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ESPN FPI slots Georgia in as the No. 3 team in preseason rankings
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ESPN FPI slots Georgia in as the No. 3 team in preseason rankings
Georgia has won back-to-back national championships. In doing so it has beaten Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan and LSU in each of the past two seasons.
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Well good for the espn fpi...
If one counts Texas in the SEC, (which they will be, next year), that's 4 of the top 5 teams being from the SEC. Let the "SEC is overrated!" crowd howl at that.🤣. Have to squeeze Ocryo State, in there, to build up the tears, for later in the year.
Thank you for the motivation
all sounds good until they meet up with an SEC team……only 1 win all-time versus the SEC (bowl games)…….Arkansas victory was vacated, total is only one.
Iron sharpens iron, you want to be the best…..you have to play the best, consistently.
Well, the good news for Dawg fans is that ESPN FPI also picked the Dawgs to finish 3rd behind Alabama and Ohio State last year in '22. In '21 they picked UGA to finish 7th behind Alabama, Oklahoma, Clemson, Iowa State, Ohio State, and TAM. The one thing ESPN has shown is that they seem to have a bias built into their program which favors OSU and Alabama. They obviously had an extreme bias against Georgia, but a little of that has unwound after the back-to-back Nattys. They don't want to look flat out **** again.
What that "formula" doesn't account for is the Georgia culture, AKA Kirby effect... every bit as important as the other factors. Go Dawgs!
This is wonderful news.
Tosu is again favored over everyone. Whether they can beat Michigan is another story. Life is as it should be.
Me and Larry like the underdog role. Vince and Kirby, too, for that matter.
We'll be lucky to beat anyone. THE won't have to worry about us. /s
Wouldn't the ratings soar should ESPN do a documentary about how their previous prognostications played out in real life! I'd watch for sure. It would have to be on the Comedy Channel.
Go, Dawgs!
Haha. Ok. Where have I seen this before...
Except we're #1 in ESPN's Way Too Early Top 25. Where's the bias in that?
Why do I get the feeling that even if SB was returning UGA wouldn't be picked #1?
Only reasoning behind it that I see is, top 3 recruit well. But all 3 have unproven QBs. Guess UGAs is the least? Doubt that. If QB play was top determining factor, LSU would be tops. But he was also inconsistent. So just another tOSU/Bama bias. If Clemson hadn't got thumped by SC and Tennessee, sure they'd be up in the top 4 also.
Oh this ESPN FPI is a thing of beauty! It's better than roses on St. Valentine's Day, maybe even better than a brand new Lambo. Why? It's the greatest locker room material one can imagine. Kirby will use this #3 ranking to the hilt!
I honestly doubt this has anything to do with alleged "bias against Georgia." But I am confused by the fact that Georgia's behind OSU and Alabama. After all -- even though Georgia's losing a lot of talent -- it's returning considerably more than production than either OSU or Alabama.
I wonder why people bother with these things. They don't have that great a track record at predicting the way the season ends.
2022
Preseason FPI / Final rank
Bama 1 5
O St 2 4
UGA 3 1
Clem 4 13
ND 5 18
Texas 6 25
OKL 8 NR
12 of the top 25 preseason ESPN FPI finishes with no ranking.
...... as ta's on a bull.
The projection is also taking into account our strength of schedule which stinks so bad I can smell it from a country mile away
Why ESPN FPI, you must have missed it...UGA has a new mascot ...Boom! Surely that would have boosted the UGA rating? The built-in ESPN bias is getting moldy. Come on.
LOL! Nice narrative for Kirby to use with his players. “Still no respect!” 👍👍👍
@CandlerPark
How do you figure that UGA is returning more production than Ohio State?
Ohio State and UGA both lost their starting QBs so that is a wash.
Ohio State returns their top 3 RBs where UGA lost their #1.
Ohio State returns ALL of their WRs and TEs except Smith-Njiba (who basically didn't play last year) where UGA lost their 1A TE Darnell Washington as well as their #2 and #3 WRs Kearis Jackson and Dom Blaylock.
The only area where Ohio State lost more than UGA is the OL, as the Buckeyes lost 3 starters to UGA losing 2 starters and a key reserve that started 14 games in 2021 (basically a slight difference there).
Not saying that Ohio State should be preseason #1. UGA should be. But Ohio State returns a pair of 1000 yard receivers plus 3 tailbacks with over 500 yards (one of them with over 800) despite none of them being healthy for more than 8 games.