ATLANTA — Georgia spent three months high atop the college football landscape. Alabama shattered that aura of invincibility in just three hours.
For the Bulldogs, what happens now?
Up until Saturday night, Georgia and its fans had every reason to believe this was a season of destiny, not unlike LSU in 2019. All the ghosts of the past, all the failures and miscues, second-and-26 … it was all about to be ancient history. Years of planning, seasons of top-ranked recruiting, months of sharpening into a precise, lethal unit … it was all about to pay off.