Phil Steele has released his annual preseason college football top-25, and this year he is not terribly high on Georgia.
Steele has the Dawgs sitting at No. 7 in America, by no means a bad a ranking. It’s just not necessarily where DawgNation would like to see their guys start the season — Most outlets have placed the Bulldogs anywhere from 4-6.
In these rankings, Steele has Georgia as the fourth best team in the SEC. Conference teams ranked ahead of the Bulldogs include Alabama, LSU and, surprisingly, Texas A&M.
You’ll have to scroll allll the way down to No. 13 to find the Florida Gators, a team that is receiving a ton of preseason hype by practically every analyst other than Steele.
Georgia returns 8 defenders from last year’s No. 1 ranked defense, added two elite quarterbacks, signed the nation’s No. 1 ranked recruiting class and got an upgrade at offensive coordinator.
We’ll see.
Here’s Steele’s full rankings:
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Texas A&M
- LSU
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Oregon
- Penn State
- USC
- Texas
- Florida
- Wisconsin
- Michigan
- North Carolina
- Miami
- Virginia Tech
- Auburn
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- UCF
- Iowa
- Oklahoma State
- Memphis