With both teams believing they had a claim to a College Football Playoff berth, the Georgia Bulldogs took on the Florida State Seminoles in the Orange Bowl on Saturday.
Florida State entered without many of its top players, meaning that Georgia was a whopping favorite in Saturday's Orange Bowl. Yet apparently, oddsmakers couldn't have set the Georgia vs Florida State spread high enough.
Georgia Sets Record for Biggest Bowl Win vs Florida State | What Was the Spread?
Georgia set a college football record on Saturday in the Orange Bowl by beating Florida State 63-3, marking the largest margin of victory ever in a bowl game.
Biggest bowl margin of victory in CFB history
+60 points (2023, Georgia vs. FSU)
+58 points (2022, Georgia vs. TCU) https://t.co/iV3QiCtHCjpic.twitter.com/TObZ5wi7d8— Evan Abrams (@EvanHAbrams) December 31, 2023
What were the Georgia vs Florida State odds for the Orange Bowl? Georgia closed as 23.5-point favorites against Florida State in the Orange Bowl, with the Bulldogs -2500 on the moneyline to win outright. That means Georgia covered the closing spread by 36 points.
Georgia so thoroughly trounced Florida State that the Bulldogs punter didn't even enter the game until there were 7 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. At that point, he was the last player on the Georgia roster to enter the game.
| Georgia Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
-23.5 -110 | 46.5 -115o / -105u | -2500 |
| Florida St Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
+23.5 -110 | 46.5 -115o / -105u | +1100 |
Just how shorthanded was Florida State? This tweet does a nice job of laying it out at a glance, while our College Football Bowl Opt-Out Tracker goes more in-depth:
Now down:
QB1
QB2
QB4
RB1
RB2
RB3
WR1 (First round pick)
WR2DE1 (First round pick)
DT1
DT2
DT3
LB2
LB3
CB1
CB2
S1And a bunch of other depth guys who are in the portal. This is the dumbest game ever. https://t.co/chVu6OmOZ9
— Matt Smith (@SamENole) December 30, 2023
Georgia took a 42-3 lead into halftime of Saturday's Orange Bowl, with some books having Georgia as big as 52.5-point favorites on the live spread at half. They should have set the line even higher, it would seem.
For what it's worth, our college football betting expert's pick for the Orange Bowl was on Georgia to cover, although he did caution playing the line beyond 22.5.
