On Monday, Brett McMurphy reported that the University of Georgia will play host to UNC Charlotte on November 22, 2025.
Charlotte is one of college football’s newer programs, beginning football in 2013. Since the 49ers inaugural season, the program moved to the FBS and joined the Conference USA, where in 2018 the team went 5-7.
Under head coach Will Healy, Charlotte is looking to utilize its ideal recruiting location to draw in more highly rated prospects to play in one of the regions prime television markets.
Healy, who previously coached at Austin Peay, visited Athens last season when Georgia beat his team 45-0 in week one.
These talks have been in motion for roughly 5 years. I met with former UNC Charlotte running backs coach Damien Gary in 2015, when Charlotte was a brand new football program still. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because it should. Gary, who now coaches in Athens as offensive coordinator Clarke Central, is a Georgia record-setting receiver and punt returner. He hinted to me that I could expect to see the two schools make a deal to play each other in the next ten years.
Prior to Healy’s hiring at Charlotte, the 49ers staff was actually made up of a number of Georgia guys. Head coach Brad Lambert was a Georgia assistant under Jim Donnan in the late 1990s, Gary played at Georgia and coached the running backs at Charlotte, Joe Tereshinski played quarterback in Athens in the mid-2000s and then coached the wide receivers in Charlotte as well.
In 2025, Georgia will also travel to the Rose Bowl to play UCLA and will play its annual game against Georgia Tech.
