Georgia football has managed to avoid for a good, long while what befell Penn State last Saturday: faceplanting against an unranked opponent.

The Auburn team the No. 9 Bulldogs will see Saturday, Oct. 13, in Jordan-Hare Stadium isn’t anywhere near the same place UCLA was before it stunned the Nittany Lions.

The 3-2 Tigers’ two losses came against top 15 teams in Oklahoma and Texas A&M on the road by a touchdown or less.

Auburn was unranked two years ago when then-No. 1 Georgia needed a Brock Bowers 40-yard touchdown catch with 2:52 to go to escape with a 27-20 win.

That kept alive a winning streak against unranked opponents that has now stretched to 44 games.

The last loss to an unranked opponent was in double overtime to South Carolina in 2019.

“We know how tight the SEC has be

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