Former Georgia star athlete hits Tennessee legend Peyton Manning with unwelcome prediction for UT's upcoming game against UGA
The Tennessee Vols will host the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday in Knoxville before heading to Athens the following week to take on the Georgia Bulldogs. Tennessee's players and coaches are obviously completely focused on Mississippi State this week. Fans and media, however, have the luxury of being able to look ahead to next week's […]
The Tennessee Vols will host the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday in Knoxville before heading to Athens the following week to take on the Georgia Bulldogs.
Tennessee's players and coaches are obviously completely focused on Mississippi State this week. Fans and media, however, have the luxury of being able to look ahead to next week's game against Georgia.
On Monday night, former Georgia volleyball/basketball player Maria Taylor, who currently works for NBC Sports, joined ESPN's ManningCast, which is hosted by former Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning and former Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning (both of those guys had decent runs in the NFL, too).
Oddly enough, Georgia will play Eli's Rebels on Saturday before taking on Peyton's Vols the next weekend.
Shortly after joining the show on Monday night, Taylor was asked by Peyton and Eli how she thinks Georgia's games against Ole Miss and Tennessee will go.
The former Georgia athlete was quick to guarantee that Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart will struggle against the Bulldogs and that Tennessee won't beat the Bulldogs.
"Eli, I can guarantee that you Jaxson Dart's not going to throw for 515 yards against Georgia's defense," said Taylor. "It's just not going to happen. And I can't remember the last time we lost to Tennessee, so it's not going to happen this year either. I don't know how y'all feel about the game — and we're not even at our best, I saw the Florida game, I get it, I'm just saying."
Georgia's been lights out against any team not named Alabama the last few years, so it's not a bad prediction from Taylor
But every streak has to come to an end at some point. Maybe this will be the year that the Vols finally break through against Georgia (Tennessee's last win against Georgia came in 2016, which was Kirby Smart's first season as UGA's head coach).
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