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Georgia football rumors: Jim Harbaugh already worried about the Dawgs

Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines didn’t see the Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football Playoff this past season, notably because they didn’t make it out of the semis and were taken down by TCU. Given what the Dawgs did to the Horned Frogs in the natty, that doesn’t bode well for Michigan if they were to face Georgia football in the CFP or otherwise, like they did in 2021.

That appears to be something that Harbaugh is well aware of and trying to plan for.

Reports emerged this week that Harbaugh has installed a “Beat Georgia” portion of practice in Ann Arbor this offseason. The details regarding that are scarce, to be sure, but it echoes a longer-standing run at Michigan practices of the “Beat Ohio State” portion of practices, something that has paid off with two wins over the rival Buckeyes in the past couple of seasons.

Having said that, for Harbaugh to already be focusing on Georgia at this point in the offseason with the Bulldogs not on the regular season schedule and only on deck for a College Football Playoff meeting speaks to how large of a shadow Kirby Smart’s program is casting on the sport right now. They have Harbaugh scared — and if the man who calls chickens a nervous bird is feeling that, imagine how the rest of FBS is feeling.

Oddly enough, the biggest thing to help Harbaugh and the Wolverines is that his brother, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, hired away Georgia offensive coordinator Todd Monken this offseason for the same role, only in the NFL. That could be helpful, if anything is.

Even still, I’m not sure a special portion of practice is enough to get Michigan on the level of Georgia football.