Georgia football is going to be lethal on offense this season.

Carson Beck and company will be nearly unstoppable if the programmers at EA Sports College Football 25 have it right. They gave the Bulldogs a 94 rating, tops in the nation.

Mike Bobo will be in a coaches’ box not sitting in front of a screen with a game controller in his hand from a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S.

"The only video game I ever played was Tecmo Bowl and Super Tecmo Bowl,” the Bulldogs offensive coordinator said Thursday. “I always played with the Oilers. Warren Moon was hell and Cris Dishman on defense, he could pick them off on anything in Tecmo Bowl.”

It’s easy to be bullish on the Bulldogs even with Brock Bowers, Ladd McConkey and Amarius Mims now in the NFL.

Beck, perhaps the nation's top quarterback, leads six offensive starters back from the starting lineup of the SEC championship game including linemen Tate Ratledge, Earnest Greene III and Xavier Truss and wide receivers Dominic Lovett and Dillon Bell. Georgia also added one of the top transfer portal additions, running back Trevor Etienne.

With Beck in his first season as starter, Georgia ranked fourth in the nation in yards per play at 7.26 and 11^th in passing at 305.3, according to cfbstats.com.

That was up from the Todd Monken national championship offenses of 2021 and 2022. Georgia averaged 6.98 yards per play in 2021 and 7.17 in 2022 when it averaged 295.8 passing yards per game.

Bobo’s 2013 offense in his first stint as offensive coordinator actually topped last year’s team in passing yards per game at 314.2, but after a year as an analyst in 2022 working with Monken, Bobo stepped in and kept the offense rolling.

Bobo, who turned 50 in April, was a finalist for the Broyles Award last season for the second time in his career.

“Football’s football,” Bobo said. “We’re really running very similar plays that we ran 27 years ago when I started coaching. It just might be out of different formations and different personnel and different guys."

Georgia co-defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson sees big differences from a few years ago. He was with Bobo at South Carolina in 2020 when he was offensive coordinator.

“You look at all the different things that he does here, and we didn't have all those motions,” Robinson said. “We had some of the fast huddle, huddle breaks, different things like that, but we didn't have all these speed motions and all these different things that we have here. It's a lot of moving parts, and it's very important to do that on offense in today's football because of all the different things that a defense is trying to do to you. The key to the drill when you're on offense is trying to make the defense talk, trying to get them to make a mistake. The easiest way to do that is by going fast and motion, and we do that better than anybody in the country.”

Georgia’s offense was stifled in its biggest game of last season, held to a season-low 321 yards and 5.35 yards per play. Beck was held without a touchdown pass and the Bulldogs mustered just 78 rushing yards in that 27-24 loss to Alabama in the SEC championship game that knocked the Georgia out of the playoff.

The Bulldogs came back and demolished a thinned-our roster of Florida State 63-3 in the Orange Bowl and Georgia finished fifth in the nation in points scored at 40.1 per game.

Bobo said this offense is still forming an identity but he likes the players’ “connection.”

On the field, he said the offensive line “has so many players coming back, that has played so much ball and been through so many camps, they’re leading the way, not necessarily the linemen but the whole team how to come to practice every day ready to go.”

Center Jared Wilson, next in line as starting center, “has missed some things,” Bobo said without specifying his injury.

“We’re just being careful with Jared,” Bobo said.

One of Georgia’s backup centers is Bobo’s son, Drew,

“He’s hell on wheels,” Mike said sounding like a proud father.

Bobo joined Drew and younger brother, Jake , a quarterback at Prince Avenue Christian, during summer downtime when they were playing the hot new football video game.

“It’s amazing, the plays and concepts of the defense,” Bobo said. “There’s a lot of good things in there.”

This year the Bulldogs have a daunting schedule that includes road games at Alabama, Texas, Ole Miss and Kentucky and a game in Atlanta against Clemson to open on Aug. 31.

“One thing in this camp is we’ve talked about the process and not the outcomes,” tight ends coach Todd Hartley said. “When you’re not thinking about the outcomes and you’re focused on the process, you don’t think about the playoff, you don’t have time to think about 12 teams, you don’t have time to think SEC and away schedule. You’re thinking about today.”

Thirty years after Bobo played in his first game as a Georgia quarterback, he’s still looking for ways to take the Bulldogs offense to yet another level.

“I tell the players all the time, you’ve never arrived, you’re always learning,” Bobo said. “That goes for us as coaches, too. We’re always trying to find new ways to do things, not necessarily new, but ways to do things better where we can be efficient on offense.”

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: What Georgia football offense looks like in 2024 under Mike Bobo