ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -The annual Georgia-Florida football game will be staying in Jacksonville.
The Georgia athletic board approved a new six-year contract Wednesday that would keep the game in the northeast Florida city through 2016. Athletic director Damon Evans proposed the new deal, citing the game’s rich tradition and a guarantee by CBS to televise the game every year at 3:30 p.m.
The current deal ends after the 2010 game, and there was speculation Georgia might want to play the Gators at Sanford Stadium in alternating years instead of 84,000-seat Jacksonville Municipal Stadium every season.
Also, officials in Atlanta had proposed playing the game at the Georgia Dome – much closer to Georgia’s Athens campus – at least once every four years.
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