BREAKING: UGA Football Ranked No. 1 to Start 2024 Season | Faces No. 14 Clemson in Opener
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ATHENS - UGA Football will open the season as the No. 1 football team in the country. It is the second season in a row Kirby Smart’s Dawgs have started the season as the top-ranked team in the nation.
Before 2023, UGA had not started a season ranked No. 1 since 2008, which was Matthew Stafford’s final season at Georgia. Georgia is coming off a 13-1 season in 2023. UGA beat three teams that finished the 2024 season ranked in the final top ten of the season. This year the Bulldogs are set to take on three teams ranked in the top six on the road (No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Alabama and No. 6 Ole Miss), as well as No. 14 Clemson in Atlanta and No. 15 Tennessee in Athens.
Georgia is only days into fall camp, but Insiders told Dawg Post that the the Dawgs might have the deepest running back room it has had since 2017.
According to FanDuel , Georgia has the best odds to win the national championship this season at +280. Ohio State, who checked in at No. 2 in the rankings, has the second-best odds to win it all at +400. SEC foe Alabama will host the Bulldogs in late September in a primetime game on ABC.
Georgia was also picked by the media at the 204 SEC Football Media Days to win the conference over Texas.
Kirby told reporters Thursday that he doesn’t pay attention to pre-season rankings.
“I've never honestly paid any attention to it, and we don't talk about it as a team. The expectation is we're going to develop and worry about today's day, and we don't think about that.”
Preseason Coaches’ Poll
- Georgia (46)
- Ohio State (7)
- Oregon
- Texas (1)
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Michigan (1)
- Penn State
- Florida State
- Missouri
- LSU
- Utah
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Kansas State
- Oklahoma State
- Miami
- Texas A&M
- Arizona
- NC State
- USC
- Kansas
- Iowa