Georgia is drawing a big-time vote of confidence heading into the season, with On3 analyst David Adamcone going so far as to say, “I’m GUARANTEEING GEORGIA WINS their third straight SEC title.”
That kind of certainty is hard to come by in a conference as brutal as the SEC, especially with Georgia trying to make it three in a row this fall. Only two teams have ever pulled off a three-peat since the SEC Championship Game began in 1992: Florida, which won four straight from 1993 to 1996, and Alabama, which stacked three from 2014 through 2016.
Georgia is trying to join that short list, and the Bulldogs are right in the mix. Vegas has Texas favored to win the conference, but Georgia is close behind, with no other team in the same neighborhood.
Adamcone’s confidence comes from the usual Georgia ingredients: Kirby Smart, who he views as the best coach in the country, and the talent coming back to Athens. Gunner Stockton is back for his second season as the starter, and Georgia also brings back the fifth-most returning production in the country. For a team that just won the SEC and earned the No. 3 seed in the College Football Playoff, that level of continuity stands out.
The schedule helps too. Georgia statistically has the easiest slate in the SEC this season, which gives the Bulldogs a cleaner path back to the title game than most of their league rivals.
None of that makes the road simple. Winning the SEC never is. But Georgia has the profile of a team built to keep the run going, and that’s why some around the sport are already talking about a third straight conference crown as if it’s there for the taking.
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