Georgia Bulldogs · 2026 Season · No. 1 in the CFP rankings
Georgia's 8–1 and sitting at No. 1. Missouri's in town today at 3:30, and the top seed is basically on the line. Game recaps and highlights are under Regular Season. The SEC title game and the brackets are under Postseason — the 12-team one is the real playoff this year, the 24-team one doesn't start until 2027 and is just for messing around with. The odds — sportsbooks, Kalshi, Polymarket — are up top under Odds & Markets.
Five champs are in no matter what, seven more get picked. And no, winning your conference doesn't move you up — you're seeded where you're ranked.
Seeds 5–8 are at home against 9–12. Winners move on to the bye teams: 8/9 gets No. 1, 5/12 gets No. 4, 7/10 gets No. 2, 6/11 gets No. 3.
Georgia, Utah, Alabama and UCLA don't play the first weekend. They pick up whoever survives, in a New Year's Six bowl.
Picks don't save. Close the page and they're gone, so you'll have to click through again. Georgia's in red. And no, picks here don't carry over to the 24-team bracket.
Georgia sits. Tennessee (8) hosts Indiana (9), winner gets Georgia.
Weird part of this format: the bye doesn't buy you a home game. Georgia's first playoff game is at a bowl site.
UCLA's the 4 seed over there, waiting on Notre Dame / Boise State.
Other side of the bracket is Utah (2) and Alabama (3).
Texas Tech (No. 12, 8–1) is the one that gets screwed here — Boise's champ spot takes their place. After that it's Wake Forest (13) and Houston (14), also out.
Four Power Four champs, one Group of 6, nineteen at-large. Seeded straight off the rankings, no bumps for anybody.
Seeds 9–16 are at home against 17–24. Winners go on the road to face the bye teams.
This is the part I actually like — seeds 1–8 sit out a week, then they get a real home game. Georgia would open in Athens.
Same deal as the other bracket — picks don't save, Georgia's in red, and nothing here carries over to the 12-teamer.
Georgia sits while Oregon (16) hosts South Carolina (17).
So either the Ducks come to Athens, or Georgia gets South Carolina twice in about a month.
Tennessee's the 8 seed over there, playing the Indiana / Boise State winner.
UCLA (4, still undefeated) and Notre Dame (5) are the names on that side.
Other half is Utah, Alabama, Texas and Miami.
Only two undefeated teams left in here: Utah and UCLA, both 9–0. Boise State (8–1, Mountain West) snuck in at 24 in the Nov. 10 rankings — Florida fell out.
Georgia scored on its first five possessions, led 28–0 after one quarter — Tennessee State had zero yards in the first quarter — and 35–3 at halftime, with the starters done by the break. Seven different Bulldogs scored touchdowns and Georgia outgained TSU 660–109.
Georgia led 49–0 in the first half — 49 ties the program record for points in a half since 1950 — before WKU got on the board. It was the first time since 1915 Georgia scored 60+ in consecutive games. A forced fumble on the opening kickoff set up a touchdown 61 seconds in, and Georgia finished with 493 yards to WKU's 225.
The ground game built a 21–0 lead and Georgia cruised. Arkansas was held to roughly 16 rushing yards total, and its late touchdowns came against the reserves. Arkansas (1–2) lost its 12th straight SEC game.
A defense-led win. Georgia forced 4 turnovers — 3 by QB John Mateer in the first half — scored 17 points off them, and led 28–0 at halftime despite being outgained nearly evenly (308–296) and losing time of possession by 10 minutes. Peyton Woodring's fourth-quarter PAT was his 201st straight, a new Georgia/SEC record breaking Rodrigo Blankenship's mark.
The passing game carried Georgia on a day the run game started slowly. Vanderbilt — without injured freshman QB Jared Curtis, the former Georgia commit who flipped — stayed within 21–14 at halftime behind backup Blaze Berlowitz, but Georgia shut Vandy out in the second half (61 yards) and pulled away with 17 unanswered.
