Georgia has won back-to-back national championships and 25 consecutive games and is ranked atop The Associated Press and USA Today coaches polls.
But the Bulldogs are No. 2 in the first College Football Playoff selection committee poll released Tuesday night.
Ohio State, which like Georgia is 8-0, is No. 1 in the selection committee’s poll.
Georgia Coach Kirby Smart said he didn’t take the committee’s ranking as any type of slight.
“Nah. Not slighted,” Smart said Wednesday on the SEC coaches teleconference. “It just is what it is.
“We’ve gotten really comfortable with not paying attention to it over the last three, four years.”
The committee’s ranking isn’t a surprise considering Ohio State won at Notre Dame, ranked No. 15 in the poll, and beat No. 11 Penn State at home.
Georgia hasn’t beaten a team currently ranked in any of the polls. The Bulldogs did beat Kentucky 51-13 earlier this season when the Wildcats were ranked No. 20 in the AP poll.
Georgia had been scheduled to play No. 9 Oklahoma this season, but that two-game series was canceled because the Sooners are joining the SEC next season.
The Bulldogs play No. 12 Missouri at home on Saturday, then finish SEC play against No. 10 Ole Miss and at No. 17 Tennessee before playing at Georgia Tech, so they have plenty of opportunities for quality victories.
“It’s always one game at a time,” Smart said when asked about the closing stretch of the regular season. “You know the answer to that. No coach is going to sit here and tell…
