The sad reality is that we are nearly a quarter of the way through the College Football Season. Yeah, that was against two teams with quarterbacks who could take off whenever they needed, hell, whenever they wanted.
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“We’ve certainly had experiences that we should learn from”, Freeze said.
It ended as the largest margin of defeat for the Bulldogs in a regular season game since 49-10 to Florida in 2008 and the worst in any game since a 42-10 SEC championship game loss to LSU in 2011. Now it’s gut check time. If Georgia plays Tennessee for the second straight year without Chubb then it will be a blessing for the Vols. Cause let’s face it people Nick Chubb is just that good.
Ole Miss ran the Bulldogs off the field, winning 45-14, a comprehensive humiliation that will leave Georgia fans wondering what happened, and what it says about the state of their program. Kelly is experienced on the field and can read the defense of opposing teams well. Ole Miss never gave away its lead, which it’s been prone to do this season, and Kirby Smart’s team never stood a chance.
These teams have quite a bit of history but haven’t met since they played consecutive games in 2011 and ’12.
The Bulldogs were awful on third-down plays in Saturday’s 45-14 loss, converting only four times on 15 attempts.
Georgia will lick its wounds and get ready for No. 14 Tennessee Saturday at 3:30 p.m.in a CBS national game, but there will be a lot of work to do in the meantime to fix the psyche of a team that had about as a rough an afternoon that it could have imagined.
Vaught and his staff would shoot doves in the morning during the season before coming to the office. That unit was solid in the first two weeks of 2016 as well, but last week. not so much. Michel notched a team-high 34 receiving yards on two catches. Although the Gators haven’t played a powerhouse school by any means, only giving up two touchdowns in three games is impressive, no matter what schools you are facing.
Georgia’s special teams again were terrible particularly in the kicking game. We were standing in the rain and trying to figure out what to do when a sweet Ole Miss student noticed us in disarray. According to OddsShark, Ole Miss is favored by 7 points. The ‘Dawgs secondary could have its work cut out.
Trailing 48-30 with 2:59 left in regulation, Kelly found wideout Damore’ea Stringfellow in the corner of the endzone to pull Ole Miss to within 48-37. In the Georgia football media guide, 14 games are listed, with the 2008 loss to Florida being the last. “We’ve got to do a better job as coaches to help them, OK?” Damore’ea Stringfellow had 87 yards and a touchdown. Ole Miss’ QB, Chad Kelly has 953 yards, 10 touchdowns and 3 interceptions.
A big time SEC Showdown takes place today down in “The Grove” as the Georgia Bulldogs take on the Mississippi Rebels.
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Offensively, Georgia football is averaging 233.0 yards in passing and 185.7 yards in rushing, and 29.0 points per game. Basically, Georgia can’t win this game. “Ole Miss really affected Jacob”. And this year, that has translated to individual games. Georgia playing their usual “4th Quarter Team” way may be of great use for them in the long run but we’ll see how that plays out on Saturday at 12 p.m. But he eventually gave way to highly touted freshman Jacob Eason.
