Georgia
Irish Fall To No. 19 Georgia Tech In Five Sets
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Notre Dame Fighting Irish fell in a tough five-set battle to the No. 19 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at home on Friday night (25-22, 21-25, 25-20, 17-25, 13-15).
Morgan Gaerte finished with a career-high 18 kills, followed by Sydney Palazzolo with 15 kills and 14 digs. Lucy Trump, Anna Bjork, and Phyona Schrader each tallied eight kills a piece and Grace Langer finished with a team-best five blocks.
The Irish had their strongest offensive production in set one to start things off, hitting .333 and recording 17 kills as a team led Notre Dame to a 25-22 win in the first set. Tied at 18-all, the Irish would take a 22-18 advantage to force a Yellow Jacket timeout. Georgia Tech responded with a 3-0 run to force a Notre Dame timeout in return, but kills from Schrader and Trump coupled with a block from the freshman duo of Gaerte and Bjork secured the win.
It was back and forth between the Irish and Yellow Jackets in set two as there were nine ties and three lead changes. With Georgia Tech in front 18-17, the Irish were working to close the gap, but the Yellow Jackets would even the playing field at 1-1 as they took the second set 25-21.
Notre Dame recorded another strong offensive set in the third, tallying another 16 kills as a team and hitting at a clip of .325. Posting a lead of 17-10, the Irish forced a Georgia Tech timeout, but the Yellow Jackets responded as they closed the gap to three at 20-17 and forced an Irish timeout in return. Gaetre sent home another kill to seal the deal on set three as Notre Dame took a 2-1 advantage by winning the third 25-20.
It was another close start in the fourth as the Yellow Jackets led by just one at 10-9 before going on a 6-0 run to extend their lead 16-9. The Irish closed the gap to three at 17-14, but Georgia Tech would close it out with an 8-3 run to take it to a fifth set.
With Georgia Tech up 7-5 in the final set, the Irish called a timeout and responded with a 5-1 run to take the lead 10-8 and force the Yellow Jacket timeout. With Notre Dame leading 12-9, the Yellow Jackets strung together four straight points to make it 13-12 as the Irish called their second timeout. A kill from Trump tied it up at 13-all, but the ranked Georgia Tech squad would score the final two points to take the last set 15-13.
The Irish are back in action on Sunday as they host the Clemson Tigers at 1:00 pm at Purcell Pavilion.
There’s one final game to be played this season within the Southeastern Conference, with the SEC Championship kicking off in Atlanta on Saturday. Now, two days out from the top-ten matchup, we have a better idea of who’ll be taking the field for Alabama vs. Georgia.
With this game, we have our final updates made to the SEC Availability Report. An initial one was already released on Wednesday, with another one to come on Friday, for the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs.
Kickoff is set for Saturday at 4 p.m. ET. Here is that updated injury report from the SEC for Alabama as well as Georgia:
Alabama
Georgia
On Wednesday, Alabama had the more notable of the two reports to start, with eleven designations in total and four of those still undetermined for the Crimson Tide. The most important of those were obviously with questionable designations on their offense for Miller, their leading rusher with 493 yards and three touchdowns, and Cuevas, their top tight end with 341 yards and four touchdowns, and on their offensive line with Dewberry. Other names like Riley, their second-leading rusher, as well as Overton and Kirkpatrick Jr. were then already labeled as out for ‘Bama.
Georgia then had six designations, with all of them already labeled as out for the SEC Championship. Young, their second-leading receiver on the season, Jones and Hall on their defense, and Bobo on their offensive line were the most notable of the six already to be unavailable for the ‘Dawgs this weekend when they’ll be back inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The Georgia Bulldogs (11-1, 7-1 SEC) face the Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2, 7-1 SEC) on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 4:00 p.m. ET in the 2025 SEC championship. The Georgia-Alabama game will be televised on ABC in the latest meeting between the two SEC powers.
The SEC championship will be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Last week, Georgia defeated Georgia Tech in the same venue that has haunted Georgia at times in the past, especially against Alabama. The Bulldogs lost to the Crimson Tide in the 2012, 2018, 2021 and 2023 SEC championships and in the 2017-2018 national championship in Atlanta.
Alabama continues to have Georgia’s number. The Crimson Tide beat Georgia in 2024 in the two schools’ first meeting of the Kalen DeBoer era. Alabama snapped Georgia’s 33-game home winning streak in a 24-21 victory over the Dawgs this season, which was Georgia’s only loss of the season.
“Looking forward to Saturday and the opportunity and challenge to face Georgia again this year,” DeBoer said ahead of the SEC championship. “It’s going to be an awesome environment, one our guys are excited about already. Really looking forward to it.”
Will Georgia beat Alabama? ESPN’s prediction
Georgia is a slight favorites against Alabama, which is a bit of a surprise considering Alabama’s success in the series. ESPN’s matchup predictor, which factors team performance, the football power index and other important variables, gives Georgia a 48.9% chance to defeat Alabama. The Crimson Tide have a 51.1% chance of beating Georgia.
ESPN’s SP+ also thinks Georgia will win. It predicts a 27-24 Georgia victory.
Georgia’s CFP chances
ESPN gives Georgia a 100% chance of making the playoff. Georgia’s real question for the playoff is can the Bulldogs get a first-round bye with an SEC championship loss? It would be unlikely for No. 3 Georgia to maintain a first-round bye, but if Texas Tech lost in the Big 12 championship, the Georgia could still have a bye in the playoff despite suffering an SEC title loss.
UGA has 7.6% chance of winning the national championship (fourth in the nation), according to the FPI. No. 9 Alabama has a 66.5% chance of making the playoff and a 2.8% chance of winning the national title (tied for eighth in the country).
Georgia football 2025 schedule
- Aug. 30: vs. Marshall (W, 45-7)
- Sept. 6: vs. Austin Peay (W, 28-6)
- Sept. 13: at Tennessee (W, 44-41 in OT)
- Sept. 27: vs. Alabama (L, 24-21)
- Oct. 4: vs. Kentucky (W, 35-14)
- Oct. 11: at Auburn (W, 20-10)
- Oct. 18: vs. Ole Miss (W, 43-35)
- Nov. 1: vs. Florida (W, 24-20)
- Nov. 8: at Miss. State (W, 41-21)
- Nov. 15: vs. Texas (W, 35-10)
- Nov. 22: vs. Charlotte (W, 35-3)
- Nov. 28: vs. Georgia Tech (W, 16-9)
- Dec. 6 vs. Alabama (SEC championship) at 4 p.m. ET
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Georgia Tech has agreed to a new five-year contract with head coach Brent Key, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
The new deal will run through the 2030 season and includes a significant raise in salary, as well as increased investment for his staff. The Yellow Jackets are at their full revenue share for the program, and has allotted $150 million in resources for football over the next few seasons, which will entail a new performance center and a renovation plan for Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The deal, per Thamel, has been in the works for weeks.
Key has been speculated as a candidate for multiple jobs, most notably at Penn State. The Nittany Lions continue to swing and miss on replacements for James Franklin, who was fired in October. Key is 27-19 at Georgia Tech and went 9-3 in the regular season this year.
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