Colin Cowherd believes Georgia’s success can’t be duplicated, cites Alabama dynasty
Georgia has dominated college football’s spotlight over the past two seasons They’ve done it in such a way that Colin Cowherd believes that it’ll be a template that’ll be impossible to copy and succeed with.
Cowherd joined Greg McElroy on ‘Always College Football’ and spoke about the code that Georgia has cracked. With Kirby Smart in Athens, the Bulldogs have finally awoken and reached the level that many always knew that they could be at, especially considering how much talent that the state is now churning out.
“I say you can’t really look at Georgia and say, ‘We could duplicate that’, okay? Georgia was always the sleeping giant in college football,” said Cowherd. “I mean, for years and years, you would talk to NFL scouts and they’re like, ‘Why doesn’t Georgia win more?’
“We always know the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, Ohio all have a lot of players,” Cowherd continued. “Georgia now has as many DI players as California and have a third of the population or a quarter of the population. So I don’t think Georgia is something that you can duplicate.”
As it has been pointed out before, Cowherd does see similarities between Georgia’s blueprint and the blueprint of Smart’s former employer in Nick Saban at Alabama. With an elite defense and quality quarterback play, they’ve been able to reach the pinnacle of the sport that the Crimson Tide had dominated for much of the last decade.
“They do remind me, a little, of Alabama early. It’s a defensive culture with very capable quarterbacks who are going to get drafted,” said Cowherd. “(McElroy), AJ McCarron. Maybe not superstars, maybe not like a Caleb Williams. But it’s a defense-leaning culture.”
Whatever the road map is, it’s clearly working considering Georgia has won 29 of 30 games, including two straight national titles, over the past two seasons. It can only become that much more viable, though, if the Bulldogs are the story of the sport for the third straight year this fall.
Smart downplays concerns about Georgia’s strength of schedule
Georgia‘s strength of schedule, or lack thereof, has been put into question ahead of the 2023 season.
As the defending two-time national champions, the Bulldogs should be playing the best of the best. Instead, they should cruise to the College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season.
“All we can do is go out and try to schedule the best we can. When we scheduled the game with Oklahoma? We were trying to do that,” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said. “We were trying to create this identity that we wanted to play our conference schedule, wanted to play Georgia Tech. And we wanted to play others. We lost out on that because of a realignment, adding teams to the conference. That just is what it is.
“I certainly don’t concern myself with the thoughts of the College Football Playoff committee. I don’t have any control over it.”