A Deep Look Into The Georgia Bulldog/Florida Gator Football Rivalry
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JACKSONVILLE, FL - It’s Georgia-Florida week. Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs will prepare to take on their biggest SEC rival this weekend in another game against the hated Florida Gators.
This Saturday’s game with the unranked Gators returns to Jacksonville where it’s been played annually since 1933 except for two years in the mid 1990s when the Gator Bowl was being renovated for the NFL’s newest franchise, the Jacksonville Jaguars. The 2025 game will be in Jacksonville, but the sites for the 2026-27 Georgia-Florida games have yet to be announced due to EverBank renovations again.
Overall, Georgia leads the series 56-44-2 including a 49-41-1 record in Jacksonville. The teams first met in 1904 in Macon, a 52-0 Bulldog victory Lately, it’s the Bulldogs with the upper hand as they have won three straight and are 6-2 against Florida under Kirby Smart. After Florida’s win over Georgia in ‘20, the Bulldogs compiled a 42-game regular season winning streak that ended this year against Alabama.
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Georgia Versus Florida Since 2016
2016 #14 Florida d. Georgia 24-10
2017 #3 Georgia d. Florida 42-7
2018 #7 Georgia d. #9 Florida 36-17
2019 #8 Georgia d. #6 Florida 24-17
2020 #8 Florida d. #5 Georgia 44-28
2021 #1 Georgia d. Florida 34-7
2022 #1 Georgia d. Florida 42-20
2023 #1 Georgia d. Florida 43-20
2024 #2 Georgia will be the home team
Top Georgia Performances vs. Florida
Rushing Attempts 47 – Herschel Walker, 1981 (192 yards); 37 – Herschel Walker, 1980 (238 yards)
Rushing Yards 239 – Charlie Trippi, 1945 (25 carries); 238 – Herschel Walker, 1980 (37 carries)
Rushing TDs 4 – Robert Edwards, 1997 (26-124 yards); 3 – multiple, last by Knowshon More-
no, 2007 (33-188 yards)
Longest Rushing TD 89 – Tim Worley, 1985 (school record); 80 – Frank Harvey, 1992
Receptions 15 – Shannon Mitchell, 1993 (140 yards); 9 – Tony Small, 1998 (138 yards)
Receiving Yards 154 - Brock Bowers, 2022 (5 rec.); 140 – Shannon Mitchell, 1993 (15 rec.);
138 – Tony Small, 1998 (9 rec.)
Receiving TDs 2 – Jeremiah Holloman, 2018 (4-48 yards), Leonard Pope, 2004 (3-90); Herschel
Walker, 1980 (4-55 yards); Ulysses Norris, 1976 (2-14 yards)
Passing Attempts 65 – Eric Zeier, 1993 (36 comp.);49 – Quincy Carter, 1998 (33 comp.)
Passing Completions 36 – Eric Zeier, 1993, (65 attt.); 33 – Quincy Carter, 1998 (49 att.)
Passing Yards 386 – Eric Zeier, 1993 (36-fo-65); 368 – Quincy Carter, 1998 (33-for-49)
Passing TDs 3 – Jake Fromm, 2018; Aaron Murray, 2010; Matt Stafford, 2007; Buck Belue,
1979;
Longest Passing TD 93 – Buck Belue to Lindsay Scott, 1980; 84 – M. Stafford to M. Massaquoi, 2007
TD Responsibility 5 – Ray Goff, 1976 (3-Rushing, 2-Passing); 4 – Robert Edwards, 1997 (4-R);
Herschel Walker, 1981 (2-R, 2-P)
Team Records
Rushing Attempts: 79 in 1976 Rushing Yards: 432 in 1976
Passing Yards: 386 in 1993 Total Yards: 555 in 2022 (239-rush, 316-pass)
Most Points: 75 in 1942 Fewest Points Allowed: 0 (15 times)
Longest Winning Streak: 7 (1904-27; 1941-48)
Longest Losing Streak: 7 (1990-96)
OTHER NOTES:
Second-ranked Georgia (6-1, 4-1 SEC) and Florida (4-3, 2-2 SEC) enjoyed an open date in their
schedule after posting wins. On Oct. 19, the Bulldogs knocked off top-ranked Texas 30-15 in front of a record crowd of 105,215 in Austin while the Gators posted a 48-20 home win over Kentucky. Georgia entered the Texas game with 11 sacks on the season and tallied seven against the Longhorns plus had three fumble recoveries to give them five on the year.
UF didn’t have leading rusher Montrell Johnson Jr., against UK due to injury and instead got 106 yards and 5 TDs from freshman Jadan Baugh while freshman QB DJ Lagway was 7-for-14 for 259 yards plus had 46 rushing yards.
2023 Georgia-Florida Flashback
Georgia made history last year in Jacksonville as it marked the first time in the series that the
Bulldogs had registered three straight wins over the Gators by at least 20 points (34-7 in 2021; 42-20
in 2022; 43-20 in 2023). The top-ranked Bulldogs trailed 7-0 early in the first quarter and then rattled
off 36 unanswered points. Georgia finished with 486 yards of total offense on 66 plays in the victory.
Quarterback Carson Beck, a Jacksonville native, finished 19-for-28, for 315 yards, 2 TDs in his
first start in the series. The Bulldogs tallied 171 rushing yards on 38 carries.
A key play in the first half came with Georgia leading 10-7 when the Gators went for a 4th-and-1
in their own territory. On a direct snap to running back Trevor Etienne, linebacker Smael Mondon, Jr., stopped him for a loss. Georgia took over at it the UF31 and eventually scored to build a 17-7 edge. Georgia’s special teams picked up a safety (on a blocked punt by Joenel Aguero) to cap a run of
26 unanswered points in the first half. After UF’s opening TD drive, the Gators final five possessions of the first half resulted in 42 yards on 23 plays with no points. The Bulldogs collected four sacks in the first half and finished with a season-high five after coming in with only 12 for the year. UF’s lone TD in the second half came in the 4th quarter after trailing 36-7. It covered 75 yards on six plays.
MORE NOTES:
*Georgia is 52-3 in its last 55 games. A school record streak of 42 consecutive regular season victories ended Sept. 28 this year with a 41-34 defeat at No. 4 Alabama. Also, Georgia had an SEC and school record streak of 28 consecutive SEC regular season wins snap that night.
*Georgia’s 2024 Senior Class is an FBS-leading 48-3 (42-1 in the regular season) since 2021. The next
best in this span belongs to Michigan (45-6) and Alabama (42-8). Georgia’s only three losses since 2021 have come to Alabama. Georgia’s 2023 Senior Class set the school record at 50-4 with two national titles, an SEC crown plus went 6-0 in bowl/CFP games.
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