Per the good folks at sicemdawgs.com:
From here, that looks like a very manageable schedule. The opener’s a challenge, of course, but from there, I don’t see many serious roadblocks. And Georgia’s November kinda looks like what we used to kid about Tennessee’s November.
There are eight straight conference games that run between UAB and Charleston Southern. And South Carolina moves back to the early part of the schedule. (Insert Spurrier snark here.)
What do y’all see?
Get The Picture 
I don’t hate it. I just hope a.) it gets played and b.) I can go to all of the home games.
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I see a schedule that includes Missouri instead of another SEC West team
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If we win in Charlotte we may be on a free roll in Atlanta.
Gotta stay healthy.
The only surprises could be the younger qb in gainesville (Richardson??) and if somehow Harsin and co. start getting the best out of Nix. Our play in sec west stadiums has been atrocious under cks. Even the wins have been a struggle.
Looks like we’ve got 4 games post clemson to get in an offensive groove before either of those potential challenges.
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Sure hope the boys don’t get caught in a look-ahead to Auburn when Arkansas comes to town. I think we saw several examples last year that ol’ Coach Pittman knows how to get a football team ready to fight.
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Possibly, but doesn’t help them that Franks declared last month. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Plumlee transfer if Corral grabs the position entirely in the spring at Ole Miss.
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His long-term future is in baseball. Where gives him the best chance to develop as a baseball player?
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Why do we play Arkansas after playing them last year? Makes no sense.
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It was originally in the rotation pre-covid and logistically easier to not alter said rotation. Probably why we at least went on the road to Arkansas last year to the extent they had the flexibility to not have complete repeats.
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2020 was a one-off in terms of scheduling. This is what our 2020 would have “normally” looked like minus COVID.
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I do miss me some #AUBURN SUCKS! in November (personal/celebratory reasons)…
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This. I hate the early auburn.
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With Mason & Bobo as coordinators I’d rather see them early in the season than later after they get their act together.
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They suck just as bad in October. Actually, they suck all the time. They suck in ways that are unfathomable to normal people.
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I like trucks.
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Ho’s!
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If Emory Jones starts at qb for Florida we may beat them by 100. Richardson looks the part though.
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Yeah, how can Jones start over Richardson? I can’t imagine that happens for more than 1 or 2 games.
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Me either. And it makes me sad. It was a glimpse but Richardson reminded me of everything I hate in an opposing qb in that bowl game.
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Don’t give up hope. That QB genius in Hogtown was still starting Franks over Trask until Franks got hurt. It takes a sho’ nuff genius to luck into a better situation.
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I said live “franks just did them a favor” lol. Its amazing the qb whisperer needed that to happen.
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I sure wish we could flip-flop and move Georgia Tech to the 20th so we could use them as a tune up for Charleston Southern.
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I wish the former AD had a set so tech would be in Athens this season.
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I see my enemies driven before me, and the lamentations of the oranges.
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I see 11-1 and a trip to Atlanta to face the Tide in a de facto national quarterfinal. If we both happened to arrive in Atlanta 12-0, it would be the 2021 version of the game of the century.
Auburn in October still sucks. That game should be in November, period.
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Its January. Give us 12-0 at least for 3 more days.
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I’ve been saying 11-1 since the game ended on NYD. 😉
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In the end, I’m not that upset by that. Having a bunch of motivated Georgia residents playing for Auburn trying to spoil a UGA championship season in November kind of sucked all those years. Better to play Florida late and UT in November and for the division. And no chance now for that basically back to back games if meeting them in the the SECCG.
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If we both arrive in Atl at 12-0 the game of the century might feature both team’s backups since we’ll both probably be in the CFP regardless. It’ll be another feather in the cap of “conference championship games are a waste of time.”
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I was mostly joking, but the more I think about this the more I think it’s a real possibility. Neither coach will want to show their hand with the possibility of an eventual rematch looming.
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That hide the playbook is very overrated. I expect both teams to do everything it takes to win.
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But what if you could still tie in football ? Hell the 2011 LSU-Bama regular season game (in hindsight) was a total surrender to easy, almost coordinated gameplanning. Neither coach deviated from the media script of 3yards and a cloud of dust.
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If both teams are 12-0 the SECCG would be a meaningless waste of time. You may think it’s overrated, but Kirby and Saban are meticulous about hiding information.
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If you think the SECCG is a meaningless waste of time, I will add you to the list of people I dont want to interact with.
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Then mark me down and stop interacting with me. It’s only a “championship game” because the SEC says it is and everyone just buys it. How brain dead would you have to be to believe that a 2 loss Florida would have actually been worthy of a championship had they managed to upset Bama in Atl.