Georgia led 10–0, trailed 14–10 at halftime — its first halftime deficit of the season — retook the lead on Stockton's 14-yard TD run, and won it on Peyton Woodring's 23-yard field goal with 5:25 left, capping an 84-yard, 10-play drive. A controversial late no-call on a Keelon Russell end-zone throw and a late Alabama personal foul helped Georgia run out the clock. Alabama, averaging 49.6 points coming in, was held to 17. Georgia outgained the Tide 455–346.
Georgia led 14–0 on its first two possessions, then Auburn scored 24 unanswered — 17 in the second quarter behind QB Byrum Brown — to lead 24–14. Georgia rallied: a Woodring 42-yard field goal, then a 13-play, 94-yard drive capped by Stockton's 4-yard TD to London Humphreys to tie it 24–24 with 2:58 left. Driving for a winning field goal, Stockton fumbled on a QB draw near midfield with 58 seconds left — his third turnover. Auburn drove 40 yards, aided by a roughing-the-passer call on Gabe Harris Jr., and Alex McPherson kicked a 34-yarder as time expired. Georgia outgained Auburn 440–366 but lost turnovers 3–0.
No. 3 Georgia forced 4 turnovers, turned them into 17 points, led 24–0 at halftime, and outrushed No. 17 Florida 217–48. Florida's only score — a Tramell Jones Jr. 2-yard run plus a 2-point conversion late — preserved Florida's no-shutout streak dating to 1988.
No. 2 Georgia led 28–0 at halftime and 35–0 into the fourth quarter. Ole Miss — No. 10 in the CFP rankings, averaging 37.1 points and 439.6 yards — was held to 252 yards and kept scoreless until 10:43 remained. Georgia piled up 481 yards, 295 of them rushing, and Kirby Smart got his first win in Oxford. Combined with Miami's loss, it lifted Georgia to No. 1 in the Nov. 10 CFP rankings.
SEC-best scoring offense (41.1 ppg) and a defense allowing 14.0 points and 83.8 rushing yards per game.
414.8 yards per game, SEC-best pass protection (1.00 sack allowed/game), just 6 turnovers all season. RB Jamal Roberts: 1,071 yards, 9 TD.
Georgia should win this the way they've won all year — score a bunch and stuff the run. Missouri's shot is narrower: keep Georgia's pass rush (31 sacks, 6th in the country) off the quarterback — nobody in the SEC protects better, weirdly — feed Roberts, and don't turn it over. They've only given it away six times all year, so that's not nothing. Other thing to watch is the middle of Georgia's line. Bobo's out, so it's a first-ever start at center in the last home game of the year.
Lines as of about 3:00 p.m. ET, game day — Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. Tap through for the whole board — books, Kalshi, Polymarket, the futures, and the leans.
| Category | Missouri | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Scoring offense | 30.2 ppg | 41.1 ppg · 1st SEC |
| Total offense | 414.8 ypg | 454.2 ypg |
| Rushing | Roberts: 1,071 yds · 9 TD | 210.7 ypg |
| Passing offense | 256.7 ypg | 243.6 ypg |
| Scoring defense | 20.1 ppg allowed | 14.0 ppg allowed |
| Rushing defense | — | 83.8 ypg allowed |
| Protection vs. rush | 1.00 sack allowed/gm · SEC-best | 31 sacks · 3.44/gm · 6th nationally |
| Giveaways | 6 all season | — |
Rest of Missouri: QB Austin Simmons (2,204 yards, 18 TD, 2 INT), WR Cayden Lee (62 catches, 835 yards, 5 TD), Daeden Hopkins (7 sacks), Nicholas Rodriguez (98 tackles). Roberts leads the SEC in rushing and has 909 yards after contact — 80.5% of his total, best in the FBS — with no fumbles on 209 carries.
| Market | Missouri | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Spread (BetMGM) | +16.5 | −16.5 |
| Moneyline (BetMGM) | +575 | −750 |
| Kalshi — win the game | 13% | 87% |
| Polymarket — win the game | 14% | 86% |
Lines as of about 3:00 p.m. ET, game day — Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. Kickoff 3:30 p.m. ET.
Sportsbook — BetMGM (Saturday, Nov. 14): spread Georgia −16.5, total 48.5, moneyline Georgia −750 / Missouri +575. Across books today the market range is spread Georgia −15.5 to −16.5, total 47.5 to 48.5, and moneyline Georgia −750 to −800.
Kalshi (win price re-checked about 3:00 p.m. ET — Georgia 87% / Missouri 13%, with about $233,000 in volume on the win market): Spread market: Georgia's winning margin about 16.5 points, with Georgia winning by over 16.5 priced at 50%. Total market: about 48.5 points, with over 48.5 priced at 50%. Polymarket: Georgia to win 86%, also re-checked about 3:00 p.m. ET. Spread market: Georgia by over 16.5 at 50%. Total market: over 47.5 at 52%.
Value read: The books and the prediction markets agree closely — Georgia is about an 86–87% favorite to win across Kalshi and Polymarket, which lines up with the −750 moneyline (about 88% implied). The spread is a coin flip around 16 to 16.5 points and the total sits at 47.5 to 48.5 depending on the book, so there is no clear edge anywhere — the market has this game priced as a big Georgia win, just not a blowout.
Check it yourself: Action Network odds & pick · Covers · Kalshi's own write-up · UGA Wire on the line move
Halftime: Georgia 31, Missouri 7 — 21–0 after the first quarter, 10–7 in the second. Georgia scored on its first five possessions and ran out to 31–0 before Missouri got on the board late in the half, Simmons to Montgomery from 15 yards. The defense set the tone with a pick on the game's first play and held Missouri to 115 total yards; Georgia put up 261. Gunner Stockton went 12-of-18 for 172 yards and a touchdown and ran for another; Nate Frazier ran for two scores. Georgia gets the ball to start the second half.
Second-half line: not posted in the sources checked at the half. Live market — Kalshi at the half: Georgia 99% to win (87% at kickoff), with the live margin market at about Georgia by 38.5 and the live total at about 60.5. Polymarket: live price not found at the half (86% pre-game).
What moved: the pre-game board closed Georgia −16.5 with a total of 48.5. There are already 38 points on the board, so that total is nearly covered by itself, and the exchanges have all but called the win — the only question the market is still pricing is the final margin.
| Georgia to… | Kalshi | Polymarket |
|---|---|---|
| Win today vs. Missouri | 87% | 86% |
| Win the SEC (Dec. 5) | 64% | 63% |
| Make the playoff | — | 97% |
| Win the national title | 30.5% | 31.9% |
On Kalshi, Alabama is next in the SEC market at 24% — nobody else is close. The title prices make Georgia the clear favorite on both exchanges, ahead of Notre Dame (about 17–18%). For comparison, the sportsbooks have Georgia at +250 to win it all (BetMGM, this morning's price), which works out to about a 29% chance before the book's cut — a cheaper price than either exchange is offering; bet365 has Georgia at +240 right now. Prices above were pulled Saturday morning, Nov. 14, and refreshed about 3:00 p.m. ET, and they move constantly. Live Kalshi-vs.-Polymarket title comparison
This is the one most pickers landed on — Action Network, Covers and The Lines all took Georgia to cover, with a couple saying they'd still lay it at −17. The case is the same one on the Missouri sheet's stat table: Georgia gives up 14 points and 83.8 rushing yards a game, and Missouri's last two trips to Athens under Drinkwitz produced 21 points and 6 points. The line steaming from −14 to −16.5 while the reported money leaned Missouri is usually a sign the books respect Georgia money more. The worry is real, though: with Bobo out, a first-time center against a front that has to stop the run and protect is exactly how a favorite sleepwalks into a 10-point win. Shop the number — −15.5 and −16.5 are very different bets.
