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Vandagriff was my always the horse i backed throughout all of this and part of me was hoping that Beck had such an amazing year that it was so clear that Vandagriff would get the starting job. From what I hear, he was leaning heavily towards transferring even before Beck made his decision and that Beck's return just made it a formality at that point. I hope he goes out and kills it against everyone except the Dawgs.

This article neglects to mention that Smith had over 2000 in all purpose yards average 21 yards a punt return which was part of the reason he won the heisman. 1800 yards receiving isn't going to win the heisman.

I'm going to push back against this - the logistics of schedules is not as easy as y'all seem to make it out to be. If they were ONLY scheduling conference games and didn't have OOC games to concern themselves with, I'd be with you but it's not that simple.

I think he's a day 2 pick. I think one of the more established teams will reach for him as the best receiver available at that point. I would love my falcons to get him in round 2, but I fear that might be too high for their taste and I don't think he'll be around in round 3. Who knows though, I'm not an NFL GM

Yeah agreed, if it's even a little drop off the fan base will get louder but I think Smart has a good grasp on what he's doing. So as loud as they may be, it won't matter as long as Smart and his bosses are satisfied (i.e. the boosters) I think you're saying the roster talent wise on offense should be better, and I agree with you, at least at the skill positions (RB/WR) with a proven line and a year of starting under Beck's belt, I think I can get down with the prediction that (like you said barring things out of his control that would take away talent) the offense should be top 5 if not #1. But what will we measure that by? Scoring output? YPG? REDZONE %?

Agreed with everything except whether it's win or walk. I don't think so. I think, unless there is just a catastrophic drop off or he wants to try head coaching/nfl, we have Bobo for the foreseeable future. If he holds par, we have Bobo.

I agree, I think teams who have earned BYES also deserve a home game.

I think some times as fans we're too critical when we don't know what's going on and Monken was a great playcaller, but he also had a few slow starts too. They didn't exactly Blow doors off what ended up being a rather mediocre clemson team. They didn't exactly blow doors off Kent St. And so on.... At the end of the day, the slow starts are on the HC. He may not be in every last meeting, but he is the supervisor and the last decision. If this year the slow starts are there, then maybe we can look at Bobo.

This comment reply isn't working properly, so this is in response to JTF in case it doesn't work. Going to hard disagree. Mims going down doomed any chance of playcalling working that game. None of Beck's top 5 targets were 100% outside of Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint and still maybe if not for that turnover they might win. I stated on an article before, Bama switched up their front when Mims went out and that was all she wrote. Watching that game from my lens as a former DB, I was licking my chops at the idea of Georgia being more aggressive when they got behind like you're implying. The only person that could have possibly been a threat was Rosemy-Jacksaint and all you have to do is play press on Bowers/McConkey and zone on the second level with two safeties covering outside of the hashmarks and there was absolutely nothing that could be done outside of Marcus just being as good as he was. Maybe his playcalling wasn't the BEST that game, but it wasn't from being too conservative and I don't think there's anything Todd Monken would have done better. Not without a James Cook type player and/or a QB with Bennett's mobility.

Idk why, but it is far more jarring to see 16 teams in this power ranking, than it was to see 14. I'm going to be honest, moving away from an amateur glorified development league and actually being a development league maintained by the schools isn't a bad model, especially if it provides consistency. Yeah sure it leans towards the big schools and blue bloods, but it already did before NIL and it is no different than actual pro leagues having benefits of big market teams over small market teams. I think the best thing for everyone..is moving away from the NCAA...at least as it pertains to football.

I take great exception to this unnecessary slight. I was born and raised in Georgia, but the bulk of my family is from Alabama and I spent school breaks and holidays there with my uncle who was a huge Alabama fan and watching college football with him meant the world to me. So politely eff off.

Serious question for Tide fans. Who is the Dallas Turner/Will Anderson on the team this year esp with Downs gone? Who is that go to receiver? Outside of Milroe what are your name brand players is I guess what I'm asking. Who at some point in the year will be a house hold name? This is the least I've known about a Tide team since I started watching college football in the 90s with my uncle (rip unc) when they had Andruw Zow and Shaun Alexander.

