Georgia vs. Tennessee Under the Lights: SEC Showdown Preview

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00:00big game on Saturday in Athens Georgia under the lights and between the hedges

00:08between Georgia and Tennessee ten-and-a-half point spread as we get

00:14you ready for a huge weekend in the SEC it is the game of the week if it's a big

00:20weekend in the SEC that means Mark Zinno joins us here on this Thursday on the

00:26early lines you know we appreciate the time as always how ready are you well

00:32Ben I'm very ready apparently not as ready as you are with the leap that you

00:36made I want to wish you congratulations I've already set the line at a summer

00:40wedding at minus 385 because I don't think there's any way that you'll be

00:44able to have a fall wedding any size way shape or form so this that number is

00:49going to keep moving north but we establish your point line of a summer

00:53wedding at minus 385 now I don't I don't want to skew the odds makers right

00:58or the book of Zinno but spring could also be you know part of that depending

01:04officially based on the months could be April May 2026 so I just want to make

01:10sure the odds makers in your risk room have all the necessary information okay

01:15listen all I know is it won't take place anytime between the weekend before Labor

01:19Day and the national championship February to July open season for

01:24everything you know like when you get later in a year it's like this team to

01:28win the championship or the field fall or the field the field is minus 40,000

01:35I can't even come up with a number strong enough for the field because we

01:40know fall Saturdays are sacred certainly as the fall continues to roll on Mark

01:46Zinno becomes the mouth in the south and these are his SEC picks

01:59not a ton of drastic market movements you know for that game that we just

02:04displayed a top 15 tilt between Georgia and Tennessee the dogs number 12 falling

02:11by nine spots in the latest CFP rankings Tennessee remains put at number

02:16seven the Vols did beat Mississippi State handily this past Saturday but big

02:22news for Niko Yamilejava of course was knocked out of the game his status for

02:27Saturday still unclear the line has moved slightly Zinno in favor of UGA now

02:33up north of double digits ten and a half total working its way down from 49 and a

02:38hook to 47 and a half with the status a little bit uncertain for Niko Yamilejava

02:45the freshman quarterback for Tennessee how do you approach this matchup

02:49for Georgia and Tennessee knowing the dogs need to bounce back well when this

02:56front number first posted it was kind of eye-popping to go whoa Georgia minus nine

03:00but then you start to think and go I was making you telling you something there's

03:04a big gap between these two teams here specifically with the Tennessee

03:08offense is done since they entered SEC play which is pretty much squat save the

03:12game last week against Mississippi State in case you guys haven't noticed even at

03:16that 47 and a half Tennessee has not gone over that number in any SEC game

03:21other than the game against Mississippi State like the offense just doesn't have

03:26it the question is is how good is the Tennessee defense and how much can they

03:31shut down a Georgia offense similar to what Ole Miss did remember Georgia's

03:34only touchdown last week happened because Ole Miss turned the ball over

03:37inside their own 20-yard line all I do good do is go you know 12 yards to get a

03:41score other than that that Georgia offense couldn't move at all

03:44Tennessee defense has the capability of doing the same exact thing I got to go

03:48under here if I have a 48 or 48 and a half I got to go under I just don't see

03:52how either one of these offenses really move the ball with any sort of

03:56regularity here tough to lay this number especially you know when it comes to

04:01Tennessee's defense but you know I don't trust Tennessee's offense especially

04:05without Nikolai you could try to say his last name I'm not going to you're

04:08better at it than I am yeah as long as Niko if Niko's not in this game

04:14Tennessee may be dead in the water offensively if we look at this game

04:18though mark and you see that that price point is that baked in that he's not

04:21going to play because usually for me it used to be back in the day with the

04:24pros they get a concussion they're more likely to play the following Sunday but

04:27always like high school and college usually behind the eight ball saying

04:30look take this slow here I don't think he's playing this weekend but where does

04:34that line end up and also does that give you extra ammunition to maybe even

04:38take Tennessee if you're getting an extra three or four points or maybe if

04:41he plays it drops down lower how does that play out for you from handicapping

04:44from here till Saturday I think you saw the initial bump already means the

04:48opening line was nine nine and a half I kind of sat at them once we got the news

04:52about Niko being concussion protocol that was the first big buy that push it

04:56ten and a half I'd be surprised if you get another buy I would tell you I think

05:00if we get news definitively on Friday that he's playing you'll see immediately

05:05buy back on Tennessee at ten and a half right we're sort of a sem in college at

05:09least you know key numbers aren't the same as they're on the NFL but ten and a

05:12half obviously matters so I look at it from that standpoint you'll get a buy

05:16back if you really believe that he's gonna play you got some sort of inside

05:19information that he's gonna play take the ten and a half and hopefully they

05:22can keep it close but still I have a hard time believing that this thing gets

05:26to 48 or 50 like that just seems like a really high number given these two

05:30defenses

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