There are four candidates for the two starting quarterback spots in this Saturday’s Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville.
There is only one candidate for a program on solid footing.
A year after Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs couldn’t keep up with Dan Mullen’s Gators at a socially distanced TIAA Bank Field, Georgia is the unanimous No. 1 team in the country with a 7-0 record and a defense that looks like the college version of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers. Florida, however, is 4-3 overall and already out of the Southeastern Conference race with losses to Alabama, Kentucky and LSU.
“This game is not about rankings and has never been about rankings,” Smart said Monday in a news conference. “It’s a rivalry game, and our kids understand that one of their losses was to Alabama – which they played a really good game at home and had an opportunity to win – and that they’ve lost two road games. It’s not about the records, and I don’t think it ever is.
“It’s a lot more about what we do and not about records.”