College Football Playoff: Georgia makes 12-team field as No. 2 seed
Georgia knew it would be in the College Football Playoff after it beat Georgia Tech last week and it new it would get a bye after beating Texas on Saturday in the SEC Championship game. Now it knows exactly where it is seeded and where it will be headed. UGA earned the No. 2 seed in the inaugural 12-team field. The Bulldogs are also ranked No. 2 overall and they will play the winner of No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 10 Indiana in the second round.
Oregon is in as the No. 1 seed with Boise State earning the No. 3 seed and Arizona State in the fourth seed. Each of those two four teams will get byes.
Texas is in as the No. 5 seed and it will play No. 12-seed Clemson in Austin in the first round. Ohio State will host Tennessee in a No. 8 vs. No. 9 matchup. SMU gets in over Alabama despite its ACC Championship game loss to Clemson and it will travel to Penn State in round one.
The Bulldogs will get three full weeks off before their gauntlet of a 2024 schedule continues. Georgia has already played four games against teams in the College Football Playoff field, going 4-0 in those battles. It beat Clemson 34-3 in the season opener, Tennessee 31-17 in Athens, and Texas twice — once in Austin and once in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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It took overtime to get that second win over Texas yesterday as the Bulldogs trailed 6-3 at the half. They had to turn to backup quarterback Gunner Stockton for the final two quarters due to an arm injury sustained by Carson Beck on the final play of the first half. Georgia scored 13 points in the second half and got six walk-off points in overtime for the 22-19 win.
The Bulldogs were handed two losses, both on the road, to teams that just missed the College Football Playoff field. Alabama and Ole Miss were two of the first four teams out, both collecting three losses along the way. In all, Georgia has played six games agains teams ranked inside the top 16.
It’s the third time in the past four years that the Bulldogs have made the playoff and the first two times went quite well. UGA won back-to-back National Championships in 2021 and 2022, going 29-1 in that span and winning three of its four playoff games, including both title games, by double digits.
