The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs are preparing to welcome the No. 22 Missouri Tigers to the Classic City this Saturday for a late-season showdown between former SEC East rivals in Sanford Stadium.
Kirby Smart and the Dawgs are riding high following their blowout win over Ole Miss, while Eli Drinkwitz and the Tigers’ postseason hopes are hanging by a thread after suffering their third loss of the season against Texas.
This matchup will hold significant implications for both teams as they head into the final two weeks of the regular season, and ESPN analyst Bill Connelly has released his SP+ prediction for the contest in anticipation of the game.
For those unfamiliar with the SP+, it is an analytics-driven model that uses a variety of statistics and historical trends to both rank programs and predict the outcomes of matchups on any given week.
When it comes to this Saturday’s meeting between Georgia and Mizzou, Connelly’s model is predicting a comfortable win for the Dawgs, with the final score being 34-14 in favor of the home team.
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Given what we’ve seen from both programs over the past few weeks, this seems like a reasonable prediction, but this season has been characterized by crazy upsets and unexpected outcomes. As such, it will be interesting to see how this matchup ultimately plays out with the end of the regular season just over the horizon for both squads.