You know you can just attack THIS fan, considering a fanbase of millions of people can't possibly all be the same.

Tight End has not been phased out, it has been changed.

Last major win was 86***

It's not lame to you, and that's fine. It's lame to me. I wasn't posting it for people to agree with me. lol As for the Woods Nicklaus comparison, Jack's last major was 1986. Tiger didn't turn pro until 96. That was not by default. He was not going toe to toe with Nicklaus and losing major tournaments to him. Kirby JUST ...JUST loss to Saban barely a month ago. I think it's lame and the competitor in me would hate it to have to swallow that kind of loss without a chance to avenge it.

I personally am not glad Saban is gone. Sure it benefits Georgia off the field more than anything, because now Kirby doesn't have recruit against Saban's pitch. He can just sit his rings from Bama down as DC and his ring from Georgia as HC, and no one has a resume that can compare. But I am not glad he's gone, because in a 12 team playoff, facing Saban's Bama turns from anxiety inducing to excitement. I can just enjoy the game because it'll likely be a nailbiter and it'll likely only matter for seeding in the long run. Now? That game in Tuscaloosa seems less important for Georgia and more important for Bama. It benefits Georgia, sure, but I'm not happy about it. Being king by default is kind of lame.

As a competitor who has actually played at a high level that is false there is a point for a lot of players who have nothing left to prove And that’s the point they proved it on the field so why are we having this conversation . Please go elsewhere

I mean yes but that’s also relatively the same as it has been in terms of an off day. See Georgia in the seccg

The players also get an extra 30 days

The standard the GOAT hate Kirby will have the ghost of his losing record against Kirby but probably not a better coach to have that ghost from.

13-0 ** Conf champions And like Booches said...they did. They went 13-0 ...and didn't get in. The objective of the game is to win - they won every time. There was nothing to prove on the field because again...they weren't going to retroactively get into the playoffs. They beat Georgia and then what...get to be UCF? Claim a national title?

My only disagreement with the "you should have proved it on the field" is for what? Were they going to retroactively put them into the playoffs? No. Will it give them some weight for next year? No. All 12-0 Conf champions are getting in next year.

This might come off as backhanded, but this is as good as a list as anyone's. With the new leagues, and what happened to Washington, it's the SEC Big10 and everyone else. I think with the 12 team playoff, it's probably more wide open than ever and teams with depth will rise to the top. Just get in....

Agreed on the D-line, but I do think they take a step forward.

Also, I guess this is as good as place as any, but a 12 team playoff would have benefited Georgia greatly this year. Not just because they would have gotten in, but because they could have rested Brock and Ladd completely during the sECCG, giving them 3+ weeks to heal up. A healed Georgia is a legitimate threat no matter the seeding.

The best team probably didn't win, but the best team doesn't always win even in 'fair' playoff fields like the NFL and MLB. -shrug- All you can do is control what you can control, and Georgia didn't hold up their end of what they can control. Move on. As far as FSU is concerned, I don't get why y'all are upset about them being upset. They probably would have loss bad, but they went undefeated.

"Milroe is faster than Beck. That MI D would have done the exact same thing all day. Blitz, blitz, blitz." Yes, speed is the only thing that keeps a qb from being sacked. I'll remind every pocket passer in the NFL they shouldn't worry about sliding protection, or hot routing to take advantage of the space vacated by the blitzers. Boxster, thank you for a solid actual football analysis. We will never know how Georgia would have fared. Georgia should have beat Bama if they wanted to find out.

I'm still a skeptic about McCarthy. He didn't do anything last night that made you think HE'D win a game for you. Both teams looked sloppy which is disconcerting with a month of prep. I also think it's weird how Alabama put up near identical yards against michigan as they did against UGA (an 18 yard difference in favor of michigan) but Michigan is being lauded as clamping down Bama while Georgia is being looked as couldn't contain Milroe. I don't know. I'm not excited about this game but I'm rooting for the Huskies, because I can say go dawgs.

Yes, 14 points is a suspect defense. I'm glad my football knowledge has increased from reading this.