Ranking Georgia’s potential College Football Playoff opponents

The Georgia Bulldogs will be back in the College Football Playoff poised to repeat as national champions.

Heading into Selection Sunday, the Georgia Bulldogs are in prime position to win back-to-back national titles.

No matter how the SEC Championship Game shakes out vs. the LSU Tigers, Georgia will be making the College Football Playoff. With a win over LSU, the Dawgs would almost certainly secure the No. 1 overall seed. Even with a loss to LSU, Georgia is not going to drop from No. 1 in the penultimate rankings all the way to down to No. 5. There is no way Georgia would ever fall that far.

Here are the potential teams in order Georgia would prefer to face in the College Football Playoff.

Ranking Georgia’s potential College Football Playoff opponents

Michigan is probably the closest approximation to Georgia we currently have

Assuming Michigan takes care of business vs. Purdue in the Big Ten Championship, the Wolverines will enter the College Football Playoff at an undefeated 13-0 and will have locked up top-two seed. If it goes chalk the rest of the way, Michigan would be the No. 2 seed and would face, in all likelihood, Big 12 runner-up in a one-loss TCU in the Fiesta Bowl in the other national semifinal.

Although Georgia pummeled Michigan in the Orange Bowl in last year’s national semifinals, the Wolverines are probably a better team than they were a year ago. They have J.J. McCarthy at quarterback. While Blake Corum is done for the year, they still have Donovan Edwards at running back, as well as a plethora of uglies in the trenches on both sides of the ball to muddy it up a bit.

Not to say Michigan has closed the gap, but it is the team most likely to upset Georgia in the CFP.