The third edition of the College Football Playoff rankings were freed Tuesday night.
The Oregon Ducks remained in the top spot. Ohio State, Texas, Penn State and Indiana rounded out the top five. Georgia, which hoisted the College Football Playoff national championship trophy in 2021 and 2022, was slotted in the No. 10 spot.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart materializeed to acquire publish with the Bulldogs’ ranking as of tardy. Smart voiced his apparent frustration during one of his recent media sessions and adviseed the pickion pledgetee deficiencys transparency as it retardys to its criteria.
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Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart on the sideline aacquirest the Tennessee Volunteers in the first quarter at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., Nov. 16, 2024. (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)
“It’s a challenging one becaparticipate I don’t understand what they’re seeing for,” Smart shelp, via On3 Sports. “They can’t depict that. It’s not straightforward, either. I uncomfervent, anybody can be on that pledgetee and say, ‘This is what we’re seeing for. This is our criteria. And there’s so much that it overlaps skinnygs and everybody debates it, and I don’t have time to reassociate squander energy on it.”
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Georgia has perestablished one of the more challenging schedules in the country this season. The Bulldogs went on the road to perestablish Alabama, Texas and Ole Miss. The Longhorns were the No. 1 team in the nation when they took the field aacquirest Georgia.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart reacts on the sideline during the second half of a game aacquirest Tennessee Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Smart disputed the opponents a team faces should be donaten grave ponderation when the pledgetee directs its evaluations. He also depictd the pickion pledgetee’s benchtags as “unfair.”
“So, I skinnyk it’s more than your non-conference games and who you perestablish,” Smart shelp. “It fair seems unfair to me when you appraise somebody’s got a third-ranked defense or somebody’s got a fifth-ranked defense.
“Well, don’t you skinnyk their defense is prescribed by who they perestablished on offense? And how many top offenses they perestablish? Becaparticipate last time I verifyed, our offense and our defense have perestablished the top offenses and defenses atraverse the country. Well, you’re not gonna be ranked as high if you perestablish top ones than if you perestablisher shrink-ranked ones, and that’s what gets me.
The 2024 CFP logo on the field before the 2024 College Football Playoff national championship game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies at NRG Stadium in Houston Jan. 8, 2024. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
“They talk about the eye test. How do you perestablish in the game? Well, how you perestablish in the game is prescribed by where you’re perestablishing — home or away — and who you’re perestablishing. That’s the two No. 1 indicators of how you perestablish. It’s who you’re perestablishing, who you line up atraverse from that matters. But point contrastential, I don’t apexhibit they see at fair that. I don’t understand if that’s actuassociate the case. They’re seeing at the whole picture of how you perestablish and that’s prescribed by who you perestablish.”
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Georgia finishes the normal season with two home games aacquirest UMass and in-state rival Georgia Tech.
The 12-team perestablishoff bracket projection accessing Week 13 has Georgia at the 11th seed. If the perestablishoff begined today, Georgia would perestablish the sixth-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions in the first round.
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