It’s week 5 of the 2026 College Football Season and Homecoming for Georgia. Vanderbilt is in Athens to serve as the Homecoming opponent as they have many times before. This is not the bottom of the SEC Vanderbilt of years before, but it’s also not the Diego Pavia’s Vanderbilt of the 2024-2025 seasons.
Jared Curtis, one-time UGA commit and former 5-star prospect, leads Vandy at QB and is playing well and showing lots of athleticism, but not enough to carry the team on his back quite like his predecessor.
Georgia is a more than 25-point favorite, and we expect covering the line to be well within reach. A bigger concern might be just continuing the offensive efficiency Georgia has displayed in all but the 3rd quarter of last week’s game against Oklahoma.
For UGA fans who are also Braves fans, the butterflies in the belly are only likely to come on just after the Georgia game, around 4pm when first pitch in the NDLS is thrown and the Braves take on the Dodgers in LA.
The Dodgers will be heavily favored in the series and to win the World Series, but the Braves have beaten the Dodgers 5 of 6 times this season and beat the Dodgers the last time they faced each other in the postseason, which was in the 2021 NLCS.
The SEC and the Top 25 have a few interesting games to keep an eye on this weekend, including Ohio State facing a second big test on the road at Iowa and Alabama visiting suddenly scary Mississippi State. If Bama wins, GameDay may be visiting Tuscaloosa when UGA comes to town next week for a potential Top 7 - Top 5 matchup.
The College Football Playoff leadership is meeting with ESPN to find the money it will take to finally kill off the last bit of drama left in the regular season by trying to expand the Playoff to 24 teams.
GO DAWGS!
GO BRAVES!
