Following the Georgia Bulldogs' 20-17 road win over the Alabama Crimson Tide, Georgia is significant home favorites over the Auburn Tigers. Auburn had a week of extra time to prepare for Georgia. The Tigers are off to a decent start to the season to start the coach Alex Golesh era.
"Coach (Alex) Golesh is doing a great job coming in and taking over the program, installing his belief, his offense, his things.," Georgia coach Kirby Smart said on Auburn. "They have a lot of talent. They've got good football players, and it's any given Saturday in this conference, as we see every week. It will be an extremely physical game.'
The Bulldogs are 10-1 in the coach Smart era against Auburn including 5-0 at home. UGA has not lost to Auburn at Sanford Stadium
since 2005.
Georgia leads the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry 66-56-8. Georgia is favored against Auburn and is expected to add to a nine game winning streak over the Tigers.
Georgia-Auburn game will start at 3:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 17 and will be televised on ESPN. Georgia is ranked as No. 1 in both the AP Poll and the US LBM Coaches Poll.
Georgia vs. Auburn point spread, odds, over/under
Odds, betting data courtesy of BetMGM as of Monday, Oct. 12
- Money line: Georgia minus-1400, Auburn plus-900
- Spread: Georgia by 20.5
- Over/under: 49.5
Georgia's schedule, results
- Sept. 5: vs. Tennessee State (W, 63-3)
- Sept. 12: vs. Western Kentucky (W, 70-20)
- Sept. 19: at Arkansas (W, 45-17)
- Sept. 26: vs. Oklahoma (W, 41-13)
- Oct. 3: vs. Vanderbilt (W, 38-14)
- Oct. 10: at Alabama (W, 20-17)
- Oct. 17: vs. Auburn Tigers at 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)
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