2 reasons Georgia football will win elusive national championship this year
By John Buhler
This year’s Georgia football team is on the shortlist of teams who can win the national title.
Georgia football fans have been waiting to see their beloved team win a national championship for over 40 years now.
Of the best programs in the country during the College Football Playoff era, one could easily argue that the Georgia Bulldogs are the best to have not win a national championship. Georgia has been to four straight New Year’s Six bowls and reached the playoff for the first time in 2017. While next year is everyone’s favorite year in Athens, here is why it comes to an end in 2021 for the Dawgs.
Here are the two biggest things in Georgia’s favor to go out and win the national championship.
Georgia football: 2 reasons why Dawgs will win the national championship
2. Georgia only needs to win 2/3 neutral-site games to make the playoff
While last year’s schedule was a tad unforgiving, the 2021 schedule does break in Georgia’s favor. The Dawgs will be favored in most games they play, and their hardest road game is at rebuilding Auburn. Though Georgia should win every game at home, they really only need to win two of three huge neutral-site games to punch their ticket into the 2022 College Football Playoff this winter.
Those three games are vs. Clemson in Charlotte on Labor Day Weekend, vs. Florida down in Jacksonville around Halloween and vs. the SEC West champion, probably Alabama or Texas A&M, in Atlanta in early December. If Georgia wins two of those three games, they are making the playoff at 12-1. The best part is they will not be punished for losing to Clemson in Week 1 either.
Of those three games, beating a down Florida team is paramount because that means the Dawgs will win the SEC East for the fourth time in five years. If the Dawgs are 12-0 (8-0) heading into the conference championship, they are already getting in. Should they be 11-1 with a Clemson or even a Florida loss, the Dawgs will get in as a top-three seed as the undisputed champions of the SEC.
But for Georgia to win a national championship, the Dawgs will need more than an easy schedule.