Since opening weekend of this 2021 college football season, we’ve been offered weekly reminders of Georgia’s elite defensive fortitude. The Bulldogs suffocated Clemson, back when that was considered impressive, and have put on a clinic in weekly opponent offensive suffocation.
As the college football season has unfolded in a wondrous cacophony of fits, starts and surprises, there’d been no obvious foil for the top-ranked Bulldogs. Alabama flashed that potential before bursts of mortality. Oregon’s win at Ohio State thrust them into the conversation. Cincinnati’s march to perfection, combined with their last-second bowl loss to UGA last year, has moonlighted them in that conversation.