The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party shifts to the World’s Largest Indoor Cocktail Party as the game reaches Atlanta for the first time.
It has occurred in Athens, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tampa, Savannah, and even Macon, but never Atlanta.
The series stands at 58–44–2, favoring UGA by 14 games. Yet UGA held a peak lead of 22 games during my freshman year at UGA. I have seen Florida trim the margin to just 7 games twice, as recently as 2016. Although we have won 11 of the last 15, more success is needed to restore the series to its late-1980s state.
That is the strength of history: we add to it daily. As history grows, the narrative shifts. From 1990 to 2010, Florida lived rent-free anywhere it wanted in DawgNation. Historically, however, Georgia controls the series with Florida, including stretches from the early 1900s to the 1940s, again in the 1970s and ’80s, and now across the past 15 years.
This year brings added intensity because both teams rank in the Top 25 for the first time in 6 seasons and only the 24th time in series history.
Should be fun!
It is great to be a Gator hater!
Go Dawgs!
