Way too early bowl predictions for the 2023 college football season
By John Buhler
Sugar Bowl: No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs vs. No. 4 Texas Longhorns
And so we meet again. The last time the Georgia Bulldogs took on the Texas Longhorn, some Dawgs didn’t want to be there, and it showed. Bevo telling Uga what’s up was as frightening as it was telling on the sidelines many years ago. Well, well, well… Oh, how things have changed since the 2018 college football season. Georgia hasn’t lost a bowl game, or a playoff game since then.
Texas thought it was back in 2018, but not until winning the Big 12 one last time before heading to the SEC were they really. Georgia is still riding the nation’s best multi-year winning streak, whereas an 11-1 Big 12 champion Texas did just enough to edge out a Pac-12 champion Washington and a one-loss, non-champion Alabama for the No. 4 seed. Fate would have it, we are back in NOLA…
For as much as the pundits say Texas will have a chance, well, it won’t be as ugly as the TCU beatdown the Lone Star State experience in Los Angeles last year. Yes, there will be moments where Texas looks the part, but this painful loss on such a public stage will be exactly what Steve Sarkisian’s program needs to try to become Kirby Smart’s in Athens after they join the new league.
This game won’t be as compelling as the Rose Bowl counterpart, but the better team still wins big.
Prediction: Georgia over Texas