BREAKING: UGA Football Ranked No. 4 to Start 2025 Season | Dawgs Face Several Ranked Foes
ATHENS - UGA Football will not open the season as the No. 1 football team in the country for the first time since 2022. Instead, Kirby Smart’s Dawgs will start the season as the No. 4 team in the country in the Coaches’ Poll.
Texas opened as the No. 1 team in the nation - in front of defending national champs Ohio State. Penn State, which has not won a national title in nearly 40 years, opened at No. 3. 2025 is the lowest pre-season ranking UGA has had since starting off the 2021 season ranked No. 5.
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 XXX teams ranked in the pre-season top 25 (No. 1 Texas, No. 8 Alabama and No. 15 Ole Miss, No. 17 Florida and No. 18 Tennessee.
Georgia is only days into fall camp, but Insiders told Dawg Post that Gunner Stockton has played well so far during game:
“Stockton goes one, two, three and the ball is out, and he's accurate.”
Georgia was also picked by the media at the 2025 SEC Football Media Days to play Texas for the SEC Championship in Atlanta.
Kirby told reporters in 2024 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.”
2025 Preseason Coaches’ Poll
- Texas (28)
- Ohio State (20)
- Penn State (14)
- Georgia (3)
- Notre Dame
- Clemson (2)
- Oregon
- Alabama
- LSU
- Miami
- Arizona State
- Illinois
- South Carolina
- Michigan
- Ole Miss
- SMU
- Florida
- Tennessee
- Indiana
- Kansas State
- Iowa State
- Texas A&M
- BYU
- Texas Tech
- Boise State