Georgia secured a spot in the SEC Championship Game after Texas A&M’s four-overtime loss to Auburn. The No. 10 Bulldogs are 6-2 in SEC play, winning enough tiebreakers to officially clinch a spot after losing to No. 7 Alabama, No. 11 Ole Miss and No. 15 Texas A&M.
The Bulldogs will play the winner of the Lone Star Showdown between Texas and Texas A&M in the SEC Championship Game. The Longhorns would clinch the No. 1 spot in the SEC with a win and a 7-1 record, while Texas A&M would similarly reach the title game via tiebreakers with a 6-2 win. The Aggies could have clinched a spot in the title game by beating Auburn, but will instead have to sweat out the outcome against the Longhorns.
The Bulldogs have lost multiple regular season games for the first time since 2020, but the rest of the conference has also struggled post-expansion. Texas is the only team with just one loss in SEC play. Thirteen of the 16 SEC teams have at least three total losses. The Bulldogs host Georgia Tech on Black Friday in their final game of the regular season. Georgia defeated UMass 59-21 in Week 13.
Georgia has reached the SEC Championship in each of the past three seasons and won the league in 2022. However, the Bulldogs lost to Nick Saban’s Alabama in both 2021 and 2023. In 2021, Georgia made the College Football Playoff field anyway as the fourth team and won its first national championship in more than 40 years.
The Aggies could have clinched the bid on Saturday night, but fell to Auburn in triple overtime. Now Texas A&M, which has two SEC losses plus one to Notre Dame, must beat Texas to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive. The Longhorns should be considered safe in the CFP field at 10-1 overall, but would need to beat Texas A&M in College Station to set up a rematch against Georgia, which it lost to in Austin in mid-October with 15.