Georgia football schedule 2020: Can Dawgs go undefeated?

The Georgia football schedule sees the Dawgs travel to Alabama in what could be the biggest game of the year in college football.

Georgia football is one of only a handful of teams that can win a national title this season and the schedule backs that up as much as the talent on the Bulldogs roster.

There are about six teams in the SEC that were good enough to reach the College Football Playoff back when all five Power 5 conferences were playing football this year, and the Georgia Bulldogs were one of them. For the last three seasons, Georgia has emerged as a top-five program in the country under head coach Kirby Smart. Could the Dawgs go undefeated this year in the SEC?

A road trip to Tuscaloosa is the toughest game on the Georgia football schedule and then the neutral-site affair with rival Florida

• Georgia football home games: Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
• Georgia football road games: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina
• Georgia neutral-site game: Florida (at TIAA Bank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida)

It’s interesting that Georgia will only have four home games this year. While their date with the arch-rival Florida Gators is always a neutral-site affair down in Jacksonville, Florida, it is being counted as a road game for the Dawgs this season. So with more road games than home games this year for the Dawgs, will this scheduling anomaly get in the way of them achieving perfection?

No, because the Dawgs aren’t achieving perfection. They haven’t done that since 1980 for a reason. It’s going to be so insanely difficult for any team to undefeated in the SEC this year, as everybody is playing 10 conference games. There is a reason the SEC typically only plays eight conference games. It’s a brutal beatdown for all involved, but hey, we’ll get more good games now.

So what should we expect the Dawgs to be this season with their 10-game slate? Yes, perfection is a possibility, but don’t bet your 401k on the Dawgs going unblemished in SEC play this fall. In an absolute worst-case scenario, Georgia will go 7-3 with this schedule with losses at the Alabama Crimson Tide, vs. Florida down in Jacksonville and to someone they should probably have beaten.

Mark Richt may not coach the Dawgs anymore, but the legacy of the annual Mark Richt Letdown Game lives on. Last year, it was the double-overtime disaster at home to the South Carolina Gamecocks. If Georgia drops a dumb game this year, it might at home to the Auburn Tigers, who never win in Athens, or on the road to someone like the feisty Kentucky Wildcats. Who knows?

Realistically, Georgia will go either 9-1 and 8-2. Look for the Dawgs to drop their road date at Tuscaloosa with the Crimson Tide. That second game in question is the one between Florida in Jacksonville. The winner of that game will win the SEC East as it usually does and will face presumably Alabama in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. 9-1 feels more likely than 8-2.

Georgia won’t go undefeated this year, but the Dawgs will win the SEC East if they beat Florida.

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