The Southeastern Conference is consistently competitive and there are several teams within it that have a real chance of doing something big in 2022.

Alabama is obviously the headliner as it is year in and year out, but it’s important to look at the team that beat the Crimson Tide and won it all in the national championship. That team is the Georgia Bulldogs, and they’re one to really keep an eye on in the eyes of former Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt.

The reason behind that is, curiously enough, related to Alabama football.

“I think you can look at what’s going on at Georgia,” Pruitt said on the Ingles On The Beat Show when asked how Nick Saban built and maintains a consistently dominant team.

“Georgia and Alabama have the best players in college football, you can look on draft day,” Pruitt said. “Not to take anything away from anybody’s coaching, but they have really good players, both places have put together really good staffs.”

Pruitt went on to elaborate on how Georgia’s defense consistently held opponents to a stingy number of points that made games very winnable and sees this as a team that can be dangerous in all three phases of the game.

“Georgia is a team that can beat you three ways: they are gonna play good defense, Kirby Smart is the head coach, but now they have one of the more explosive offenses in college football, and they are going to be good on special teams,” Pruitt said.

Could Georgia be the next Alabama-type team on the rise? The Bulldogs will have a chance to continue showing just how much of a force to be reckoned with they are as they face Samford on Saturday in Sanford Stadium.