Just saw your power rankings.
You also had a conversation with Josh Pate
who said that the gap or perceived gap of talent
between Georgia and the other challengers,
like an Ole Miss, like a Texas,
like a Bama, kind of bottle necks up there at the top.
And it also by your power rankings,
looks like Lane Kiffin’s team.
Your Bulldogs on. More so than the other challengers in Texas and Bama,
perhaps. Yeah,
Ole Miss just in the handful of quote unquote starters they lost,
they replaced them through the transfer portal.
But unlike other teams out there,
they replaced them with other power 5 starters.
Not just backups or role players.
Other starters on that team.
And they return the nucleus of a top 10 team.
In my opinion, anyway,
going to the season. Add in those transfers,
they’re gonna do very well against that schedule especially.
But we’re looking just at the power ratings and rankings
where they stand going into this season.
To me, they deserve to be in that top five discussion.
And I’ve got them in number four right now.
They were building things up the right way,
I think under Lane Kiffin.
They’re complimenting the pieces through the portal.
Really, really talented Ross are going to this season.
And as you see on the screen right now,
that schedule is so conducive of making an SCC championship run
potentially. This is a team ready to contend for a championship.
But Having said that,
I do not consider the schedule when I rank these teams right now.
Of course, I’m looking at what they stand right now.
Right now today,
Jackson Dart and crew have a top four roster in our rankings here
because at the top of the AP poll,
Brandon, we have Georgia sitting at No. 1.
You have Ohio State No. 1 in your power rankings.
Take us through the thinking here.
Yeah. I mean,
they’re loaded. They did everything right in the offseason
as far as adding the pieces they need to in the transfer portal.
In addition to what they’ve developed,
just with the high school recruiting rankings
over the last three to four years,
they got dynamic quarterback and Will Howard,
who was clocked in at 22 miles an hour
on the practice fields at Ohio State recently.
They’ve got all the receivers you really need.
The No. 1 receiver, Jeremiah Smith,
the first player ever at receiver to be No. 1 overall as a recruit.
They are absolutely loaded.
And the defense is going to be stacked.
As we all know, the secondary is really good.
Jim knows is taking that crew and improve them year over year,
and I expect the same thing in his third season leading that defense.
For right now, Ohio State going into Week 1 is my No. 1.
But I will say this.
These rankings are gonna shake up quite a bit after Week 1,
cause I’m kind Of wiping the slate clean.
I wanna see these teams play,
because as we just saw, much like with Florida State,
I had them just outside my top 10.
And they did not look like a top 25 team at all
on the field against Georgia Tech this week.
Alright, he’s really close to making the worst.