10 things I'm absolutely overreacting to after Week 2 in the SEC
Almost everybody played on the same Saturday? What a concept.
Now, if only everybody could play well.
Looking at you (Georgia) and you (Clemson) and, dear heaven, especially you (Alabama and the SEC West).
Definitely not you (Coach Prime). Nobody’s stopping Team Transfer. Unless it’s Texas, of course.
Those are among the 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to after Week 2 in and around the SEC.
10. Are we really going to do this, Georgia?
The schedule is laughable. And, yes, you had ample time (read: money) to correct it. You chose to keep it soft.
In doing so, you opened yourself up to every bit of criticism/overreaction imaginable when you failed to score a point in the opening quarter against cupcake Ball State.
Carson Beck started 8-for-10. Excellent! For 48 yards. Ridiculous.
Brock Bowers had 1 catch for 3 yards.
Meet Mike Bobo … the only man on earth who can contain Bowers.
Georgia has scored exactly 1 TD in the first quarter this season. You know, largely the scripted plays that, in theory, coaches design specifically to exploit what they see on film.
We went through this last year, too. Georgia slept-walked through half of its regular-season games.
Ultimately, just like last year, it doesn’t matter how bland and boring this offense looks in September or October. Georgia is not losing.
But the first month is about style points, setting the tone and sending messages.
Georgia’s message so far? We can’t be bothered.
9. Meanwhile, Marvin Harrison reminded everybody he’s still Marvin Harrison
Ohio State was 220 miles southwest of impressive in Week 1. Scoring 23 points against Indiana is a moneyback guarantee to attract naysayers. Marvin Harrison had 2 catches for 18 yards, easily one of the weakest performances of his life.
How did Harrison bounce back in Week 2? With 4 catches for 122 yards and 2 TDs — in the first quarter against Youngstown State. He finished the half with 7 catches for 160 yards.
That’s a statement.
So is this …
Marvin Harrison Jr!!! H.I.M. 18 for 6 #GoBuckeyes?
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 9, 2023
A week after everybody overreacted to Ohio State’s QB situation, Kyle McCord rebounded with 3 TD passes covering 71, 39 and 28 yards to the Buckeyes’ stars before calling it a day.
Ohio State was a Harrison injury away from winning it all last year.
They have playmakers everywhere … and an offensive-minded head coach willing to show them off.
Take note, Georgia.
8. It’s over, Clemson
Clemson and FSU both played games after our Week 1 overreactions published, but the Tigers can’t escape the interrogation room this time.
Bottom line: They’re soft.
Duke pushed them around last week — something only said, much less accepted, under the boards at Cameron Indoor — and the Tigers weren’t much better Saturday against Charleston Southern.
Can we stop referring to Cade Klubnik as a 5-star QB? It’s becoming more obvious with every throw that he is closer to Cole Stoudt than he’ll ever be to Deshaun Watson or Trevor Lawrence.
Cade Klubnik???
— PFF College (@PFF_College) September 9, 2023
The Tigers don’t have a single difference-maker on offense. They are average across the board. Garrett Riley’s impact has been nonexistent.
(This following video voiceover is 100% fake. Swinney did not say this. A’ight? He did not say this. However, in addition to being funny, it also is 100% accurate in describing the state of Clemson’s offense.)
?SHOTS FIRED? pic.twitter.com/WHRbuNZayC
— Heavens! (@HeavensFX) September 5, 2023
Yes, the Tigers eventually pulled away in the 2nd half to a comfortable win. Pizza for everybody.
The scoreboard didn’t begin to tell the tale. These Tigers aren’t a Top 25 team. These Tigers will lose to FSU, probably Notre Dame and maybe Miami and UNC.
8b. It’s OK, Dabo … I found your next QB …
THE O-LINEMAN SCOOPED UP THE FUMBLE AND THREW A TD ? pic.twitter.com/GJuIhcEMz6
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 9, 2023
Oh, that’s right. You don’t do transfers …
7. It’s over for you, too, Alabama
Nobody gets the benefit of doubt quite like Alabama.
Well-deserved, by the way. They’ve owned the sport for the past 15 years, authoring a decade of dominance unlike any we’ve seen in the sport.
But even Wagyu steak has an expiration date, and Alabama’s reign started to turn 2 years ago.
Before the season, I picked the Tide to finish 3rd in the SEC West and somewhat jokingly suggested they might finish 8-4, although 9-3 is more realistic.
AP voters disagreed, obviously, and voted the Tide No. 4 in the preseason poll. Give another team that same roster, with the same vital pieces to fill and there’s no way it sniffs the top 10.
Maybe, now, reality will begin to set in.