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Later then dude.
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I disagree
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Your disagreement based solely on feelings is the only reason the championship games have an enhanced meaning to begin with.
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I don’t get this take…the SECCG is meaningless, but #16 vs. #1 in the CFB playoffs is important? We “all knew” 2 loss FL would lose to Bama, but Coastal Carolina could be a Cinderella?
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I don’t understand your point. SECCG’s are unnecessary and Cinderella’s in the playoff are a stupid idea. Why would those concepts be mutually exclusive? What do G5’s in the playoff have to do with P5 championship games?
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ChuckD., you show a much more knowledgeable depth of coaches and the game than most on this blog. Good on, you!
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I appreciate the sarcasm! Kisses
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If Bama were to lose, yes, they would probably be in the CFP. If we were to lose, I don’t see the committee giving us the benefit of the doubt even with a win over Clemson on the resume, and Herbstreit will make sure to get the word out there that Georgia isn’t deserving.
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I don’t think that’s a realistic take unless there are a few undefeated conference champions out there. In which case Bama wouldn’t get in with a loss either.
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So is it important or not?
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Unnecessary would be the phrase I would use. At times it can be relevant, but if you take P5 championship games in totality more often than not they don’t tell us much. What did we learn in Atlanta last year? Bama is better than Florida? Well no shit.
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Has a loser of a conference championship game gotten in yet? The only way I see us getting in with a loss in the SECCG is a similar game to 2012 or 2018 where the 2 teams play a game where Bama wins the game late. A 3-point loss where we score late to make the game closer than it appears won’t be enough.
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I’m assuming a non blowout scenario here.
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If there are 3 1-loss conference champions or a Notre Dame, we aren’t getting in with an SECCG loss.
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Note Dame 2020
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Good point … and they didn’t deserve to be there either. The problem was there was no one else. It took the Pac 12 and Big 12 having 2 loss champions to make it happen.
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Notre Dame. They lost to Clemson in the ACC Championship game. I guess the ACC runner up must be greater than the SEC runner up in Herbstreit’s world.
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It was an anomaly because ND isn’t in a conference normally
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No doubt
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By next year, won’t the committee have forgotten the past and have Notre Dane top 4 again?
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I’m not an advocate for judging a team based on previous years, and I don’t think watching A&M get thrashed by Bama again would have had much of an effect on the season overall.
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Should UGA play in the seccg, that’s 8 of 13 games in “We Run This State”….
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I realize what I’m about to say may sound crazy, but look again at the schedule after you read what I say and reread what I say:
If we can’t go undefeated against the SEC portion of this schedule, then Georgia should honestly consider if Kirby Smart needs to be the head coach moving forward.
This is the kind of schedule built to launch playoff runs. If Kirby can’t take advantage this year, if he can’t at the very least get to Atlanta, then he doesn’t need to be our head coach anymore.
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Lol… Just noticed the “new” User name!
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Puttin his ass on the preemptive hotseat huh? I’ll save my hot takes for after the eventual let down that is to come.
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Pre-emptive hot seat? Hot seats are stupid.
Just making a statement that shouldn’t at all be ridiculous.
If Kirby can’t go 8-0 in the SEC with THIS schedule, with the talent he’s assembled on the field and on the sideline, then no, he shouldn’t be our head coach.
There is no valid reason in hell Georgia should have a loss in SEC play in 2021.
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Congratulations, you just guaranteed a pre season JT Daniels injury.
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Ah yes, it’s nice to see we’ve reached this portion of the ridiculous.
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Don’t be so serious, it’s January dude.
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Plus, it’s much more likely something like a stud wide receiver is lost to something like academic problems or something.
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I read it as ‘Putin’ his ass. Fuckin’ playpen is messing with me.
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You tell’em “corch”…GATA! I am sure glad you are on our side to keep Kirby straight.
Somebody gotta do it, glad you’re a Dawg!
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Nope. We get through the off season without any unwanted attrition and I think this is dead-on.
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Yea, we play dumpster fire after fire. Im not down with a close manball against these horrible teams.
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I hate big openers in general and consider it a bad scheduling practice, but Clemson is way over valued right now. They have just as much chance to step on it as any team in an opener, and they arent nearly the same with some serious dudes leaving.
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Every single defensive starter is back for Clemson.
All eleven of them.
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With regard to the back end of their secondary I consider that a good thing, but point taken. It’ll be tough sledding, especially in the trenches.
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Yeah, they had some issues because they were young, but nothing teaches like a burned hand, right CB?
