Georgia win over Tennessee clearly boosts Pac-12, but more help is needed

Georgia beating the Vols aids the #Pac12’s cause, but #USC needs more results for the playoff puzzle to fit. Let’s go to the scoreboard.

The Georgia Bulldogs convincingly handled the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday afternoon in Athens, smothering the Vols’ offense all day long and delivering a 27-13 win.

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Tennessee was No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings entering the game, while Georgia was No. 3. The Vols will fall out of the top four. Georgia should rise to No. 1 in the next rankings.

This was a good result for USC and the Pac-12, as we explained earlier in the week.

However, USC and the Pac-12 need a lot more help.

This article is being published late Saturday afternoon, before the wave of early-evening games. USC, of course, faces Cal in a late-night game.

Let’s go through some of the relevant scores for USC and the Pac-12 from Week 10’s daytime slate of games: