FOX Sports' Joel Klatt doesn't see any team from the SEC as being "complete" like the Ohio State Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers, Oregon Ducks, and Texas Tech Red Raiders, his top four teams in his rankings.
Klatt was hesitant to include Texas Tech in that group, but at least believes there's a case to be made. Curiously, there was no mention of the Georgia Bulldogs, the No. 3-ranked team behind Ohio State and Indiana, from Klatt at all.
"Indiana crushed Purdue as expected, they're at No. 2, and then Ohio State at No. 1. Those three teams at the top are the most complete teams, they're the teams that have the least questions as opposed to the others. Maybe Texas Tech would disagree with that because, obviously, I think that's a pretty complete team," Klatt said.
Joel Klatt thinks UGA needed to answer questions like OSU did vs TTUN
Klatt heavily penalized the Bulldogs' slim 16-9 win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on a neutral field, believing that UGA provided more questions than answers barely beating a team that the Pitt Panthers throttled earlier in the season.
Klatt believes the Dawgs needed to definitively answer questions as the Buckeyes did against TTUN during a 27-9 road victory in "The Game."
"Ugly win against Georgia Tech. Tech has really been struggling, and then all of a sudden, Georgia has only 70 passing yards, 260 total yards against a team that has given up at least 34 points in three straight games. Just when I had come around the corner on Georgia, and I had started thinking to myself, that's the best team in the SEC, Georgia is the team, they're hard to kill."
"And then they play like that. Again, vulnerabilities. Sometimes these teams provide more questions than they do answers. And I keep going back to that from an Ohio State perspective: they provided a lot of answers against Michigan and throughout November, whereas a lot of teams throughout the country have provided us with more questions. And a performance like that from Georgia is unfortunately going to lead to more questions. Pitt just dropped 42 on that Georgia Tech team, and now all of a sudden Georgia is scoring 16? I still have them at No. 4, though," Klatt said.
Klatt has said in the past that the TAMU Aggies were a level of complete before their loss to the Texas Longhorns. Now, not a sniff of the 12th Man in most national conversations about the CFP. These narratives dissolve week to week depending on Saturday's results.
They're also drive by what games are broadcasted on what channel. The SEC, unlike the Big Ten and Big 12, isn't on FOX. Always take these hot takes with a grain of salt.