South Alabama vs Georgia State preview, prediction, and betting lines. Both teams have been interesting, but neither one has won a Sun Belt game.

Both South Alabama and Georgia State need to win out to become bowl-eligible, which means the loser of Thursday night’s game is guaranteed a losing record and no postseason berth. The Jaguars enter the game having lost six straight, while the Panthers have lost four in a row.

Georgia State lost 41-24 (Over 59) at -6.5 Georgia Southern Saturday. With that setback, GSU continued its own skid: the Panthers have lost 4 in a row. Georgia State has allowed 40-plus points in back-to-back games and in 6 of its last 9 games since last November. The 2025 Panthers rank 136th and last in scoring defense (41.1 PPG).

The Alabama Crimson Tide earned a Week 5 win over the Georgia Bulldogs. Here are the scores, updates and highlights:

Georgia State has lost four straight games since its lone victory of the season, 37-21 over FCS opponent Murray State on Sept. 13. The Panthers had a particularly deflating defeat last week, getting outscored 21-0 in the fourth quarter of a 41-24 loss at in-state rival Georgia Southern.

Vanderbilt moved up 7 spots to No. 10 in the AP poll, the Commodores’ highest ranking since 1947. Vanderbilt downed LSU 31-24 to earn just the fifth top-10 ranking in program history. The others were in 1937 (once), 1941 (once) and 1947 (twice).

Can Alabama protect Ty Simpson long enough to get Ryan Williams involved? Georgia hasn't lost at Sanford Stadium in nearly seven years.

Projecting the AP Top 25 college football rankings after Week 9 in which Texas A&M dominated LSU, but the likes of Alabama, Texas and Ole Miss all had to survive, while Oregon certainly didn't look the part.

Southeastern Grocers (SEG), the company responsible for grocery store Winn-Dixie, has announced it will close several stores in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana by the end of 2025. As a part of a company refocusing,