A popular argument in the buildup to the 2015 encounter between the Vols and Dawgs is some form of, "Tennessee has almost beaten Georgia three years in a row and the Vols are way better this year!" I'm a fan of this argument and support it regularly. And both looking back and looking forward in this series, the gap between these two teams is smaller than it often gets credit for.
Georgia, like the rest of the SEC's upper echelon, still has the Vols at a talent disadvantage on paper. While Tennessee has turned in a pair of consensus Top 7 classes the last two years to finish ahead of Georgia, the Dawgs have finished between 6th and 12th in the 247 Composite in each of the last four years.