Georgia opens as surprisingly large favorite over Tennessee
One of the biggest games of the 2022 College Football season will be played inside Sanford Stadium on Saturday. No. 1 Georgia and No. 3 Tennessee will square off between the hedges in a clash of undefeateds.
Sportsbooks have begun releasing point spreads for the game and most have Georgia as a double-digit favorite. DraftKings has has the line at Georgia -10. VegasInsider.com, which takes an aggregate from a sample of other sportsbooks, says it opened at Georgia -12.5 but the number has since moved to -11.5. Either way, the early thinking is that Georgia is a two-score favorite.
Tennessee is coming off a resounding 44-6 win over Kentucky inside Neyland Stadium. The Volunteers have taken down the Wildcats and No. 6 Alabama for two of their past three wins. Tennessee also has a blowout win over No. 17 LSU.
Georgia defeated Florida 42-20 the last time out. The Bulldogs are now 8-0 on the year and they’ve won 10 straight dating back to the 2022 College Football Playoff. Kirby Smart and company have a big win over No. 8 Oregon and that’s their only ranked win as of right now. South Carolina was ranked No. 25 last week but fell out after a loss to Missouri.
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The initial College Football Playoff rankings will come out on Tuesday and at that point, the rankings might change. In fact, this might end up as a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup and it’s very possible that Georgia won’t be No. 1. Tennessee’s resume could get them into the No. 1 spot of the committee’s first set of rankings.
As for Georgia, the Bulldogs have had their ups and downs over the course of the season. Sometimes it has been week to week, against Florida it was quarter to quarter. All that matters is that the Bulldogs are improving. So far, so good according to the head man.
“They’re all different. I mean, they really are all different,” Smart said of this team as compared to the 2021 group. “I mean, this team is so different than last year’s. This team continues to work hard and get better, you know? Stetson’s playing good. He had some moments tonight, but he also did some really, really good things in that game that maybe the normal eye doesn’t see. And if we could take away the couple decisions, he played really well, and it allows us to score because we’re probably not what we were defensively last year. But we play as a team, we play complimentary football, and that’s important you know. But we have to keep getting better — like, we’re not there. And people want to put us there, but we’re not there.”
