Tennessee football flirting with top of SEC Power Rankings for Week 2 of 2022
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Once again, we’re breaking some rules here. Every other team in this top tier has beaten a Power Five team and a Group of Five team. Four of them beat their Power Five opponents on the road. However, the Georgia Bulldogs, who have just beaten a Power Five team and an FCS team, none on the road, are No. 1 in our SEC Power Rankings.
Georgia beat Samford at home and the Oregon Ducks at a “neutral site” game, but that neutral site was Atlanta. So how can we justify them being over Kentucky or even Tennessee football for that matter? Well, we just can’t look past what they did to Oregon to open the season.
That 49-3 blowout was insane. Oregon did just hang 70 on the Eastern Washington Eagles, one of the better FCS teams. Also, while it was in Atlanta and while Oregon was undergoing a new head coach, Georgia’s defensive coordinator from last year in Dan Lanning, that level of dominance is just impossible to ignore.
As a result, UGA still tops our SEC Power Rankings. They now look like the most unbeatable team on Tennessee football’s slate after the way Alabama struggled last week. There’s no way to ignore that right now, so Kirby Smart’s team is still running the show as defending national champions.
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With a visit to South Carolina, Kent State at home, a visit to Missouri and then Auburn and Vanderbilt at home, Georgia won’t get any real tests until Florida in late October. Even that is questionable as well, so we’ll have to wait until November. Just sit back, relax and watch this team blow every other team out.