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Georgia giant favorite in much-needed warm-up game with UAB, other SEC lines

Carson Beck (UGA Sports Comm) Georgia quarterback Carson Beck (15) during Georgia’s game against South Carolina on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA) (Tony Walsh/Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

ATHENS — The 2023 Georgia football schedule is the gift that just keeps on giving, offering Kirby Smart one final warm-up game to iron out some wrinkles

The No. 1-ranked Bulldogs (3-0) play host to UAB (1-2), which is coming off a 41-21 home loss to Louisiana in Trent Dilfer’s first year as the Blazers coach.

Georgia is a 37-point favorite over UAB, a program it beat 56-7 in the second game of the 2021 season as Stetson Bennett fired five first-half touchdown passes before giving way to Carson Beck.

Now it’s Beck who needs some first-half momentum after slow starts in each of the Bulldogs first three games of the season.

Georgia rallied for a 24-14 victory over South Carolina after trailing by a 14-3 count at the half on Saturday.

Read more at DawgNation.com.

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