Kentucky-Georgia preview: Bulldogs look for bounce back
Josh Pate previews Saturday’s SEC showdown in Athens. Subscribe to “Josh Pate’s College Football Show” on YouTube.
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So Kentucky's playing Georgia this weekend, you know, they go to Athens, Georgia, classic get-right spot, line is 20.5.
All right, so just dust your hands off, good hard-fought win over Kentucky.
Well, is there upset alert potential here?
Both teams are off losses, not just Georgia.
Kirby, I don't know if you've ever listened to him talk about Mark Stoops in Kentucky.
You cannot get a question out of your mouth about Kentucky without Kirby reminding you how physical Kentucky is.
How much those two programs believe in the same principles and how close the games have been, how competitive the games have been, and he's not wrong.
First paper pop of the night.
Are you aware that Kentucky has held Georgia to 21 or less in four of their last six meetings?
I am again because stats and info informed me that this was a knockdown, drag-out.
What was it, 14 to 13 last year?
Now that was up there.
This is gonna be at Georgia.
Uh, Georgia going from facing the number two passing defense in the country to facing number 106.
This is where I feel like that wide receiver corps can really.
Get back to work.
Georgia's gonna have to have that anyway.
I think they're gonna find it here now on the flip side, Zach Calzada is back for Kentucky and I leave it up to you.
That's open for interpretation; you make of that whatever you want.
I just know that stylistically this matchup has always yielded weirdly competitive outcomes.
It's, it's a matchup thing.
Uh, Kentucky cannot tote Georgia's jock when it comes to comparative program strength, but matchup-wise they always give him a hard time.
So I'm gonna put this at a 5, which is way higher on the one to ten upset alert concern meter than a 20-point spread normally would be, but that's where we are there.