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College Football Playoff Selection: Georgia earns No. 3 seed

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After winning the SEC Championship for the second straight season, Georgia has earned the No. 3 seed in the 12-team College Football Playoff. The CFP selection show finalized the Bulldogs’ place in the field on Sunday with only Indiana and Ohio State ranked ahead.

The Bulldogs are likely headed to the Allstate Sugar Bowl, also for the second time in as many years, where it will play the winner of No. 6 Ole Miss vs. No. 11 Tulane in the first round of the College Football Playoff. That game will be played in Oxford.

The Bulldogs beat Alabama 28-7 on Saturday, its first win over the Crimson Tide inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Peach State capital. It is Georgia’s ninth straight win since Bama handed it its first only loss of the 2025 season at the end of September.

Since that game Georgia has beaten Ole Miss, which will enter the College Fotball Playoff as the No. 6 seed, Texas, which missed the playoff but was ranked No. 14 last week, and Georgia Tech, which ranks No. 23.

Kirby Smart‘s team exorcised some of its Alabama demons on Saturday, jumping out to a 14-0 lead thanks to a blocked punt and an interception that set up short fields for the offense. Georgia matched that point total in the second half with a 24-yard punt return from Zachariah Branch and a turnover on downs creating two more short fields.

Meanwhile, the Georgia defense held Alabama to a paltry negative three yards rushing and just 209 yards of total offense, the Crimson Tide’s worst offensive performance of the season.

Notre Dame beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl a season ago as Gunner Stockton made his first career start. This year’s Sugar Bowl is set for January 1, 2026 at 8 p.m. ET.

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