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Georgia softball live score updates in NCAA Athens Regional vs. Liberty

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May 18, 2024

Georgia softball live score updates in NCAA Athens Regional vs. Liberty

Georgia softball advances to the second round in the NCAA Athens Regional after defeating UNCW 8-0 on Friday afternoon.

The Bulldogs will face Liberty at 11 a.m. Saturday on ESPN+. The Lady Flames defeated Charlotte in game one Friday afternoon 6-3.

Since this is a double elimination tournament, the winner of Georgia’s second round matchup will head to the finals and the loser will get one more shot at glory at 6 p.m. against the winner of UNCW/Charlotte’s 3:30 p.m. game.

The winner of the entire Athens Regional will advance to the Super Regionals against the winner of the Los Angeles Regional, which houses national No. 6 seed UCLA, Grand Canyon, San Diego State and Virginia Tech.

This is the second time Georgia has hosted back-to-back regionals, dating back to the triple host gig they had between 2014-2016. It is the 23rd straight NCAA Tournament made by Georgia, not including the canceled 2020 season. Georgia had advanced to last year’s super-regional rounds. The Bulldogs have advanced to the Women’s College World Series five times, last in 2021, never bringing home the title.

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What channel is Georgia vs. Liberty?

TV channel: ESPN+

Livestream: WatchESPN

Georgia softball start time vs. Liberty

Date: Saturday, May 18

Time: 11 a.m. ET

Location: Jack Turner Stadium; Athens, Ga.

