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ATHENS - UGA Football opened as the No. 5 team in the nation according to the Associated Press, and the Dawgs are getting ready to start the season Satuday Between the Hedges against Marshall.
The football program released the hype film for the season opener Friday night. Georgia is listed as a near 40-point favorite to win on Saturday.
UGA is coming into 2025 with its lowest pre-season ranking since starting off the 2021 season also ranked No. 5.
Before 2023, UGA had not started a season ranked No. 1 since 2008, which was Matthew Stafford’s final season at Georgia. Georgia is coming off a 13-1 season in 2023. UGA beat three teams that finished the 2024 season ranked in the final top ten of the season.
This year the Bulldogs are set to take on five teams ranked in the pre-season top 25 (No. 1 Texas, No. 8 Alabama and No. 15 Florida, No. 21 Ole Miss and No. 24 Tennessee).
Kirby told reporters in 2024 that he doesn’t pay attention to pre-season rankings.
“I've never honestly paid any attention to it, and we don't talk about it as a team. The expectation is we're going to develop and worry about today's day, and we don't think about that.”
