After the Georgia Bulldogs’ 28-10 loss to Ole Miss, Georgia has a lot on the line coming into this game. According to SEC football analyst Paul Finebaum, that could include their chance at the College Football Playoff.
“They’re a program that has been up and down this year,” explained Finebaum on Saturday Down South, “For the first time, they are now in a Playoff eliminator at home against Tennessee. It’s a monster game.”
Georgia suffered their second loss of the season against Ole Miss last Saturday, the first one against Alabama. It doubled as their second SEC loss of the year, and with Texas A&M and Texas only having one SEC loss. Ole Miss and Alabama are tied with Georgia with two losses. Georgia is in no-mans land for the SEC championship race.
If they were to lose to No. 6 Tennessee, they’ll have three losses, and, since 2020, only two teams with three losses have been in the top 12 after Week 14.
Currently, Georgia has a 74% chance to make the postseason, according to ESPN, but they currently have a 61.8% of winning the Tennessee game right now, and if they lose, they’ll be in the pool of three-loss teams in the SEC.
LSU and South Carolina have less than a 14% chance at making the playoff and even two-loss team Texas A&M has just a 14.3% chance too. With a loss versus Tennessee, Georgia could see themselves out of the top 12 rankings since 2017, Kirby Smart’s second year as head coach.