Moneyline: −800 means Georgia has to win 89 times out of 100 just to break even. Kalshi at 87% and FPI at 88.8% both say the fair price is a hair lower than that. There's no bet here — you're risking $800 to make $100 on a game with a banged-up offensive line. Total: 47.5 is a coin flip the books have priced slightly toward the Under (−115). Georgia's offense averaging 41.1 can wreck an Under by itself; Missouri's ball-control game can wreck an Over. Local predictions cluster around 31–17 and 34–10, which straddle the number. Leave it alone.
If you're buying Georgia futures, compare before you click: Kalshi wants about 31¢ now (it was 33–34¢ this morning), Polymarket about 32¢, and BetMGM was dealing +250 this morning — the same bet for less money. Between the two exchanges, Kalshi is the slightly cheaper Georgia price right now. Missouri's title price is under 1% on Kalshi, which tells you what the market thinks of their path even if today goes sideways.
64% says Georgia wins three straight — Missouri today, at South Carolina next week, then the title game on Dec. 5 — about two times out of three. Given the defense's numbers and that the likeliest Atlanta opponent is an Alabama team Georgia already beat in Tuscaloosa, that price is defensible either way, which is more than you can say for the playoff market: 97¢ on Polymarket to make the field is priced like it's already done, and it isn't — lose today and that number falls off a cliff. Don't pay 97 for something that still needs two wins.
South Carolina started 0–3 in the SEC and has now won four straight — Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas A&M. They're somehow still alive for the playoff with three losses, but they have to win out. They're at Arkansas today, so who knows what shape they're in by next week.
Georgia wins today and again in Columbia and that's it — 8–1 in the SEC, spot in Atlanta on Dec. 5 locked up. South Carolina loses and they're done. It's also their first home conference night game all year, so it'll be loud.
77th meeting. Georgia leads 55–19–2, has won 4 straight, is 23–10–2 in Columbia, and hasn't lost there since 2014. South Carolina's last win was that 20–17 mess in Athens in 2019 — still annoying. Last time they played (2023) Georgia won 24–14 after being down 14–3 at the half. Beamer used to coach under Kirby, for whatever that's worth.
This is not the Georgia Tech of last year. The Jackets went 9–4 in 2025, then lost QB Haynes King (2025 ACC Player of the Year) to the NFL and offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner to Florida — who took QB Aaron Philo and others with him. Tech has lost four straight, including 44–17 at home to Louisville on Nov. 7, which ended its bowl eligibility. Head coach Brent Key fired his defensive coordinator in November. Tech still plays at Clemson (Nov. 14) and vs. Wake Forest (Nov. 21) before Athens.
Georgia's playing for seeding and a shot at 11–1. Tech's got nothing left except ruining Georgia's season, which honestly makes them scarier, not less.
Georgia has won 8 straight (2017–2025). A ninth would break the series record — Tech's 8 straight from 1949–56 is the mark Georgia has tied. The last two were close, too: 2024 in Athens, Georgia 44–42 in 8 overtimes (longest game in series history — that one took years off my life), and 2025, Georgia 16–9 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Still no kickoff time or TV announced as of Nov. 14.
The SEC said Nov. 9–10 that this is the last SEC Championship Game. Ever. First one was in 1992 in Birmingham, it's been in Atlanta since 1994, and now they're killing it — the ACC, Big Ten and Big 12 title games are going away too — because the playoff jumps to 24 teams in 2027. After this year the SEC champ is just whoever finishes first in the standings. Kirby told Finebaum he's "not excited about not having an SEC championship game" and called it one of the greatest sporting events in the country. He's right.
How Georgia gets in: Win out. Missouri and South Carolina, finish 8–1, done. It's the top two in the standings, no divisions anymore. Most likely opponent is Alabama, then Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky. Ole Miss is still technically alive.
Win on Dec. 5 and you get the last one. Nobody can win another after this.
Playoff's still 12 teams this year, final Jan. 25, 2027 in Vegas. Win here and you get a bye and a better seed. For Georgia it'd also be a third straight playoff trip.
Won't know the opponent until after Nov. 21.
The next game's pre-game sheet picks up the SEC availability reports as they come out (who's in, who's questionable, who's out).
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