Georgia softball live score updates vs. Liberty

Georgia softball 2024 schedule

Date & Time	Opponent	Location	Results
Feb. 9 (Red & Black Showcase) @ 3:30 p.m.	Murray State	Athens	W, 11-0 (5 inn.)
Feb. 9 (Red & Black Showcase) @ 6 p.m.	South Dakota	Athens	W, 4-0
Feb. 10 (Red & Black Showcase) @ 1 p.m.	Murray State	Athens	W, 2-0
Feb. 10 (Red & Black Showcase) @ 3:30 p.m.	Purdue	Athens	W, 6-1
Feb. 11 (Red & Black Showcase) @ Noon	Purdue	Athens	W, 5-1
Feb. 15 (Shriners Children’s Clearwater Inv.) @ 1 p.m.	Wisconsin	Clearwater, Fla.	W, 7-6 (10 inn.)
Feb. 16 (Shriners Children’s Clearwater Inv.) @ 1 p.m.	Oklahoma State	Clearwater, Fla.	W, 7-4
Feb. 16 (Shriners Children’s Clearwater Inv.) @ 1 p.m.	UCLA	Clearwater, Fla.	W, 7-2
Feb. 17 (Shriners Children’s Clearwater Inv.) @ 1 p.m.	Florida State	Clearwater, Fla.	W, 20-10 (5 inn.)
Feb. 17 (Shriners Children’s Clearwater Inv.) @ N/A	Minnesota	Clearwater, Fla.	Canceled
Feb. 23 (Georgia Classic) @ 5:30 p.m.	Virginia Tech	Athens	L, 4-5
Feb. 24 (Georgia Classic) @ 12:30 p.m.	Virginia Tech	Athens	W, 7-5
Feb. 24 (Georgia Classic) @ 3 p.m.	Radford	Athens	W, 10-1 (6 inn.)
Feb. 25 (Georgia Classic) @ 1 p.m.	Dartmouth	Athens	W, 8-1
Feb. 28 @ 5 p.m.	Clemson	Athens	W, 2-1 (8 inn.)
March 1 (DeMarini Inv.) @ 3 p.m.	Cal	Palo Alto, Calif.	W, 4-2
March 1 (DeMarini Inv.) @ 5:30 p.m.	Boise State	Palo Alto, Calif.	W, 4-1
March 2 (DeMarini Inv.) @ 4:30 p.m.	Cal	Palo Alto, Calif.	L, 2-7
March 2 (DeMarini Inv.) @ 7 p.m.	Stanford	Palo Alto, Calif.	Canceled
March 3 (DeMarini Inv.) @ 3 p.m.	Stanford	Palo Alto, Calif.	L, 1-3 (9 inn.)
March 8 (Bulldog Classic) @ 6 p.m.	Miami (OH)	Athens	W, 13-2 (5 inn.)
March 9 (Bulldog Classic) @ 1 p.m.	Jacksonville State	Athens	W, 9-0 (5 inn.)
March 9 (Bulldog Classic) @ 3:30 p.m.	Miami (OH)	Athens	W, 6-4
March 10 (Bulldog Classic) @ 1 p.m.	Jacksonville State	Athens	W, 8-6
March 10 (Bulldog Classic) @ 3:30 p.m.	Furman	Athens	W, 7-0
March 13 @ 6 p.m.	Georgia Tech	Athens	W, 6-3
March 15 @ 6 p.m.	Alabama	Athens	W, 4-2
March 16 @ Noon	Alabama	Athens	W, 11-3 (5 inn.)
March 17 @ Noon	Alabama	Athens	L, 4-5
March 20 @ 6 p.m.	Georgia Southern	Athens	W, 17-1 (5 inn.)
March 23 @ 2 p.m.	Ole Miss	Oxford, Miss.	W, 7-0
March 23 @ 5 p.m.	Ole Miss	Oxford, Miss.	W, 10-7 (8 inn.)
March 24 @ 2 p.m.	Ole Miss	Oxford, Miss.	W, 4-1
March 27 @ 6:30 p.m.	Kennesaw State	Kennesaw	W, 10-1 (5 inn.)
March 30 @ Noon	Arkansas	Athens	L, 2-3
March 31 @ Noon	Arkansas	Athens	W, 8-2
April 1 @ 7 p.m.	Arkansas	Athens	L, 2-8
April 3 @ 6 p.m.	Mercer	Athens	W, 8-1
April 5 @ 6 p.m.	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	L, 1-5
April 6 @ Noon	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	W, 3-2
April 7 @ 11 a.m.	Tennessee	Knoxville, Tenn.	L, 1-3
April 10 @ 6 p.m.	Georgia Southern	Athens	W, 5-0
April 12 @ 6:30 p.m.	Kentucky	Lexington, Ky.	L, 5-7
April 13 @ 2 p.m.	Kentucky	Lexington, Ky.	W, 6-4
April 14 @ 2 p.m.	Kentucky	Lexington, Ky.	L, 2-6
April 17 @ 6 p.m.	USC-Upstate	Athens	W, 8-0
April 19 @ 6 p.m.	Missouri	Athens	L, 2-4
April 20 @ Noon	Missouri	Athens	W, 4-2
April 21 @ Noon	Missouri	Athens	W, 4-2
April 26 @ 6 p.m.	Florida	Athens	L, 1-9 (5 inn.)
April 27 @ 11 a.m.	Florida	Athens	W, 11-6
April 28 @ Noon	Florida	Athens	L, 7-10
May 3 @ 5 p.m.	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	L, 0-2
May 4 @ 1 p.m.	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	W, 5-0
May 5 @ Noon	Mississippi State	Starkville, Miss.	L, 1-2
May 8 (SEC Tournament, round 1) @ 5 p.m.	Auburn	Auburn, Ala.	W, 6-5
May 9 (SEC Tournament, round 2) @ 5 p.m.	Florida	Auburn, Ala.	L, 4-9
May 17 (NCAA Regionals, round 1) @ 3:50 p.m.	UNCW	Athens	W, 8-0 (5 inn.)
May 18 (NCAA Regionals, round 2) @ 1 p.m.	Liberty	Athens
May 24-26 (NCAA Super Regionals)	TBA	Campus sites
May 30-June 6 (Women’s College World Series)	TBA	Oklahoma City

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Why Georgia football moved its game against Texas in 1957 from Athens to Atlanta

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November 12, 2025

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Why Georgia football moved its game against Texas in 1957 from Athens to Atlanta

Most of the biggest brands in college football have never lined up against Georgia football inside Sanford Stadium.

Alabama, of course, is an exception, as an SEC program that first played between the hedges in 1935.

Notre Dame made its only visit to Athens in 2019 in a game deemed so big extra seating was brought in to accommodate a record crowd.

