Things you won’t hear out of the Georgia football program following Saturday’s game in Jacksonville:

“No one gave us a chance,” or “Everybody doubted us.”

Those were words from Kirby Smart after the Bulldogs played like it was 2021 or 2022 again in going on the road and taking it to then No. 1 Texas 30-15 as an underdog for the first time in 50 games.

It’s Georgia-Florida week (or Florida-Georgia week for those in the Sunshine State who back the orange and blue).

The Bulldogs are once again a double-digit favorite over the Gators. The number was 16 ½ on Tuesday, according to BetMGM.

That’s more than the 14 points in 2021 and 2023, but considerably less than the 23 that the Bulldogs were favored by in 2023.

In a season where Georgia has played three top-15 teams including a much-hyped game against Alabama and a marquee week-one game with Clemson, here comes a Florida team that is unranked and sitting at 4-3 and 2-2 in the SEC.

“It doesn’t matter who we’re playing, coach tells us to play to our standard, don’t play to an opponents’ standard,” wide receiver Arian Smith said. “We know they’re going to give us their best shot so we’ve just got to be able to take a punch when they do.”

It’s a watered-down version of sorts for the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party judging from tickets that could be had on StubHub for $52 as of Tuesday afternoon.

Smart, as usual, will try to stoke the fire within for his team no matter the opponent.

“I think you're constantly trying to get better, and that's our pursuit of the best version of ourselves,” Smart said. “We haven't reached that with this team. We haven't reached our best. We're trying to get better and ascend in every area and grow and create more depth. We've got opportunities to do that this week and weeks coming forward, but I'm not here to complain about the schedule.”

Billy Napier, 15-17 in his third season as Florida’s coach, could possibly be climbing out of hot-seat territory — but then again maybe not with games to follow at Texas and at home against LSU and Ole Miss. That’s four straight top-20 teams as of now before playing a rivalry game against woeful Florida State, which is 1-7.

Georgia is 6-1 and 4-1 in the SEC, behind only Texas A&M in the conference standings.

Smart just won his 100^th career game and the Bulldogs are No. 2 in the polls. For the record, Dan Mullen, the former Florida coach, puts Georgia at No. 8 in his personal top-25.

He’s the last Florida coach to beat Georgia, 44-20 in 2020.

Georgia beat the Gators 34-7 the next year and Mullen was fired three weeks later.

Florida has lost to Georgia under Napier 42-20 and 43-20.

Napier knows what it will take to change the perception of his program in a series that the Gators haven’t been close in of late.

“You’ve got to beat them,” he said.

Florida’s four wins have come against UCF, Mississippi State and Kentucky — a combined 7-17 — and Samford.

Their losses have come against teams now in the top 10: Miami, Tennessee and Texas A&M. Florida lost in Knoxville in overtime 23-17 and crushed the Wildcats 43-20 in its last game with freshman DJ Lagway the starting quarterback after Grahm Mertz was lost to a season-ending knee injury.

“I think they're playing their best football,” Smart said. “I think they have a really, really good roster. A lot of players we've recruited and recruited against them.”

Georgia is coming off an open date on the schedule which wasn’t ideal from the standpoint of players still riding high from the Texas win, Smart said on his radio show last Thursday.

“What happens when you get a big win like that is they get around their peers, they get around their family members, relatives and friends,” Smart said. “Everyone wants to give them pats on the back, everybody wants to live in the past. That’s not a way to be living successfully in the SEC. You’ve got to move on, you’ve got to advance, correct what you didn’t do well, get better at things.”

Smart said players have a harder time turning the page.

“We try to be honest with them and tell them we’ve got a tough road to hoe,” Smart said.

Georgia’s defense had plenty of reason to be motivated heading into the Texas game after it gave up 31 points and 306 passing yards in a closer-than-expected 41-31 win over Mississippi State.

“We didn’t feel like we played our best game at all on defense,” outside linebacker Chaz Chambliss said.

Smart said the defense was “embarrassed,” with that showing.

“It just always comes down to execution,” Chambliss said, “because Georgia only beats Georgia.”

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