Georgia opens as significant betting favorite over Florida in Week 9 rivalry game
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Georgia and Florida have been playing each other around this time for seemingly forever, and this year the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” has moved indoors to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta instead of its normal outdoor setting in Jacksonville.
No matter. It’s still Georgia vs. Florida, and when these SEC rivals collide every year, it often produces classic games and dramatic endings, no matter the records or rankings.
This time around, Georgia has the much better ranking and the better record, as the third-ranked Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1 SEC) are the 2-time defending SEC champions and the 17th-ranked Gators (5-2, 3-2 SEC) are the upstarts who have found their way into the rankings under first-year head coach Jon Sumrall.
When Georgia and Florida kick things off at around 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC, from Atlanta and not Jacksonville, the Bulldogs will be expected to win and win handily, according to Sunday’s opening line revealed by Circa Sports. Of course, rivalry games can be a tricky matter, but the Dawgs are a 10.5-point favorite over the Gators, with the over-under total being 56 points.
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Georgia has owned the rivalry in recent years, beating Florida 5 straight times doing back to 2021. The Gators will try to end that losing spell against the Dawgs on Halloween afternoon, as the rivalry gives fans another edition of the pageantry that is Georgia-Florida, with the festivities being indoors for a change.
Here is the UF-Georgia betting line as well as all the Week 9 opening lines:
While the opening betting line has been installed for the big rivalry game in Atlanta, here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying the Florida-Georgia showdown on Halloween:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
