true test of the 2025 season comes this week in Knoxville.
It’s been a one-sided rivalry with Georgia winning the last eight meetings since Kirby Smart’s first season when Tennessee won on a Josh Dobbs to Jauan Jennings Hail Mary in 2016. Josh Heupel has many impressive wins and achievements in his career but has yet to knock off Georgia in his tenure.
