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Here's your host, Brandon Adams. So we're now a few more days removed from the Sugar Bowl,

and it's one of those things, cliche as it is, time does heal wounds.

And I think that people over the course of time, you know, Georgia fans disappointed about the loss,

maybe frustrated that an opportunity to advance deep into college football playoff,

maybe compete for a national championship, the fact that slipped away.

I think that the frustration and the disappointment that exists around that may still be true,

but people just have a tendency to return to normal levels of happiness over the course of time.

And you do see Georgia fans shaking off some of this now, willing to look ahead a little bit to say, okay, what could 2026 have in store

for the Georgia Bulldogs? And perhaps no surprise that it could be very good for UGA.

We've always believed. And we said this a lot leading into the college ball playoff.

No matter how the season finished for Georgia, the dogs were going

to have a chance to be among the highest rated preseason teams for 2026. They would have a chance

to be officially, maybe even preseason number one. Probably won't be number one. But when all these

way too early top 25s and things like that come out, Georgia's going to have a real lofty position in a lot of those rankings.

To the extent that you care about that, George is going to be one of the teams where there's a good bit of optimism perhaps pinned on it for the upcoming year.

And maybe they'll live up to that or maybe they won't, whatever.

Obviously, that's going to be determined by how the season plays out. But Georgia's going to seemingly have,

on paper, a lot going for it in this new year. And in the spirit of that, Georgia fans who are

ready to have something to feel good about again, let me give you, I think, what I believe,

is one of the number one most substantial and tangible reasons why Georgia could be set up

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