Georgia is college football’s new Death Star, and another title feels inevitable | Opinion
College Football Playoff semifinals kick off on New Year’s Eve, the Bulldogs will be as heavy a favorite to emerge as the national champion as any team since this format started in 2014. It’s not that the Bulldogs can’t lose, but it’s just hard to see who among the other three Playoff teams is equipped to beat them.
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If Georgia finishes the job, it will become the first team to win back-to-back national titles since Alabama in 2011 and 2012. And that would be fitting, since Georgia hasn’t just copied Alabama’s program, it’s stolen their aura.
What Nick Saban’s Alabama was to college football a decade ago is now what Kirby Smart’s Georgia has become: The program to beat, and also to fear.
Georgia’s 50-30 victory over LSU in Saturday’s SEC championship game. “We do camp-style practices. Our guys know everybody can get better. Conditioning level, tackling. Football’s a tough, hard sport. Our guys embrace challenges. So I think they’ll embrace the challenge of getting better. You can’t say you’re going to go work on one thing because then you’ll be giving up on some other things. We need to work on a lot of things.”