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Georgia vs. Mississippi State

Georgia and Mississippi State have 28 meetings on file, the first in 1914; Georgia leads the series 22–⁠6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Georgia 9–⁠1, and Georgia has won the last 6.

Scheduled 2027 at Georgia; 2029 at Mississippi State. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Georgia wins
22
Mississippi State wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1914
Longest streak
9 Georgia
Current streak
6 Georgia
Last 10 meetings
Georgia 9–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠1
1950s2–⁠2
1960s4–⁠0
1970s2–⁠2
1980s4–⁠0
1990s2–⁠0
2000s2–⁠0
2010s2–⁠1
2020s4–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: Georgia 1, Mississippi State 0
Average margin
15.2 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgia
15–⁠2 Georgia’s record at home
At Mississippi State
4–⁠7 Mississippi State’s record at home
Shutouts
6

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Georgia’s biggest win1997: Georgia 47, Mississippi State 0by 47 points
  2. Mississippi State’s biggest win1974: Mississippi State 38, Georgia 14by 24 points
  3. Ranked showdown2017: Georgia 31, Mississippi State 3No. 17 Mississippi State at No. 11 Georgia

Coach against coach

YearsGeorgiaSeriesMississippi State
1956–⁠1960Wallace Butts2–⁠1Wade Walker
1967–⁠1971Vince Dooley2–⁠1Charles Shira

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia’s side (Butts 2–⁠1 against Walker). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgia and Mississippi State, 1914 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

J.T. Daniels Georgia28 of 38, 401 yards, 4 TD2020 Passing
Carson Beck Georgia36 of 48, 459 yards, 3 TD, 2 INT2024 Passing
Jermaine Burton Georgia8 catches, 197 yards, 2 TD2020 Receiving
Nate Frazier Georgia12 carries, 181 yards, 1 TD2025 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1950 game

    1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1950

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game

    1961 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 25, 1961

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

On television

2025ESPN2.3 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Nov 8, 20255Georgia 41, Mississippi State 21at Mississippi State
Oct 12, 20245Georgia 41, Mississippi State 31at Georgia
Nov 12, 20221Georgia 45, Mississippi State 19at Mississippi State
Nov 21, 202013Georgia 31, Mississippi State 24at Georgia
Sep 23, 201711Georgia 31, 17Mississippi State 3at Georgia
Oct 1, 2011Georgia 24, Mississippi State 10at Georgia
Sep 25, 2010Mississippi State 24, Georgia 12at Mississippi State
Oct 21, 2006Georgia 27, Mississippi State 24at Georgia
Sep 24, 20057Georgia 23, Mississippi State 10at Mississippi State
Oct 4, 199718Georgia 47, Mississippi State 0at Georgia
Oct 5, 1996Georgia 38, Mississippi State 19at Mississippi State
Sep 23, 1989Georgia 23, Mississippi State 6at Georgia
Sep 17, 19887Georgia 42, Mississippi State 35at Mississippi State
Oct 1, 198311Georgia 20, Mississippi State 7at Georgia
Oct 2, 19826Georgia 29, Mississippi State 22at Mississippi State
Sep 20, 1975Georgia 28, Mississippi State 6at Georgia
Sep 21, 1974Mississippi State 38, Georgia 14at Mississippi State
Oct 2, 197111Georgia 35, Mississippi State 7at Georgia
Oct 3, 1970Mississippi State 7, Georgia 6at Mississippi State
Sep 23, 19677Georgia 30, Mississippi State 0at Georgia
Sep 17, 1966Georgia 20, Mississippi State 17at Mississippi State
Oct 21, 1961Georgia 10, Mississippi State 7at Georgia
Oct 15, 1960Georgia 20, Mississippi State 17at Georgia
Oct 17, 1959Georgia 15, Mississippi State 0at Georgia
Oct 6, 1956Mississippi State 19, Georgia 7at Georgia
Oct 6, 1951Mississippi State 6, 13Georgia 0at Mississippi State
Oct 14, 1950Georgia 27, Mississippi State 0at Georgia
Oct 31, 1914Mississippi State 9, Georgia 0at Georgia

Every game is listed as played on the field.