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Georgia at Kentucky odds, picks and predictions

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September 14, 2024

Georgia at Kentucky odds, picks and predictions

The Georgia Bulldogs (2-0, 0-0 SEC) travel to meet the Kentucky Wildcats (1-1, 0-1) Saturday at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET (ABC/ESPN+). Let’s analyze BetMGM Sportsbook’s college football odds around the Georgia vs. Kentucky odds, and make our expert college football picks and predictions.

The top-ranked Bulldogs play their 1st true road game of the season in the SEC opener. Georgia roughed up a ranked Clemson team 34-3 on a neutral field in Atlanta on Aug. 31, easily covering a 10.5-point spread as the Under (50) cashed. Then, the Dawgs thrashed FCS Tennessee Tech 48-3 last Saturday, failing to cover as a 54.5-point favorite as the Under (68.5) again hit.

The Wildcats opened with a 31-0 win over Southern Miss to cover as 24.5-point number in the opener as the Under (49) cashed, but it was annihilated at home in the conference opener by South Carolina, falling 31-6 as a 9.5-point favorite as the Under (40.5) again cashed.

Georgia has won 14 straight in this series dating back to Nov. 21, 2009, and Kentucky has won at home against the Dawgs since Nov. 4, 2006. QB Brock Vandagriff, who played for UGA on the 2021 and 2022 national title teams, was 3 1/2 the last time the Wildcats beat the Dawgs at home.

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Georgia at Kentucky odds

Provided by BetMGM Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list of college football odds. Lines last updated at 10:45 a.m. ET.

Moneyline (ML): Georgia -3000 (bet $3,000 to win $100) | Kentucky +1250 (bet $100 to win $1,250)
Against the spread (ATS): Georgia -23.5 (-105) | Kentucky +23.5 (-115)
Over/Under (O/U): 44.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)

Georgia at Kentucky picks and predictions

Prediction

Georgia 38, Kentucky 17

Moneyline

Georgia (-3000) will cost you 30 times your potential return, which means you’d need to risk $100 for every $3.33 won. It shouldn’t need to be said, but there is no value in betting such heavy favorites, no matter how certain a victory looks to be.

PASS.

Against the spread

Although KENTUCKY +23.5 (-115) was hot garbage last week, and it struggled to move the ball, this is a rivalry game, and teams tend to bring their best when facing the best.

Kentucky suffered just a 16-6 loss against Georgia in the most recent game in Lexington Nov. 19, 2022, and while the Wildcats haven’t been the Dawgs in a while, they are 4-1 ATS in the past 5 meetings.

The concern is that Georgia -23.5 (-105) is nasty on defense, so UK needs to be much better than it was last week when South Carolina moved the ball well on the ground against it.

Over/Under

OVER 44.5 (-110) might be the best play on the board.

While Georgia’s defense is strong, as usual, it wouldn’t be surprising in the least to see the Dawgs do the heavy lifting and get this one across the finish line with little help from the Wildcats.

While the Under is 2-0 for both teams to date, this is an awfully low number.

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Georgia Tech O-Line Honored as Joe Moore Award Semifinalist

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November 12, 2025

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Georgia Tech O-Line Honored as Joe Moore Award Semifinalist

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s offensive line has been named a semifinalist for the 2025 Joe Moore Award. The Joe Moore Award is presented to college football’s best offensive front.

Tech is among the 10 semifinalists for the first time in the 11-year history of the Joe Moore Award.

The Yellow Jackets’ offensive line has paved the way for Georgia Tech’s offense to rank among the nation’s top 25 in 12 different official statistical categories, including fewest sacks allowed (sixth – 0.67/gm), total offense (ninth – 482.1 ypg) and rushing (13th – 221.0 ypg). The Jackets have not surrendered a sack in 5-of-9 games this season, have rushed for 200 yards or more five times and have had at least two rushing touchdowns in every game. They’re one of only 12 teams that have multiple 300-yard rushing performances against NCAA Division I FBS competition this season (320 at Colorado and 307 vs. Temple).

The Jackets’ line has been an integral part of quarterback Haynes King’s Heisman Trophy candidacy, as Tech’s signal-caller ranks No. 3 nationally in total offense (330.3 ypg) and No. 6 in points responsible for (17.5 ppg) behind his offensive front.

In addition to being one of the nation’s most talented offensive lines, Tech’s is also one of the most durable, as four linemen have made every start for the Jackets this season – LT Ethan Mackenny (Marietta, Ga./Lassiter), LG Joe Fusile (Richmond Hill, Ga./Richmond Hill H.S.), RG Keyland Rutledge (Royston, Ga./Franklin County H.S.) and RT Malachi Carney (Pleasant Grove, Ala./Pleasant Grove H.S.). Harrison Moore (Southlake, Texas/Carroll H.S.) and Tana Alo-Tupuola (Brownsburg, Ind./IMG Academy) have split the nine starts at center.

Leading the way is Rutledge, a midseason all-American and one of only three offensive linemen among the 13 semifinalists for the Lombardi Award (nation’s best lineman/linebacker). Rutledge, who has allowed no sacks and just one hurry all season, ranks among the nation’s top 10 guards in both run blocking (fourth) and pass blocking (10^th), according to Pro Football Focus.

Georgia Tech is joined on the 2025 Joe Moore Award semifinalists list by Cincinnati, Duke, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Oregon, Texas A&M, Utah and Vanderbilt. The semifinalists were announced live on Wednesday evening on “Trench Life” with Joe Moore Award voting committee members Aaron Taylor, Cole Cubelic, Geoff Schwartz and Mike Golic, Jr. and hosted by Jenny Dell. Click HERE to watch the full show.

