'Georgia’s No Behemoth Anymore': College Football Analyst Sparks Debate After Claiming Georgia Is No Longer the Unbeatable Power It Once Was

His frank admission that Auburn, a team he categorized among the worst in college football, nearly pulled off an upset against the Bulldogs served as the foundation for his argument. Auburn held a 237-78 advantage in total offense at halftime and dominated time of possession 21:48 to 8:12 before Georgia flipped the script after intermission.

Georgia’s Close Calls Raising Questions About Championship Credentials This Season

Georgia sits at 6-1 overall and 4-1 in SEC play, ranked fifth in the current AP poll heading into November. The record looks solid on paper, but the process has been messy at times. The Bulldogs have found themselves in dogfights that championship teams typically avoid.

Fans quickly flooded his mentions with defenses of the Bulldogs and critiques of his analysis. One fan shot back at Wasserman’s assessment: “I picked Georgia because Georgia was the team in the video and if they were unbeatable they’d have 0 losses. That being said they’d win the ACC and they’d do it pretty easily. Using a tight rivalry game that’s been played since 1929 is a bad example,” the fan wrote.

Another fan took issue with how Wasserman framed Georgia’s schedule strength compared to other contenders. “Also tend to think Oklahoma beating Michigan is doing a lot of heavy lifting (a veteran QB at home against a true freshman in his second game), while Ohio State has ‘played nobody’. The ‘nobody’ that Ohio State has played controls their own destiny for the SEC title,” the user noted.

A third defender of the Bulldogs pointed directly at what they view as schedule bias working against SEC teams. “Ari maybe UGA would look better if they could play the big 10 equivalent of Kentucky every week like OSU and Indiana do,” the fan suggested, implying that Georgia faces tougher competition week in and week out than teams in other conferences.

Wasserman responded to the user by clarifying what he sees as a fundamental misunderstanding about how different conferences are perceived. “This is the problem. You don’t view Auburn the same way you view Maryland, which is the fundamental thing I’m trying to get you to see,” Wasserman replied.

The analyst was arguing that struggling against Auburn should be viewed with the same concern as struggling against a middling Big Ten opponent, regardless of traditional conference hierarchies.

Another fan wrote: “There is no team in college football that does not appear unbeatable this year. Georgia just refuses to go down easy. But they are clearly beatable. But so is Ohio State and Alabama and everyone else. This is what you get with parity,” the fan wrote.

The Bulldogs have won when it mattered, which used to be the only metric that counted. Georgia’s ability to pull out wins while playing below their best might be seen as championship mettle by some and concerning regression by others.