Georgia Football: Ranking Bulldogs’ 2020 opponents by toughness

In what will be the game that should decide the SEC East champion, the Bulldogs enter 2020 with a three-game winning streak against the Gators and Florida fans are getting a little restless with how things are going on the field.

If Florida wants to win its first SEC East title since 2016, they will have to figure out how to score consistently on an elite Bulldogs defense which will return nine starters.

Florida is becoming a trendy pick to win the SEC and make the College Football Playoff and one can see why. Kyle Trask is returning with a lot of weapons on offense, including Kyle Pitts, and the defense will be as stingy as ever.

This will be one of the most important games in the country and the stakes will be high. My sense says that Georgia will take yet another one from the Gators and keeps them out of the SEC title game once again.

In what could be a possible preview of the SEC championship, the Bulldogs will travel to Tuscaloosa to take on the Crimson Tide and try to do something that they have not done since 2007: beat the Tide. Georgia has come up painfully short in the last two meetings against Alabama and this will be a chance for Kirby Smart to show that he can beat Nick Saban and make a major statement early in the season.

Alabama will be as talented as ever, especially at the skill positions with Jaylen Waddle, Najee Harris and DeVonta Smith returning, but all eyes will be on Mac Jones to see if he can take full advantage of all of the talent on the field for Alabama.

This will be the first major test of the season for the Bulldogs, after opening with Virginia and FCS opponent East Tennessee State and the first major test for new quarterback Jamie Newman and the new-look Georgia offense. There are more unknowns on the Georgia sideline and with the game in Tuscaloosa, the Tide will once again get the best of Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs.