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Georgia To Open SEC Play at Missouri in 2012

Newest SEC East team will open vs. defending division champs. The entire 2012 schedule is released by the league.

The Georgia Bulldogs, this season's SEC East champions, will get to welcome the division's newest team to conference play next season.

The conference announced Monday that the Bulldogs will play at Missouri on Sept. 8, 2012. Missouri is based in Columbia, Mo.

Missouri this week defeated North Carolina in the Independence Bowl to finish the season 8-5.

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Georgia's season opener will be Sept. 1 in Athens vs. Buffalo.

The league also announced the entire SEC 2012 schedule. Texas A&M, the SEC's other new team, will host Florida in its opener, also on Sept. 8.

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Georgia's SEC slate includes another twist. The games vs. Vanderbilt and Tennessee, normally in October, will be in September. And the game against South Carolina, which has been Georgia's SEC opener in recent years, now comes in October.

“The SEC transition team and our athletic directors did a great job with significant logistical challenges in a short time frame in developing the 2012 football conference schedule,” SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said in a news release.  “The ability to come together for the conference is what makes the SEC so strong and that was evident yet again in this process.”

The 2012 SEC Championship Game will be played on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

The entire SEC 2012 schedule can be viewed online.

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Georgia's 2012 SEC Schedule

Sept. 8                    at Missouri

Sept. 22                  VANDERBILT

Sept. 29                  TENNESSEE

Oct. 6                     at South Carolina

Oct. 20                   at Kentucky

Oct. 27                   vs. Florida (Jacksonville)

Nov. 3                     OLE MISS

Nov. 10                  at Auburn

Compiled by Steve Burns.


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