By my calculation, Georgia has the SEC's second-most favorable schedule with only two real challenging games (at South Carolina in Week 2 + Auburn between the hedges in November) and will be favored in both. There's not as many believers in Kirby Smart's encore as you'd expect, but I'm not buying it. Faced with replacing six elite-level starters, there's been a lot of talk concerning Georgia's defense as a mixed bag in 2018 coming off the most memorable single season in several decades in Athens.