… from 247Sports’ Brad Crawford:
Georgia Bulldogs
Bold prediction: JT Daniels sets single-season record for passing yards. Georgia’s current program high is 3,893, set by Aaron Murray during the 2012 season. If Daniels stays healthy and the Bulldogs play 14 games (regular season, SEC Championship, bowl) this season, he only needs 279 yards per game average to eclipse that mark. Daniels as the Heisman winner could be another bold prediction as long as Georgia’s other top-end wideouts produce in the wake of George Pickens’ absence. Given his success last season in short order down the stretch, Daniels should be one of college football’s most prolific quarterbacks in 2021.
Florida Gators
Bold prediction: Dan Mullen’s team is 4-3, outside of the Top 25 going into the Georgia game. Don’t shoot the messenger, Florida fans — this is a bold prediction after all. The Gators won’t be favored at home vs. Alabama or on the road against LSU prior to the open week pre-Georgia and we’ve already mentioned previously that Kentucky may take out two SEC titans in Lexington this season. But even if this doomsday scenario happens for the defending SEC East champions, the backend of the slate is soft enough for a strong finish after the rivalry showdown in Jacksonville.
Let me go out on a limb here and say that if he’s right, I’m gonna have one big ol’ shit eating grin on my face in Jacksonville this year.
I don’t think either of them are all that bold. It’s easy to see JT Daniels throwing for over 279 yards per game, and we saw what UF looked like without their top receivers in the bowl game.
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Considering UF’s run against UK, predicting 4-3 for the Gators is something of a bold prediction.
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Ok, I’ll give you UK upsetting UF is bold, but the Gators struggling mightily next season is not.
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You forget the division the Gators play in. Here’s their 2021 schedule. Three losses before Jax would be a surprise. A pleasant one, to be sure, but a surprise nonetheless.
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Yeah, looking at that link, I think they finish the regular season with 4 losses, 5 tops. 5 would really stoke the hot-seat talk. I think the UF natives are restless, Mullen keeping Grantham after last year turned off a bunch of Bull Gators. Not getting a contract extension after winning the East last year can’t be a good sign, right?
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Kiffin is biding his time. He may very well be the next Handbag coach and we’ll miss Sideshow when that happens.
Actually, between his wit and his offensive schemery, Kiff could be the next SOS without the bitchy side.
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Yikes. This is a dark timeline.
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Assuming Mullen is indeed going for a run-oriented offense and Grantham continues to Grantham, I’d say their game with Kentucky is a coin flip.
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I don’t know about coin flip, but the Gators play UK early before the lack of depth catches up to the Cats.
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True. But what Florida coach saw that near quarter-century streak of never losing to UK end (and arguably would have lost to them twice had his starting QB not gotten injured and the better passing backup not saved the game)?
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That is very true. That Kentucky game was a loss until Frank’s got injured.
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That was all part of Mullen’s plan!!!!! He’s and offensive genius and a QB whisperer!!!!!!
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And I said live thread “thats the best thing that could happen for them”. Franks was the Tyler Bray of UF QBs- throws a mile, dumb as dirt
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Hey y’all remembers few years ago when we ended them in the first quarter? Let’s do that again.
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so we are predicting Georgia does good and Florida sux.
works for me.
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BOLD my friend, very BOLD….
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I can see Fla being 5 – 2 going into Jacksonville. They could also be 6 – 1 just as easily as being 4 – 3.
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4-3 means losses to Bama, LSU, and one of UK, UT, Florida Atlantic, South Florida, or Vandy. I’m going to go ahead and say that UF isn’t losing to FAU, USF, UT, or Vandy. I agree that 5-2 is more likely than 4-3 or 6-1, but a loss in Lexington isn’t out of the question.
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I wouldn’t have bet on them losing to LSU last year, but somehow they found a way.
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It was one of the greatest and longest laughs I’ve ever had!!
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The shoe might have been my favorite college football moment in recent memory that didn’t involve a game Georgia was playing in.
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I cant believe I missed it. That thing is why I’d watch every game from Thursday to sunday
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I knew it when he threw the shoe that Karma had gotten ahold of Steely Dan and the boys with her cold clawy fingers and was fixing to squeeze. I had no doubt the field goal was going to be good. Glorious, I tells ya…I’m smiling ear to ear as I type. Cackling a little, even.
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Fuck Florida and the mule they rode in on.
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Erk said it. I believe it. That settles it.
#FTMF
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I swear to the holy waters sweet baby Bejeebus walked upon I might make that into sign to hang in the office. Bleep a dayum “Live Laugh Love” sign, Erk saying it… just feels right
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That’s a great idea, HialtDawg. That sign will look good hanging on the pegboard behind my rodsnreels.
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Is it a “bold” prediction by adding…”if Daniel’s stays healthy…”, Georgia’s other wideouts produce..” kind of ridiculous to claim he’s bold there. Regardless, the game is pass happy, favors the passing game, our schedule is soft, skill corps deep…let’s just say a shit-ton of record breaking passing yards should be table stakes this season regardless of QB & no Pickens.
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I hope if JT is on the verge of breaking records against UF even though its 50-0 Kirby lets him
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As long as the Gators have one more loss AFTER the cocktail party than they did before, I will be a happy Dawg. Don’t really care if they have 0, 1, 2 or 3 losses going in, just make sure they lose THAT DAY.
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After spending an enjoyable morning watching UGA heckling FU fans when Ron Zook brought a turd team to face an unbeaten Georgia team. I’ll never again assume any win it was painful lesson that unforgettable day. Mark Richt to me will always be a DGD he just never understood that FU must be crushed like GT.
With Kirby Smart I’ll never doubt that he hates FU and understands what must be done to his core. He will own this rivalry like the Ole Ball Sack did.
It can never be said too often. Fuck FU and the mule they rode in on.
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I’ve never been so sure of beating UF and so wrong as those games. Florida was in our teams head, played so gunshy, played thinking vs in the zone
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In 03, the OL was falling apart by that point. 2002 will never we not be mind boggling.
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I was struggling to make a list of things I hate as much as I do the Gators, so I decided to limit it to Florida things. Still struggling.
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