When last we heard from Rick Neuheisel, he was butchering Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint’s name. I suppose that gives him special insight into Georgia’s football program. You know, like this:
Rick Neuheisel said he believes Tennessee would beat Georgia if the teams had a rematch in the College Football Playoffs.
“I will be picking Tennessee to win that game,’’ the CBS analyst said at the Knoxville Quarterback Club on Monday. “I looked at the film. The film gives all sorts of opportunities for a guy over there by the name of Josh Heupel and he will have a plan that you’ll be excited about.
“Now that doesn’t mean Georgia isn’t fantastic. But they had a home crowd that made it confusing.’’
Tennessee was so confused, it had seven pre-snap penalties and allowed six sacks at Georgia in a 27-13 loss that was more one-sided that the score indicates.
Neuheisel said some sacks were coverage sacks when quarterback Hendon Hooker couldn’t check into a run play due to the crowd noise.
“That will all get fixed,’’ Neuheisel said. “And I can’t wait to watch that game. And I believe you’re going to get to that game. I really do.’’
If the football gods have a sense of humor, Tennessee won’t make the CFP field, but will instead face off against Alabama in a rematch — at a neutral site without crowd noise as a factor.
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Home field advantage is part of the game. I guess Rick hasn’t seen our fan base at neutral sites and visitor stadiums where we regularly get teams to jump offsides and have problems hearing.
I understand he was speaking to Tooth Nation in Knoxville, but please don’t pander.
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Exactly. Home field advantage is why Tennessee lost to UGA but not why Tennessee beat Alabama.
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It really is shocking what passes for “analysis” in the college football media. It shouldn’t be, but it is.
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Jax, I think Rick put the “anal” in “analysis”!
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I mean – the Music City Bowl is right there waiting.
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To’o To’o did say that they would see the Vols again. Can we please speak this into existence?!
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I guess that check he received helped his words of comfort to the buttchuggers.
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Once I read he was speaking in front of the Knoxville qb club it invalidated everything he said…but I wouldn’t GAS really if he was testifying before Congress.
The UGA crowd did affect 10RC…aside from their win at LSU…THEIR crowd helped them have their biggest wins of the season.
I just hope the crowd noise impacts them in Columbia and maybe all this Urnge noise will quiet down a little.
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You do have to put UT in the small universe of teams with a chance to derail us. Rematches are always fraught with peril.
I think UT’s problem is on defense tho. Even if they clean up some of the issues they had and can protect Hooker, can they post more points than we can?
We’re far from invincible but to beat us, you’re going to have to play well and hit us on a poor to mediocre day over all three phases, over a full 60 minutes.
Fwiw, I’m happy to avoid all the coronation talk we can. I hope more join this negative chorus. Dawg food over rat poison everyday.
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Same. tOSU has the best chance of beating us, followed by the Vols. We just can’t afford to lose Jalen again, and hopefully AD is ready to go for the semis. I would keep him in bubble wrap for the SEC Championship game if there is even a hint that he is not fully recovered.
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Amen and apologies for the inner Munson coming out, but recent history tells us that it’s very hard to beat the same team twice: ‘17 Auburn @ JH then rematch in SECCG then Bama last year. If I recall correctly, Vegas liked us initially and in rematch. Also worth noting that both rematches mentioned above included AU and Bama teams that were dealing with fresh injuries and not quite the same teams as they were in first game. I’m not saying all things are equal here, but I’ll just say nothing is a forgone conclusion and why I hate reading all the UGA banter and trash talking about the dawgrading of the win at Sanford.
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Kirby threw those games.
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It was not difficult at all for Utah to beat Oregon twice in 2021.
Not at all.
That said, any who believe we weren’t fortunate to have Hooker uncharacteristically miss passes on Nov 5 are simply displaying heightened homerism.
Of course, he uncharacteristically missed those same passes in Knoxville in 2021. He musta put a little too much mustard on em.
It’s going to be rather interesting if the primary factor allowing TN into the playoff turns out to be Kirby throttling-down in that game.
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Hooker was shitty against UGA last year too. And that game was in knoxVegas.
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Sorry Mr. Dukes, I didn’t read your entire post before posting a response.
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I get all the confidence after witnessing utter domination in the game itself even if the scoreboard didn’t reflect it. I get Kirby putting the brakes on the offense in the second half even though I didn’t like it. But the history of regular season (or when adding last season, a championship game in the SEC) rematches in bowls, the BCS, or the CFP determining a national champion isn’t great for the team that won the first tilt.
