I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but MSU has one helluva wide home-road split this year. They are undefeated in their own stadium through five games, largely because their offense is averaging 43 ppg at home. (On the road, they’re only scoring 13 ppg.)
A shootout is a possibility, then… or at least a few more points than we’ve been expecting.
Get The Picture 
As I said earlier in the week: Expect the unexpected. We could blow them away, it could be a tight game, they could keep it close for a quarter or two before we pull away… who the hell knows?
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They average 43 ppg at home, but the ain’t played
no Ga DAWGS
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I agree, this has similarities to that Missouri game. It could be a struggle.
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Friggin cowbells…
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I don’t think the cowbells should be allowed. Imagine what Sanford, Kneeland, or Death Valley would be like if everyone yelled and had an artificial noise maker.
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It is asinine that Mississippi A&M gets an exemption from the artificial noise-maker ban. I think that each SEC team that hosts them for their road games should get an exemption for artificial noise-makers. Vuvuzelas for the win.
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Noooooooo
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I’ve already got a headache from listening to 21 seconds of that..
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Took you 21 seconds to find the pause button? 😉
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Vuvuzela is the worst but a gallon plastic jug with 20 or 30 coins is as bad as cowbells.
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We were poor at my high school. Had rocks in our milk jugs.
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Bob Hope has something to say.
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Pfff.. Our High School was so poor we just threw rocks.
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That sound literally ruined an entire world cup!
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Cowbell noise is very real (just ask those that wear ’em), not artificial, noise in baton rouge is very real ( late start and that language spoken, scared me sober)…that stuff generated at Sanford Stadium is…is heavenly, music to mine heart and Dawg Nations soul, those juices sent out by the Red Coats is Dawg Day dreamy, that crappola at big urnge kuntry is scary to the point of not knowing if they are all related or just farm animal date night material…GO DAWGS!
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I’m sure Des Howard will be all over MSU
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No doubt. That little fella is getting desperate for somebody to do something about Georgia. Fuck them cowbells and their weird coach. Beat their asses, Dawgs!
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Desmond has the worst takes regarding college football. He is a clown. I’m surprised that ESPN keeps him on Gameday quite honestly. Being incredulous that CJ Stroud was a preseason Heisman front-runner was stupid, homer-ish, and a bad look. But picking Pitt, Texas A&M, Michigan, and Baylor for the CFP was quite possibly the dumbest thing to ever come out of his T-rex sized brain.
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And that silly ass cackling laugh he exhibits at things that are simply not that funny is more than this old Dawg can handle.
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He laughs like a girl. That entire program is unbearable. The new meathead dude/former punter is as bad as Howard & Corso is senile.
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No shit. It is bad enough on TV. If I am listening to it on the radio for some reason it is even more unbearable than on TV.
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He’s the dumbass everyone loves to laugh at. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’s just playing a part there. He’s basically an “Aw Shucks” troll.
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Aren’t they all just trolls playing a part?
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Yea but what Ben was saying is that he is the ‘Aw Shucks’ one.
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They are grooming him to take over for Corso.
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I’ve been more worried about this game than the UT game for a while. State is so unpredictable and Starkvegas is such a goofy place to play I don’t have a clue what might happen.
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Same here. And even the official hype video for this game focuses on Tennessee. I hope Kirby has these men dialed in on the Pirate. I know they will fling it all over the field.
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I’m sure they will copy the Missouri defensive plan and bring pressure every play. On offense they throw all over the field, Leach views short passes as long handoffs. Our recent propensity for turnovers has me concerned too.
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Agree. This looked like the “scariest” game of the season to me since the spring. It’s the largest variance between consensus expectation (especially after last week) of total UGA domination and the reality that MSU is a solid team and Starkville at night will be a difficult environment. UGA under Kirby has been blown out in at least 1 road/neutral game against an SEC west team every year. Every single year. Really hope we can end that streak.
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Nice reach on the Bama game last year.
