Georgia Bulldogs Likely to Be Top Team in CFP Rankings After Dominant Win
Nov 9, 2026 11:00 AM

The Georgia Bulldogs are the best team in the land.

The Georgia Bulldogs earned an absolutely massive blowout victory over the Ole Miss Rebels 42-7 on Saturday night in Oxford, securing a Vaught-Hemingway Stadium victory for the first time in Kirby Smart's career.

The Dawgs did an incredible job on one of the best quarterbacks in the nation in Trinidad Chambliss, a guy who has absolutely torched them in the previous two meetings. On a weekend which was expected to be the slate of the year in college football, many of the games turned into blowouts, and Georgia was certainly no exception here.

With the previously No. 1 ranked Miami Hurricanes losing on the road against Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish are set to move up as well, but it may be the Dawgs who see the most significant leap even if it's just one spot. As Miami prepares to make a drop, the 8-1 Bulldogs are going to be the ones to climb into the top spot with three games left to go.

Georgia Will Be New No. 1 on Tuesday Night

Barring something unforeseen like the Utah Utes jumping the Bulldogs after their victory over BYU, the Bulldogs appear very likely to be going from No. 2 to No. 1 headed down the final stretch of the season.

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Who is ranked where does not mean a ton when there's still so much which could change over the final three weeks of the season, but it does feel notable that just three weeks after the most unexplainable loss of the Kirby Smart era, Georgia is going to be right back on top of the sport where it belongs.

In terms of the race in the SEC, the Dawgs have made sure things still run through Athens, and it could be actually headed towards a rematch between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia once again in Atlanta.

The Dawgs will host the Missouri Tigers next week and try to keep the momentum going before they head to South Carolina for a game which is all of the sudden a whole lot more challenging than it looked like it would be to wrap up their SEC schedule.

A lowly Georgia Tech team awaits in the final game, but the hurdle over Ole Miss this week was the final game where there was a real and legitimate group of people picking against the Bulldogs. Georgia must keep taking care of business, but it does feel like things are starting to come together.

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