Southeastern 16’s Jay Greeson and Chris Lee unpack the matter of whether Georgia should be the national title favorite. Topics include:
Kirby Smart has his team peaking at the right time--and is there any coach you’d trust more in the postseason than Kirby Smart? Just one team managed to beat Georgia during the regular season--Alabama--and Georgia just smashed the Crimson Tide in the Southeastern Conference title match two weeks ago. The Bulldogs entered the season very talented, but also very young. Peaking at season’s end was a very predictable trajectory. Listen to Kirby Smart’s interview with David Pollack on the “See Ball, Get Ball” podcast this week.
You can hear the confidence and the faith in the work ethic. The Bulldogs showed up in big circumstances: a September win at Tennessee, a win in a rivalry game at Auburn, a home defeat of Ole Miss, a neutral-site win over Florida in a rivalry game on a day the Gators showed up to play, a dominant performance at Mississippi State, a 25-point demolition of Texas and a defeat of Georgia Tech in a rivalry game. Nate Frazier has been running well, Gunner Stockton makes timely plays and the defense is peaking at the same time.
Is there a dominant team anywhere? On the other hand, many of those wins weren’t dominant performances and on the whole. Some elements of Georgia’s season (a per-play edge of just 5.8 yards to 4.9, a turnover margin of zero) were merely good and not national-title level. Where are the superstars?
After all that, how do we see the Bulldogs? (HINT: The answers may be in things we haven’t mentioned above!)
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