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They have to have “concerns”. They are addicted to them.
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It happened. I don’t think MSU is close that that team, I think we’ll win this week, but if UGA plays like it did at Missouri it’s going to find it a lot harder to come back and win late.
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Auburn might beg to differ.
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Yeah because this year’s Mississippi state is totally the same level as 2016 ole miss, 2017 auburn, 2018 and 19 lsu, and 2020-21 Bama, all ranked, 4 of the 6 in contention for an sec championship and cfp berth and 3 eventual national champion game participants.
Look we could get upset but that’ll be because we beat ourselves not because msu even with their A+++ game is capable of beating our C- game.
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There’s still the SEC West champ to feed that angst if by some miracle the Dawgs emerge triumphant Saturday.
😉
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We have better personnel and coaches then them and it’s not even close.
You guys are getting worked up over nothing.
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Tell me the line on the Missouri game again?
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Honestly I don’t care what it was. We won. Sure, we probably didn’t cover but Vegas was still right in putting us the favorite.
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Dawgfans will find any reason possible to fear an L.
At this point, if you’re a Georgia fan, and you’re putting ANY stock in the Missouri game as being a true sign of this team, then I can’t help you at all. Even the national pundits have abandoned the “Georgia really struggled” for the “Georgia just plays with its food” narrative.
That game was quite literally never in doubt – yes, even when down 2 scores in the 4th.
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I’ll admit, I didn’t think at all that we could lose the game… until I did. Georgia waited until I started to wonder if the game was in doubt before they took over, but looking back at the game after the wins that followed makes it look less stressful.
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Tell me who won again? F the line.
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The last time I worried about Georgia playing Mississippi State Nick Fitzgerald ended up looking like he’d shown up at RangerRuss’ house unexpected Selling Amway.
FTMF
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LMFAO!
Wife was at the Ga-Fla game about 30 years ago. Had the boys over and the religious group that travels in pairs dropped by. They accepted my invitation to come in. They were appalled and intrigued at the debauchery as some of the boys brought their dates from Toppers. And the alcohol. We rigorously insisted they stay for awhile at the risk of insulting us.
Occasionally I’d see them walk by my house. But for some reason they never stopped again.
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Auburn scored 33 on these guys in Starkville and took them to overtime. Dawgs win 48-20.
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Yup. Agreed. There is a reason we are favored by 18.
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If we don’t turn the ball over, we blow these guys out.
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“If we don’t turn the ball over” would be nice not to worry about this before every game.
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Yeah, they’ve played Memphis, Bowling Green, A&M, and Arkansas in the other home games. Not necessarily lightweights, but also not Stetson F Bennett and the 2022 Georgia Bulldogs.
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Yes. The home/road splits look good on the surface, but Memphis is 4-4, Bowling Green is…well, Bowling Green, A&M is 3-6 with some of the worst losses in cfb (and wins for that matter), and Arkansas is a mediocre 5-4 and was losing at home to FCS Missouri State into the 4th quarter. And throw in rudderless Auburn. The home game schedule has not exactly been a gauntlet.
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IV
Put some damn respect on the family line.
😉
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When you’re right, you’re right and I was definitely wrong there. Mea culpa!
Stetson F’n F. Bennett, IV.
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If you ain’t first you’re last.
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Georgia’s offense and defense is coalescing nicely…there’s only one true group of Bulldawgs in the SEC
We TCB in Starkville
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Gonna be cold as a MF’er!!
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That, too. Cold with clanging. I’m bringing ear plugs.
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Some of us live for the cold 🧐
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“You guys don’t know cold in Georgia. It gets coooold in Minnesoooota.”
-Lt Flock, Oct 84.
Medevaced at Ft Benning 26 Jan 85 with frostbite to all his extremities from minus 6 degrees with wind chill of -40.
“We don’t go outdoors when it’s this cold In Minnesoooota!”
The shithead.
