'3rd and Grantham' strikes again: Georgia converts 12 third downs, most since facing Todd Grantham in 2014 bowl game
All jokes aside, Todd Grantham is one of the best defensive coordinators in the SEC, if not the nation.
Say what you will about Florida’s defensive coordinator, he has successfully managed to turn the Gators into one of the SEC’s best defenses his two seasons in Gainesville and the job he did at Mississippi State in 2017 was miraculous considering how terrible that unit was before his arrival back in 2016.
However, despite all the good things you can say about Grantham, his defenses seem to consistently fall short in games involving Georgia, whether he is coaching for, or against, the Bulldogs.
The former Georgia defensive coordinator continued that trend on Saturday as the Bulldogs successfully converted 12 of 18 third down attempts against Florida in the Bulldogs’ 24-17 win over the Gators.
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How impressive are those numbers for Georgia? According to Jason Starrett of The Athletic, Georgia had not converted that many third down attempts since the team’s appearance in the 2014 Belk Bowl. In case you have forgotten, Georgia beat Louisville in the 2014 Belk Bowl.
The defensive coordinator for Louisville that season? You guess it.
Todd Grantham.
For whatever reason, “3rd and Grantham” continues to show up in games involving Georgia.
Saw it happen endlessly when he was our DC, and it drove me crazy with all the NFL talent he had. It’s nice to be on the delivering end every time the Dawgs have play him since.
Tried to tell em. Third and Grantham is alive and well.
Kinda like third and Chavis
Chaney’s fault
I think it’s because a lot of his packages include stunts and weird blitzed and all around just mixing it up to harry a QB. But Fromm is the smartest pre snap QB in the country, and I saw him constantly make adjustments at the line today that must’ve helped because he had all day to throw.
Plus, seemed like the zone coverage bit Florida quite a bit today.
Plus, that was one of the best pass protection games I’ve watched.
Florida’s gap penetration on rushing defense is insane, though.
3rd and Grantham is still better than Willie’s defense back in the day….I swear UT had a 3rd and 25 and he went soft zone and gave up 26 lol
Either way…..DAWGS ON TOP!!! 3 in a row!
Oh my word, yes! Willie Martinez was our worst DC ever!
Someone please hire this useless excuse for a Defensive Coordinator. Arkansas? Vandy? Rutgers? Whatever. Pretty sad when Im wishing to the Football Gods to have Randy F’n Shannon back. Worst. Zone. Defensive. Scheme. Ever.
Are you kidding me? Grantham is one of the best DCs in the country. He has turned a bunch of 3-star talent into a great defense at UF. Don’t blame his play-calling for great blocking by UGA in the passing game.
Grantham is hot georgia garbage. He has turned one of the best defences in the country into dogsh!+. A defense that was even better than the one that gave up, lmao, 28 to TEXAS. Face it Gatorbait, thats y’alls ceiling, losing to Texass in Nola on New Years Day.
You ok?
maybe the most overrated and overpaid coach in the u.s.—ga was smart to run him off
As long as Muschamp is a head coach the title of overrated is safe with him
Chad Morris is certainly trying to give him some competition over at Arkansas though. They both seem to really want it
Come on now you are what 1-6 against Muschamp, what does that say about every TN coach this decade including Pruitt.
That the Vols are an complete dumpster fire. But vols fans know that and know that its going to take a lot to turn them around. USC jr is just a slightly less dumpster fire.
What does that make fljr the team that struggled against SC the same SC team that beat GA, you know the guys that owned you this weekend?
Losing by 1 td is owning? lol ok. That makes UF above avg but not elite.
Then we must be elite since we beat GA? Keep trying Ben, you are taking in circles. Look at the stats rewatch the game GA was in control from kickoff against the gators.
UF almost completely shut down UGA’s run game. Even UGA fans will admit it was a good game and none of them would say they owned us. They controlled the game the whole way but they didnt own us. And how is being 4-5 elite? UGa had a bad game vs USC it happens. There’s been numerous cases where a good team loses a game they shouldn’t. Sometimes teams just match up well with a certain team or the better team comes out flat.
Kinda like how SC shut down the run and pass against FL right? And seriously almost shutting the run down, honestly if GA wanted to they would’ve run the ball against you, which in reality they did pass and run better than FL, FL proved they are not on GA’s level. By your rationale we would be elite which is asinine, you are claiming a 7 point loss as some sort of moral victory, you then try to flip the argument to downplay SC’s victory over GA, you can’t have it both ways, pick an argument and stick with it.
I agree we arent quite on UF’s level. and so your argument is that teams cant have a bad game? So the year clemson won the NC in 2016 and Pitt beat them means that Pitt was elite that year or that Pitt would have beat Alabama. Every team can have a bad game and its not like USCjr dominated UGA they barely won in overtime while losing in 6 out of the 8 main statistical categories since you love to keep bringing up stats. UF avg more pass yds per play and more rush yds per play vs USCjr and won in 4 out of the 8 the main statistical categories compared to USCjr winning in only 3 categories.
Matchup FL SC
1st Downs 18 16
3rd down efficiency 5-14 7-18
4th down efficiency 1-1 0-2
Total Yards 354 387
Passing 200 170
Comp-Att 21-33 17-35
Yards per pass 6.1 4.9
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Rushing 154 217
Rushing Attempts 30 43
Yards per rush 5.1 5.0
Penalties 4-25 5-60
Turnovers 1 1
Fumbles lost 0 1
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Possession 27:57 32:03
Here’s all the stats for the day, using your words FL got lucky and caught SC on a down day I guess