Georgia takes it 'down to the wire' again, defeats Florida - ESPN

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo walked briskly through the EverBank Stadium press box after yet another come-from-behind victory on Saturday, shouting, «That's the way we like it — down to the wire every time!»

The No. 5 Bulldogs' 24-20 victory over rival Florida proved to be more difficult than expected, but it was nothing new for a football team that has now trailed in the fourth quarter of four SEC games this season, winning three times.

«This team just won't go away,» Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart said. «Another night in the SEC. I don't know what else is going on in the country right now, but when you play in this league, every game comes down to the last two possessions.»

That has certainly been the case for the Bulldogs (7-1, 5-1 SEC), who survived to beat the Gators (3-5, 2-3 SEC) for the fifth straight time by making a critical fourth-down stop on defense and again being on the right side of a controversial replay ruling.

«I don't believe in playing with fire,» said Smart, whose teams are 8-2 against Florida. «But if I could just write a script and say, 'Let's go up by 14, let's go up by 21.' I don't write the script. It plays out. I know that our kids are not uncomfortable playing from [behind].

»They don't get chained to a scoreboard. There's people that play chained to a scoreboard, and our guys are free of that, and they just play and keep chopping and keep chopping as the good things happen."

Florida, which was playing for the first time since coach Billy Napier was fired on Oct. 19, took a 20-17 lead on Trey Smack's 54-yard field goal with 14:52 to play. It was Smack's ninth field goal of 50 yards or more, breaking the Florida career record.

After the Gators forced a second