Georgia football will be one of the last bowl elgible SEC team to take the field when they line it up against Notre Dame on Thursday night, but so far the SEC has been horrific during the bowl season. Usually we see the conference dominate the bowl season, but the exact opposite has happened this year.
The SEC has suffered multiple embarrassing losses to non-conference teams this bowl season, which includes Alabama losing to a bad Michigan team, South Carolina losing to Illinois and Oklahoma getting embarrassed by Navy. Even Missouri barely got by a bad Iowa team and Texas really struggled against Arizona State as well.
At the end of the day, these losses and bad performances didn't happen to Kirby Smart and Georgia, but it still puts UGA in a bad light.
Winning the SEC maybe wasn't as impressive as we maybe once thought
Winning the SEC is an impressive feat, that is why Georgia earned the 2-seed in the College Football Playoff even though they lost two games this year. But the fact that the SEC is getting exposed by other conferences this bowl season shows that the SEC wasn't as strong as people once thought.
The lossess by Alabama and South Carolina are the worst for the conference because a lot of people thought both teams would have been better options to make the playoff than some other teams. But these losses show that they had no business even being in the conversation.
As mentioned, these losses and bad performances did not happen to Georgia, so they are not a direct representation of them. But at the same time, the SEC's struggles during bowl season make it seem like the SEC is not very strong which will downgrade the conference title Georgia won a month ago in some people's eyes. It's not like Georgia won the conference easily, they lost two games on the way which is abnormal for UGA. And people will see that the SEC champ lost these two games in a conference that so far is not stacking up with the rest of the country, which ultimately will cause them to question how good Georgia actually is.
Thankfully Georgia has a chance to prove everyone wrong and put the conference on their backs. Beating Notre Dame and going on a run in the College Football Playoff without Carson Beck would show everyone that Georgia is in fact a very strong team, regardless of how the rest of the conference is doing.