Florida State vs. Georgia

Florida State and Georgia have 12 meetings on file, the first in 1954; Georgia leads the series 7–⁠4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Georgia 5–⁠4, and Georgia has won the last 2.

Scheduled 2028 neutral site. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Florida State wins
4
Georgia wins
7
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
5 Georgia
Current streak
2 Georgia
Last 10 meetings
Georgia 5–⁠4
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠5
1960s4–⁠0
1980s0–⁠0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Both ranked
2 meetings: Florida State 0, Georgia 2; 1 both in the top 10
Average margin
17.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Florida State
2–⁠2 Florida State’s record at home
At Georgia
2–⁠2 Georgia’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠3–⁠1 Florida State first
Shutouts
5

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Florida State’s biggest win1962: Florida State 18, Georgia 0by 18 points
  2. Georgia’s biggest win2023: Georgia 63, Florida State 3by 60 points
  3. Ranked showdown2023: Georgia 63, Florida State 3No. 6 Georgia at No. 4 Florida State
  4. Ranked showdown2002: Georgia 26, Florida State 13No. 4 Georgia at No. 16 Florida State

Coach against coach

YearsFlorida StateSeriesGeorgia
1954–⁠1958Thomas Nugent0–⁠4Wallace Butts

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida State’s side (Nugent 0–⁠4 against Butts). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Florida State and Georgia, 1954 on13001500170019001960197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Kendall Milton Georgia2023
Musa Smith Georgia2002
James Jackson Georgia1984

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1959 game: Georgia Overpowers Florida State, 42-0

    1959 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 1, 1959

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Dec 30, 20236Georgia 63, 4Florida State 3Hard Rock StadiumOrange Bowl
Jan 1, 20034Georgia 26, 16Florida State 13Caesars SuperdomeSugar Bowl
Dec 22, 1984Georgia 17, 15Florida State 17Neutral siteCitrus Bowl
Oct 16, 1965Florida State 10, 5Georgia 3at Florida State
Oct 17, 196410Florida State 17, Georgia 14at Georgia
Oct 20, 1962Florida State 18, Georgia 0at Georgia
Oct 14, 1961Florida State 3, Georgia 0at Florida State
Oct 31, 195914Georgia 42, Florida State 0at Georgia
Oct 11, 1958Georgia 28, Florida State 13Neutral site
Sep 29, 1956Georgia 3, Florida State 0at Georgia
Oct 15, 1955Georgia 47, Florida State 14at Florida State
Sep 18, 1954Georgia 14, Florida State 0at Florida State

Every game is listed as played on the field.