Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss Georgia’s College Football Playoff hopes if they lose to Texas. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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How much does Kirby Smart need to win this game?
Like, at least to Alabama lay like a second loss.
And then the end of the season is they’re on the, the tight rope after that again.
They got this win over Clemson.
It’s really good, but this schedule, Florida doesn’t look that bad at Ole Miss, who the hell knows Georgia Tech at the end.
Like they can’t really, three losses gets real dicey that you could miss a playoff when you were supposed to, to win it.
It just seems like there would be a lot of all of a sudden, like what is going on in this program if you look, they’re not that good at stopping the run.
The D line isn’t as good.
Their wide receivers aren’t as good.
There’s a ton of penalties on this team.
It’s, it’s, it’s not the, the Georgia team we saw a couple of years ago now.
They may go out there and blow the doors off the Longhorns.
I don’t know.
And I, I, and I’m laughing saying this because the only team that’s beaten them the last three years is Alabama and they barely lost that other game.
But pat, is there anything here?
Um, not in terms of like clearing or anything, I’m not saying.
No, not, not pressure this doubting.
Yeah.
Like people’s doubting.
Oh, has Kirby lost it?
Yeah.
And this is the time when people will bring up more of the off the field stuff.
And is the program focused, is it out of control?
Is the, is that bleeding over into the on field product?
They, to your point don’t look like the classic, really good Georgia teams.
They’re not as physical.
They don’t run, they don’t stop the run as well.
Uh, they’re receivers.
Yeah, they’ve got issues there.
Uh, they make mistakes so there, it’s not a super buttoned up operation.
Maybe that changes, maybe they evolve still as the season goes along and they get better.
But the schedule is so hard.
You don’t have time for it.
If any team is going to get in with a nine and three record though, it’s gonna be Georgia because the schedule is incredibly hard and they do have a linchpin win to begin with and even if they lose Saturday to Texas and they lose one more, they’ve still got other good wins because you named off all the equality opponents.
Georgia A is not used to losing to anybody other than Alabama and B doesn’t want this perception that, that the program has slipped.
So I think, I think Kirby will be hell bent all week on having his team as ready as they possibly can be.
We’ll just see how ready that is.
The schedule.
Not to just labor the point here.
But the schedule is pretty tough.
I don’t know where their schedule ranks, like, on, like Sagarin or whatever, but it’s gotta be, it’s gotta be top 10.
Gotta be number one.
Yeah.
Well, Florida’s got a pretty tough one too at the end.
Yeah, I mean, but, yeah, it is.
it’s, it’s a toughie.
