The Georgia Bulldogs are primed to make a run for a third national championship in the last four years. After securing its first-round bye courtesy of their SEC Championship victory over the Texas Longhorns, there is no one better set up to win that title.
The Steakhouse welcomed Mike Griffith from Dawgnation to discuss the odds for the Dawgs and why they are favorable, despite the injury to quarterback Carson Beck. To them, it has everything to do with how the rest of the team stepped up to get a second win over Texas last Saturday.
"[Gunner Stockton], this is a guy that had thrown 16 passes all year, and he gets put on the spot at halftime with his team trailing," Griffith said about how the team played in the wake of the Beck injury. "[Stockton] just goes out there and marches them right down the field. Everybody steps it up and that is a program win. That is toughness, that is conditioning, that is belief in one another."
Talent is one thing, but both Texas and Georgia can say they have the talent. Saturday's game illustrated how they weren't (and aren't) as ready for this run as the Georgia program is.
"[Texas] didn't go through a gauntlet," Griffith continued. "They had a very favorable schedule and they hadn't played the teams or been in the situations that Georgia had. Georgia was prepared for that moment and, let's face it, Texas wasn't and they choked."
As far as their CFP path sets up, the Bulldogs now have their additional week of rest before matching up with a clearly weaker half of the bracket. The top half has the likes of Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, Tennessee, Clemson, and a white-hot Arizona State while the bottom half has Indiana, Notre Dame, Penn State, SMU, and Boise State.
The path was always going to be difficult, but this Georgia team is more than ready to make a run at another championship.