Georgia is a team that was built to win on defense and running the ball, and neither of those aspects are strong enough for the team to be successful at a high level.
Georgia's defense was supposed to be elite. Georgia's defense was supposed to be able to keep the team in games against Alabama and Florida. Georgia's defense is the reason the Dawgs are 0-2 against those teams.
Georgia has half of a complete unit on defense. The Dawgs are one of the best run defenses in the country. But when they are faced with passing teams, they simply cannot hold up.
Georgia's run defense is ranked fourth-best in the country, but as strong as that aspect of the defense is, the pass defense is equally weak. Defending the pass, UGA is ranked just 94th in the country.
That simply is too big of a weakness to consider the defense elite or complete. It's too big a weakness for a team without a scary offense to compete at the championship level.
In Georgia's two losses they allowed 417 yards and four TDs to Mac Jones of Alabama and 474 pass yards and four TDs to Florida's Kyle Trask.
On offense, after Jamie Newman decided to opt out, you knew that Georgia wasn't going to be able to move the ball a ton through the air. So the run game was the big hope.
Georgia ran for just 145 yards in the loss to Alabama and 165 yards against Florida, 75 of which came on the first play of the game.
Kirby Smart is stuck playing a style of game-control football that simply won't win anymore. Without an explosive offense you cannot compete at the highest level in today's era of college football.
