The Georgia team all Bulldog fans were expecting to see this season showed up at Jacksonville’s TIAA Bank Field this past weekend and proceeded to put a sound spanking on a Florida Gators team that had ascended to the No. 6 spot in the national rankings and one that surely thought it was going to halt a two-game losing skid against UGA.
The Bulldogs, entering the game with a No. 8 ranking, handled Dan Mullen’s Gators much more convincingly than that final 24-17 score indicates. Georgia, coming off a dismal overtime loss to South Carolina and a ho-hum 21-0 rain-soaked win over Kentucky, played with perhaps more fire than the Bulldogs have shown all season (the Notre Dame game maybe being the exception) in dominating Florida on both sides of the line of scrimmage.