Georgia football will head to Texas for one of the showcase games of the season as an underdog for the first time in a relatively long time.

Georgia should not have allowed Mississippi State to get 31 points on them, plain and simple. The Bulldogs are a team that is 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the SEC, averaging 27.4 points per game, and Georgia is ranked nationally at No. 4. They managed zero sacks on Michael Van Buren Jr.

Week 7 of the college football season delivered as promised with a series of dramatic games between high-profile teams. However, there was one national spotlight game that proved to be something of a snoozer as Texas crushed Oklahoma 34-3 in the Red River Rivalry.

Mississippi State fans should be feeling much better about their team now than they did a month ago after a loss to Toledo. For their second-straight game, the Bulldogs made a Top 5 ranked team work harder than expected to win.

The No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs 41-31 in Sanford Stadium on Saturday. Following the game, sports editor Bo Underwood graded each position group’s performance.

This week had all the makings of a trap game for Georgia. The Bulldogs playing what many people feel is an inferior Mississippi State team, while next week a road date with the No. 1 team in the nation,

Mississippi State football is improving and looks like it can be a winner soon. That and other overreactions from Saturday's loss to Georgia.

The meeting of the SEC's Bulldogs was a lot closer than expected. Here's what went right for Mississippi State against Georgia.