Florida Football: 3 Reasons the Gators will beat Georgia

1. Georgia hasn’t proven they’re an elite team

Georgia entered the season as a consensus College Football Playoff contender. On paper — and that’s solely what preseason prognosticators have to base their rankings on — this team looked like the real deal. They’ve done very little to prove it on the field.

The Bulldogs’ best win of the season came at home over Notre Dame, a team which was blasted by a woebegone Michigan offense 45-14. Now Notre Dame isn’t a bad team, but they don’t look like the Top 10 quality win most had assumed they were at the time.

If you look at how this team has played and who they’ve beaten (Vanderbilt, Murray State, Arkansas State, Tennessee and a quarterback-less Kentucky), it’s hard to put much stock in their No. 8 national ranking. Georgia is a good team, and probably a very good team. But Florida has proven themselves to be on another level.

Florida didn’t start in the top 10. They’ve earned their ranking by knocking off No. 7 Auburn and playing No. 1 LSU close into the fourth quarter. And for what it’s worth, Florida beat the same South Carolina team that knocked off Georgia.