The hyperbole surrounding the University of Georgia football team is beginning to accumulate. The Bulldogs haven’t given up a first-half offensive touchdown all season, and Georgia’s first-string defense has allowed one touchdown through six games.
Georgia’s evolved defensive system — which features a heavy dose of innovative simulated pressures — is considered by one veteran coach a defensive version of the run-pass option. Heck, even Georgia’s punter gets opposing coaches and NFL scouts waxing poetic about his hang time.
The Bulldogs have so much talent that it’s a conservative estimate that 17 players could end up being picked in the NFL draft — according to scouts and experts — which would smash the current record of 14 held by LSU (2020) and Ohio State (2004) in the seven-round era.