These top 10 winningest FBS programs of all-time have never been on the visitor’s sideline: Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska and USC.

Texas is on that list, too, but won’t be after it plays Georgia for the first time in Athens on Saturday, Nov. 15.

The Longhorns were scheduled to do that on Sept. 21, 1957, but the game was moved to Georgia Tech’s Grant Field in Atlanta.

But why?

According to the Feb. 7, 1957, edition of the Red & Black student newspaper, the game was shifted to the second of a doubleheader with Georgia Tech and Kentucky playing at 2 p.m. and Georgia and Texas at 8 p.m.

“The Texas tilt was scheduled for Athens, but the Georgia student body does not return until Sept. 23, the first day of registration,” the story said.

Georgia and Georgia Tech had played a doubleheader in 1955 in Atlanta as well: Georgia-Ole Miss and Georgia Tech-Miami.

Moving the 1957 game was “financially necessary,” according to Dan Magill’s “The Georgia Bulldog” newsletter from Feb. 18, 1957, provided to the Athens Banner-Herald by Jason Hasty, a UGA athletics history specialist with the UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Magill was secretary of the Georgia Bulldog Club, which he founded in 1953.

That 1955 Georgia-Ole Miss game in Atlanta drew 33,400 — more than three times the average paid attendance for games in Athens in recent years, other than games against rivals Georgia Tech and Alabama, Magill wrote.

Coach Wally Butts cited conflicts with Georgia Tech home games as a “major factor,” in moving the games from Athens, according to the Red & Black.

“Whenever these conflicts exist, it hurts the gate receipts at both schools, particularly Georgia, which is located in a sparsely populated area,” Magill wrote.

The game in Atlanta — just the second against Texas after a 41-28 Orange Bowl Longhorns win on Jan. 1, 1949 — was considered a Georgia home game and students were admitted free with an ID card.

Loran Smith, a Georgia historian who has been associated with UGA athletics for more than 60 years, said Magill complained, “Tech plays the afternoon and we’re the damn sideshow.”

Smith said Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd convinced Butts it would be a good move to play the game in Atlanta.

The game in 1957 was the season opener and marked the debut of Texas coach of Darrell Royal, who is the namesake of Texas football’s Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. He took over a program coming off a 1-9 season.

Texas won 26-7 before a “sweltering short sleeved crowd of 33,000,” according to an AP report.

Georgia trailed 13-7 in the third quarter after sophomore quarterback Charley Britt threw a 5-yard touchdown to Jimmy Orr, but Texas scored 13 in the fourth quarter.

Georgia finished the season 3-7. Texas went 6-4-1 and ranked No. 11.

Georgia played Texas A&M in Athens in 1954 and went to Michigan in 1957 and 1965.

Butts was on a football rules committee with Michigan AD Fritz Crisler which led to the games in Ann Arbor, Smith said.

“Both on the road,” Smith said. “We were like one of the directional schools playing for a check.”

Saturday will be the eighth all-time meeting between the Longhorns, who are No. 5 in all-time wins with 968, and Georgia which is No. 9 with 900.

Texas was scheduled to play at Georgia on Sept. 1, 2029, as part of the second game of a home-and-home series set up in 2018, but then the Longhorns joined the SEC.

Georgia won twice last season, 30-15 in Austin and 22-19 in overtime in Atlanta in the SEC championship game.

The teams have also played in Miami, Dallas and New Orleans.

And now in Athens.

“It’s huge,” Georgia tight end Oscar Delp said. “It’s going to be super fun. I know the city is going to be rocking. Our fans are going to show up. We’re going to show up. We know what kind of game it’s going to be. It’s going to be like the last two. It’s going to be a physical game, who can run the ball, who can stop the run. We’re excited for that.”

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said he will take a moment to soak in the atmosphere of what will be his first game in Athens, too.

“I definitely will appreciate it and I hope our players do, too,” he said. “One of the beauties of going into this conference is the opportunity to play in some of these stadiums around the Southeastern Conference. …I’d be remised if I didn’t take it in, if our players didn’t take it in because that’s when teams can get overwhelmed. You’ve got to embrace the moment, embrace the environment you’re in and then you’ve got to go fight.”

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