Georgia to play North Carolina in Atlanta in 2016

The Georgia football team will get at least one more crack at a win in the Georgia Dome.

Georgia and North Carolina have agreed to a match-up in the 2016 season opener in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game, multiple sources said, confirming a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The game will be on Sept. 3, 2016.

Georgia athletics director Greg McGarity declined to comment, but he hinted at this in January. Speaking on the Bulldog Hotline radio show, McGarity said a neutral site game was "something that will be in our future," adding it could be revealed "sooner than later."

The Georgia Dome is due to be phased out after the 2016 football season in favor of the Atlanta Falcons' home stadium.

This will be the first time in five years that Georgia has played in the Chick-fil-A game, and that game didn't end well: Boise State had a convincing 35-21 victory.

Georgia and North Carolina have not played since 1971, but they used to play on a semi-regular basis. That last game was in Jacksonville, and from 1947-1966 they played each other every season at alternating home sites.

This is the second high-profile series in less than a year that McGarity has nailed down. Georgia and Notre Dame are slated to play each other in 2017 and 2019, the first game in South Bend and the second in Athens.

This story was originally published February 19, 2015 at 11:46 AM.