Faculty soccer formally begins this month.
Now that it is August, there are simply weeks to go till Week Zero arrives on Aug. 29, and for the reason that season is shortly approaching, we’re rolling out our preseason high 25.
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After revealing our groups within the again half of our high 25, we proceed our previews of the highest 12 groups within the nation with the clear favourite within the Massive 12.
Beforehand: Groups Nos. 13-25, No. 12 Oklahoma, No. 11 Alabama, No. 10 Texas A&M, No. 9 Ole Miss, No. 8 Texas Tech, No. 7 Miami
No. 6 Georgia
2025 file: 12-2
Odds to win nationwide championship: +900
Odds to make Faculty Soccer Playoff: -235
2025 in 100 phrases or much less
The Bulldogs might have simply been 2-2 by way of the primary third of the season. Earlier than dropping 24-21 at dwelling to Alabama, Georgia wanted time beyond regulation to get a 44-41 win at Tennessee. The Bulldogs trailed for a lot of the fourth quarter earlier than tying the sport with 2:32 to go.
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After that Alabama sport, Georgia bought sizzling. The Bulldogs reeled off 9 wins in a row. A pair have been shut, like a four-point win over Florida and a 16-9 slog towards Georgia Tech. Others, like a 35-10 win over Texas and a 28-7 manhandling of Alabama within the SEC championship sport, weren’t.
That SEC title earned Georgia a first-round bye and a spot within the Sugar Bowl. However the Bulldogs did not win a playoff sport for the second straight season as Ole Miss avenged a 43-35 common season loss with a 39-34 quarterfinal win.
Georgia and Gunner Stockton are 0-2 in playoff video games over the previous two seasons. (Photograph by Steve Limentani/ISI Images/ISI Images by way of Getty Pictures)
(Steve Limentani/ISI Images by way of Getty Pictures)
The QB
After taking on for Carson Beck within the 2024 SEC title sport after which beginning the Sugar Bowl that season, Stockton entered the 2025 season as Georgia’s undisputed starter. He completed the season finishing simply fewer than 70% of his passes for two,894 yards and 24 TDs with simply 5 interceptions. These 5 picks got here throughout 5 completely different video games.
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He additionally added 462 speeding yards and led the Bulldogs with 10 speeding touchdowns. Regardless of six video games with fewer than 200 yards passing, it was a season that was adequate for Stockton to complete seventh within the Heisman voting.
This yr, Stockton enters his second season as a starter with the ninth-best Heisman odds.
“He embodies what management is, and he does not do it by way of his mouth,” Georgia coach Kirby Sensible stated at SEC media days. “We will not get the man to speak half the time. When he will get across the gamers, they know. They see the toughness he performs with. He embodies our program. Simply love the whole lot he stands for.”
Stockton can be throwing to a number of latest receivers in 2026, but it surely’s exhausting to see his stats taking a step again. London Humphreys (18 catches) and TE Lawson Luckie (15) are the one two returning Bulldog receivers who had 10 or extra catches in 2025. There’s nonetheless loads of expertise although, and Stockton ought to shortly discover completely different receivers to belief.
KJ Bolden is Georgia’s main returning tackler. (Photograph by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Pictures)
(Kevin C. Cox by way of Getty Pictures)
Non-quarterback to observe
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Bolden is again for his junior season as Georgia’s high returning tackler. After he had 59 stops as a freshman, Bolden had 76 tackles in 2025 together with two interceptions and 5 passes defensed. He is been an integral a part of Georgia’s secondary since his first sport with the Bulldogs, and is the newest nice Georgia defensive again. Simply ask Sensible.
“I’m excited to see probably the greatest playmakers we have had over the past two years, KJ Bolden on protection, and he is accomplished a extremely good job.
“I feel again to a play he made on the Texas time beyond regulation sport [in the 2024 SEC championship game] that individuals do not discuss the place they ran a cross display to the again and he got here out of the highest. One of the crucial instinctive performs I’ve seen a participant make, and he made that as a real freshman.”
Eric Edholm’s NFL Draft prospect to observe
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The Bulldogs want to have a first-round choice for the tenth straight yr in 2027, and if it occurs, it could be a member of the secondary that retains the streak alive. There’s numerous love for Bolden in draft spheres, however Robinson might need a tad extra upside — and he performs a higher-priority place. Early in his redshirt freshman season, Robinson had a number of hiccups in huge video games towards Tennessee and Alabama, and Ole Miss stung him a number of occasions of their two conferences. However he confirmed numerous promise as a man-cover nook, being requested to close down among the finest receivers within the SEC final season.
With nice depth but additionally some uncertainty at huge receiver, we figured the most secure play on this spot was Frazier, who has been Georgia’s main rusher in every of his two seasons on the faculty.
Frazier rushed for 671 yards and eight touchdowns as a freshman earlier than operating for 947 yards and 6 scores in 2025. Can he be the staff’s main rusher for a 3rd straight season? No Georgia operating again has led the Bulldogs in three straight seasons for the reason that legendary Garrison Hearst within the Nineties.
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It would take 15 video games or so for Frazier to interrupt the 1,000-yard mark, nevertheless. We would not suggest reaching for a Georgia operating again in your fantasy draft. Sensible’s groups have relied closely on deep operating again rooms in recent times and this season can be no completely different. It’s important to return to D’Andre Swift in 2019 to seek out the final Georgia participant to hurry for over 1,000 yards in a season.
Greatest sport
We included the Oct. 10 matchup at Alabama because the Tide’s greatest sport of the season, so we figured we might go one other course right here. After Ole Miss’ win within the Sugar Bowl, Georgia has an opportunity to get even with the Rebels over the previous three seasons. Ole Miss received at dwelling in 2024 earlier than the groups cut up their two video games in 2025.
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It additionally might be an elimination sport for the SEC title relying on how issues go over the primary two months of the season. After taking part in Ole Miss, Georgia has Missouri, South Carolina and Georgia Tech to finish the season. That is not a cakewalk, however the Bulldogs also needs to be clear favorites in every of these remaining three video games.
Why Georgia is No. 6
Georgia remains to be one of many elite applications in school soccer. Nevertheless it’s additionally honest to say the Bulldogs are a notch under what they have been just some years in the past.
Working example: Georgia has averaged fewer than 5 yards a carry in every of the previous two seasons. A ruthless run sport that might get yards at will has tapered off since 2023. And after the offense averaged 7.3 yards a play in 2023, it gained six yards a play in 2024 and 5.6 in 2025.
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The protection has additionally given up over 17 factors a sport in every of the previous two seasons and the move rush generated simply 20 sacks in 2025. Sure, a Georgia protection sacked the quarterback simply 20 occasions over 14 video games.
That quantity can solely go up in 2026. Georgia’s protection has an actual probability to be nearer to the unit it was in 2021 and 2022 than it has been in 2024 and 2025 merely due to the expertise that gamers like Bolden, DE Gabe Harris and LBs Raylen Wilson and Quintavius Johnson have gotten over the previous two seasons. A house sport towards Oklahoma on Sept. 26 can be an excellent take a look at.
Is that this Georgia staff pretty much as good as those in 2021, 2022 and 2023? That is unlikely, however not inconceivable. And even when that top-end final result is not reached, that is nonetheless a staff that ought to be making its eighth consecutive look within the SEC title sport.