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Shit…LT should have wrapped up on that blustery Jan day…going bare ass in the cold ain’t tuff, it’s shortsighted…some might say digitless
Hell, most of my buddies are playing golf today instead of sweating in a deer stand…this warmth is screwing up rutting season…guess these deer aren’t Latin lovers
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They’re having a full moon party around here, Froze.
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Ol Bruiser is mostly nocturnal. You might catch him at first or last light. You can shoot his horney sons easier.
And I84, I didn’t lose a gotdam thing in Korea.
Me?
“I’ve come for your daughter, Chuck.”
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Try Camp Hartell, Korea in January.
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The thing about Korea is the yankee Army will issue appropriate winter clothing there. At Benning in the winter of 84-85 all we had was standard cold weather gear. That’ll suffice if you change your socks and glove liners regularly and and dress in layers. Got to be savvy enough to purchase your own snivel gear i.e. polypropylene gloves, socks and underwear to wear under standard clothing. You can’t be scared to hump a bit of extra weight for your comfort. There were some other old soldier tricks that I shared with my buds who cared to listen. Arrogance and laziness will cost you in any weather.
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Yea, Mickey Mouse boots were great to hump in!
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I read the book The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War…that was some cold
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Me too, I can’t imagine how those guys did that!
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I84…you men lived it…I tip my hat you to you gents
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RR you’d like my duck gumbo!
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In the interest of clarity I’ll describe the circumstances of my duck feast.
Raining while walking through the boonies looking to kill something to eat. Probably 16. Maybe 17 years old. Wood duck flys up off the beaver pond and I shot him with 20 gauge #6 shot. Plucked and prepped it on the creek. Cooked it under a big cedar tree over hickory branches dried by burning cedar needles and bark.
Yes sir, I’m sure I’d like your gumbo better. Hell, a squirrel would’ve been better. At least I was eating and cousin Mark and I et it all.
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I’ve been miserably cold in a duck blind. I’ve been miserably cold in a deer stand. I don’t know shit.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day.
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Blind ducks are my favorite
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From a duck blind, somewhere in Mississippi…
“Got, you’re my brother and I love you, but if you blow that call one more time…
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I killed, cooked and ate a duck once. It sucked.
Fuck a duck.
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Not saying the Fauxdogs aren’t better at home, but they’ve beaten up on two pretty crappy teams: Memphis (4-5) and Bowling Green (5-5). Kirby will get them boys ready to play. 38-17.
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They’ve played Memphis, Bowling Green, TAMU, Arkansas, and Auburn at home. No offense to any of those teams (except for Auburn), but they are nowhere near to our level.
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Basically, a platter of shit burger teams.
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HA! Platter of shit burgers! Thanks for that PTC! Ima usin it!
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If we’re locked it, we’re fine. We start vomiting the ball up, as we’ve had a tendency to do this fall, all of a sudden we’re in a fight against a team who is giving us their best shot….
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State doesn’t have the horses to keep it close.
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Auburn put 33 up on the northeast miss. cow bell college.
The Athens Dawgs will be just fine.
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I think this one will be close early. I am worried that the emotional roller coaster from last week will have our guys coming out flat. It’s just human nature. I think we cover, but don’t put them away until late.
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No way we wait to put them away late! They aren’t even worthy enough for any favorable consideration. Dawgs stomp them into the ground and leave a grease spot.
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I’m all for that.
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They’re too worried about their fat little girlfriends…Dawgs roll to clinch the SECCG appearance.
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🤣
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Kirby’s on it. We will play our best game to date.
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My only concern is overconfidence after last Saturday’s dominance. Missy St.’s QB is a baller, but Dawg talent wins when focused.
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Don’t you worry about that, cowetadawg! Kirby is on the mo fo! The buttchuggers also supposedly had ballers and well…we know how that went!
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It feels about 17 years ago, but I’m still spooked from State bringing like 30 scholarship guys to Athens during the Covid year and the Dawgs requiring one of the best QB nights in program history to squeak out a win.
