David Pollack questions 'who are Georgia's dudes' in 2025

Georgia has consistently been one of the best few teams in the country the past few seasons. However, for whatever reason like attrition or otherwise, David Pollack just doesn’t see it right now with the ‘Dawgs going into next season.

Pollack discussed his post-spring portal rankings on his show, ‘See Ball Get Ball’, on Wednesday. He said the Bulldogs were not in consideration for his top-five with them more so projecting just inside the top-ten right now in his eyes.

“Yeah, absolutely. I’m not putting Georgia in the top-five,” said Pollack.

“Dude, like, I mean, Georgia? They, they lost a good bit. I mean, they, you talk about – yeah, I mean, that’s a lot of guys drafted from a team that, you know, Kirby said he did his best coaching job yet, like, just to keep them in order,” Pollack said. :I’m interested to watch them, man.”

The biggest issue for Pollack with Georgia for now is he doesn’t know who are their ‘dudes’. 55 players being drafted, including the second-most from a school in this past draft with 13 selected and 17 total signed, over the past five drafts with 18 more transferring out in the portal just this offseason has led to even more roster turnover in Athens. That, while still having plenty of talent in the program to work with before kickoff, leaves a lot of spots that are currently unfilled by the players we’ve been used to seeing there recently.

“Here’s the thing. If you told me they had to fix one thing?…Let me ask you a question. Who are you depending on right now that you’re saying is an All-American for Georgia? Because I could have named five a year ago,” said Pollack. “Give it. Give it to me. Like, this is the first time, to me, going into a season where I’m, like, who are Georgia’s dudes? Like, who are the guys? Like, defensively, offensively?”

“They just got so many places where I go, there’s a lot of holes. And, listen, do I know there’s talented guys on the roster? Yes. That’s why I’m talking about them in the top-ten…But, no, I’m not,” said Pollack. “I can’t tell you what’s the position group, what’s the person, what’s the three of four people, like, that I’m attaching the Georgia season to that I know they’re going to be successful because I don’t see it. Like, I don’t know what it is.”

Again, this is different for them after the last couple seasons where they’ve been atop or near the top of essentially every preseason poll. That shift, especially compared to other top programs going into next season who retained more of their roster, is why Pollack has Georgia trending more towards ten, or even outside of it, than he does towards five.

“I mean, I just, I don’t know, man,” said Pollack. “It’s a weird, it’s weird because I feel like, every year, we’ve gone into it going Georgia’s the best team, Georgia and Ohio State versus everybody else, you know – Georgia and who? And, this year, I mean, I got, you know, four, five, six, seven teams that I’m like, okay, they might be fighting for that next tier of, you know, the next five.”

This isn’t to say that ‘guys’ couldn’t emerge in time for or during next season for Georgia. Since they’re still unknown to him right now, though, Pollack doesn’t have the Bulldogs among his very top teams going into the fall.