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The No. 4 Georgia Bulldogs play the Marshall Thundering Herd on Saturday, Aug. 30 at 3:30 p.m. ET to begin the 2025 college football season. The Georgia-Marshall game will be televised on ESPN.
The majority of fans watching the Georgia-Marshall game will be tuning in to watch Georgia, but Marshall is a very interesting team in their own right. Marshall is coming off a strong 2024 season, but lost an unprecedented amount of players this offseason. ESPN’s returning production metric ranks Marshall last among the 136 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country.
The Thundering Herd have had so much turnover this offseason that they basically have a new football team under first year head coach Tony Gibson, who was previously the defensive coordinator at NC State.
Marshall’s first test of the 2025 college football season? A road trip to play a Georgia team that has the longest home winning streak in the country at 31 games.
The good news about Marshall’s 2024 season
Marshall went 10-3 last season and won the Sun Belt Conference championship game against Louisiana in dominant fashion. Marshall went 7-1 in conference play. Two of Marshall’s three losses came to strong nonconference opponents in Ohio State and Virginia Tech.
Marshall’s messy December, mass exodus
Marshall head coach Charles Huff, a former Alabama assistant under Nick Saban, left to take the Southern Mississippi job in Dec. 2024. The transfer portal opened and offseason chaos ensued. Fifty Marshall players left via the transfer portal including 21 that followed Huff to Southern Miss. Marshall lost so many players that they could not compete in the Independence Bowl. They return just three starters from last season.
Marshall was unwilling to pay coach Huff the sort of contract he was expecting (Marshall was paying him $755,000) and took a four-year, $950,000…
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Publish date : 2025-08-26 10:06:00
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