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All of y’all that are Munsoning need to go back and watch last Saturday’s game again and get your confidence back! GO DAWGS!
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PTSD can take years of therapy to get over.
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Yeah, I know miltondawg. I’ve been a fan since ’69 and understand but we are in the best spot anyone could be in and it aint’ going away anytime soon with Kirby at the helm! He’s provided a lot of healing for me! Thanks, Coach and GO DAWGS!
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I’ll admit I was Munsoning like hell during halftime last Saturday! 🤣
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I read something good about defending leach teams in regard to their game against Bama. Basically, the point was that dink and dunk drives like Leach is so good at aren’t as effective against a good defense like Bama’s. It’s hard to string together play sustained drives against a stout defense. It certainly wasn’t that day. I like our defense better than Bama, and I like our coaches to scheme against their offense better than Bama. Like our chances, IF we don’t play down to our opponent (i.e. Kent State/ Missouri).
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The only way the Dawgs don’t cover, is if Kirby goes vanilla to keep things off game tape.
I already laid the points.
(This is not financial advice)
Go Dawgs.
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I’m just like you guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time, but then I’m boom, Bruce Dickinson!
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Their offense looks fairly balanced and potentially good to me but their D looks average at best. It’ll be interesting to see WR and company further test our secondary. We now have a history of fumbling(already 3 more than all of last season)so expect to see MS defenders trying to punch the ball out.
We’re still committing too many turnovers for me to be comfortable. Win the TO battle and we blow them out. Don’t and end up in a battle or worse. This is a prime game for a let down but Kirby has a good history of not allowing that. Hopefully they trend will continue.
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Kirby and crew will have a plan and if that plan isn’t working he will adjust until he find the right plan. That will silence those fucking cow bells.
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Hell, if I’m a player I’m extra motivated to put this game away as quickly as possible so I don’t have to hear those damn bells.
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If it’s any consolation the MSU long snappah sucks. Bad snap almost got the punter killed, and the first team punter is out for the rest of the season. So there’s that.
I hate Mike Leach. I wouldn’t mind if we keel-hauled that sweet ol’ boy.
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There was a piece in the AJC that i liked telling me Kirbys dialed in. May have also been a shot across the bow letting State know we’re hyper focused. He basically had a full paragraph letting them know we’re mining all the data on how long their QB holds the ball in various situations. We’re coming for you up front bitch don’t think we’re taking you lightly.
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In road games, Kentucky has played defenses allowing an average of 24.6 points per game and they scored an average of 19.5 in those games; that’s 20.7% lower than average.
In home games, they’ve played defenses allowing an average of 30.0 ppg, while scoring an average of 43 in those games; that’s 43.4% higher than average.
If you take those home figures and apply it to the Georgia defense, you could expect them to score around 15 points
If you want to take it further and look at how their defense performs, they are holding teams to 4.8 ppg below their average; that’s 17.8% lower. Apply that to the Georgia offense, and you’ve got them allowing us to score 33 points.
So basic statistical and trend analysis points to something like a 33-15 game. Not so much the picture painted by the post.
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Have fun in Lexington this weekend. GATA
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Oops. meant to type ‘Mississippi State’ instead of ‘Kentucky’
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I was supposed to go. Until today when I got sick and can’t. So horribly bummed out. But if anyone is looking for a room for Saturday, the Historic Chester Hotel should have one open now.
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Stoop I hope it’s just a bug.
The only time I’ve been to/through Starkville was on the way to Louisiana, ’cause I-20 is boring. 3 red lights later I looked at Got Sr.
“That’s it?”
“Yep”
“Huh.”
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No Oline false starts & offsides due to improper preparation for the loud cowbell environment please. Sign language & finger gesture practice today.
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Georgia vs Tennessee replay is on the SEC Network at 8 tonight. That’s the same time as Falcons at Panthers.
Guess which one I’m going to watch?
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