On New Year’s Day, Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma Sooners faced off with the Georgia Bulldogs in a Rose Bowl game that few on either side will soon forget. Six months later, the Sooners head coach seemed to take a shot at his team’s College Football Playoff opponent.
Riley appeared on ESPNU on Sirius XM with Danny Kanell and Taylor Zarzour on Tuesday and discussed how difficult it is to play defense in the Big 12. To illustrate that point, Riley brought up the Bulldogs’ defense, which was consistently successful in the Southeastern Conference in 2017.
"If you throw Georgia in the Big 12 every year, there is no way they are a top five defense in the country,” Riley said on the radio show.