You’re going to blame Jalen Milroe for Saturday’s blowout loss to Texas. That’s fine. More useful would be asking who in the world is coaching Alabama’s defensive backs. Oh, that guy? Never mind …
But it’s not Milroe’s fault Alabama doesn’t have any playmakers on the outside — and hasn’t since DeVonta Smith and Co., left. They also lack protectors on the edge and road-pavers in the middle. They don’t have a Derrick Henry-type to make everybody else look better than they are, either.
The recruiting rankings suggest there’s still plenty of talent. That’s all relative.
Alabama is held to the standard that it created. Its judged against its own.
The truth hurts, but this is the worst team Saban has had in the past 15 years.
6. Who did it better: Father or son?
I’m old enough to remember Prime and Andre Rison going at it like they were the undercard for Hagler-Hearns.
So you know I laughed when Prime’s kid, DB Shilo Sanders, got into the act Saturday against Nebraska.
Shilo sanders thinks he’s Ed reed lmao pic.twitter.com/fcnEU8VUVo
— John (@iam_johnw) September 9, 2023
(Ed Reed? Interesting comp, John, but that’s not it.)
John is old enough to know Coach Prime, but clearly doesn’t remember Prime.
I do. That’s why, as soon as Shilo finished his slap, I laughed and said I couldn’t wait to hear the sideline exchange.
Prime: Shilo, can’t do that! Selfish football. Can’t have it, son …
Shilo: But … dad …
Are you ready for the NFL season to start? It’s almost here.
Andre Rison and Deion Sanders gave us this memorable moment in 1994.
Prime added something a little later. #49ers | #Falcons pic.twitter.com/Sh8XeUZVAv
— The NBS Sports Hour (@NBSSportsHour) September 6, 2021
5. 5 numbers to know
- 29: That’s how many consecutive regular-season games Notre Dame has won against ACC teams after crushing NC State.
- 6: Shedeur Sanders’ TD total through 2 games. Colorado QBs threw just 10 TD passes in 12 games last season.
- 2006: That’s the last time a Notre Dame QB (Brady Quinn) was a Heisman finalist. That’s about to change. Expect Sam Hartman (10 TD passes already) to make it to New York.
- 3: Nick Saban losses to former assistants. (The past 2 have been by double-digits, by the way. … Times, they are a changin’.)
- 3: SEC West losses vs. nonconference Power 5 teams this season. Alabama (Texas), LSU (FSU) and Texas A&M (Miami) were picked to finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the West. RIP to the best division in college football. Also RIP to any hope the SEC had of getting 2 teams into the Playoff. This is Georgia or bust.
4. The 4 Playoff teams are …
1. Florida State, 2. Texas, 3. Ohio State, 4. Notre Dame
Wow. Wouldn’t that be different.
Texas is back, baby!
Georgia? Play somebody! Georgia hasn’t done anything that 30 other teams couldn’t do. And 10 teams probably would have looked a lot better. They’ll be in the top 4 eventually.
Notre Dame won’t be in the Playoff hunt all season. The Irish have the most difficult schedule in the country. They still play Ohio State and USC, and Duke and Pitt are tougher than expected, too. The Irish also get Clemson. Stay tuned on whether that still counts as a quality win.
The Big Ten will sort itself out and very well could have 2 teams again.
Unless the Pac-12 does.
If you were with us last week, Colorado was No. 4. Obviously a bit tongue-and-cheek, but the Buffs have as much starting talent at the skill positions as anybody ahead of them. If they beat Oregon in Week 4, they will be back in the top 4, and if they follow that up by beating USC, heck, they might be No. 1. Do I expect that to happen? Tell Prime I believe … anything is possible.
2. The annual question: Should I believe in Miami?
So much talent. So little to show for it.
That has described Miami football since it joined the ACC. Go figure that the year the league abandons divisions, it looks like we might finally, actually get that FSU-Miami ACC title game that was an annual expectation when the Canes arrived in 2004.
The U looked vintage on Saturday. Big plays, bigger hits, athletes everywhere and an absolute playmaker at QB.
Tyler Van Dyke threw for 374 yards and a career-best 5 TDs. He is just the 6th Canes QB since 2000 to throw for 5 TDs in a game, and just the 3rd to do so while also topping 350 yards.
So, yeah, it’s been a minute since we’ve seen that kind of performance.
And, yet, there’s still this nagging fact I can’t shake: Miami has been the biggest tease in college football for 20 years.
Don’t believe me? Starting with the 2004 season, the Canes have been ranked in the top 14 in 12 different seasons — and they have finished in the top 10 … exactly zero times in that span.
They’re right there until they aren’t.
One loss turns into 3. Over and over and over again. In fact, Miami has lost at least 3 games every season for 19 consecutive seasons.
They’re about to enter the Top 25 again after their impressive win over No. 23 Texas A&M.
I want to believe. College football is better when the Canes are in the mix.
But fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 20 times and shame on The U.
