SATURDAY’S GAME

Georgia vs. Florida at Jacksonville, 3:30 p.m., CBS, AM 750 WSB, News 95.5

table. Jake Fromm led the Bulldogs to the national championship game as a freshman. Georgia signed Justin Fields, the No. 1 dual-threat quarterback of his recruiting class. This was not dissimilar to what trans- pired at Alabama, where freshman Jalen Hurts took Alabama to the title game in January 2017 and, the next month, the five-star recruit Tua Tagovailoa signed with the Crimson Tide. We see what happened there.

The way of college football is for the best quarterbacks to cluster — and then to scatter. Of the top 13 teams in this week’s Associated Press poll,

five have starting quarterbacks who first enrolled elsewhere. One — LSU’s Joe Burrow, who began at Ohio State — just dealt Georgia its third loss with Fromm as the starter.

The Bulldogs lost in Death Valley with Fromm having his worst game as a collegian, spawning heightened bye-week speculation as to What Comes Next. It’s thought that Fields, who worked five snaps and ran the ball once in the thudding loss, will be given a larger role when Georgia faces Florida. (Wait. Didn’t Mark Richt promote a backup for the Jacksonville game? Believe his name was Faton Bauta.) Kirby Smart, who coaches these Bulldogs, has said only: “Who- ever gives our team the best chance to win is what we’ll decide to do.”

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CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM After Georgia’s loss last week to LSU, some wonder whether Bulldogs quarterback Jake Fromm (left) will start ceding snaps to dual-threat freshman Justin Fields.