ATHENS, Ga. – It took the Georgia Bulldogs until December to finally become underdogs in the 2019 college football season.
LSU is a 7-point favorite against Georgia in Saturday afternoon’s Southeastern Conference championship game inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. This is the first time the Bulldogs have been underdogs since last December’s SEC title game against Alabama, when the Crimson Tide were 11-point favorites and needed a fourth-quarter rally for a 35-28 win.
“You could say that’s motivation for us,” Bulldogs redshirt freshman outside linebacker Azeez Ojulari said Monday. “We’ve got to come in and compete no matter what, but it’s win or go home, basically. We’ve got to come in and play our best, and you could say that will serve as a little more motivation for us, for sure.”
Just how rare is Georgia as an underdog?
The Bulldogs have been favored in 34 straight regular-season games, a streak that started the week after they topped Notre Dame 20-19 at South Bend in September 2017 as 5-point underdogs. In Georgia’s 36-16 loss last season to LSU, the Bulldogs entered Baton Rouge as 7.5-point favorites, but Georgia fourth-year coach Kirby Smart insists point spreads won’t be a talking point this week.