1. So, let’s talk Quinn Ewers vs. Arch Manning in 2024 …
Every time Quinn Ewers made a big play Saturday — and he made many — my mind sped ahead to this offseason and what might be.
Ewers is a redshirt sophomore. He’s eligible for the 2024 NFL Draft. He just cemented his legacy with a statement performance vs. Alabama. No matter what, he’ll always have the fact he joined Joe Burrow (and a few others) as a QB who knocked off mighty Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
He might lead Texas to a Big 12 title, a Playoff spot and find himself in New York at the Heisman ceremony.
Then what? Does he declare for the NFL Draft? Or does he return to Texas and engage in the greatest QB battle in college football history?
I root for the best story, and Ewers vs. Arch Manning would be an even bigger story than Jalen Hurts vs. Tua Tagovailoa — and more surprising, too.
I think most assumed Ewers would play OK this season but eventually cede control to Manning, either during the season or in spring ball, with Ewers likely hitting the portal.
Saturday night changed that narrative.
This is Ewers’ team. This is his time.
Maybe he finishes with such a flourish that returning next year becomes a moot point. Or, maybe Saturday night was just a moment, his greatest moment, and a couple of subpar performances lead to Manning taking over.
But if this is just the start of a 2-year run — and it very well could be — I can’t wait to find out who wins the Texas backup lottery in the portal.
I bet Nick Saban can’t, either …
You want UGA to show you something?? Haven’t they won like 100 games in a row? I’m pretty sure that, until they lose, they’ve proven enough. Bama always started with cupcakes during their run, and was still ranked at the top. Georgia deserves the same.
…and we were supposed to be playing Oklahoma in Norman yesterday.
If you schedule low, you get little glory and a closer eye on how you look winning. So far, they haven’t looked impressive winning compared to teams like USC, even with the easier schedule. This is fair but to get better, you need to be challenged more. Especially in years where you have a new QB, new OC etc and no real heroes running the ball. So far teams that have fallen suddenly after playing depth-advantage football rather than skilled blowout first half performances are: Bama, LSU, A&M. They were great until they lost. UGA could be primed for such a thing if we don’t seem them do something more from a skill standpoint rather than just a second half depth advantaged standpoint.
Hard to take much away from the Georgia game. After all, they were playing the Ball State game plan. Now do the Vols first half against Austin Peay. Austin Peay lol
Tennessee is a pretender. No surprise they struggled with Austin Peay.
USC gave up 28 points to San Jose State. How impressive.
You might want to worry about your Vols. It’s not looking promising.
They look better offensively. At least exciting and wowing NFL scouts on offense. No one comes to a UGA game, scouts included looking at UGA offensive players. lol Beck included.lol Paint drying.. lol But sure, you pull the D card little cuz and that looks pretty boring too lol.
I’ll take boring National championships over exciting Orange Bowl wins vs a Terrible Clemson team any day of the week lol
Last year, at least you had some, SB swag at QB. It was garden nome must watch TV.. lol This year, it looks solemn, slow, boring, like a funeral. What died? The excitement of watching your team..lol. it will cause you to lose in the regular season. My guess is against AU, Ole Miss, or TN but someone will beat you. Maybe more than one.
SupraDawg Clemson 22 isn’t Clemson 23. It’s like ya know, a different season and teams change and you wonder why we feel your a barber college state lol. And secondly, that’s just it. You don’t even look like your typical boring offense from last year. This looks much worse and it’s concerning people. When you see this, it equals losses. And oh, your not winning a natty this year by a mile lol. You look worse than the offenses that have lost. LSU, Bama, A&M. That’s just a fact. AU is playing more inspiring offense and against better teams. You look like you have depth and that is the only way you seem to be winning games and in the second half of games. We are waiting to be impressed because new OC, new QB isn’t showing much.
What if Tennessee had a Defense. They don’t of course, but what if they did. Perhaps you don’t give up 63 to SC and make the playoff (but you didn’t need that Georgia win LOL). But you don’t have a defense, so you did and got to beat up on a terrible Clemson team in a meaningless consolation bowl. Sad really
SupraDawg LOL oh man, you didn’t come close in the first half vs Ball st compared to what TN did to them lol. Even with the vanilla scheme. And here’s what’s sad. You gave them your best offensive scheme and it looked, sad. No thrilling passes or great downfield shots. At best, it looked, sleepy, at worst it was laziness or vanilla offense done boringly. The stats aren’t there either compared to TN’s performance against relatively the same team one year removed. Against AP, who had a more dynamic offensive scheme than you’ve ran all season, we only did bubble screens, a couple of RPO’s, virtually nothing vertical and anchored by a boring run game.. But at least people tuned in to see what we could have run, even though we didn’t. No one tuned in to see UGA win the second half with depth lol. Beck is a little more exciting than watching paint dry. But notice you can’t disagree with anything I’ve said. Your not playing dynamic offense of any kind and neither was LSU, Bama or A&M but it looked better than what ya’ll be doing on offense before their loss. lol
Yeah, you had to break out your whole playbook to skate by Austin Peay lol. We all noticed. We don’t play the sort of game Tennessee does. No team that wins titles does. These were basically scrimages. Look GWhite, none of what you say matters. Georgia will get the benefit of the doubt because when they get to the playoffs, they win. It was good to see the Joe Milton we all know and love on display though lol. If Austin Peay rattled him I wonder how the swamp will treat him.
