Most of us have the SEC East title as our minimum threshold for a successful 2017 season. There are some other objectives along the way – winning in Jacksonville – but a lot of them move us closer to the goal of playing in the SEC title game. Barrett Sallee brings up an unpleasant thought which, if not corrected, would leave a big stain on the season.

No, Georgia Tech doesn’t have the street cred as big brother Georgia…but it has two wins over the last three seasons — both at Georgia — and is fresh off a 9-4 season. That’s enough to give the Yellow Jackets the edge over Kirby Smart’s crew for now.

Question that conclusion if you’d like, but it reminded me of one big to-do for 2017: unless Georgia can win in Atlanta, this year’s seniors would become the first Georgia class since the redshirt seniors of 2002 to finish with a losing record to Tech (*). It’s bad enough that they’ve already dropped two, but I don’t want to live in a world in which Nick Chubb has to carry that stigma around for the rest of his life.

(* – Carter was in. Jasper was down.)