Georgia’s stunning double-overtime loss to South Carolina provided a major shift in this week’s college football bowl projections.
The most surprising result of the weekend was Georgia football falling at home to South Carolina in double-overtime between the hedges. Georgia’s offense still looks lifeless despite talent all over the field, and those issues will have to be solved in the coming weeks or this was not the last loss on its regular season schedule.
The Bulldogs’ stunning defeat drops them completely out of the New Year’s Six for the first time in this week’s bowl projections, allowing another team to step in to the projected field for the first time this year.
Georgia’s loss was the biggest upset of the season so far, and goes to show how quickly things can change in college football. It still feels like one of those years, and I expect to see more big upsets before this season has finished.
It remains to be seen if there is truly a dominant team in college football this year. Ohio State looks like the closest thing so far, but everyone has displayed potentially fatal flaws that could cost them the national championship.
It was a fun week of college football that lived up to the billing. It would have been yet another chalky week, however, but South Carolina made sure to provide us with a paradigm shift that we’ve been waiting to see.
Let’s check to see the ramifications of the Gamecocks’ big upset, and what else changed in this week’s bowl projections: