Ex-UCF, Florida State QB McKenzie Milton puts damper on Georgia national title success

Former UCF and Florida State quarterback McKenzie Milton respected Georgia, but put a damper on the back-to-back national champions.

Georgia wrapped up its second straight title with a 65-7 win over TCU but Milton made the argument that the Bulldogs were lucky, of sorts, to win two straight crowns. Why? Due to injuries to some high quality opponents.

Namely, injuries to play makers from Alabama and Ohio State over the last two years, two opponents of Georgia en route to the title.

“As good as Georgia has been the past two years if Jameson Williams &. Marvin Harrison Jr. don’t get hurt against them Georgia would have zero National Championships,” Milton wrote on Twitter.

There is an argument for both teams, as Williams torched defenses during the 2021 season prior to going to the NFL. Once he tore his ACL in the title game, Alabama’s offense definitely looked different.

Plus, the Crimson Tide already beat the Bulldogs earlier last season in the SEC Championship Game. Could Williams make that big of a difference? It was certainly possible, but in the end Georgia went out and won the game.

The same goes for this year’s semifinal against Ohio State, a 42-41 win for Georgia. Marvin Harrison Jr., like Williams, was nearly impossible to stop this year. But once he exited the game after suffering a concussion, the second half was different.

Sure, Ohio State still had its chances, plus a missed game winning field goal sent Georgia to the final game instead of the Buckeyes. Would Harrison Jr. being in the game during the final 30 minutes make the biggest difference? It could, but like the last game, Georgia won in the end.

Georgia wins second straight national title

“Yeah, I mean, it’s special,” Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett said. “It seems like for the past three or four months we’ve been looking to see if somebody could beat us, and we just ran out of games. Nobody could.”

Georgia might be in line for a third straight national title, which would be unprecedented. If winning two in a row was tough, head coach Kirby Smart knew a third one in a row would be quite the tall task.

“The biggest challenge is the same as in the world we live in today, the society we live in – entitlement,” Smart said. “The minute you think you’re entitled to winning games and you don’t have to work hard – Coach Dykes and I were talking about it; the uphill battle for those guys is you think that you just inherit success.

“And I personally think next year is going to be a much more difficult challenge over this year because we had so many guys leaving last year.”