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#18Tennessee at Georgia Tech

Prediction · week 2, 2026 · Sat Sep 12, 6:00 PM CT / 7:00 PM ET · Bobby Dodd Stadium

Updated Tue Oct 13, 7:56 PM CT

Result

Final: Tennessee 45, Georgia Tech 24

Closest: SP+ (Tennessee by 15.7, missed by 5.3). 2 of 2 models named the winner.

Both models favor Tennessee. The line, shown for comparison only, has Tennessee by 13.0.

No call was made for this game: Our model had no number for it before kickoff.

SP+ has Tennessee by 15.7 and Elo has Tennessee by 3.0. SP+ and Elo are 12.7 points apart.

This page was first built after kickoff, so these are the week's projections as recorded then, from the same weekly ratings the season record scores.

Every model

ModelSaysMissed by
SP+ Closest
Tennessee +19.9 vs Georgia Tech +1.7
Tennessee by 15.7 ✓5.3
Elo
Tennessee 1691 vs Georgia Tech 1553
Tennessee by 3.0 ✓18.0
Our model · experimental
no snapshot for this game
n/a–
Line (benchmark)
pregame line
Tennessee by 138.0

Each margin is from the same weekly ratings the team pages use: SP+ and Elo from their rating gap, the home team given 2.5 points (none at a neutral site); Our model is this site's experimental rating; the line is the market's pregame margin, shown as a benchmark and never part of Our call. ✓ when a model named the winner, ✗ when it did not; Closest marks the one nearest the final margin (an exact tie goes to the first listed). How these work ›

Key injuries

No injury list was recorded for this game: its page was first built after kickoff.

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