ATHENS—The Georgia/Tennessee rivalry may not have the juice of, say, Georgia-Auburn or Tennessee-Alabama, but it's fast becoming a matchup of heavyweights. Four of the last five games have featured both teams ranked in the top 20, and Saturday night was, in many ways, a playoff play-in. At stake: a potential SEC championship berth for Tennessee, a likely playoff berth for Georgia.
Before a delirious Sanford Stadium crowd, the Bulldogs struggled early but gathered themselves late, looking less like the tentative crew that lost to Ole Miss and more like the threatening bruisers that could wreck the CFP. Georgia won 31–17, and put itself right back in the playoff race.