{"id":341327,"date":"2025-10-29T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341327\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:31:10","slug":"can-gators-pull-off-stunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341327\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Gators pull off stunner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Florida (3-4) vs. No. 5 Georgia (6-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m., ABC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest line: Georgia is favored by 7 1\/2 points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Bianchi, Sports Columnist: Georgia 28, Florida 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ask me why, but I think Florida is going to put up a bit of a fight in the wake of head coach Billy Napier\u2019s firing after the victory over Mississippi State. Even though the Gators have an interim coach, a disappointing quarterback and a defense that\u2019s only been respectable against bad offenses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/10\/29\/florida-gators-football-georgia-bulldogs-billy-gonzales-billy-napier-kirby-smart-sec-dj-lagway-lane-kiffin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">don\u2019t be surprised if this is a close game<\/a> and UF gives its fans a few fleeting moments of false hope before the Bulldogs remember what a talent advantage feels like. A win for Florida? That would be a bigger upset than finding a parking spot in Jacksonville on game day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edgar Thompson, Florida Gators writer:\u00a0Georgia 31, Florida 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A coaching change, offensive adjustments and rallying around a rivalry game aren\u2019t enough to spark a turnaround. The Gators put up a fight, but cannot keep pace to drop their fifth straight to the Bulldogs and continue a disappointing season. Georgia isn\u2019t the dominant force of a few seasons ago, but coach Kirby Smart\u2019s 2025 team finds ways to win the games it\u2019s supposed to win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keven Lerner, Assistant Sports Editor: Georgia 30, Florida 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new-look Gators hope to snap a four-game losing streak against No. 5 Georgia with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/10\/27\/florida-gators-football-georgia-bulldogs-billy-gonzales-billy-napier-kirby-smart-sec-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interim coach Billy Gonzales<\/a> at the helm and an overhauled offensive system. While the Bulldogs haven\u2019t been dominant like they have in the past, they still are one of the top teams in the SEC with loads of talent. The key for the Gators will be how quarterback DJ Lagway responds to the revamped offense. Florida, 7 1\/2-point underdogs, will be hard-pressed to pull off the upset with so many moving parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Lichtenstein, Miami Hurricanes writer:\u00a0Georgia 31, Florida 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So many things about the Gators are unknown right now. How will they respond after Billy Napier \u2014 a coach players obviously liked \u2014 was fired? Will new playcaller Ryan O\u2019Hara change the way Florida runs its offense? Or will it be the same as it was a few weeks ago? Georgia, meanwhile, is as solid as ever. The Bulldogs are coming off a bye week, as well, but they have a much more impressive resume than UF. UGA has won four straight games in Jacksonville, and it will probably make it five on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida (3-4) vs. No. 5 Georgia (6-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m., ABC Latest line: Georgia is favored by 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":341328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,1369,3188,723,1382,13102,7310,1370,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-341327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-gators","13":"tag-gainesville","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115458885773605358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}