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No. 3 Georgia and no. 6 Mississippi Brace for Rematch in the Sugar

No. 3 Georgia (12-1, CFP No. 3 seed) vs. No. 6 Mississippi (12-1, CFP No. 6 seed), Thursday, 8 p.m. EST (ESPN)

BetMGM Sportsbook College Football Odds: Georgia by 6 1/2.

Series record: Georgia leads 33-13-1.

The winner proceeds to a CFP semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8. Georgia comes in on the heels of an SEC championship and one year after a loss to Notre Dame in a quarterfinal at the same championship game. Now they'll attempt to beat Ole Miss a 2nd time in one season. These two groups fulfilled in Athens on Oct. 18, with the Bulldogs winning 43-35. The was the Rebels' only loss. They made a rematch by routing Tulane 41-10 in the opening round of the College Football Playoff on Dec. 20, about three weeks after their coach for the majority of this season, Lane Kiffin, left for LSU and was changed by previous defensive planner Pete Golding.

Georgia tight end Lawson Luckie was a significant match problem for the Ole Miss defense in the last conference. He caught 3 TD passes from Bulldogs QB Gunner Stockton. Rebels linebackers and safeties will try to have a much better plan this time for covering Luckie, who was an essential security valve for Stockton, especially at a loss zone. All three of Luckie's goals came on snaps inside the Ole Miss 15-yard line.

Mississippi: QB Trinidad Chambliss has actually provided among the most engaging plot in all of college football this season. The transfer from Division II Ferris State started the season as a backup and performed so well as an early season injury replacement that he kept the starting job for the remainder of the season. Along the way, the dual-threat QB has passed for 3,298 yards and 19 TDs to choose 506 yards and eight TDs hurrying.

Georgia: Stockton also is a risk as both a passer and a runner, and improved throughout his first full year as the Bulldogs' starter. He's finished 70.7% of his passes this season for 2,691 yards and 23 TDs while also rushing for 442 backyards and eight TDs.

The 50th meeting on the field in between these SEC enemies will be their very first in the postseason. It'll also be the eighth time they have actually played when both were ranked, with the Bulldogs having actually won five of the previous 7 such . ... Georgia and Mississippi have never previously played twice in the exact same season. ... Ole Miss' CFP opener was Golding's only game as a college football head coach. ... Mississippi is in its 11th Sugar Bowl, having gone 6-4 in its previous 10. The Rebels' last trip to the Sugar Bowl followed the 2021 season and they lost to Baylor 21-7. ... Ole Miss led the SEC this season in overall offense with 498 yards per video game and passing offense with 312.4 backyards per game. ... Georgia is making its 13th look in the Sugar Bowl, having gone 5-7 in its previous 12. ... The Bulldogs are in their fifth CFP, all under coach Kirby Smart. They are 5-2 in CFP video games, including nationwide titles in 2021 and 2022. ... The Bulldogs won their 16th SEC championship with a 28-7 victory over Alabama on Dec. 6. Georgia has actually now won two straight SEC titles for the very first time since winning three in a row from 1980-82. ... Georgia has actually gone 65-6 given that 2021, the very best record of any Football Bowl Subdivision team throughout the past half decade. ... Last year's Sugar Bowl was postponed by a day because of the killing of 14 people on Bourbon Street by an assailant who drove a truck into a crowd and after that passed away in a shootout with authorities in the early morning hours of New Year's Day.