Georgia is paying Marshall a massive sum for 2025 season opener

The Georgia Bulldogs are paying the Marshall Thundering Herd $1.7 million to play at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia, to open the 2025 college football season . Georgia will host Marshall on Aug. 30, 2025. The Bulldogs are 1-0 in series history against the Thundering Herd.

Marshall went 6-7 during the 2023 college football season and lost in the Miami Beach Bowl to UTSA. Marshall notably upset the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend, Indiana, in 2022.

Georgia is actually paying UMass (in 2023) and Charlotte (in 2025) more to come to Sanford Stadium. The Bulldogs are paying UMass and Charlotte $1.9 million each.

Georgia is slated to have seven home games in 2025. The Bulldogs’ season opener in 2025 was originally supposed to be at UCLA , but that game has been cancelled.

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Conference realignment disrupted Georgia’s home-and-home series in 2025 and 2026 against UCLA. The Bulldogs also had their 2023 game against Oklahoma cancelled due to conference realignment and at the request of the SEC.