Georgia loses votes but remains No. 1 in week-four coaches poll
Georgia’s lackluster 13-12 win over Kentucky didn’t sway US LBM coaches poll voters too heavily. The Bulldogs lost eight first place votes but are still comfortably atop the week four rankings. Texas jumped to No. 2 with Ohio State falling one spot to three.
Alabama and Ole Miss round out the top five. Just like last week there are three future Georgia opponents in the top five and all three will be played on the road. Tennessee, which will come to Athens in November, is ranked No. 7.
The Bulldogs have 42 first-place votes in week four after having 50 last week. Texas now has 10 first-place votes and Ohio State has three.
Georgia’s showing in week three was familiar. The Bulldogs had their backs against the wall in their SEC road openers in each of the past two seasons. They trailed in the fourth quarter at Missouri in 2022 and did the same a year later at Auburn. Kirby Smart learned some things about his team in Lexington.
“I’m so proud of the resiliency our kids showed. They never flinched,” Smart said after the game. “We thought this would be a blow-by-blow game, and we talked all week about blow-by-blow, delivering more blows than them. We said the first chop of the tree doesn’t chop the tree down. It takes sometimes 272 ax chops, and it took every single one tonight to get the job done.”
Carson Beck had one of his worst games as a passer, connecting on 15 of 24 attempts for just 160 yards. The Bulldogs had just 33 yards in the first quarter and 31 in the second quarter before posting a respectable 199 yards in the second half. The Bulldogs got four possessions in the final two periods, scoring 10 points with the first two before going three and out and then milking off all but the final nine seconds of the game with their final possession.
The Bulldog defense, for the third straight week, kept the opponent out of the end zone, forcing Kentucky to four field goals and two from beyond 50 yards. Georgia lost the time-of-possession battle by a little over 10 minutes.
