Chase Elliott evaluates Georgia Football ahead of 2025 season, reveals feelings on transfer portal

Chase Elliott is ready to see what the Georgia Bulldogs football team does for the 2025 season. While speaking with Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic this week, Elliott evaluated Georgia’s chances this fall, since the standard for the team is to win the national championship every year.

“That’s the culture in college football, and I hate it,” Chase Elliott, a Georgia native, said. “I think it’s a really competitive space, and coaches are expected to win immediately. That’s just a difficult place for a lot of those coaches to be… I don’t know. They haven’t even played their first game.

“I hate the whole preseason talk and all that stuff just as much as I’m sure those coaches and players do. It’s all just a bunch of talk until you actually go and perform and do something. I hope they are really good. I’m going to pull for them whether they win all 12 games or they win two. I’m going to be just as big of a fan either way.”

Elliott was then asked if the transfer portal impacted his love for college football. “I fear kind of what it is going to turn into long-term. I think it’s what my biggest concern of that,” Elliott said. “I do think there was a level of pride and appreciation for going and playing for maybe a school that you grew up as a kid admiring. …I think it motivated some of those kids to go and play really hard for whatever school took a chance on them. That loyalty factor is a little bit out the window.”

Chase Elliott has seen Georgia Football win a lot of games recently

Elliott continued: “I still think that there are players that still feel that way and continue to go to schools because of that. But it seems like that’s going to be fewer and further between.”

Chase Elliott have seen the Georgia Bulldogs have a lot of success after he won the NASCAR Cup Series title in 2020. In the last four seasons, Georgia has won two SEC titles and two national championships. Georgia enters the 2025 season as the No. 5 team in the country after losing to Notre Dame in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff last year.

Some of the players to watch for this year are defensive lineman Christen Miller, linebacker CJ Allen and defensive backs KJ Bolden and Daylen Everette. All four players were selected to the preseason All-SEC First Team.

The Bulldogs will have a new starting quarterback in Gunner Stockton. He saw action in five games with one start last year and completed 70.3 percent of his passes for 440 yards, one touchdown and one interception.