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Bulldogs claim they won’t be burdened by new No. 1 ranking

Georgia photo by Tony Walsh / Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett leaves the field at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium after leading the Bulldogs to a 34-10 win this past Saturday.
Georgia photo by Tony Walsh / Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett leaves the field at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium after leading the Bulldogs to a 34-10 win this past Saturday. Georgia photo by Tony Walsh / Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett leaves the field at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium after leading the Bulldogs to a 34-10 win this past Saturday.

By David Paschall 5 min read

The University of Georgia is currently the center of the college football world.

Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs are an intimidating 6-0 and became the unanimous No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll following Alabama’s 41-38 upset loss at Texas A&M this past weekend. Georgia is hosting fellow unbeaten Kentucky on CBS this Saturday with both ESPN’s “College GameDay” and the SEC Network’s “SEC Nation” shows setting up shop in Athens.

Things are going remarkably well for a program that has defeated No. 8 Arkansas and No. 18 Auburn by a combined 71-10 the past two weekends, so there can’t be a downside to any of this, can there?

Oh yeah, it’s mid October.

“The goal is to be number one at the end of the season,” Smart said Monday in a news conference. “You always know that. Everybody’s goal is there, but to have an opportunity to do that you have to be in the top four. That’s the most critical part. We won’t get caught up in that and let you guys write about it.