ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia finally was able to impress the selection committee.
Clearly, that is a difficult task. This time last week, College Football Playoff’s august group of 13 carefully-chosen scrutinizers thought the defending national champion Bulldogs’ march to undefeated status was more a product of having not faced any decent competition along the way. Sure, that 46-point shellacking of top-10 Oregon to open the season was nice. But in their estimations, it didn’t compare to the work Tennessee had done arriving at the same record.
Georgia crumpled up that argument like a scratch sheet of paper when the Vols visited Sanford Stadium last Saturday. The Bulldogs rolled up 306 yards of offense in the first half and didn’t give up a play of more than 20 yards to Tennessee’s vaunted offense until 4 1/2 minutes remained in what ended in a rain-soaked second half.
