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ESPN CFP odds: Georgia football finds familiar perch among SEC favorites
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ESPN CFP odds: Georgia football finds familiar perch among SEC favorites
ATHENS â Georgia coach Kirby Smart is just focused on the next day of fall drills, but to no oneâs surprise, the college football picture is starting to shake out around the Bulldogs.
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Hopefully, with Georgia's 2 straight wins over Texas last year, our team has cemented a bit of doubt in the Longhorn players to the point where they make ridiculous mistakes and the dawgs hold a hex over them as Bama has done when they play us. One can hope!
"1 of which resides in the SEC". ???? Maybe should read 11???? Pretty key point ya think?
Texas was also the medias darling last year, until they faced the DAWGS and lost..TWICE
Sanford will be loud but the week off to prepare that Texas has is a hard advantage to overcome . That will make a win for Georgia more impressive. Most people forget that Spurrier had that advantage over Georgia for years before both teams finally had it .
@truthteller A lot of people keep pointing this out, but the truth is that in nearly all of those losses, Alabama was the more talented team. That 2018 Alabama team, for example, had 3 guys who would start NFL playoff games - Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts and Mac Jones with Tua being a Pro Bowler and Hurts a Super Bowl MVP - at QB alone. It also had 3 RBs who start in the NFL to this day - Josh Jacobs, Najee Harris and Brian Robinson - as backups. DeVonta Smith, Henry Ruggs, Jerry Jeudy and Jaylen Waddle at WR: all first round picks. A 2nd round TE in Irv Smith. OL? 3 first rounders Jedrick Willis, Jonah Williams and Alex Leatherwood plus 5th rounder Ross Pierschbacher. And that was just the offense. They had the #12 defense also - #7 with small schools excluded - led by Quinnen Williams, Christian Miller, Trevon Diggs and Patrick Surtain II plus other NFL guys who weren't 1st rounders or pro bowlers. For UGA Justin Fields (barely played) was the only QB, WR or TE to be a first round pick. James Cook was the only one to be more than a journeyman in the NFL. At OL, only Isaiah Wilson and Andrew Thomas were 1st round picks and only Wilson and Ben Cleveland became regular NFL players. The defense was more of the same: with the exception of DeAndre Baker, the few guys who went on to be high NFL draft picks or have long NFL playing careers were underclassmen like Devonte Wyatt, Tyson Campbell and Eric Stokes.
The 2020 team? More of the same. Yes UGA was more talented than the 2018 edition especially on offense - though the Stetson Bennett IV of 2020 was not the Heisman candidate NFL 4th rounder of 2022 - Bama had one of the greatest college offenses of all time. The only reason why they didn't break more records was because they only played 11 SEC games and playoff games against Notre Dame and Ohio State. UGA beat Bama in 2021 because they were finally comparable to Alabama in talent level: a historic defense plus Bowers and a ton of other future NFL guys catching and running the ball and at least 8 future NFL draft picks on the OL. But 2023? Very little quality or quantity at WR or RB plus a defense not as good as the 2021 and 2022 editions meant that with Bowers and McConkey hobbled, UGA was not as good as Bama. 2024? More of the same except without even Daijun Edwards, Kendall Milton and Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint. A team where Cash Jones scores the only offensive TD in the playoffs IS NOT one that is more talented than Bama, whose 4 losses last season were due to coaching and inconsistent QB play.
Kirby Smart is a slightly better recruiter on defense than Saban. Their OL recruiting is basically a wash. But Saban is light years ahead of Kirby in recruiting QBs, WRs, OLs and yes TEs (where Saban never had a guy as good as Bowers, he has had several that are better than anyone else than UGA has ever had, and Saban's TEs were as good at blocking as they were pass catching). So those Bama/UGA matchups went the way that the talent on the respective rosters indicated.