Georgia Football: Bulldogs deserve College Football Playoff berth
3. Georgia is the most complete non-undefeated team
There are old school pundits that fall back on the adage defense wins championships. That’s not an iron-clad rule in modern college football, but it hasn’t lost all of its value. There have been an array of good to great offenses in the College Football Playoff thus far, but there’s never been a Playoff champion with anything worse than a great defense.
Plenty of advance metrics exist that point to the same basic premise. If you can’t stop opponents from scoring you won’t win. Ohio State won the national title in 2014 with the No. 26 scoring defense. Alabama won in 2015 and 2017 with the No. 3 and No. 1 scoring defenses, respectively. Clemson won in 2016 with the No. 10 scoring defense.
Ohio State’s No. 26 defense in 2014 remains the worst scoring defense to win a national championship in the Playoff era. They compensated with the No. 5 scoring offense in the country.
Here’s how the Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma stack up:
| Offense | Defense | |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 13 | 10 |
| Ohio State | 7 | 56 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 99 |
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Three elite offenses, one elite defense, one mediocre defense and one abysmal defense. Forget Alabama, Ohio State and Oklahoma don’t belong on the same field as Georgia. If the College Football Playoff committee wants the four best teams in the nation they have to include Georgia. There’s no way around it.