SupraDawg “we pulled out our whole playbook”. lol Here is where I always make you look dumb. You have no clue what we run offensively. Did you see us run any island formantions, double WR stacks, or many vertical downfield shots? No, this means your an idiot or a liar if you think we did..lol We ran three things all night. Bubble screens, the run game and an occasional RPO. That’s it. No real routs because we weren’t doing vertical passing last night. You all are pulling out most of what you have. We know Bobo and your running the same boring offense. Barely passing the ball. Check, run sweeps, check and that’s pretty much it. Pretty much all you were running last year with a better running QB. Your a team that lacks much depth advantage vs the teams that lost. But they still lost even with better offenses than UGA’s. Joe wasn’t rattled by PA, he just had 4 overthrows and the WR’s dropped their share. The game was never in doubt and we did nothing from the playbook. Since this is your first year watching football, I advise you to learn the schemes of other teams. So you know why they happen. Stats as well. The D is solid, and played as advertised. We ran the ball better than UGA has and it was solid as well. Austin Peay never rattled him. Look at his stats. Solid but not great. He’s consistent that way. We’ll run a very different scheme against UF next week. You will run the same thing until it gets you beat..lol And it will. That offense of yours dosen’t look like it could beat AU. The D dosen’t look like it could stop many decent offenses. Why? Your not winning games in the first half and not by outstanding offensive plays. I don’t think you’ll score 25 against our D, maybe 25 but nothing to make us think you have the passing offense or run game to do much more than that. Your Bama, LSU and A&M before their losses and they looked better offensively. Your fans are concerned and now your getting clowned for it by SDS lol. Take the hint.
All those words. and yet…
1998
6 in a row
27-13
This is the guy that seriously said Tennessee lost to UGA last season intentionally. Not that it was in doubt, but after that he lost any ounce of credibility concerning football analysis.
Class of 98 We blew them out because we won by 14 right? Moron..lol You win over TN at home by 14 and it’s a blowout, we win by more than that over PA and it’s a struggle. Does your wife know your this dumb? lol Again, we didn’t run anything bubble screens and the run game. We could have only ran the ball and won by a lot more but we have a fear of showing our playbook. It’s boring football sure but you do it every week and what is sad is your showing us your full playbook and still look more boring than watching The View. lol
So are you saying last year’s Vol team is basically Austin Peay?
Florida is gonna beat y’all.
As usual.
SupraDawg LOL. No. And only an idiot would say that. Does Austin Peay win 11 games and play in the SEC last year? Did they lead the nation in scoring? No. But your from GA so this idiocy isn’t surprising. lol. UF is gonna beat us? lol. anything cna happen in a game but from what I’ve seen, UF will beat you before they would beat TN. You all look slow, and unsure of what your doing offensively. We’ll run and roll with a vanilla scheme for a cupcakes and make some mistakes by doing that. You’ll run the same offense and will be stumped on why it’s not working. This will happen. Your first half stats are sad and that is when you measure a depth advantage team. Someone meets you at the lines, you’ll lose. And your line doesn’t look that impressive compared to even last year. Especially defensively. You have the losing sickenss. It starts with uninspiring offensive and defensive play in the firt half of games. Your QB is about as confident as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. He dosen’t look at good at Milroe, Daniels or Weigman before their loses. You don’t seem to have much speed on the perimiter on either side of the ball. No eye popping stats in the fist half. These are concerning. And imma tell you both like I told Bama, LSU, A&M and SC. These issues will cause you to lose. You can laugh at me if you can get to the SECCG and win again in the post season if you get to the post season and playoffs. But OSU would beat you by 30 just from watching you both closely. And I’d still take Texas and Bama over UGA at this time. You also don’t have a Nico on the bench, nor does Bama or A&M. So it’s Beck or bust..lol So far your being schemed to sleep by Bobo and you don’t even realize it.
Yawn, count your stats GWhite. Some teams prefer championships. Not that you’d know
Does sds pay you by the word gwhite? Lol still worried more about UGA than your vols…
Good God this dude is delusional.
@gwhite wasn’t the spread -62 in the UT vs Austin Peay game?
I agree they have had a horrible schedule… But they will at least get to play Tennessee, Ole Miss, and, if they make it again, the SEC Championship game. That’s a solid 3 games, in addition to bowl teams like Kentucky and SC… while not as difficult as schedules in years past, it’s still more difficult than an average schedule on any given year.
