Georgia Bulldogs Open as Huge Favorites over South Carolina Gamecocks

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ATHENS – Kirby Sensible‘s Georgia Bulldogs enter their first SEC sport of the season as vital favorites to win on the street. 

Georgia is listed as a 20.5-point favourite to beat Shane Beamer’s Gamecocks. The Bulldogs have been favored over the Cocks 26 of the final 30 conferences between the 2 faculties. The present line continues a pattern of the Dawgs being favored by at the least 20 factors. 

The road means that Georgia has an enormous 97% probability of successful the competition. Since 2010 Georgia has been favored by at the least 20 factors 46 occasions. Georgia is 45-1 in these video games. The one loss got here in 2019 when Will Muschamp’s Gamecocks shocked UGA in additional time.

That sport is Kirby’s solely loss to South Carolina since his hiring in 2016. 

South Carolina enters the sport unranked and coming off of a 44-30 loss at Arkansas. The Cocks managed solely 40 yards speeding towards the Hogs. Georgia is permitting solely 79.5 yards speeding proper now. The Bulldogs have solely allowed three factors this season in two video games. Georgia has allowed solely two touchdowns in its earlier 16 quarters of soccer. 

In the meantime, the Gamecocks are the No. 24 staff within the nation in passing offense. South Carolina’s back-to-back performances scoring at the least 30 factors is the very best offensive output for this system since beating Vanderbilt and Auburn in 2020. 

The early September sport between these two has at all times featured steamy climate. This sport could be an outlier for the 2 groups, nevertheless. Temperatures are solely anticipated to get into the low 80s for the sport. Georgia’s final September sport in Columbia was extraordinarily sizzling – 92 levels, which is the most popular sport Georgia has performed since 2010. 

Since 2010, seven of Georgia’s hottest 21 video games have been towards South Carolina with a mean temperature of 86 levels.