We all saw this coming after the Colorado loss, right?
STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL SEC – East W-L PF PA W-L PF PA STRK South Carolina 3-2 128 100 5-2 207 132 W1 Georgia 3-3 170 117 4-4 252 153 W3 Florida 2-3 121 105 4-3 193 131 L3 Vanderbilt 1-3 38 105 2-5 132 174 L2 Kentucky 1-4 145 199 4-4 278 253 L1 Tennessee 0-4 55 129 2-5 150 206 L3 SEC – West W-L PF PA W-L PF PA STRK Auburn 5-0 178 135 8-0 309 188 W8 Alabama 4-1 140 81 7-1 274 100 W2 LSU 4-1 122 77 7-1 204 125 L1 Mississippi State 2-2 55 65 6-2 229 136 W5 Arkansas 2-2 132 137 5-2 231 164 W1 Mississippi 1-3 90 124 3-4 220 224 L2
Me love crazy seasons.
Get The Picture 
Although we beat the 3 cupcakes of the SEC, the team is looking good. Florida will tell us exactly how good we are especially with them having an extra week to get ready.
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Exactly. And while I may be stupid to be optimistic about Auburn, it seems like a competent defense and offense can at least keep pace with them.
This season, however, may be the one in which “november” doesn’t come to mean “typical collapse in Columbia”.
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Well, they’ve lost to UK and underwhelming against Vandy. I think the November swoon is likely.
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Yeah, I thought Vandy was going to get ’em last night. Look for SC to lose to ARK and FLA. UT has been knocking on the door for an SEC upset and SC could be the victim, too. The fundamental problem still exists with the Gamecock program. They have good first string players but there is a big drop off in talent after that. Later in the season the lack of depth shows up. I sure wish we could play them at the end of the season rather than at the beginning. Paying attention to this, McGarity?
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Fire Richt!
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Uhh, yeah. Didn’t see this coming at all.
I still don’t know what to think about that game last night (aside, of course, from being happy that we won). On the one hand, I think our defense deserves credit for all of those turnovers (already tired of hearing people suggest that Kentucky “handed” those to us). But on the other hand, whenever Hartline had a second, he was able to spot those huge, familiar holes in our secondary. Was it just me, or did Vance Cuff have a terrible, terrible game?
And if this was the first Georgia game I’d watched this year, I would’ve guessed that Mike Bobo was nervous to ask his freshman QB to make plays in a hostile environment. Did Bobo forget that Aaron Murray is a stud? Or could he perhaps have been trying to throw Florida off the scent for next week? That just really did not look like the Georgia offense we’ve seen for the past few weeks.
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As I recall the coaches raved about Cuff’s improvement during the off-season. The 3rd and long connections against our D drive ya nuts.
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I agree, Vance Cuff looked like a Willie-coached DB. I hope Smith can come back for UF. The entire secondary needs to step it up this weekend.
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Why in the world would we have thrown it more when we had a big lead and wanted to kill clock and UK clearly couldn’t stop the run. I was happy as can be that we didn’t decide to get cute and start throwing it all over the place.
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I think Bobo is just content to pound the running game when we can (see GT ’09). Washaun was getting it done – so why rely on Murray if you don’t need it?
I’m happy that we’ll be on CBS next week.
Not getting games on the dish (UK & Col) sucks!
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I was able to see every single SEC team playing yesterday except Georgia and Kentucky. I even got Mississippi St. Sorry excuse for programming.
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Dish doesn’t get Fox Sports?
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FoxSports and Dish Network had (or are having) serious issues. I went to friend’s house that night only to find out at the last minute that Dish Network didn’t have the game.
It was back to radio for us…
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“that night” = the Colorado game
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This season is both extremely exciting and sickening/depressing at the same time.
TF, I do think they were hiding some of the ‘o’ from uf when they realized they could win by sheer physicality.
Go and watch that USC (can I say that?)/Vandy game…Vandy’s ‘o’ was ugly and predictable. There is no way USC gets by Arky.
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It seems to me we ran the ball because it was the best defense we could consistently put on the field.
Unfortunately for my eyes, I got the game on TV, the only thing worse than our third down defense was the horrid broadcast.
Many happy returns of the day to the fat girl who got married.
Does anybody in a management position at any tv network understand the mind of the average football fan?
How much would you pay for a football channel where the only audio was crowd noise?
Really, would you pony up money to watch the game with no boneheads in the booth and no sideline babe distractions?
I would.
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Yes
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I would too. The coverage was sooooo bad.
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On the bright side, the sideline babe was the hottest I’ve seen in a while.
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+1
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Chris Doering is a blooming retard.
While the sideline chick was hot, she had probably the worst questions outside of Holly Rowe I’ve heard in awhile.
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Why do they (TV) keep doing these “interviews” with coaches coming off the field at the half. The coaches are NEVER going to say anything, and the questions get dumber.
I guess this is the price we pay to be able to sit in section HD and watch college games all day.
Clearly, TV has outkicked its talent coverage.
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Doering is possibly the worst out there – and that is saying something.