An average non-SEC schedule I should say.
Maybe UGA is playing the “soft” strategy that you explained UT was using last year.
gwhite. This from a Tennessee fan – after that first half against Austin peay?
Timing is everything…
Should we schedule Austin Peay instead?
UGA’s record speaks for itself.
But 8, Eight, Ocho Pac-12 teams ranked in the Week 2 AP Poll? Who knew?
Pac-12 6-3 vs. P5. SEC 3-6. And 2 of the SEC wins came in close games vs. Cal and Arizona.
How did Pac-12 ‘leadership’ screw this up?
Dawg fan here.
Feels like the author has a bit of dislike for UGA.
You think?
“Feels like the author has a bit of dislike for UGA.”
Substitute author for ChatGPT.
Nah, he’s just speaking the truth.
He’s from Florida. A gaturd fan.
Yeah, I wish UGA could have played that tough Sooner team that limped past an always tough SMU team.
There are plenty of quality teams left to play. It’s an SEC schedule. Right?
Wow! I agree. Hate UGA much? I get the whole Danny Kanell, SEC hate, click bait thing but wow, he hammered UGA throughout the article to get his responses….and I obviously fell for it by posting this. One thing I know is that I won’t click on any more of his articles and two, it’s a long season and a lot more will happen to shape it up. He did preface the article by saying these were overreactions though. Just another lazy writer trying to take a stick to the hornets nest….and it will work.
Please point me to the P5 team that had both the availability and willingness to schedule Georgia last minute…QUICKLY
Haha that’s funny right there..
There were none. Zero. All P5 teams had a full 12-game slate already contracted when UGA and Oklahoma got the word from the SEC offices about the series being cancelled. It’s even surprising that each were able to find an FBS G5 team to fill the vacant slot. They both scheduled AAC teams to make do, but I never read diatribes about Oklahoma “settling” for SMU over Georgia. I thought the AAC was the new Power 6?
But Chris knows this. Never let facts get in the way of a chosen narrative.
Scratch that last part about the AAC – I was thinking of the UAB game in 2 weeks. But still, you don’t see Oklahoma getting hammered for scheduling SMU in Georgia’s place.
The knock from the article isn’t about who you been playing, but rather how uninspired you have looked playing them. lol. I mean zero points for an entire quarter against Ball St. No real run heroes. You appear to win games by depth advantage alone in the second half. They want to see some stats son and in the first half that jump out at you.. lol. They are bored watching your boring offense and raise eye brows when teams can run on you.. They want to be, “entertained”. If your going to play low schedules, look good or better doing it. Sure winning games is all that counts but you are also in the entertainment business for the pollsters. Also a lack of these good stats in the first half will end itself to doubt whether or not UGA 2023 could beat the better teams. My guess, so far is no. You haven’t looked better than Bama, LSU and A&M before their losses. So the doubt or question is a fair one.
You didn’t score a TD or lead Austin Peay until there were 20 seconds left in the first half. And you ended up winning by what…17 points? At least Georgia used their depth advantage. Sit down GWhite, you are drunk again.
SupraDawg But we scored doing virtually nothing from the playbook and you haven’t played a team that ran a tempo spread like PA did. 17 is still a blowout lol. Right? I mean if 14 is right? We looked more dominant against them of course as we should than we did against Clemson. The difference is UGA is schemeing itself into losses. Your QB has played two games and still looks like a freshman starter. The bench years did little to help him. At least at this point, we aren’t seeing it. The schemes your running are which you think is dynamic is more vanilla than what we ran last night. That is what SDS is saying to you. Do more, otherwise we are going to have some real doubt about this team. You say drunk sir thinking your depth alone, which is overrated will save you. It won’t. You mad bro cause you know I’m right. And your arguments vs mine are kindagarten lol. Your own fans are telling you these things and so is SDS. lol Get a clue, stop abusing glue. lol
@SupraDawg you obviously didn’t watch the game. Tennessee didn’t unload the playbook at all. They ran the same 2 plays over and over and over again. About as vanilla as you can get. We’ll see how the game goes in Gainesville this weekend.
GoVols.. maybe you guys ran the same two plays because Joe Milton can’t be trusted to do anything else? I mean why would you keep doing the same thing over and over while you were losing to Austin Peay?
He didn’t say power 5. Tulane isn’t a P5 team but Ole Miss still played a ranked opponent Saturday. I’m sure UGA could have found more relevant teams than Ball St and UT Martin.
When did Ole Miss schedule Tulane? My bet is that game was scheduled years ago, since that’s exactly how scheduling is done. Very few teams enter a calendar year with an open spot in the season opener.
Beck has been jealous of all the attention Bowers has gotten and is putting him in his place, reminding him he is nothing without a QB to feed him. Blobo is a clear downgrade from Monken, but the cause here is Beck and his petty resentment of a far superior team mate.
