NFL News NFL News, Reports and Updates
Oct 12, 2024; Athens, Georgia, USA; Georgia Bulldogs mascot Hairy Dawg on the field before a game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images ORG XMIT: IMAGN-883186 ORIG FILE ID: 20241012_bdd_ad1_073.JPG
As if Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs didn’t have enough motivation going into Saturday’s game against No. 1 Texas, oddsmakers made sure there was a little more material to put on the bulletin board this week.
The No. 5 Bulldogs are underdogs against Texas, snapping a streak of 49-straight games as favorites. The last time Georgia wasn’t favored to win a game was Week 1 of the 2021 season against Clemson — a game Georgia won 10-3.
But it isn’t simply being an underdog that should offend the Bulldogs, it’s that the spread is 4.5 points — which is beyond a typical home-field advantage — and it’s against Texas.
Georgia has been a standard of the SEC for several years now, back-to-back national champions in 2021 and 2022 and preseason favorites to win the SEC and national title again this year. To be underdogs just a few weeks later in their first meeting against a league newcomer has to be incredibly humbling, no matter how good Texas is.
The last time Georgia was an underdog was the opening game of the 2021 season 😳
Are you picking the Bulldogs to beat the Longhorns on Saturday? 👀 pic.twitter.com/YWWwxcP4JU
— ESPN BET (@ESPNBET) October 17, 2024
If this sounds like the type of ignorance spewed from someone who only helicopters in and out of the college football season rather than ride every ebb and flow of each play and down, it’s because it is.
Maybe Texas is actually that much better than Georgia. I don’t know.
But what I do know is the extreme highs and lows of a season usually aren’t great predictors of future performance, and if Georgia is only an…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/texas-making-georgia-underdog-first-194450043.html
Author : FTW Outdoors
Publish date : 2024-10-17 19:44:50
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
