Sandbagging, or what?

Just a couple of days after picking Georgia to beat Clemson…

“I am concerned about the (Georgia) offense…..they don’t have a WR…it has not been a good offensive camp….offense won’t be different from past offenses…Georgia doesn’t have the personal “
-Aaron Murray

— 🚫 LEE Ring (@HBTFD1) August 27, 2021

Talent, schmalent

I found this an interesting Twitter discussion between Gator fans.

Shot.

And to all the people complaining every year about UF recruiting, the talent level of your roster is what matters. UF beat the number 1 roster talent team last year, in UGa. UF has the talent to compete with anyone. It is a matter of coaching the talent up.

— James Swofford (@JamesSwofford) August 28, 2021

Chasers.

Georgia also didn't have a good option at the most important position. Bennett was worse than spiking the ball against zone coverage and Mathis couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. A replacement-level college QB not even as good as Daniels would've made that game a lot closer. https://t.co/4GNTWSk6iD

— David Wunderlich (@Year2) August 28, 2021

Hindsight is as undefeated in Gainesville as it is everywhere else on the planet.  I love how the dude’s argument quickly morphed in the face of David’s rebuttal from coaching the talent up (how far up is your fourth string QB gonna go?) to it being a recruiting failure.

“It looked like the same movie.”

Know despair.

Players and coaches spent the offseason focusing on the errors that have contributed to Nebraska going 12-20 with three fifth-place finishes in the Big Ten West Division since Frost returned to the program he quarterbacked to a national title in 1997. Frost felt he had his best team entering the season, one with the experience and maturity to play cleaner games in a conference that punishes the error prone.

But Huskers blunders contributed to almost every Illinois score on Saturday, starting with Cam Taylor-Britt catching a punt inside of his 2-yard line and being dropped for a safety while attempting to fling the ball out of the end zone. Nebraska appeared to be in control up 9-2 when Taylor-Britt intercepted a pass from Illinois backup quarterback Art Sitkowski. But linebacker Caleb Tannor was flagged for roughing Sitkowski, and also received an unsportsmanlike conduct foul on the play. The Illini drove for a game-tying touchdown.

Disaster struck in the final minute of the first half as Martinez fumbled and Illinois’ Calvin Hart Jr. recovered and raced 41 yards to the end zone. Nebraska’s lone turnover along with five penalties and two missed extra-point attempts from Connor Culp, the 2020 Big Ten Kicker of the Year, all contributed to the program’s first-ever loss in August.

Nebraska lost to an inferior opponent by 8 in a game where it missed two PATs, gave up a cheap safety on a misjudged punt and a touchdown on a scoop and score.  Frost got outcoached by Bert, who hadn’t coached a college game in three seasons.  Four years into his term and his team looks like a complete mess.

Worse, though, is how you go about replacing him as the season goes south.  He’s got a huge buyout and if the hometown hero can’t fix things, who’s out there who can?

The only fans who are less happy than Husker fans appear to be Georgia fans who believe that a head coach who can’t enjoy some level of success over his first five years against Nick Saban is a failure.

And there you have it.

Shot.

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— Collin Wilson (@_Collin1) August 28, 2021

Chaser.

https://twitter.com/cfbtalksonig/status/1431638794491551751

Color me more surprised that nobody picked Alabama than Corso picking the Dawgs.