Any OC choices available would have been a downgrade from Todd Monken.
He was at the top of the food chain.
What a silly comment. Forget the fact that Kirby said they were going to try to get more receivers involved this week – and that Bowers dropped one pass, was well-defended on a touchdown pass, and got plenty of action last week – and that Beck wasn’t calling the plays. Somehow you can read Beck’s mind and conclude that he’s jealous? If you’re going to make things up, at least make them sound more reasonable.
Guess you don’t understand sarcasm. I thought his comment was funny as sheet.
Just like when someone said Kirby was taking the Northwestern job cause he needed a challenge.
Don’t take this stuff so seriously and enjoy good intelligent sarcasm when you see it
It’s just that this UGA team does not look better than Bama, LSU, A&M before their losses.lol And the only reason maybe it hasn’t happened yet is because you haven’t played anyone. What they want to see is skilled passing and here you all are cheerleading for Beck to not turn it over and complete a handful of passes while the run D and run game look average during the first half of games. Before the second half your depth wins the game. BORING lol. Looking boring without the stats in the first half will bring about, “talk”, questions, potential concerns. You can brag about the win, but not about how you looked winning the game. lol. Who on UGA’s offense right now is on anyone’s first round radar? Not Beck! Not the RB’s. And only Bower who remembers the glory days of 13 TD’s receiving in a season. At this pace, he’ll have 4 on the season.lol
Wonder if this “uninspired” UGA team would beat Austin Peay by more than 17 points? You are right…we really don’t play anybody. Perhaps we should replace the Vols on the schedule with a team that has the depth to put away Austin Peay
Georgia has more consensus national championships in the last 20 months than Tennessee has in the last 70 years.
Lol
Class of 98 lol you have 3 total tard. lol Stop, your freebasing again.. We beat you for 50 year stretches.. lol. You can’t wish your way to having a rich football tradition. You all don’t. Your placeholders every few decades or more and only twice at two time periods did you matter. In the early 80’s and since 17. That’s it. That’s your storied football tradition. Whoopi lol. Now you look more like the in-between teams that won nothing. I want to ask Beck with his dark rings under his eyes, “son how many dead have you been dead”.. lol and quite sure something about the shape of his head is ..off. lol
Beck’s eyes, looks like he’s a walking zombie lol. 3 days dead..lol He moves like a walker, lead by a typical Bobo offense.. Sloooow. I would be shocked if your passing scoring offense get ranked higher than 50th. I had hopes it would come alive but so far, we ain’t seen nuthin.
As far as UGA, come out flat and vanilla against the coots and it could be a long day. Come out like you should, and Chick-fil-A doesn’t have enough oil to fry it all up.
It does appear that it could be a down year for the SEC… aside from GA but since they don’t play anyone.. ahem… I guess we’ll just have to wait till next year when big bad Texas gets here. Life is a lot easier when you don’t have to play Bama LSU GA TN (insert your favorite SEC team here) every year
My my my Chris Wright…you cut n paste n modify an old pos Hayes article, add in a few arbitrary antagonistic barbs, post it on SDS, and call it a day. Congrats, your journalistic abilities and integrity are only exceeded by one pos…
So Georgia plays a MAC team, wins by 42 and something is wrong. OSU plays an FCS school, scores 35 and wins by 28, and Georgia should take notes on OSU???
Got it.
Don’t try to figure out this moron writer’s reasoning. It’s based on Georgia angst and bad writing.
I never heard of Chris Wright but he obviously went to the SDS school of writing incompetence. His whiny tone implying that GA, Ala and Miami needed to show him something. Somebody show him the door
YSU played what I called the Indiana strategy. With the new clock rules one thing teams can do is just run the clock and keep the opponents offense off the field to make the game look like less of blowout. That impacts teams with offenses like Ohio State and Tennessee. Im assuming the same thing happened with the UT game? That said I think this is Ohio States worst team since 2011 when they had half their stars suspended for getting free tattoos and I think right now we are the 3rd best team in the Big Ten and have no chance of making the playoffs.
No, Tennesse just didn’t play well. Don’t try to church it up.
We played great offensively but this wasn’t a game we were going to show much. And sometimes you get complacent in catching and with a few over throws. Statistically, it was a solid game. But our solid game is better than most teams good games. We barely threw the ball but ran it at elite level. It’s a trade. To work on other parts of our game, we sacrifice by not showing the playbook or doing anything beyond vanilla. Football 101. Fans expect to be entertained but you can’t always run as much of the playbook as you would like to see. Plus their coach was way too hyper not to be on something.. lol Don’t worry, your dud game is coming, apart from every first half you’ve played this year. lol
It’s amazing. Huepel was highly critical of their offensive performance, clearly he was wrong.
