Follow live: No. 3 Georgia hosts No. 1 Tennessee in battle of unbeatens

The defending nationalist champion No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs big the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers successful a marquee matchup that volition apt person large implications connected the SEC title crippled and College Football Playoff.

According to ESPN Analytics, the victor of this crippled volition besides person a 99% accidental of winning the SEC East.

This has been a lopsided bid successful caller years arsenic Georgia enters the showdown riding a five-game winning streak -- tied for its longest successful bid past -- with each 5 wins by much than 20 points.

Tennessee volition look to alteration that with Heisman Trophy-favorite Hendon Hooker astatine the helm. Hooker has 21 touchdown passes this season, 2nd to lone Peyton Manning (23) done 8 games successful programme history. Most of them person gone to Jalin Hyatt (14), who's connected gait to go the 3rd receiver successful SEC past to drawback 20 touchdown passes successful a season.

Here are the champion moments from Tennessee-Georgia:

What should you cognize astir the Vols?

Tennessee manager Josh Heupel said the Vols should beryllium arsenic steadfast arsenic they've been each play contiguous against Georgia.

Cedric Tillman, who led Tennessee successful receiving past season, figures to supply a boost to an already potent receiving corps. He played constricted snaps past week against Kentucky, and Heupel said they had him connected a "pitch count" aft missing the erstwhile 4 games.

Heupel said Tillman volition beryllium "ready to roll" against the Bulldogs. The 6-foot-3 Tillman creates superior matchup problems with his size and athleticism, peculiarly with speedy Jalin Hyatt and his 14 touchdowns connected the different side.

Tillman has been practicing afloat speed, but the Vols wanted to marque definite helium was 100 percent earlier bringing him backmost for a game. Tillman had tightrope country to repair a precocious ankle sprain successful September. -- Chris Low

How astir them Dawgs?

There's nary question that Georgia's defence volition miss elder extracurricular linebacker Nolan Smith, who led the Bulldogs successful sacks, tackles for nonaccomplishment and backmost hurries. He's a versatile defender that Georgia moved astir a lot, and he's 1 of the team's astir experienced players.

But the Bulldogs were going to conflict to get unit connected Volunteers backmost Hendon Hooker regardless. Hooker gets escaped of the shot rapidly successful Tennessee's fast-paced offense. He has tremendous oculus subject and doesn't marque galore mistakes, which is wherefore helium has lone 1 interception this season.

Georgia's cornerbacks -- Kelee Ringo and Kamari Lassiter -- are going to person to play good connected the perimeter to dilatory the Vols down. They'll look a monumental situation successful trying to incorporate UT receivers Tillman, Bru McCoy and Hyatt.

Georgia manager Kirby Smart said the Bulldogs are going to person to set to UT's gait connected the alert and bash it well.

"They got aggregate paces they usage and they tin spell arsenic accelerated arsenic anybody successful the country. They signifier it, they preach it, they bash a truly bully occupation researching themselves and figuring retired however they tin spell faster. And our occupation is to beryllium capable to lucifer that conditioning level." -- Mark Schlabach

It's connected successful Athens

What mightiness beryllium the biggest crippled successful Sanford Stadium past is inactive hours away, but thousands of fans person flocked to Athens from each direction.

Former Tennessee backmost Peyton Manning is here. So is erstwhile Georgia antiaircraft backmost and NFL Hall of Famer Champ Bailey. Country euphony prima Luke Bryan arrived for "College GameDay" via backstage jet. PGA Tour golfers Kevin Kisner, a Georgia alum, and past U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland were expected to get from Justin Thomas' wedding successful Nashville sometime Saturday morning.

The Bulldogs person hosted plentifulness of large games successful Sanford Stadium during the past 93 years, but possibly nary bigger than Saturday's, which volition astir apt determine the SEC East rubric and who volition play successful the SEC title game. The victor volition besides person an wrong way to the College Football Playoff, portion the loser volition request assistance from different teams to get into the apical four.

It's the archetypal top-five matchup astatine Sanford Stadium since 1983, erstwhile Bo Jackson and No. 3 Auburn ended No. 4 Georgia's 23-game SEC winning streak with a 13-7 triumph betwixt the hedges.

"It's a large game, right?" Georgia manager Kirby Smart said. "There's thing astir a fig being successful beforehand of it. It would beryllium a large crippled careless due to the fact that some teams are successful the East." -- Schlabach