As of Tuesday morning, the line for the SEC Championship Game remains at Alabama -13 over Georgia. For one of the top teams in the nation, it seems like a lot of points. Yet maybe that line is fair. The Bulldogs are facing what is surely one of the greatest college football teams of all time—maybe even the greatest.

It's fairly uncommon for Georgia to play as a significant underdog. Entering Saturday, it's been seven years—the 2011 SEC Championship Game versus LSU (-13½), to be specific. In 61 Georgia postseason appearances—54 bowls and seven SEC title games—that 2011 title game represents the only larger betting line deficit.

Point spreads in college football started to become viable and available around 1950. Since then, Georgia has been a significant underdog of 12-plus points in 34 games, 20 of which occurred prior to 1965. The opponents the Bulldogs have been a significant underdog to the most are Florida (10 games), Georgia Tech (7), and Alabama (6).

Entering Saturday, the six games against Alabama when Georgia was an underdog of a dozen points or more are as follows:

Georgia as a significant underdog has been sporadic, but an actual victory under such circumstances has been an absolute rarity. As an underdog of at least 12 points, the Bulldogs have a straight-up record of 2-30-2. The four occurrences of Georgia avoiding a loss when entering a game as a significant underdog:

When the shoe is on the other foot, things have been different. Georgia has been defeated by Vanderbilt alone five times (1973, 1991, 1994, 2006, and 2016) and once tied (1985) when the Bulldogs were favored by at least 12 points over the Commodores. Of course, Vanderbilt has lost 32 games to Georgia under the same circumstances.

Regardless, a win by Georgia over the Crimson Tide this Saturday in Atlanta would be momentous in many ways, including achieving something which has occurred only twice before in UGA football history—an improbable victory by the Bulldogs as significant underdogs.