Also, teams can’t run the clock if your D doesn’t let them. The most a team can run off the clock is around 2 and a half minutes…unless your D can’t get them off the field.
And teams can’t run the clock if your defense gets them off the field. Yours didn’t.
You aren’t wrong but either way the game is going faster. YSU had 234 yards of total offense but had the ball 8 minutes more than Ohio state did. We didn’t score any points in the 4th whenever are backups were playing. I guess that’s concerning but i think we have to change our perspective of what a blowout is with the new clock rules
OSU has shown more offensively than UGA. They beat UGA by 30 imo if they played tomorrow. They aren’t knocking anyone off the ball. Aren’t running over people and are lobbing occasional slow lobs downfield and not enough of them. The new clock rules help TN. If we get up early and scheme to do so, the games will be over earlier in the 4th if you don’t have a good passing scoring offense. Exactly what we’ve seen so far this season. You don’t know football if you think TN ran their normal playbook against Austin Peay. We ran bubble screens all night and ran the ball. No real formations, no double WR’s stacks or island, nor even schemed to throw the ball downfield as an RPO. We played 4 on the D line for practice to guard the secondary and we did good doing so. That was all this game was for. We could have ran it all night only and won by 30 or 40. We needed a game to run the 4 D and guard the secondary while shutting down the run. WE did so. UGA lost a lot on the D and gained a very typical boring OC with a new QB. You saw what happened to LSU, Bama and A&M. They lost but had a better offense than UGA seems to have.
Hey, UGA dudes, take it as a compliment. Trust me, I would much rather people were taking shots at my Tide this week instead of talking about how the dynasty is dead…again.
Only an idiot judges a team based on a schedule that hasn’t been played. Only a total moron bases his CFP predictions on an unplayed schedule.
The bar for writers here is so low it’s pathetic. Junior high level writing.
Is Texas really back? Let’s not pretend that Alabama is the same, good defense for the most part, but bad discipline and terrible QB play isn’t your traditional Alabama team here of late.
They beat Bama at home. That is a big deal.
I will tip my cap to Texas for their win because it was certainly no fluke. They whipped our tails all over the field. However, any of our championship teams would have run that Horns’ team off of the field by at least two touchdowns. Our problem is now trying to get this team to even resemble any of those championship teams. Roll Tide!
This is comedy. Not sports journalism.
Enough with the “Harrison injury” stuff. He couldn’t withstand a legal Dawg hit which happens to be part of what it takes to win a championship. Obviously he/they weren’t up to it. You sound like Nick-scuse. Maybe if UGA had Nolan Smith or if or if . . . If you are going to write about football, please understand all of the realities of the game. Injuries happen. Deal with it.
Ohio State is sponsored by Charmin Ultra Soft
every opponent is a cupcake when you’re at the top
So Tillman Tech is soft but a few points later saying Notre Dame is a playoff team and still have to play Tillman Tech. Which is it are they soft or a threat. Another horrible writing piece.
Georgia hate and SEC fatigue are in full swing apparently. What a bunch of hyenas, I hope they don’t get their undies in a wad when the 12 team playoff next year features five SEC teams! While there is certainly more parity in the sport what with the transfer portal and nil until a different conference starts an almost 2 decade run of championships with five different teams represented they need to pipe down with the SEC is done talk.
Kirby has said that the coaches are purposefully trying to spread the ball around and not just throw it to Bowers. that is probably both to keep him healthy and to develop chemistry between Beck and some of the younger receivers and backs.
These first two games were treated like scrimmages. Our first real game of the season comes on Saturday.
Lets hope we play like a #1 team should play and our QB shows us some life.
One maybe-over-reaction for your short-shrift file: ESPN+ was not even picked up on two local sports-restaurant chain feeds this week (not even on their dial-up list).
I won’t name names but one is famous for breasts and one for wings.
As only the most important games ended up on on the Tinkerbell-owned cable and network’s a-list, the rest of the SEC might not be getting their money’s worth in exposure; that is, if one might want a beer and a burger with some buddies.
ESPN has been driving the over-all cable — now streaming — cost inflation for decades, regardless of programming type. That said, Notre Dame being married to NBC seems more like a weird ideological affair, like Mother Theresa dating Nietzsche; but ND’s pretty good this year, so maybe one will redeem the other.
Cost will always drive business (and home budgets as well) so there’s a multi-paradoxical lesson here. Does anyone know what it is? Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?
After all that happened yesterday, you lead with a complaint about UGA winning by 42?
Um ok.
This is sort of a “dmned if you do, dmned if you don’t” scenario. Yeah, leading with a complain about winning by 42 isn’t good, but neither would the media heaping endless praise and worship over a Georgia team searching for #3. I’m happy the sports media is fixated on their shiny new object in Colorado. I really am. Let them deal with the adulation. We need to chop wood.