They’re going to be better in 2021, than they were in 2020. It would be difficult for them not to be. With Venables as their DC, it’s even more unlikely. It’s not like Grantham is their DC. Hah!
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They also lost their superstar QB. Yeah they got Uiaglelelelel’lalala back there now but he ain’t no Trevor. A stud filled defense doesn’t mean shit if you can’t score as we are all well aware.
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Yeah dude… they don’t have Chaney or Coley at OC or Kirby at head coach who wants to stop his own offense from scoring, they have Elliot at OC and Dabo at head coach.
They’re going to have NO PROBLEM scoring points.
Not even in the same galaxy. Terrible analogy.
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So you think they will just swap one superstar QB for another? I don’t think so.
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Did you watch him put up 40 points against a decent ND defense?
Dude, again, it’s not just the QB, it’s the OFFENSE. The offense is designed to score points.
Your analogy is bad. DJ-U will be a good QB, but even if he’s only half the QB that Lawrence was, that Clemson offense will still put up points.
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Ah yes, he had a good performance against one team. He must be the next Heisman.
All I’m saying is that its reasonable to expect a drop off in offense when you lose the Hesiman runner up. I’d be more worried about Clemson if they returned all 11 of their starting offense.
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Having a drop off isn’t the same thing as comparing your expected drop-off to Georgia’s offense, which, coordinated by two idiots and overseen by a head coach allergic to scoring as many points as possible is not in the same universe as this situation in Clemson where the offense is of a proven design no matter who the QB is (Kelly Bryant won a conference title and got them into the Playoff) and the head coach is Dabo who has never stepped in to stop his offense from scoring no matter how many points they’re winning by in the fourth quarter.
It’s just a bad analogy all-around.
Had you just said they’d have some drop-off, I’d agree and say that’s possible.
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Young? They have a 5th year senior returning for a 6th year because he has zero prospects of an NFL future. A guy they basically have to hide in their defense to make sure he doesn’t end up in man coverage because he’s slow and a poor tackler. Then you have a fairly underwhelming 3 star in Zanders. If the line can give JT time we should be able to exploit those two assuming they don’t lose their starting jobs in camp.
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Biggest problem for Clem’s Son is not losing Sunshine, it’s losing Etienne. Dude was a Top 3 RB in college and the guys behind him are not anywhere in the same zip code ability wise.
Yes, they get Ross back, but he hasn’t played in a year and he’s coming off a very dangerous injury. How much does that play on his mind?
Their DL is the best part of the D; their LBs and DBs can be exploited.
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This. But id give sunshine a few more pts
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Apparently all we’ll need to do is huddle between plays. That should negate the schematic advantage. /s
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Kirby disagrees..
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Well, Kirby also lost to Paul Johnson bc he couldn’t think to take a time out. We all habe our imperfections. But big openers are dangerous and forgotten, whereas big November games are long rembered. Thanks auburn
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I hope I see an epic beatdown of Vandy based on the stuff they pulled this year. Cost us a co-SEC East.
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Bingo.
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80-0 to make up for the 40+ we would have scored this year.
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I’d rather 80-0 florida if we get to pick. Vandy is the perfect Brock game.
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Well, you’re not considering that 35 of that 80 would be Brock in the second half. 😉
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You, you i like
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If I had to pick, I would agree with you, Chuck. I do want us to firebomb Candy for screwing us twice in December.
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We should go undefeated in the SEC and therefore the Clemson game doesn’t mean too much for our playoff chances. Unless we plan to lose the SECCG and backdoor in.
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It matters if we lose like we lost to LSU in 2019 and Bama and Floriduh in 2020.
We can’t get blown-off the field by yet another playoff-caliber team. If we lose, it has to be one score. Preferably three or less points.
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UAB will be legit- no snark intended
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What Bill Clark has done at UAB has been amazing.
Seriously, fuck Bear Bryant’s useless son.
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How’s UAB’s long snappuh though?
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Not much to speak of, but he’s got a trout that’s pretty impressive!
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“I see a little silouhetto of a man…”
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2 observations…
If we beat Clemson, it’s going to be hard to keep the players from sleep walking for the next 4 weeks before the Auburn game.
I like seeing “Athens, GA” 6 times on the schedule (7 if you count the final game in the 404). We got what 3 home games in 2020?
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Sort of off topic, but it looks like Orangeneck is going to land on his feet. 247 is saying he is heading to the NFL with the J-E-T-S.
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Will I have to call him Green-neck if it happens? What’s the Northern version of a redneck? Will they make him learn to eat asparagus?
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Rednecks with funny voices
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Florida plays Bama at home wk 3. How nice
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