Betting Line Emerges for No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs vs. No. 14 Clemson Tigers
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ATHENS - No. 1 UGA Football and coach Kirby Smart are listed as 13.5-point favorites over the No. 14 Clemson Tigers on Saturday in Atlanta.
The 13.5-point line means the Bulldogs have around a 83.5% chance of winning the Aflac Kickoff Game.
Georgia owns a lopsided 43-18-4 advantage in the series. There was a time the Bulldogs and Tigers met each season - with the ten years between 1977 and 1987 as the most notable in the series. But with the SEC’s expasion in 1992, the series slowly went away. The two programs have only met eight times since then with UGA winning seven of those ball games.
Betting notes for UGA-Clemson
Line as of Saturday at Noon: UGA -13.5
Over/under: 49.5
Moneyline: Clemson (+440) | UGA (-610)
Kirby Smart is 62-3 straight up as a 13.5-point favorite or more in his career at Georgia.
Clemson +13.5 means Dabo Swinney enters this game as the second-biggest underdog in his career at Clemson (2012 FSU). Dabo is 7-16 straight up as an underdog at Clemson.
Clemson is 1-3 ATS in its last four season openers.
UGA is 2-2 ATS in its last four season openers.
In UGA games under Kirby with the over/under at 49.5 or fewer, 50% of games hit the over; 50% hit the under.
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Georgia is 7-1-1 against Clemson at neutral sites, including the most-recent game between these two. That came in Charlotte at the start of the 2021 season. No. 5 UGA beat No. 3 Clemson 10-3 when Christopher Smith returned an interception of DJ Uiagalelei 74 yards to score the only touchdown of the game.
Georgia is 100-27-3 all time in season openers. The Bulldogs have won their last ten openers - all since defeating Clemson 45-21 over Clemson in Athens in 2014. Georgia is 3-2 vs. Clemson in top 25 matchups between the schools.
Clemson will appear in the Aflac Kickoff Game for the fourth time in the program’s history, having won its last two appearances 41-10 over Georgia Tech in 2022 and 26-19 against Auburn in 2012.
Georgia is also making its fourth appearance in the Aflac Kickoff Game. The Bulldogs most recently defeated Oregon 49-3 to open the 2022 season and North Carolina 33-24 in Kirby Smart’s first victory as a head coach in 2016.
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