Jeez – it must be really hard to call a football game, because so few people can do it well.
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The problem is getting the UGA web broadcast synced with the audio-less TV broadcast.
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The five-second delay is troublesome…I have started not looking at the TV until Scott Howard tells me the play is over, then the TV is a really quick instant replay.
This seems to work well, if you don’t peek.
(or peak)
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The CBS duo was pretty awful in Auburn yesterday, too.
I didn’t really care who won, but the Cam love was getting sickening. I can’t imagine watching that game as an LSU fan. …well, actually I can. It would be like watching any of the Florida games the last few years with Tebow…
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I whined a little last week about Howard and Zeir not being Larry.
I listened to them doing Kentucky, then watched the end of the Mizzou-Oklahoma game.
I apologize Scott. You are doing a fine job.
(If you heard the Mizzou-Oklahoma TV broadcast I hope you used an ear-wax-removal procedure when it was over.)
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Mushmouth and tOSU wonder kid are terrible. Herbie at least tries to pay attention to the game but Mush doing the play by play is awful. He uses the play to start his stream of conscience monologue about whatever comes into his brain. Sometimes it’s so off-beat Herbie is at a loss for words.
For what it’s worth I’m still in the 6-6 camp.
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Mustard Burger ruins whatever game he is calling to me. If he ever ends up calling a UGA game I’ll be listening to the radio no doubt. The guy over dramatizes everything. If we finish 6-6, that’ll mean we’ve closed 5-2 from 1-4, you could have won some money on here a few weeks ago if you’d have been taking bets from some of the resident expert program critics.
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A lot of people were entirely too panicked earlier in the season, we lost four close games that we were in the game until the end all the while breaking in brand new QB with 3 of the 4 games on the road with our best player sitting on the bench for three of the four also. I wasn’t expecting us to just kick Tennessee and Vandy’s butt like we did but I wasn’t ready to right the season off. If we close out 3-1 with a win over Florida or Auburn it’ll be a pretty dang good year.
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Don’t know about ‘panicked’, but I’m definitely disappointed. With so many starters and experienced subs returning the sec east was ours for the taking this year – all we had to do was show up and play decent. Donnan was fired for going 8-4. That would be considered a good year, no, a great year, at this point. How the mighty have fallen.
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But it seems like the mighty have fallen all over the SEC.
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Really the funny part is the fumbles.
We make 3 fumbles to lose 3 really close games and its because the other teams were better.
UK makes 3 fumbles against us and its cause UK was better, but gave it away.
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No one gives us credit. That is all.
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The force is strong with this one.
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I thought those fumbles were because Bobo is “predictable” and Van Halenger stinks at S & C.
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Donnan was fired because the President of the University of Georgia, Donnan’s boss, ordered Donnan to make staff changes (including firing Donnan’s son as QB coach and hiring a bona fide ex-QB as QB coach) and Donnan refused. What would happen to you if your boss gave you a direct order and you refused? To make it more palatable the University paid a whole lot of dough to Donnan to get him to leave. I have been very concerned for years that the fact that Donnan had an 8-4 record the year he was dismissed would be taken as setting a benchmark for future coaches and some of our more ridiculous fans have fallen right into that trap. Football is a long-term commitment sport and if you fire someone for a one or two year bad patch then you are dooming the program to fail for two reasons: (1) There really is such a thing as “rebuilding” and you have to do it now and then (we are in that now); and (2) No top flight coach would ever take a job with a fan base having an expectation level like that. All that said, I take some measure of comfort in the lunatic fringe that has surfaced in Florida recently (FIRE MEYER!!!) now that the GPOOE has left that school and FLA is trying to rebuild. Glad to see that there are crazies elsewhere, too. Look out for what will happen in Alabama if Auburn beats Bama this season. Last year the Bammers wanted to make Saban governor. If he loses to Auburn you will hear some of them, with an absolutely straight face say, “FIRE SABAN!”
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We’re rebuilding? Ten starters returned on O, plus experienced backups like White, Figgins, Durham, Ealey, Munz, Sturdivant. Boykin, Walsh & Butler returned on special teams. Five D starters returned. So only 7 newbees of 24 first team regulars.
Two all americans – AJ and Justin Houston, are probably leaving for the NFL in about 11 weeks. That’s when rebuilding starts.
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Most of our best players return for next year. Therein lies the quandary. Houston and A.J. are juniors. They should be around for 1 more year. Just when you get the QB and RB situation sorted out a new deficiency rears its head. I really hate this “get to go pro after 3 years of college” thing. That is what got us into the situation in the first place (Staff and Moreno leaving early). If A.J. and Houston would just stay for next season UGA would be a favorite to win the SEC East, the SEC and the BCSNC. Look at the schedule. It is more favorable than this year and we actually have 7 home games like every other SEC team.
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Starting a RS FR QB & installing a new defense where all of the D. players are considered to be FR. (per coaches statements) could be considered rebuilding. Still missing A.J. for 4 games has been our biggest obstacle so far. ( or was it the lack of OL run blocking?). Beat Urban & most will be forgiven (but not forgotten).G.A.T.A.
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