No. 14/12 Georgia Tech (8-1, 5-1 ACC) returns to action on Saturday when it visits Boston College. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ACC Network.

2025 GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL TICKETS

With a fanbase that has been reenergized by the Yellow Jackets’ success, attendance at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field is up 29% over this time in 2024. Fans can still be a part of the excitement on The Flats, as tickets remain for the Yellow Jackets’ final regular-season home game of 2025 at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field:

Saturday, Nov. 22 vs. No. 23 Pitt (Senior Day/Military Appreciation Day/Michael Isenhour Toy Drive-25^th Anniversary) – Click HERE for tickets.

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.

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Why Georgia football moved its game against Texas in 1957 from Athens to Atlanta

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November 12, 2025

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Why Georgia football moved its game against Texas in 1957 from Athens to Atlanta

Most of the biggest brands in college football have never lined up against Georgia football inside Sanford Stadium.

Alabama, of course, is an exception, as an SEC program that first played between the hedges in 1935.

Notre Dame made its only visit to Athens in 2019 in a game deemed so big extra seating was brought in to accommodate a record crowd.

These top 10 winningest FBS programs of all-time have never been on the visitor’s sideline: Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska and USC.

Texas is on that list, too, but won’t be after it plays Georgia for the first time in Athens on Saturday, Nov. 15.

The Longhorns were scheduled to do that on Sept. 21, 1957, but the game was moved to Georgia Tech’s Grant Field in Atlanta.

But why?

According to the Feb. 7, 1957, edition of the Red & Black student newspaper, the game was shifted to the second of a doubleheader with Georgia Tech and Kentucky playing at 2 p.m. and Georgia and Texas at 8 p.m.

“The Texas tilt was scheduled for Athens, but the Georgia student body does not return until Sept. 23, the first day of registration,” the story said.

Georgia and Georgia Tech had played a doubleheader in 1955 in Atlanta as well: Georgia-Ole Miss and Georgia Tech-Miami.

Moving the 1957 game was “financially necessary,” according to Dan Magill’s “The Georgia Bulldog” newsletter from Feb. 18, 1957, provided to the Athens Banner-Herald by Jason Hasty, a UGA athletics history specialist with the UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Magill was secretary of the Georgia Bulldog Club, which he founded in 1953.

That 1955 Georgia-Ole Miss game in Atlanta drew 33,400 — more than three times the average paid attendance for games in Athens in recent years, other than games against rivals Georgia Tech and Alabama, Magill wrote.

Coach Wally Butts cited conflicts with Georgia Tech home games as a “major factor,” in moving the games from Athens, according to the Red & Black.

“Whenever these conflicts exist, it hurts the gate receipts at both schools, particularly Georgia, which is located in a sparsely populated area,” Magill wrote.

The game in Atlanta — just the second against Texas after a 41-28 Orange Bowl Longhorns win on Jan. 1, 1949 — was considered a Georgia home game and students were admitted free with an ID card.

Loran Smith, a Georgia historian who has been associated with UGA athletics for more than 60 years, said Magill complained, “Tech plays the afternoon and we’re the damn sideshow.”

Smith said Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd convinced Butts it would be a good move to play the game in Atlanta.

The game in 1957 was the season opener and marked the debut of Texas coach of Darrell Royal, who is the namesake of Texas football’s Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. He took over a program coming off a 1-9 season.

Texas won 26-7 before a “sweltering short sleeved crowd of 33,000,” according to an AP report.

Georgia trailed 13-7 in the third quarter after sophomore quarterback Charley Britt threw a 5-yard touchdown to Jimmy Orr, but Texas scored 13 in the fourth quarter.

Georgia finished the season 3-7. Texas went 6-4-1 and ranked No. 11.

Georgia played Texas A&M in Athens in 1954 and went to Michigan in 1957 and 1965.

Butts was on a football rules committee with Michigan AD Fritz Crisler which led to the games in Ann Arbor, Smith said.

“Both on the road,” Smith said. “We were like one of the directional schools playing for a check.”

Saturday will be the eighth all-time meeting between the Longhorns, who are No. 5 in all-time wins with 968, and Georgia which is No. 9 with 900.

Texas was scheduled to play at Georgia on Sept. 1, 2029, as part of the second game of a home-and-home series set up in 2018, but then the Longhorns joined the SEC.

Georgia won twice last season, 30-15 in Austin and 22-19 in overtime in Atlanta in the SEC championship game.

The teams have also played in Miami, Dallas and New Orleans.

And now in Athens.

“It’s huge,” Georgia tight end Oscar Delp said. “It’s going to be super fun. I know the city is going to be rocking. Our fans are going to show up. We’re going to show up. We know what kind of game it’s going to be. It’s going to be like the last two. It’s going to be a physical game, who can run the ball, who can stop the run. We’re excited for that.”

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said he will take a moment to soak in the atmosphere of what will be his first game in Athens, too.

“I definitely will appreciate it and I hope our players do, too,” he said. “One of the beauties of going into this conference is the opportunity to play in some of these stadiums around the Southeastern Conference. …I’d be remised if I didn’t take it in, if our players didn’t take it in because that’s when teams can get overwhelmed. You’ve got to embrace the moment, embrace the environment you’re in and then you’ve got to go fight.”

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