It took 6 weeks, but here we are. For the first time this season, Georgia looks like a team that can pull off the unimaginable.

For the first time this season, Georgia played a complete game against a legitimate opponent and left little doubt for those still unsure of this team’s — take your pick — intent, desire and moxie.

For those still not convinced Georgia can accomplish the rare national title 3-peat, consider the end of the first half in Saturday night’s 51-13 rout of No. 20 Kentucky.

Georgia got the ball with 23 seconds to play and the ball at its 38. A flawless first half included scores on all 5 possessions and a 31-7 lead.

Kentucky could’ve played 16 quarters on the Georgia defense and not scored 31 points. But you didn’t really think Dawgs coach Kirby Smart — the maniacal one in obsessive pursuit of perfection — would just let those measly seconds go to waste, did you?

He wanted points. Now.

“We can’t stop them on defense,” Smart said during a brief ESPN interview at halftime. “We have to keep scoring.”

Really, that’s what he said.

Minutes earlier, Georgia started the final first-half drive with emerging quarterback Carson Beck throwing deep and getting a pass interference call against Kentucky to move the ball to the Wildcats’ 47. Two more completions got it to the UK 24 before freshman kicker Peyton Woodring nailed a 42-yard field goal to make it 34-7 at halftime.

That’s 3 plays, 38 yards in 23 seconds.

Six first-half possession, 6 scores. And now we know about Georgia’s intentions for 2023.

Now we know if the Dawgs have the desire — the want — to become the 1st team in the modern era of college football to win 3 straight national championships.

Now we see the moxie and confidence that oozed from those silver britches the past 2 seasons, fueling a run so dominant, it somehow eclipsed the Death Star in Tuscaloosa.

This ride isn’t over now. But it sure looks better than it did a couple of weeks ago.

Even if Georgia escapes the SEC, if it gets by Tennessee on the road and tricky home games against Ole Miss and Missouri — teams that, if Georgia plays like it did against South Carolina, will beat the Dawgs — there’s still Alabama in the SEC Championship Game.

There’s still a group of teams from the Power 5 conferences — Michigan, Florida State, Ohio State, Washington, Oklahoma/Texas — that will make Georgia earn every bit of that historic run.

But after Saturday’s rout of Kentucky, the fog is clearing from the road to the unprecedented. If Georgia does make it to the Playoff, we’ll look back at last week’s win at Auburn as the turning point of the season.

The game where Smart and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo found out what they had in Carson Beck.

They may have thought they knew what Beck could do. They may have seen it in practice against their nasty defense, that legendary weekly Tuesday work that separates those with the will and want to win, and those who just like wearing the jersey.

They may have said, week after week during fall camp, that Beck was going to play well. They may have even truly believed it.

But not until Georgia was trailing in the 4th quarter on the road against Auburn, in danger of losing for the first time since the 2021 SEC Championship Game (remember that game?), that we saw just how important Beck would be in this rare season.

He made key throw after throw, and Georgia got out of the snake pit that is Jordan-Hare Stadium with a win and a new offensive outlook. How new, you ask?

Four of Georgia’s first play calls against Kentucky were throws, the last a 40-yard touchdown pass from Beck to WR Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint. The next drive: 7 plays, 7 throws, all completions — the last a 15-yard touchdown to WR RaRa Thomas, whose spectacular toe-tap catch initially was ruled an incompletion.

Drive No. 3: 8 of the 13 play calls were throws, the last a 5-yard touchdown pass to TE Oscar Delp.

It took some time for Smart and former Georgia OC Todd Monken to trust former QB Stetson Bennett, and when they did, the offense took off.

This offense under Beck is on the verge of soaring.

Beck isn’t Bennett. He’s not an overachiever who fit perfectly with 2 dominating defenses and played his best in big games.

Beck is a legit thrower with big-time arm talent, a quarterback so talented, he can carry a team — much less the offense. He has now thrown for more than 300 yards in each of the last 3 games, and more than that, the operation finally looks smooth.

From the play call, to the pre-snap read, to the protection, to route running, to throwing on time and with anticipation. Georgia now has an offensive rhythm, an identity.

Beck finished with a career high 389 passing yards against Kentucky and had 4 touchdown passes. He threw 35 passes, and missed on only 7 — including 3 drops.

It took a month, but the Georgia offense is now as dangerous as the Georgia defense. Which, of course, is bad news for everyone else.

For the first time this season, Georgia looks like it can win it all again.

The horizon to the unimaginable just got closer.