7) Las Vegas – Dammit, oddsmakers.
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“Got to be aggressive, that’s the most important thing for our team to do right now”. “It’s up for grabs now”. Chubb and Theus will be offensive captains for Georgia this week, with linebacker Leonard Floyd representing the defense and returner Sony Michel the special teams. So come Saturday at 2:30 in Athens, something will have to give. “TCU? How many people have heard of TCU?” “They don’t beat themselves much. Phew”.
Strength Coach Curses? Dog Bites Man. Big deal. Not to mention the countless times it happens in Auburn games. Which brings us to Scott Cochran.
His coach was in an uplifting mood Monday. Grand gestures at the game.
Georgia made a decision to stage a well-publicized “blackout” for its game against Alabama.
Georgia head coach Mark Richt looks on from… Don’t you wish every coach could relax enough to have so much fun with a big game like this?
“All the other stuff is not healthy to get in the middle of”, Richt said. Georgia hasn’t been that close since, not even getting back to the SEC championship.
“I think it a lot of the older guys harder than me”.
“Football rewards those individuals who persevere”. If Alabama hesitates in the moment, it could be the difference in a pivotal, tight game. The personel would lead one to believe that Alabama should be a smash mouth run oriented offense, but Lane Kiffin continues to try and air the ball out.
The 2012 loss ended with Georgia at Alabama’s 5. Chubb has a streak of 12 straight games rushing for more than 100 yards. “We just have to put it all to use”. Quite the opposite. It was a rebirth. “For the last three weeks we haven’t played against that kind of team, so we’re looking forward to the challenge of trying to get back to being able to play that kind of football”. “You want to go out and show what you can do”.
Mahomes was hit going out of bounds at the 1 after a 15-yard run on the second possession of Saturday’s game. To return to south Florida and shove his new team down everyone’s throat? Henry said he’ll be fine against Georgia. Clemson and Arkansas already knew the feeling.
Limits will grow as Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff approaches, but it looks like the Crimson Tide will enter a game as the underdog for the first time since the 2009 SEC Championship Game. Bama won the yardage battle 303-92 as they got an early lead and turned things over to the defense. Coker finally got the first-string treatment last week. You don’t hear any talk about a signature win for Nick Saban. “You focus on your job”.
However, there have been plenty of bright spots for Alabama.
This is what perfection on a football field looks like. He could play himself into the first round with a strong junior year.
They went back to their locker room thunderstruck.
Georgia enters unbeaten, the prohibitive favorite in the SEC East. But the Bulldogs still carry the stigma of a program that can’t fulfill its potential to win it all. Then it’s back to Athens for a game against Missouri, the two-time SEC East champion. I’m not sure I can say that about both Clemson and Notre Dame. Composite computer rankings of FBS teams have Georgia ranked fifth in the nation behind Ohio State, Mississippi, UCLA and LSU. “If teams can’t score, they can’t win”.
Georgia didn’t play all that well in the first half, particularly on defense. “He practiced a few last week”. This on top of his work on offense, where he’s scored three touchdowns (two rushing and one receiving). Rest in pieces, Bulldogs.
Has anyone ever done that? Tight end O.J. Howard is on pace for a big season, with 13 receptions for 183 yards.
In a phrase, Saban called the Bulldogs a complete team. Allen left last week’s game with a shoulder injury. There was booze in the streets, bands on the porch and black cocktail dresses in the stands. This is the premier home game of the year.
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Now we can move on.
