Ranking every Georgia football national championship season
By John Buhler
Certainly Georgia’s most cathartic, but this team had a few flaws and blemishes
It goes without saying, this one meant the most. Some 41 years in the making, them Dawgs done finally done it, y’all! There had been a handful of teams in the 21st century capable of winning it all, but none that called The Classic City home pulled it off until the 2021 team did the thing in Indianapolis. Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean were unanimous All-Americans on this elite defense.
I plan on telling my future grandchildren stories about just how great the 2021 Georgia defense really was. It was probably the best college defense I ever saw. With it, the Dawgs ran roughshod on the SEC, going 8-0 in conference play for the first time ever. However, they laid a rotten egg over in Atlanta vs. the former bogeyman of theirs known as Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide.
The Dawgs made the College Football Playoff as the No. 3 seed and then proceeded to blow the Michigan Wolverines out in the Orange Bowl. This all led to a rematch with the Tide in Indianapolis. Stetson Bennett IV’s late-game heroics put the Dawgs over the top, while Kelee Ringo’s pick-six sealed the deal. The defense was generational, but the offense was not quite as good as 2022’s.
If you were to have the 2021 team face the 2022 team in a simulation, the latter would win more.