Georgia No. 1 in College Football Playoff rankings ahead of conference championship weekend
The penultimate College Football Playoff rankings were released on Tuesday and Georgia is still in the top spot. The Bulldogs are followed by Michigan at No. 2, TCU at No. 3, and USC at No. 4.
Ohio State is in the No. 5 spot followed by Alabama at No. 6. The rest of the top 10 contains Tennessee at No. 7, Penn State at No. 8, Clemson at No. 9 and Kansas State at No. 10.
This is an important set of rankings because it sets the tone heading into Sunday when the field of four will be announced and set. With Georgia sitting at No. 1 this week, it can beat LSU and lock up a spot in the College Football Playoff and a Peach Bowl bid. That would mean a playoff game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. A place it will have played twice already this season.
Michigan’s impressive 45-23 win over Ohio State made it interesting. It gave the Wolverines two top-10 wins — the other over No. 8 Penn State. Recent losses by Tennessee and Oregon, now No. 16, has the Bulldogs’ best wins sliding a bit but the rises of South Carolina, now No. 19, and Mississippi State, now No. 24, likely helped the Bulldogs.
Georgia has a chance to keep its perfect season going this Saturday against No. 14 LSU in the SEC Championship game (4 p.m. ET on CBS.) The Bulldogs won the National Championship a season ago but it picked up its only loss of the season to Alabama in the league title game.
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Kirby Smart and company have lost their last three trips to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the SEC Championship game. Alabama has been responsible for a couple of those losses (2018 and 2021). LSU handed Georgia the loss in 2019 with Joe Burrow and company accomplishing what the Bulldogs are striving for, a 15-0 National Championship season.
Going back to back is incredibly difficult but the Bulldogs currently sit in the catbird seat. This team can be looked at in the same or even greater light as last year’s group while accomplishing the same ultimate feat. Despite being just a year a part and so successful, the two teams are quite different.
“I don’t have an explanation for why we might not play with the consistency,” Smart said on Monday. “I think every coach would say the number one trait they want to have is consistency in performance, and we really haven’t had consistency in performance, maybe not as much as the team the year before has had. But what they have had is resiliency, competitiveness, pridefulness, and response mechanism has been pretty positive.”
