ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia will take on Troy in an exhibition game at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26 at Stegeman Coliseum, head coach Mike White announced on Wednesday. 

The contest between the Bulldogs and the Trojans has been added Georgia’s 18-game regular-season ticket package at no additional cost; however, seating for the exhibition will be general admission. Season ticket holders will receive those tickets after the seat selection process in early October. For non-season ticket holders, tickets for the Troy exhibition are available here.

The matchup will be the Bulldogs’ second exhibition, following a date with Georgia State in the CareSource Invitational – Atlanta at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at the GSU Convocation Center in Atlanta.

The Troy exhibition completes Georgia’s 2025-26 schedule. The Bulldogs will open the regular season on Monday, Nov. 3, the first official day of the NCAA basketball season, by hosting Bellarmine at Stegeman Coliseum in the second half of a double header also featuring the Georgia Lady Bulldogs against Alabama State. Season ticket holders for the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs will be able to attend both contests.

Georgia’s non-conference slate is headlined by: hosting arch rival Georgia Tech on Friday, Nov. 14; playing in the the Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic the weekend before Thanksgiving where the Bulldogs will face Xavier and either Clemson or West Virginia; venturing to Tallahassee to take on Florida State in the ACC/SEC Challenge on Tuesday, Dec. 2; and taking on Cincinnati in a Holiday Hoopsgiving matchup at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Saturday, Dec. 13.

Georgia opens SEC play by entertaining Auburn at Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday, Jan. 3, the first of eight games against 2025 NCAA Tournament teams among the Bulldogs’ league home slate. All told, Georgia will face teams that participated in “March Madness” last spring in 15 of 18 SEC contests.

The Bulldogs are coming off their best season in a decade, which was capped by their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2015. Georgia has been featured in every edition of Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology for ESPN.com all summer, including as a No. 10 seed in the final summer projections published on Aug. 26.