Will Georgia make the College Football Playoff?

It’s the biggest debate in college football on Selection Sunday.

Bulldogs’ head coach Kirby Smart took his team toe-to-toe with No. 1 Alabama again Saturday and lost. Nevertheless, Smart believes his squad is among the top four teams in college football, despite two losses, and he joined SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt to explain why.

“It is really simple for me,” Smart said late Saturday night. “If this thing is really about the four best teams, and we are going to put the four best teams in the College Football Playoff. And you sat there at home tonight and watched that (SEC Championship) game, and you see us going against the team that was clearly No. 1 the entire season, and go toe-to-toe, head-to-head with those guys, and have the lead or tie for 59 minutes.

“To say that we are not in the top four? I think is an injustice.”

Those are strong words from Smart, and he expounded further.

“I think when you look at the number of bowl-eligible teams we were able to beat, the number of ranked teams we were able to beat, that speaks for itself,” Smart explained further. “At the end of the day, we have an offensive unit ranked in the top 15 in scoring offense and we have a defensive unit that is ranked in the top 15 in the country in scoring defense. That is what being a great team is about. Playing complimentary football and being able to do both of those.

“To look at it and say which four teams are the best, who are the four best teams. That is what we are trying to decide. I certainly think that the University of Georgia should be in that.”

Smart isn’t the only one making this case. The Bulldogs have a powerful believer in ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, too, who explained his reasoning on the ABC broadcast during the ACC Championship Game.

“I don’t think it’s about the four spot — I guess it is. For me, Georgia moves to No. 3,” Herbstreit said during the ABC broadcast. “That’s going to upset everybody but I’m sorry. I don’t think Georgia is out — I think they move up. If they are going to move at all, they are going to move up. I think Notre Dame will move down to No. 4.”

“I don’t get caught up in champions I get caught up in ‘best.’”

It’ll be interesting to see where this committee ranks the Bulldogs.