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SEC Football: Grading my 2022 preseason predictions

By Patrick Previty

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER 03: The Georgia Bulldogs celebrate with the trophy after defeating the LSU Tigers in the SEC Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 03, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER 03: The Georgia Bulldogs celebrate with the trophy after defeating the LSU Tigers in the SEC Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 03, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images) /
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Georgia Bulldogs running back Kendall Milton (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images) /

Georgia (1st in the East, SECCG loser, bowl-eligible)

Evaluation: Georgia, despite slow starts that plagued them early in the season, is clearly the best team in the nation going into the playoff. Or that’s at least what they’ve showed so far in the regular season. And that’s truly astounding considering how much talent they lost to the NFL Draft.

I underestimated Stetson Bennett and company, and perhaps overstated how much high-end SEC football competition there actually was. Their games against Mississippi State and Kentucky weren’t really that close and their only ‘almost-hiccup’ was to Missouri in September.

At the very least, I predicted them to win their division, which they did, and I didn’t have some hot take that was way off the mark.

Grade: B+

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