Chewbaccer
Illustrious Potentate
So let me ask you. I've never been to the Cocktail Party but it doesn't seem like it's really a fair deal for Georgia. You said it's 50-50. Yea, Jacksonville is near the border but Jacksonville is a major city and the closest decent sized cities to it are Valdosta, Albany and Macon before you get to Atlanta halfway up the state. Gainseville is closer than all of them much less Athens. It just doesn't seem logical that Georgia would be able to feed that game like Florida would normally. And it never seems that way watching it on TV either. Now that could be because, no offense, Georgia is constantly underperforming so their crowd is less noisy. I don't know, it just doesn't seem like it's 50-50. I think it would go a long way toward better outcomes against Florida if they played every other year in Athens. I also think it would serve both Florida and Georgia to play this game the last week of the season but that's another subject.
The crowd is always half red, half blue, but of late, Florida has dominated the games and the Georgia fans don't have much to get loud about and a lot of the times, they've started to leave midway through the third quarter.
I like the idea of the game being played at a neutral field, and I'm a young guy, so the game being played in Jacksonville is all I know. I wouldn't mind them rotating the game between Jacksonville and Atlanta though, but as it stands now, I really don't mind the game being played in Jacksonville every year. The only real advantage for Florida is travel time for the team and fans.
As for being played the last game of the season, I wouldn't like that.
Georgia-Georgia Tech is also a big rivalry game us, and a much more heated rivalry than outsiders realize, and it has been played the last game of the season for as long as I can remember. Same for Florida-Florida State.