Scott Van Pelt gives pick against the spread in Georgia-Tennessee game
Scott Van Pelt has shared his pick against the spread for Saturday’s massive collision between No. 7 Tennessee and No. 12 Georgia.
The veteran SportsCenter host gave his pick as part of his weekly ‘Winners’ segment on ESPN Thursday night. Van Pelt is going with the home side, backing Georgia despite a 9.5-point spread (via ESPN Bet).
“Off their worst performance of the season and back at home in Athens, we think one word sums up what we expect from Kirby Smart and Georgia,” Van Pelt said before cutting to a clip of the Bulldogs’ coach saying ‘aggression.’ “Dawgs land a good-sized chunk to Tennessee between the hedges.”
SVP is 44-40-1 on the season for his picks.
Georgia has been far less fortunate against the spread. The Dawgs are 2-7 against the number this season, which pretty effectively illustrates the kind of season it has been. Georgia is 7-2 overall, and still very much in the hunt for a College Football Playoff spot, but it hasn’t looked like its usual self outside of one-off routs of Clemson and Texas.
Against Ole Miss a week ago, Georgia lost 28-10 on the road as quarterback Carson Beck played through a fourth consecutive game with a turnover. He was sacked a season-high 5 times by the Rebels. Georgia needs him to be cleaner, and it needs the line to be more consistent against a strong Tennessee front.
Kickoff from Athens is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
Why are fans of a team that hasn’t won a Natty since 1998 so jacked about a team that lost to Kentucky and Arkansas?
Tennessee doesn’t have the talent or coaching to win a championship. Please do enjoy watching highlights of the 1998 season on YouTube.
Who lost to Kentucky???
Doug is wrong, Doug is wrong… wrong wrong wrong wrong
Scratch Kentucky. I meant to say Arkansas.
So are there two or three Dougs?
His old username was tidenation88. He decided to copy me cause he is weird. He’s a convicted s-ex offender that pretends to be a 14 year old boy on SDS.
Don’t believe me? Just click on his name and read his chat log.
No no – you said both Kentucky and Arkansas. Again, wrong wrong wrong.
This guy just can’t accept getting schooled by a 14 year old. He asked for my number, which I thought was really weird.
And who is really weird? Your username is that you are from Al.com, but you pretend to be a UGA fan. Alabama lives rent free.