The 2025 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by tenth-year head coach Kirby Smart and played their homes game in Sanford Stadium.
Georgia began the season as the No. 5 ranked team in the AP Poll. The Bulldogs began the season with two wins over nonconference opponents Marshall and Austin Peay before earning their first SEC win of the season on the road against Tennessee. They returned home to face Alabama, losing 24âÂÂ21, their first loss at home since 2019. The Bulldogs rebounded by soundly defeating Kentucky the following week and then knocking off rival Auburn on the road. They then outlasted Ole Miss 43âÂÂ35, jumping to No. 5 in the AP Poll entering a bye week.
Following the bye week, Georgia defeated rival Florida in Jacksonville and Mississippi State in Starkville. The Bulldogs then returned home for a two-game home stretch, including a 35âÂÂ10 victory over Texas and a 35âÂÂ3 win over Charlotte. In the final game of the regular season, Georgia defeated rival Georgia Tech, 16âÂÂ9, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the 2025 SEC Championship Game, the Bulldogs avenged their lone loss to Alabama, defeating the Crimson Tide, 28âÂÂ7, to repeat as SEC champions and clinch an automatic bid to the College Football Playoff as one of the top five highest-ranked conference champions. In the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff, Georgia rematched Ole Miss in the 2026 Sugar Bowl, losing 39âÂÂ34 to end their season.
The Georgia Bulldogs drew an average home attendance of 93,033, the 9th highest of all American football teams in the world.
In December 2024, QB Carson Beck (#15) announced he would enter the NFL draft, although he later decided instead to transfer to Miami. Safety Malaki Starks (#24), linebacker Jalon Walker (#11), and defensive end Mykel Williams (#13) declared for the draft on January6, 2025. The deadline for players to declare for the NFL draft was January15, 2025.
Thirteen Georgia players were drafted in 2025.
During the first round of the draft that April, Williams was the San Francisco 49ers's 11th pick, Walker was picked 15th by the Atlanta Falcons, and Starks was chosen 27th by the Baltimore Ravens. In the second round, guard Tate Ratledge (#51) was picked by the Detroit Lions; in the third round, guard Dylan Fairchild (#53) was chosen by the Cincinnati Bengals and center Jared Wilson (#55) was selected by the New England Patriots.
In the remaining rounds, seven more Bulldogs were drafted: Arian Smith (#11) and Trevor Etienne (#1) in the fourth round, Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins (#93) and Smael Mondon Jr. (#2) in the fifth round, Warren Brinson (#97) in the sixth round and, Dan Jackson (#17) and Dominic Lovett (#6) in the seventh round.
, 12 Georgia Bulldogs players have entered the NCAA transfer portal during or after the 2024 season. Over the offseason, , Georgia has added seven players from the transfer portal.
Jaden Rashada (#10) entered the portal in early January 2025. Speaking about his time at Georgia, Rashada said, "I feel like I needed this year a lot, and it's exceeded every expectation plus some more." Outside linebacker Damon Wilson II (#10) transferred to Missouri.
Brothers Zachariah and Zion Branch committed to Georgia from USC. On January7, 2025, Noah Thomas transferred to Georgia from Texas A&M.
Georgia's final spring practice, annually open to the public and known as "G-Day", took place at 1:00p.m. on April12, 2025. Although the scrimmage is usually broadcast on TV, it was not televised this year. The red team defeated the black team 3417 in front of a crowd of 35,000.
Kickoff happened at 3:40p.m. The Bulldogs defeated the Thundering Herd 45âÂÂ7.
The game started an hour early at 2:30p.m. due to possible weather; a delay began during halftime.
For the first time since 1913, this season's Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate rivalry game was not played at either Georgia or Georgia Tech; it instead took place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which paid Georgia Tech $10million to host the game. It was also the first game of a new annual college football series held at the Benz, called the Invesco QQQ Atlanta Gridiron Classic. In 2026 the series will feature the FloridaGeorgia game.
This is coach Kirby Smart's tenth year at Georgia. He is under contract with Georgia through 2033, receiving $13million annually.