Ad Disclosure
Paul Finebaum and Heather Dinich went on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Wednesday morning and broke down what promises to be one of the best games of the season in college football when No. 5 Georgia travels to Austin to face top-ranked Texas in their 1st matchup as SEC rivals.
What’s at stake in Saturday night’s primetime showdown on ABC? Oh, only just about everything, said the 2 ESPN college football analysts.
“As far as the Playoff goes, Georgia needs to try to avoid a second loss, but I would be careful to eliminate them if they lose a close game,” said Dinich. “But the big picture, too, is that Texas has a chance to assert itself as the best team in the SEC in their first year in the league.”
Finebaum focused his attention on Georgia’s plight.
“Heather is right about a number of those things,” added Finebaum. “Georgia doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room because they still have Ole Miss later in the year. What bugs me about this game for Georgia is the mystique. This is a program that owned college football for three years, they were going for a three-peat (last season), and now they’re struggling with a loss to stay in the Playoff race. That’s quite a fall.”
So, who wins this titanic struggle?
“I go with Texas,” said Finebaum.
And Dinich?
“I’m going to go with Texas, too, because of Georgia’s inability to run the ball,” she said.
Texas is a 3.5-point favorite for the showdown per bet365 with the Longhorns also getting home field advantage in Austin. Fans can use SDS’s apps to bet on sports to take advantage of those odds.
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.
