I wonder how folks on the Dawgvent will find a way to blame Mark Richt for this.
The funny thing is that I can't argue with their logic, except they downplayed that year's Notre Dame team as only ranked 9th. They came in ranked that low due to recency bias, having tied a terrible Georgia Tech the same weekend UGA beat Florida and lost to a good Southern Cal team to end the regular season. Still, it is hard to argue with
One of the great things about college football's structure is that a "season-long playoff" is supposed to prevent an underqualified team from claiming No.