Filed under: Florida, Georgia, SEC
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Maybe Florida and Georgia should be unranked every year. Playing the first overtime game in World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party history, the Gators and Bulldogs dueled through the afternoon and into the night before Florida pulled out a 34-31 victory on Chas Henry's 37-yard field goal.
In a fitting moment, the kick split the uprights where the two fan bases join, red on the left, blue on the right. You didn't even need to watch the football to see whether the kick was good. Georgia fans sank to their seats in defeat while Florida Gator fans leapt for joy.
It was the duality of fandom writ large, the latest loss in a string of Georgia cocktail party losses that seem like they will never end.
And this one may be the cruelest of all.
Trailing 21-7 at the half, the Bulldogs stormed back and tied the game at 24 early in the fourth quarter. Maybe after the 1-4 start, after the suspension of Georgia's top player for the first four games of the season, maybe, just maybe, this would be the Bulldogs year in the end. Just in time for Halloween, maybe the Bulldogs could dress up as cocktail party victors for a change.
But it wasn't to be.
Lori Heuring Lorri Bagley Lucy Liu Luján Fernández Magdalena Wróbel
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