re: What's stopping Georgia fans from thinking "this could be our best team ever"

I haven't watched much of their 2023 games, but my first impression of the the Clemson spring game was that it was a relatively hard hitting scrimmage.

For fun I make a spreadsheet for Georgia football roster every year and made one for Clemson recently, still a work in progress. It's obviously not game analysis, but I like to get a feel for how talented and experienced the other teams may be, at least as judged by recruiting service scores and time in the system (a proxy for experience). Clemson's offense has been substandard the last couple of seasons, but they have a lot of talent, at least on paper. We'll se if Klubnik takes a step forward in his second season as a starter.

I know the consensus is that their OL play has been trending down, but I think it's possible they put a significantly better product on the field in Matt Luke's 2nd season. They appear to return every starter from 2023 except the center. Here are some numbers for comparison of their projected starting 5 OL vs ours (all are averages). The Yrs exp. is how many complete seasons they've been in the program, not starting experience (for example, True Freshman = 0 seasons completed).

Projected Starting 5
Team-----------247 comp----Yrs exp.----Wt.----Ht(in)
Clemson-------0.9531----------2.8--------314----78
UGA------------0.9468----------3.4--------318----77

Entire OL room (I believe both teams have 16 OL on scholarship)
Team-----------247 comp----Yrs exp.----Wt.----Ht(in)
Clemson-------0.9141----------1.94--------310----77
UGA------------0.9327----------1.50--------322----78

I'm not saying that Clempson's OL will be better than UGA's OL, but I do think they may be good. As an aside, the numbers for Texas' starting OL are very similar to Clemson's and Georgia's, although Texas' starters average 331 pounds if the numbers are accurate.