The 2016 Georgia Bulldogs finished 8-5 in 2016, going 4-4 in the SEC in a disappointing showing. UGA defeated TCU in the Liberty Bowl. Georgia opened the 2017 football season ranked in the top 20 and rattled off wins against Appalachian State, No. 24 Notre Dame, and Samford. The rest of the Bulldogs' schedule includes home dates with No. 17 Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina and Kentucky.
SportsLine simulated Georgia's regular season 10,000 times and predicts 8.5 wins. It has 30/1 odds to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Starting quarterback Jacob Eason suffered a knee injury in the first game, so Georgia turned to freshman Jake Fromm. But it might not be long until Georgia gets reinforcements at the QB position.
According to Dawgs247.com, whose recruiting team has been covering the Bulldogs for a decade and has the pulse of the program, the school is in the running for top quarterback prospect Justin Fields, who decommitted from Penn State over the summer.
"Fans are biting their nails bloody about Justin Fields," Dawgs247's Kipp Adams said. "He's No. 1 overall. He's the next Cam Newton. Georgia fans thought they were getting Trevor Lawrence, and he ended up going to Clemson, but now they can get a guy ranked ahead of him."
247Sports' Crystal Ball projections give Georgia a 26 percent chance of landing Fields, half of Florida State's chances. Still, Fields visited Athens three times in the first four weeks of the 2017 season.
Georgia also has the nation's top No. 1 running back, Zamir White, committed. Landing Fields would give them the top 2018 RB and QB prospects.
"It's Fields' home state school and his sister is committed to Georgia for softball," Adams said. "He'd be a pioneer quarterback in Athens. Even though he's an in-state guy, it'd be an upset if Georgia landed him because Georgia has never had a dual-threat QB. He'd be the first."
Georgia also landed the top two in-state wide receiver recruits for 2019: Dominick Blaylock and Jadon Haselwood. The team is poised to be an offensive juggernaut for years to come thanks to solid college football recruiting.
Georgia is also targeting a 2019 wide receiver, who could change the landscape of the SEC forever. Georgia is seen as an outsider to land him, but Dawgs247 knows how the Bulldogs are making moves to get him.
So what other big-name recruits will the Bulldogs land? And will Georgia land a big-time 2019 wide receiver? Visit Dawgs247 to see Georgia's top 10 recruits and see Crystal Ball projections for every single player, all from the site that's been exclusively covering Georgia football for the last 10 years, and find out.
Georgia Bulldogs football schedule 2017: News, odds and recruiting
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