No. 5 Again

 

The University of Georgia Bulldogs (8-1) are still No. 5, both in last Sunday's AP Poll and tonight's NCAA Selection Committee Poll. In fact, the whole top five are the same as last week. The biggest change, at least with regard to the Dawgs, is that Memphis is no longer the fifth highest ranked conference champion but now the No. 24 South Florida Bulls (7-2) are. That means that if the season ends with all the rankings as they now stand, Georgia, the No. 5 seed, would play South Florida as the No. 12 seed.

The winner of that Georgia-South Florida game, that is, Georgia, would advance to play Alabama, our kryptonite team. The winner of that game would play the defending national champions, No. 1 Ohio State, in the semifinals, and the winner of that game would play the other semifinal winner, probably Indiana (10-0).

It kinda sucks being No. 5. Having to beat Alabama and Ohio State just to make it to the championship game is a tough road. I'd rather we dropped down to No. 6 and get Miami in the first round, A&M in the quarterfinal, and Indiana in the semifinal, before facing Ohio State in the championship. We may get that wish depending on how things go with Saturday's game against Texas.      

But wait, there's more. Louisville, the holder of the lineal championship belt and Georgia's 2021 and 2022 championship rings, lost last Saturday to unranked California (6-4). That means that the belt and the rings are now in Berkeley, California! Oh, no! However will we win them back?

We probably won't, at least not this year. Louisville, you had ONE JOB and that was to bring the belt and the rings to the playoffs so that Georgia could win them back. But no, now we have to hope that the Golden Bears lose to Stanford this Saturday and give the prizes to them, and then that they lose the next weekend to No. 9 Notre Dame, and that they bring them to the playoffs. You're making me cheer for Notre Fucking Dame, man! Louisville, you're dead to me!

Maybe it's better just to be patient and wait until next year when Cal will inevitably lose to some ACC team, and that team will lose to an SEC team, and then Georgia gets its rings back.