Georgia is sitting alone at the top of the AP Poll after its win over Alabama and Texas’ loss to Oklahoma pushed the Bulldogs to No. 1, but the vote was not fully unanimous.
Georgia collected 66 of the 70 first-place votes from AP pollsters. Four voters went another direction, including one who had Georgia all the way down at No. 3.
The rest of the top of the poll showed Notre Dame at No. 2 with one first-place vote, Miami at No. 3 with two, and No. 5 Indiana grabbing the final first-place vote.
Even so, Georgia’s resume stands apart from the pack. The Bulldogs own the most convincing win of the group with the victory over Alabama, and they also handled their other five games by at least 24 points.
That leaves Georgia with a clear message from the voters, even if not every ballot matches the consensus. The important part is the one that matters most: Georgia is still No. 1 overall.
There’s also a bigger picture for the Bulldogs beyond the poll. Georgia remains the last undefeated team in the SEC, which gives it a strong path toward the conference title game in Atlanta. The road isn’t empty, though, and the next few weeks will decide how clean that path really is.
Georgia has five conference games left, and three of them come against unranked teams: Auburn this weekend at home, Florida, and South Carolina. Those are the games Georgia is expected to win, and they loom large for its chances to get to the SEC Championship.
The tougher stretch comes with No. 9 Ole Miss and No.
13 Missouri. Georgia has to go to Ole Miss, and the source material points to quarterback Trinidad Chambliss’ success against Georgia as part of why that trip looks like the likeliest loss on the slate.
Missouri, meanwhile, is one of the conference’s hottest teams, though Georgia gets the Tigers at home.
So while Georgia still has room to play with after beating Alabama, the path is fairly clear: take care of the three unranked opponents, and even a 1-1 split against Ole Miss and Missouri should put the Bulldogs in Atlanta. The standard in Athens is still to win every time out, but the Alabama win gave Georgia some breathing room in the race for the SEC.
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