SEC · Kirby Smart, year 11 (119-21) · Sanford Stadium · 92,746 · 93,033 avg in 2026
LastW 70–20 vs Western Kentucky · Sat Sep 12 · Gunner Stockton 234 pass yds, 5 TD, 3 rush yds
Nextat Arkansas · Sat Sep 19 · 12 pm ET · Razorback Stadium · Georgia by 24.5 · series 12-4, won the last 3 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #2 | #217 | -49✓ | Tennessee State | W 63–3 118 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #3 | #48 | -40.5✓ | Western Kentucky | W 70–20 134 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #3 | #139 | -24.5 | @Arkansas | |||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #3 | #16 | Oklahoma | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | Vanderbilt | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | @Alabama | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Auburn | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | Florida (N) | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Ole Miss | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Missouri | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | @South Carolina | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | Georgia Tech |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Western Kentucky | W 70–20 | 493 | 2 | 28:54 | +0.627 | 50.0% | 159.6% | |
| Sep 5 | Tennessee State | W 63–3 | 660 | 0 | 28:27 | +0.743 | 70.5% | 131.7% | |
| Season average (2 games) | 576 | 1.0 | +0.685 | 60.2% | 145.6% | ||||
Georgia chased a national title for forty years, won back-to-back, and now measures a 12-2 SEC champion as a disappointment.
The growing take that the regular-season machine can't close in January anymore — that the Smart dynasty peaked at two. The fanbase has heard it three straight winters, and it stings precisely because…
The season in chapters
What fans said
Real posts from the day of the game, chosen by community score · usernames not shown
What it is like to watch them2025 · 12-2 · last season
✓ measured from 14 games · ranks are among SEC teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Warming. 9-1 over the last 10, and won the last two.
Arion Carter represents everything that is right about college athletics, dedicating all 4 years of his career to the University of Tennessee
Next Sep 19
vs Arkansas · away
✓ fact on line · ~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-14
the open questiondoes the recruiting haul translate on the field?
Ekene Ogboko (#33 nationally, OT) arrives as Georgia's top recruit, but with 16% QB production returning and Florida signing a top-17 class, the SEC's most storied program faces its sharpest test yet.
our readfront page
Zachariah Branch is a legitimate money-down target -- his 3rd-down conversion rate ranks among the position's best, and his per-target value holds up in that spot too.
our readdeveloping
Joshua McCray: a closer signal screened this season.
our readbackground
Nate Frazier does NOT see a usage spike in garbage time -- his workload holds steady regardless of score.
our readbackground
Zachariah Branch is used almost exclusively underneath -- a low share of his targets are downfield shots.
our readbackground
Kirby Smart's 9th season opens with a 12-2 record and #1 talent, yet fan belief remains uneasy as the market projects 10 wins despite rising expectations.
our readdeveloping
Kirby Smart's 11th season opens with a 12-2 record and a #2 AP finish, yet fan belief remains uneasy as the program grapples with an outside ruling reshaping its season.
our readdeveloping
Outcome band · Georgia · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
Georgia signed a top-6 recruiting class. It is a top-2 recruiting class in the SEC. A top-6 class is a program-level investment. Development timelines decide the return. National coverage is split on what the ranking actually signals for this program.
The optimistic read: the class is real, the program is a destination again.
The 'rankings don't tell the whole story' counter -- development gaps, position holes still open.
This event was in 227 of 10487 board posts (2%) over the last 60 days — engaged but not consumed. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Georgia win total rose from 9.5 to 10 (+0.5 wins) between Aug 29 and Aug 30, 2026 (tier B). It is win total up 0.5 from 9.5 to 10.0. The coverage is already ahead of this. The fan base is aligned with the move. The coverage runs aligned with the move.
The 'market knows something fans don't' read -- when odds move, it's on information.
The 'markets overcorrect' counter -- lines move on noise too; the receipts may not hold.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
This event was in 447 of 10487 board posts (4%) over the last 60 days — engaged but not consumed. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Fan mood index · most recent r/cfb data
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Georgia is the program that chased the sentence for forty years, and now refuses to leave it.
The program ledger
since 2025Jalon Walker out for season
Eight starters already gone to the draft and now Walker's out for the year — Kirby's fall camp depth talk just became the whole story.
Georgia extends OC Mike Bobo
Eight starters gone to the draft and a No. 2 class coming in — Kirby keeping Bobo means the offense doesn't rebuild, it reloads under the same system.
Player arrested after leaving team
Eight starters already gone to the draft and now another body off the roster — Kirby's depth math keeps getting harder before Tennessee State even kicks off.
Georgia RB depth chart updated
Eight starters drafted and the RB room still moves — Kirby reshuffles the backfield depth while preseason all-SEC voters already have Georgia penciled in as the conference's team to beat.
Georgia releases projected depth chart
Eight players drafted out and OT still the exposed nerve — this depth chart tells you whether Kirby patched the trench or just reshuffled names on a thin roster.
SEC determined to govern itself
SEC self-governance isn't abstract for Georgia — 8 players gone to the draft, a line still sorting out at OT, and the last thing Kirby needs is College Football Playoff structure decided in a room Atlanta doesn't control.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
GA leads the 2026 class with 19 commits. National footprint reaching 10 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
119 signees across 24 states, 2023-2026. GA leads the pull.
That is 5.4% of every high-school FBS signee GA produced over those cycles — the biggest share any program takes — Georgia Tech is next. The full map →
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median Georgia player grew up 112 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Sanford Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 125 of 129 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top r/cfb community posts · last 12 months
Fan confidence in a typical range for this program right now
49th percentile among FBS programs
68 of 68 AP voters have them ranked, AP ballot, week 3 (2026) — from #1, David Paschall (Chattanooga Times Free Press), to #8, Stephen Means (Cleveland.com).
Individual AP Top 25 ballots, AP ballot, week 3, 2026 — 68 voters tracked.
The bounces have gone their way on their own fumbles: 60% recovered, vs. ~54% expected.
3 of 5 own fumbles recovered themselves, 2026 only.
The flags haven't favored them: 15 penalties committed vs. 7 drawn on opponents, 101 yards behind.
151 penalty yards committed vs. 50 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · Georgia · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026