LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Georgia introduced Wednesday that Louisville agreed to cancel a home-and-home sequence beginning in 2026 forward of the SEC saying subsequent 12 months’s faculty soccer schedules Thursday.
The Bulldogs additionally mentioned NC State, one other ACC staff, agreed to cancel its home-and-home sequence for the 2033 and 2034 seasons.
“The groups will look to play one another in a impartial web site sport on a later date,” Georgia mentioned.
Each the SEC and ACC shall be enjoying 9 league video games beginning in 2026.
“Current modifications to our home-and-home sequence with Georgia are one other instance of the scheduling changes that include immediately’s evolving faculty soccer panorama,” Louisville athletic director Josh Heird mentioned.
Heird mentioned Georgia advised Louisville of its have to decide out of the 2026 sport. With out a mutual settlement, Georgia would have owed Louisville a $1 million penalty for canceling the 2026 sport and the Cardinals might have compelled the Bulldogs to host Louisville in 2027 or pay one other buyout.
Louisville additionally confronted shopping for out one other nonconference opponent to handle the expanded ACC slate. That is why Georgia and Louisville will attempt to schedule one sport at a impartial web site within the early 2030s.
“This method preserves a high-profile sport for our followers, avoids pointless monetary affect for each universities and positions us properly because the postseason panorama continues to evolve,” Heird mentioned.
Louisville introduced later Wednesday the Cardinals will open the 2026 season towards Ole Miss on Sept. 5 or 6 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Nissan Stadium. Louisville performed Western Kentucky at that stadium in 2019. Ole Miss beat Louisville in 2021 in Atlanta within the packages’ solely different assembly.
“Jeff Brohm has by no means shied away from enjoying a difficult nonconference schedule and is all the time prepared to face anybody within the nation,” Heird mentioned.
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