Florida vs Georgia Final Score: Georgia Beats Florida 27-8 for a Sixth Straight Win Over the Gators
Georgia turned four Florida turnovers into 17 points and beat the Gators 27-8 in Atlanta on Saturday — the rivalry's first meeting outside Jacksonville since 1995, played in Georgia while EverBank Stadium is renovated, before a sellout crowd of 72,541.
ATLANTA — The game Jacksonville is watching from home this year ended the way the first half promised. No. 3 Georgia finished a 27-8 win over No. 17 Florida on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, outscoring the Gators 24-0 in the first half and never letting the game get close, according to the Associated Press and both schools' official reports. It is Georgia's sixth straight win in the series and its ninth in the last ten meetings.
Georgia's scoring came in every phase. Nate Frazier opened it with a 1-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter, Peyton Woodring added a 28-yard field goal, Bo Walker ran in a 1-yard score, and Chris Cole returned a fumble 66 yards for a touchdown just before halftime after Quintavius Johnson's strip-sack — the sequence this station reported at the break. Florida finally scored with 6:59 left in the fourth quarter, on a 2-yard Tramell Jones Jr. touchdown run and a two-point conversion pass from Jadan Baugh to Dallas Wilson, before Woodring's 21-yard field goal with 3:34 left closed the scoring. Florida's late touchdown extended its NCAA-record scoring streak to 481 games and avoided the program's first shutout since 1988.
The turnover count tells the story: Florida gave the ball away four times — three interceptions, by Ellis Robinson IV, Demello Jones and Braylon Conley, plus the fumble returned for a touchdown — and Georgia converted them into 17 points. Georgia outrushed Florida 217-48 and outgained the Gators 318-246 overall. Gunner Stockton finished 13-of-23 for 101 yards for Georgia; for Florida, Aaron Philo started in his return from a shoulder injury and Jones Jr. finished, going 16-of-23 for 163 yards, while Baugh — who entered the day leading the SEC with 13 rushing touchdowns — was held to 38 yards on 17 carries.
Georgia improves to 7-1 overall and 5-1 in the SEC; Florida falls to 5-3 and 3-3. The rivalry, displaced by the $1.4 billion EverBank Stadium renovation, is scheduled for Tampa in 2027 before its planned return to Jacksonville in 2028 — and this year's edition, the first played in Atlanta, drew a sellout crowd of 72,541.
