Georgia's Strength of Schedule vs Rest of SEC Explains Quite a Lot

According to one College Football expert, 6 of the 16 hardest schedules in college football are UGA opponents in 2023, with four of those coming in the top-6. What it means.

The SEC East is no place for the faint-hearted. It's a division within the toughest conference in the sport of football with rivals and foes filled with NFL-caliber talent and million-dollar coaching on both sides of the football. Though Georgia has managed to win five out of the last six SEC East divisional titles, making them the standard in the conference. 

Additionally, as the two-time defending champion and all presumptions being that they will remain among the nation's best, they've managed to completely alter the strength of schedule numbers in the sport. 

According to College Football expert Phil Steele, 6 of the 16 hardest schedules in college football are UGA opponents in 2023, with four of those coming in the top-6. 

2023 CFB Strength of Schedule Rankings

1. South Carolina
2. Michigan State
3. West Virginia
4. Ole Miss
5. Missouri 
6. Houston
7. Florida
8. Iowa State
9. Ohio State
10. Kansas State
11. Kentucky 
12. California
13. Auburn
14. Texas Tech
15. Stanford
16. Tennessee
17. Baylor
18. Notre Dame 
19. Virginia
20. Arizona State

Where might Georgia rank you ask? Well, 63rd. Though that number would have been considerably higher had the Southeastern Conference not forced Georgia and Oklahoma to cancel their home and home series beginning with a Georgia road game this fall on September 9th, 2023. Instead, the Bulldogs will host Ball State, certainly crushing their strength of schedule. A schedule that was without a massive test outside of the standard SEC slate. Georgia's biggest problem seems to be that they don't have a "Georgia" on their schedule in 2023...

Georgia's 2023 Schedule

• UT Martin (9/2)
• Ball State (9/9)
• South Carolina (9/16)
• UAB Blazers (9/23)
• @ Auburn (9/30)
• Kentucky (10/7)
• @ Vanderbilt (10/14)
• BYE (10/21)
• vs Florida (10/28) *Jacksonville, Fl.
• Missouri (11/4)
• Ole Miss (11/11)
• @ Tennessee (11/18)
• @ Georgia Tech (11/25)

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