Whether last season, the 2012 BCS championship rematch between Alabama and LSU, the rematch between UF and FSU that gave UF SOS’s only national championship when they absolutely demolished FSU by more than 30 points, or several other bowls that determined a national champion over the decades, playing UT again it isn’t a scenario that I am looking forward to in January in the Benz or out in SoFi. The UF/FSU rematch was eerily similar. Wuerffel got sacked like 6 times and got the hell beat out of him in the upset of #1 UF in Tallahassee in the last regular season game. SOS went to New Orleans and had a completely different game plan with Wuerffel working out of the shotgun for the first time in his career and they smoked FSU.
Count me among the few, but this Georgia fan still thinks that UT is an awfully dangerous team and if there is a rematch UT will absolutely not have the same game plan that they did on November 5th.
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From what I’ve seen of Kirby and Todd we also won’t have the same game plan. They have shown an uncanny ability to anticipate how other teams will try to game plan against us and then make changes accordingly. Although conventional wisdom tells me that a rematch is not a good thing, I’m not sure that this is a conventional team anymore.
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I wasn’t suggesting that Georgia would come out with the same plan for a rematch. UT can play the same game plan they have all season and win against USC and Vandy, probably comfortably, and then have a month to get ready for Georgia. Georgia had the benefit of a season’s worth of tape on UT for the November 5th game which Kirby and Todd won’t have for a rematch. That was my only point in saying that UT wouldn’t walk into a CFP game with the same game plan.
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They will be a challenge; however, we can score on them till the cows come home
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Vols new recruiting pitch, “wait until we play at a neutral site, without crowd noise”
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$10,000 to the first guy who hits the rubber-chicken circuit and says, “Team A kicked your team’s ass the first time you played and if they get another chance they’re going to curb-stomp you again. They’re just that much better than you.”
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Heupel pursues style points to impress idiots.
RN is impressed.
Georgia beat TN with superior talent and coaching.
Tennessee beat Alabama with crowd noise and by being the recipient of the worst game Bama has ever played under CNS.
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Bullshit.
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And there it is.
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I can understand the pre snap penalties… but how did crowd noise cause sacks?
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Reaction time of the DL is the same as the OL. With no crowd noise the OL goes on the snap getting a jump on the DL. Not as big a factor in blitz pickup.
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And that is CRN is no longer CRN and sitting on the side lines. As much as I want to go on a tirade… I listen to him a the Village idiot from Nashville on occasion. CRN is always about the underdog. He loves the idea of expanding the play-offs. He was all about Cincinnati last year. Hates the idea of blue bloods dominating the show. He sees himself in UTjr. This is who he is.
Some quick points:
1) What adjustments did UTjr. make coming out at the half – answer “0”. Does anybody following Georgia football think Kirby and company would have made changes.
2). Of course there were things open. Guess what? There are always things open. If you go to games and not watch them only on TV – you see open receivers ALL the time.
3). Does anyone think that Georgia doesn’t have a few more wrinkles that UTjr. hasn’t seen on defense?
Finally: Last time I looked, Georgia has a pretty good offense, that was moving the ball up and down the field on the Vols. Georgia doesn’t have to outscore the Vols. The Vols have to outscore Georgia.
I’m exhausted from this stupidity…
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From a coaching standpoint, Georgia is superior to TN.
From a talent standpoint, Georgia is vastly superior to TN.
FThillbillyMF
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Excellent points, Ran A. The ZERO adjustments is a major point. The problem is that they’re not CAPABLE of making significant adjustments. Real talk. This is a critical problem with where they’re at right now personnel-wise. Don’t you think their coaching staff would have loved to have been able to make some?? Didn’t happen.
Secondly, like we’ve seen for so long now, Georgia just went into a rope-a-dope routine offensively in the second half, and stopped really trying to seriously score outside of just ramming the ball down their throats and burning up the clock — which is all we needed to do to win the game.
Every Georgia fan knows that this team is still getting better — especially offensively — and we’ll get “stopped” when we get stopped. As it stands, I’m not worried about ANY team until we get to Ohio State. That, I believe, will be a game. Go Dawgs!!
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Great post, Senator.
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Dear Rick,
We would like to pay you $20,000 to come speak at our next Knoxville Touchdown club meeting.
Rick: Send me the script so I can memorize it.
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And if the Bama rematch happens I will be cheering for Bama. Whiny loser versus whiny loser.
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A. Tennessee is one of the most penalized teams in the country. The 9 penalties they had against us is in line with their season average.
