Georgia vs. Texas Showdown: Analyzing The Underdog Strategy

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00:00Okay, so Georgia had one really bad half this season against the University of Alabama.

00:11They're taking on Texas.

00:12Look, Texas has been the best team in the country.

00:15Not without their warts either, because Quinn Ewers came back last week.

00:19He wasn't really good.

00:22Late in the game, they pulled away from Oklahoma.

00:24I mean, I don't really give a lot of credence to that win.

00:27I don't think Oklahoma's good at all, Bill.

00:29I don't know how they were even close to ranked at any point this season.

00:32They've looked awful on offense, but the line is sort of begging you, it feels like, to

00:38take the Bulldogs here at plus four and a half.

00:42If Texas shows up like they have most of the season, this game is going to be won by them

00:47and it may not be close, but gosh, I mean, put it this way, Bill.

00:54In the next year or two, and going back a year, would you ever get four and a half points

01:00with the Bulldogs in any game?

01:01This may be the only one.

01:03A rare underdog card, and we know Kirby loves the underdog card.

01:06He loves it when they're up by a 30-point favorite.

01:10So I think we're losing value on Texas the more this line goes up, and you start to believe

01:15maybe the Bulldogs can go in there and make this happen, and I don't even call it an upset

01:20when you have two top five teams in Georgia, the caliber of program that they have, but

01:25I worry about a couple things with the Bulldogs.

01:26Why they aren't the same?

01:28A rushing attack that ranks 13th in the SEC, a rushing defense that ranks 10th.

01:33Watch Texas running the football in this game.

01:36For all the attention on the quarterbacks and Quinn Ewers, Texas, if they average around

01:41five yards per carry, which they are doing, they'll run away with this game at home, and

01:46their defense will do the rest.

01:47So I do like Texas to win the game.

01:50I had it at about a six-point victory, so we're right on the line of where I think it's

01:54going to end up, but there is value in the Bulldogs the more that that goes up because

01:59you start to believe Kirby's going to keep this one close.