Florida Gators football

One of college football's top rivalries will be featured as the SEC on CBS Game of the Week.

That doesn't bode well for a Florida defense that is giving up 244.3 passing yards per game and just got torched by LSU's [Jayden Daniels](/college-football/players/3123337/jayden-daniels/), who had 349 yards passing and three passing touchdowns, during the Gators' last game two weeks ago. And high ankle sprains when you talk to everybody across the [NFL](/nfl/) and across [college football](/college-football/), it's hard to pinpoint a measurement," said coach Kirby Smart on Monday. [Anthony Richardson](/college-football/players/3163263/anthony-richardson/) was one of the most hyped up players of the offseason. Georgia will take the win and do it rather handily. However, a bye week is a perfect chance for Richardson to decompress and for the coaching staff to work on some of his shortcomings without having to focus more on game prep than pure development. "The first thing you look for is do they need to do the repair? It's the MCL," Smart said. The 6-foot-4, 232-pounder has more interceptions (seven) than touchdown passes (six), and he has completed just 51.7% of his passes against SEC opponents. [Adonai Mitchell](/college-football/players/26701928/adonai-mitchell/), who was expected to be one of the Bulldogs' primary deep threats, only has five catches on the year and has been out since Week 3 with an ankle injury. What will happen on Saturday on the banks of the St. Here's a preview of the matchup with picks straight up and against the spread. The Gators had a bye week to lick their wounds following a 45-35 home loss to LSU.

Greetings from TIAA Bank Field where No. 1 Georgia football faces an unranked Florida Gators team looking to pull the upset.

“I am a kid from Savannah, and I used to go to Jacksonville to go to camps with my mom. Kirby Smart just fist bumped him on the field and said a few words during the stretch line. Florida Gators Billy Napier on facing Georgia Bulldogs for first time] [Billy Napier is the third Florida head coach to go up against Kirby Smart who is 4-2 against the Gators when Jim McElwain and Dan Mullen were coaches.] [“I don’t think anybody that’s walking the halls in this building, most everybody understands the things that come with this game,” said Napier, who grew up in Georgia watching the game and is his first season with the Gators. Florida Gators get on scoreboard] [Florida kicker Adam Mihalek booted a 52-yard field goal to cut the Georgia lead to 21-3 with 5:35 to go in the second quarter. Georgia football strikes first with touchdown] [Georgia drove 66 yards over 8 plays, getting a 1-yard touchdown run by Daijun Edwards with 7:15 left in the first quarter.] [Stetson Bennett is now 5 of 7 for 74 yards after hitting Brock Bowers twice on the drive for 33 yards and Darnell Washington, another tight end for 13 yards.] [2:55 p.m. Georgia football tight end shows good grasp on touchdown play] [Brock Bowers somehow found a way to gather a ball that looked hard to control on the left side that he gathered for a 73-yard touchdown catch. Kirby Smart just fist bumped him on the field and said a few words during the stretch line.] Bulldogs 21-0 with 12:36 to go in the first half.] [4:11 p.m. Florida Gators score first touchdown to open second half] [Georgia football hadn't allowed a third quarter touchdown this season, but Florida changed that with a 13-play, 75-yard drive to open the second half. Georgia football RB Daijun Edwards scores second touchdown] [After 17 unanswered Florida points and a pair of Georgia turnovers, the Bulldogs respond with a 6-play, 78-yard drive to extend lead to 35-20. Gators connect on a 78-yard touchdown pass to cut a 28-3 Georgia football lead down to 28-20 with 3:31 to play in the third quarter.] [6:01 p.m. Georgia Bulldogs LB Nolan Smith out for the game] [Georgia's Nolan Smith, the senior outside linebacker who is one of the Bulldogs top defensive players, left the game in the first quarter with what CBS said was a left shoulder injury and has not returned to the game.

The Gators (4-4. 1-4 SEC) were unable to overcome a 28-3 halftime deficit in first-year coach Billy Napier's first game in the rivalry matchup. Florida made a ...

Napier showed faith in Mihalek in the first half, allowing him to attempt a 52-yard try despite Mihalek entering the game 1-for-5 from 40 yards or more. Florida freshman running back Trevor Etienne sparked the run game for the Gators in the second half with 11 carries for 53 yards and a TD. Etienne also had a 33-yard return on a kickoff in the first half and appears poised to handle those duties going forward. On the next play, Kenny McIntosh scored on a 4-yard TD run, putting Georgia up 42-20 with 11:44 left in the fourth quarter. Bowers hauled in a pass deflected by Burney for a 73-yard TD catch in the second quarter, putting Georgia up 21-3. [Florida Gators ](https://www.gatorsports.com/football/)stumbled to their fifth loss in its last sixth meetings with rival Georgia, [falling 42-20 to the No.

WHAT HAPPENED: Quarterback Stetson Bennett passed for 316 yards and two touchdowns, the tailback duo of Kenny McIntosh and Daijuan Edwards combined for 196 ...

Florida (4-4, 1-4) hits the SEC road with a trip to face Texas A&M (3-5, 1-3). Florida was up 34-0 on Georgia that year on the way to a 47-7 victory. He finished with five catches for 154 yards and the long TD. Then, after turning Florida away on downs, the Bulldogs drove to a 4-yard McIntosh scoring run, keyed by a Bennett-to-Bowers completion of 29 yards on fourth-and-7 to set up what amounted to the put-away touchdown. UF, though, gave the fans in its half of TIAA Bank Field reason to stick around, thanks to a 75-yard drive to a 3-yard touchdown run by tailback Short touchdown runs in the first quarter by Edwards and McIntosh

In the loss, Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson completed 18 of 37 passes for 271 yards with one touchdown. The Gators struggled to get anything going on ...

As for Georgia, quarterback Stetson Bennett completed 19 of 38 passes for 316 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. The Gators struggled to get anything going on the ground, rushing as a team 34 times for just 100 yards and one touchdown. The Florida Gators dropped to 4-4 on the season and 1-4 in the SEC following Saturday's 42-20 loss against the No.