Pass rush probably had a bigger contribution to the false starts as the crowd noise did (according to Chris Landry on his weekly podcast after that game – he knows a little bit about football).
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Tennessee needed 17 Alabama penalties and a mistake by Gibbs, Burton, and Reichard on three consecutive plays to get a lucky shot at a FG to win at home with their noise.
Georgia still had more penalty yardage than Tennessee, and Tennessee is 2nd in the country in first downs due to penalty. They have gotten all sorts of breaks from the refs this season.
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How dominate has UGA become?
We now have bitter enemies fellating each other with assurances that the Dawgs aren’t real.
Gumps and Hillbilly idiots holding hands and taking long walks together.
What do Georgia fans, Alabama fans and Tennessee fans all have in common?
They’re all obsessed with UGA Football.
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Neuheisel is still pissed that Charlie Dean stole his cheese in 1983.
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I was there. In the rain.
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Rick has never forgotten Charlie Dean!
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Yes, I was at that game in 1983 – a monsoon
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If the Dawgs have to face the vols in the CFP nothing will change. Crowd noise will be the same as the vols are all broke from betting their life savings on the regular season loss and can’t afford tickets to a showing of the Juarez Donkey woman, much less a playoff game.
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That made me laugh out loud, Ranger!
But why would Tennessee fans pay to watch a donkey show when humpin’ heifers, hogs and chickens is their everyday way of life?
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Don’t forget the sheep and goats.
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Why you ask, OUD? Because after the show sloppy seconds are a Peso per pop. Vol fans are looking for some variety. Retards get bored of their sister or the brother who is too slow and won’t get off ol Sis fast enough.
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You’ve spent too much time at Ft Bliss
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Moe, I spent a week in the desert at Ft Bliss. Never ate or stayed indoors.
My depraved brother was stationed there. I heard stories about Juarez.
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Six weeks down range White Sands.
Beautiful
Peaceful
Quiet.
Shit hole.
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He didn’t really talk about how UT is going to get better along the LOS in how ever many weeks, though, did he?
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Good night. These freaking people. Since Tennessee had to play an away game it doesn’t count or something. Like playing away isn’t fair to them. If Hypel can only win in Knoxville he must not be much of a coach.
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I hope OK hires Jowlly Josh away from Tennessee and re-ignites the dumpster fire.
Pawl mentioned this possibility yesterday.
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Oh Lord please let this happen. That would be so funny.
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Nah, I want Bobby Hill to stay in Knoxville long enough for us to kick his ass a few more times.
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“I will be picking Tennessee to win that game,’’
Vegas is on line 1, Rick…
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Ho Li Phuq!
Little late to the party there, Ricky!!
Brian Jones can’t rescue you from yourself!
Brian knows solid defense.
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First I’ve heard of this from him. Weird because he’s been all about the Dawgs this season.
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Yes. Tennessee is unstoppable. Against bad teams.
Nick Saban and Alabama had this Tennessee team over a barrel with a field goal shot to win the game despite his team committing a SCHOOL RECORD for penalties and turning the ball over five times in Neyland Stadium. The Vols barely escaped that game, escaped at home against Florida, and needed overtime in Pittsburgh to escape there. They were exposed by a better team in Sanford Stadium. Rick Neuheisel’s best work is writing pun-filled songs about the matchups he’s covering. I mean… come on.
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I honestly think we beat them worse the second time if there’s a rematch. No rain means we keep our foot on the gas and win by 21+.
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We can only wish for Tennessee & Alabama to be in a rematch. Neuheisel was an awful head coach & off in his sports opinion.
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You would think Fucking Around and Finding Out once would be enough for most people. Nope. Still huffing that rat poison like it’s daddy’s moonshine.
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I don’t like having to play any team twice but I trust Kirby. I would note that if the committee can place Tennessee against Ohio State they will and it will be the late game so that whatever snuff film we are in against TCU or USC can be over with so that people can see two “great” offenses play. But as the Senator said after the Tennessee game I think OSU would love to get a chance against their defense and especially those DBs.
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Heupel always has a plan for us, until he gets punched in the mouth, again.
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If Rick were speaking to the Hades Touchdown Club he’d say Lucifer would’ve won the battle with God if it hadn’t been fought in Heaven.
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On the one hand I kind of think UT beats Bama convincingly in a rematch, if only because Saban has his team playing worse every week. I know they beat Ole Miss, but they really shouldn’t have.
On the other hand, I think we beat the Vols in a rematch even more convincingly without a chance of rain scaring Kirby into throttling down our offense for an entire half.
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