South Carolina scored the first big upset of 2019 with Saturday’s shocking win over Georgia in Athens.

The win was definitely surprising with the Gamecocks entering the game as about a three-touchdown underdog. With the loss, Georgia dropped all the way from No. 3 on the latest AP Poll to No. 10.

The loss immediately benefited Ohio State (No. 4), Wisconsin (No. 6), and Penn State (No. 7). All three teams jumped ahead of Georgia as the Bulldogs slid seven spots, but ESPN analyst David Pollack explained how the loss could also benefit other competitors when it comes to the College Football Playoff Committee.

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According to Pollack, bad losses are one thing that the Committee has hammered home over the brief history of the Playoff. That is something Ohio State is all too familiar with. Unfortunately for Georgia, Saturday’s loss was a particularly ugly one that now makes their resume cloudy.

Garrett Stepien with Dawgs247 shared Pollack’s comments from a segment on Tuesday’s College Football Live:

“Everybody behind them,” Pollack, a former linebacker (2002-04) said when asked about which team benefits the most from Georgia’s loss to South Carolina (3-3, 2-2). “Listen … I know we talk about, ‘Georgia controls their own destiny,’ but if I’m Wisconsin (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten), now I’m pretty excited because if I lose (Oct. 26) to Ohio State (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) and that’s my one loss, hey, that’s not a bad loss. If I’m Oregon (5-1, 3-0 Pac-12) and my one loss was in the opener to Auburn (5-1, 2-1 SEC), hey, that’s a good thing.

“They lost at home to South Carolina, to a pretty bad football team. The one thing the committee has shown us over and over and over again — if you lose to a bad team, they will take their pound of flesh. So I think anybody in the (CFB) Playoff race — listen, you’ve got Alabama (6-0, 3-0 SEC), LSU (6-0, 2-0 SEC), Ohio State. All those folks, they all benefit — Clemson (6-0, 4-0 ACC) — all benefit now with the (Georgia) loss being to an average team at home.”

The B1G race will be interesting with Wisconsin, Penn State, and Ohio State all facing some tough games between now and season’s end. But like Pollack pointed out, a tough loss to a ranked conference opponent will likely look better than Georgia’s loss to unranked South Carolina.