A reminder that Chris Wright is a biased FU ‘turd, and like all Floriduh fans right now he feels the need to take his limp-d–k energy out on actual winners like Georgia because his life is so full of failure.
It’s okay, Chris. Sunbelt Billy just needs seven or eight more years to turn it around in Jortsville! I just wonder how many more titles Kirby will have won in that time?
You all are boring to watch lol. Even more so than last year.. SDS and your own fans are dropping obvious hints and your just not getting it..You won’t win any for another 40 years. The rona is over and Bobo is now in charge of the offense. lol. Your QB looks 3 days dead, rings under his eyes and slow passing.. Your run game lacks any real studs in the RB room. You look worse than A&M, Bama and LSU before they lost. From a QB standpoint, Beck doesn’t even look as good as Rattler.. lol You got plenty more to worry about than the guy that wrote the article..
“Boring” wins back-2-back national titles.
“Exciting” struggles to beat FCS Austin Peay.
Just how hard was it raining yesterday, gwhite? Monsoon-levels of rain?
Coming from the same clown who claimed Bennett was to short and couldn’t throw last year…and called Monken a idiot …gwhite you need new material…or better yet worry about the problems the vols have…UT has looked no better beating their cupcakes than UGA has…
So.. You guys know that the point of this article is things the writer is “overreacting” to.
Thank you! It seems everyone missed that part
Blame the useless tool Sankey for the game not being played at all between OU and UGA yesterday, not UGA. A one time neutral site game in Memphis, New Orleans, or Dallas could have easily been done.
Is Dominic Lovett hurt or is he being grossly underused? I don’t think he transferred just for 7yds/catch and 25yds/per game. Does Kirby Smart even know what he has there?
Ohio State was not a Harrison injury away from winning it all. Georgia still could’ve won the game. If not, TCU beat Michigan so they could beat Ohio State.
Chris Wright. “Ultimately, just like last year, it doesn’t matter how bland and boring this offense looks in September or October. Georgia is not losing.
But the first month is about style points, setting the tone and sending messages.”
That first month point is true, if you’re a team who needs the attention, as in Colorado or any team who’s building a culture, rebuilding a program and trying to attract blue-chip players.
Kirby is not trying to score style points in the first month. Kirby is getting a lead and resting – protecting and pacing his starters for a 15-game season.
He’s also building depth for this year and beyond at a light-speed pace.
Kirby is not playing for the first month, or even for a season. Kirby’s playing the long game. Kirby’s thinking 3-4 seasons ahead. Why wouldn’t he be. It’s working.
I guess, you didn’t stay up late and watch USC then, obviously… Cause, THERE is your #1-Team in The Country!!!! Hands Down. ?. They. Are. LOADED. Looked ? exactly like, THE USC of ‘old.’ If, healthy… They’re walking away with it. PERIOD. End of Story. NOBODY is touching THEM… NOT this year.
Those ‘question marks’ (?) were supposed to be the ‘100%’ emoji – don’t know why they didn’t appear here on this website, since they typically do elsewhere!?
Even as a die hard gator the Georgia overreaction is as big as they come.
“But the first month is about style points,”…
uh, it’s really not. Do you think the “committee” is gonna care, in December, if UGA beat Ball St. by 40 or 60? Such a stupid take.
Ohio State hasn’t looked dominant at all, so based on what are they considered a playoff team at this point in the season? In fact, it’s not really possible to determine playoff teams in September, let alone the 2nd week. The “analysis” throughout this article is really quite bad.
F this clown writer who is actually a Gator fan. That’s why I always use an ad blocker on this site. I suggest using the Brave browser. It’s free and has a built-in ad blocker that works great on this site.
You sound like a bitter little high school girl here Chris
Bleaux Me. This site was founded by a Gaturd fan who hired many Gaturd fan buddies who write with a clear anti-UGA bias. Completely unprofessional.
Sorry man. Your message referenced Chris, name of the “writer” of the article. My name is Chris as well and your post immediately followed mine so I thought you were responding to my post. Apologies.
don’t forget,,all these small schools count on these pay days,,,just to exist…
For everyone complaining that UGA is running a soft schedule, well, it is, but it also made the most sense. Why put your school at a financial and schedule disadvantage if you don’t have to? UGA is the two-time defending champion. They have proven they can play with the best. They can pad their schedule and, assuming they run the board, coast into the playoffs. And it’s deserved. More to the point, when the 12 team format goes into effect, it’ll be even easier to get in. If the whole SEC can step up, getting two+ teams in each year is almost a given. Strength of schedule isn’t as hard a factor at that point.
About Ewers: If he doesn’t regress, he’s a top 50 pick and maybe top 10. Last year, he had two bad games: OK State and TCU. If he has zero games like that in 2023, he’s in for a tempting NFL pay day.
Cris Wright you are a $#!+head. GFYS