Georgia opens as significant betting favorite over Florida in rivalry game matchup
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The 104th (or 103rd, if you ask Florida) edition of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party will lack the SEC and National Championship implications it may have featured in years’ past, but that doesn’t mean storylines aren’t plentiful.
The Bulldogs enter this game with little margin for error when it comes to their College Football Playoff hopes, especially considering dates with Texas and Georgia Tech still loom on the schedule. Thus, Kirby Smart‘s squad can ill-afford to drop this game as it looks to stay in the SEC title hunt and keep its CFP résumé in good health.
Meanwhile, the recent firing of Florida head coach Billy Napier has prompted former wide receivers coach Billy Gonzalez to step in on an interim basis. A still wildly-talented team, the Gators will be playing with nothing to lose and all to gain when they take the field in Jacksonville.
Ahead of the game, BetMGM released its odds for many of college football’s top Week 10 matchups, and the oddsmakers are seeing Georgia as a 7.5-point favorite. They also listed the over/under point total for the game at 50.5, suggesting not many expect these teams to light up the scoreboard on Saturday.
Per Georgia, the Dawgs lead the all-time series 57-44-2, with the first meeting in 1904 being the disputed game. Florida does not believe its blowout defeat should count that year because the team Georgia faced was one of UF’s four predecessor universities, not the actual state school.
The Gators and Bulldogs will kick off at 3:30 p.m. EST, with the game being broadcast by ABC.
Parker is currently the sports editor with the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Mississippi. He's a graduate from Mizzou who has experience covering the Tiger football and basketball beats for SB Nation, and he's worked for a variety of sports news outlets in the past.
