Where you land matters. After rivalry weekend, the Georgia Bulldogs find themselves comfortably in the College Football Playoff picture. They finished the regular season with a dazzling 11-1 (7-1) record. Their only loss was a three-point defeat at home to perpetual nemesis Alabama, a team who they will be playing in the SEC Championship Game on Saturday evening. What could ever go wrong?
Regardless of how you feel about the game coming in, Georgia is one of eight teams in the country who will comfortably make the playoff field. In alphabetical order, those eight teams are Georgia, Indiana, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.