Georgia’s win not art, but we’ve come to expect this

Georgia celebrates after Justin Houston's interception in the final seconds sealed the victory. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)

The Dogs celebrated after Justin Houston's interception in final seconds sealed win. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)

ATHENS — It was supposed to be easier than this.

But then, so was the Colorado game.

So was the Mississippi State game.

So was . . . well, let’s just assumed “easy” left town with Louisiana-Lafayette 12 weeks ago.

The offensive line hasn’t been the dominating unit that Georgia expected. The defense under Todd Grantham certainly hasn’t improved like expected. (Did Willie Martinez leave just his playbook in Athens or was that his spirit?) The physical and mental edge that the Bulldogs have often lacked over the past three seasons? Still lacking.

This is what Georgia fans get in 2010: a 6-6 record in this season’s deep sea of 6-6 records. The Dogs won 42-34 over Georgia Tech on Saturday. They became bowl eligible, not because they were much better than the Yellow Jackets but because — until a touchdown with 1:29 left — the opposing kicker had missed an extra point.

The teams combined for six turnovers plus a botched opening kickoff return by Georgia. When the Dogs and Jackets accounted for three fumbles in four exchanges, I’m pretty sure every bowl official in attendance stood up and left.

But if you’re a Georgia fan this season, you take it. Why? Because a win at least makes the 6-6 record far more appealing aesthetically than 5-7. Because a bad bowl game is better than no bowl game. Because this season has predominantly lacked beauty from the outset, save the acrobatics of A.J. Green and the surprising play of freshman quarterback Aaron Murray.

In retrospect, it was silly to think that the fact the Dogs were two-touchdown favorites suddenly would propel them to a dominating performance.

“It would’ve been sickening to be 5-7 right now and for the season to be over,” coach Mark Richt said.

Who knew a bottom-tier bowl game in Birmingham or Memphis could look like paradise?

It was nearly three months ago to the day Saturday when Richt looked ahead to this season like a child peering through the window of a toy store. He talked about his offensive line. He talked about veteran leadership. He talked about a turnaround on defense. But when asked for a won-loss projection based on the schedule, he balked.

“I used to do it more than I do now,” he said in August. “What year was it — [Matthew] Stafford’s freshman year [2006]? I kind of did it that year a little bit. We didn’t have a great season. Everything looked different than it was.”

Sort of like this year. There’s no spinning it. The season went sideways, and the Dogs have been wobbling almost from Day 1.

Richt will be back next season, and he should be back because winning two SEC titles in his first five seasons earns him the right to fix the problems. But he has a lot of problems to fix.

Aaron Murray completed 11 of 14 passes with three touchdowns in the first half but didn't throw much in the second half (3 for 6). (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)

Aaron Murray completed 11 of 14 passes with three touchdowns in first half but didn't throw much in the second (4 for 5). (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)

He can leave Murray alone. The young quarterback entered this season as the team’s biggest question mark, and he ended it as one of its few strengths. But almost every other area is due for an overhaul.

It wasn’t difficult to tell this was a game between 5-6 and 6-5 teams. The Dogs’ Shaun Chapas dropped the opening kickoff and Tech recovered (technically it’s not a fumble, just early humiliation). But the Jackets failed to score on that possession or the next one, despite starting at the Georgia 27 and 46. Their second drive? It ended with a fumble.

In the end, it wasn’t so much which team had fewer thumbs — we’ll call that one a tie — but which best took advantage. The Jackets’ first three fumbles all led to Georgia touchdowns. The Dogs’ fumbles led to bupkis for Tech.

Murray was phenomenal early, completing 11 of 14 passes for 220 yards in the first half and touchdowns to Kris Durham, Orson Charles and Bruce Figgins. But the Dogs couldn’t get through this without some drama. They jumped to a 14-0 lead and to fizzle ad see Tech come back with touchdowns on three of their next four possessions to tie it at 21-21.

The Dogs jumped back ahead by two touchdowns on a Washaun Ealey run and a Justin Houston 18-yard return of a fumble. But the Jackets, who had 512 yards in offense (411 on the ground), drove through the Dogs’ defense for two more scores.

Only a missed a extra point by kicker Scott Blair with 4:57 left kept the Dogs ahead, at 35-34.

Defensive end Akeem Dent, on the field, turned around just in time to see the miss.

“I turned and looked and was like: I know he didn’t miss it. Did he miss it?” Dent said.

A 20-yard touchdown run by Ealey with 1:29 left made it 42-34. Tech had one last possession fall short.

Two 6-6 teams stumbled over the finish line.

“I don’t care what bowl game we’re going to,” Green said in likely his final game at Sanford Stadium. “It’s better than going home right now.”

After the disappointment of the 2008 season with Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno and the pronounced slide of the last two years, it’s clear Georgia’s future doesn’t come with any guarantees. Richt doesn’t need to fix the quarterback. But he needs to fix everything else.

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447 comments Add your comment

Bill Stanfill

November 28th, 2010
1:13 am

I’m just grateful we play GT at the end of each season. We can count on them to find a way to lose to us. Gripe about the details but UGA owns Tech.

Surfdawg

November 28th, 2010
1:14 am

I have to agree with you GTFAN

shamuch

November 28th, 2010
1:16 am

Well Mark, it looks like you will get one more season to drag the Georgia program down below mediocrity by forcing good athletes into your outdated offense instead of adapting it to the talents of your players (see Chizit and Mullen and even Spurrier.) One more season of watching a high school OC ruin any chance of this team competing for titles and a slew of fast and talented player under perform due to a lack of strength and fundamentals. At least you and Bobo might take a few minutes in the off season to review the games in the hope that you will purge the playbook of the bonehead plays (see Sprint Draw) whose frequencies of use inexplicably seem to show up at the most critical time in important drives. Might I suggest looking at the plays of just about every other team in the conference and steal the best of them. While not confident I’ll give the DC another season since he’s new and has to put up with that offense. By the way shouldn’t a defense have learned to stop over pursuing by the 11th game in a season. And finally Bobo, when you have a one point victory safely wrapped up don’t let your opponent back in by sheer idiocy. Good Luck

captguitarman

November 28th, 2010
1:24 am

I cannot recall a more pathetic post-game “victory statement” than the one I saw tonight– ” We Still Run Georgia.” How about instead, “My sister only lets me make out with only her and no one else.” Actually, it was beyond pathetic. A pathetic claim of machismo and false bravado when the whole world saw for a whole season that there wasn’t any. Yes, you beat a rival with a benched star quarterback and an antiquated offense (as clearly demonstrated in its last two drives) which pretty much ensures no two minute touch down drives at the end of the 4th quarter in any game. So what! Your’re in a bowl game — the Jiffy Lube Bowl or Popeye’s Fried Chicken Bowl, or whatever. And there are your guys strutting about on national TV (even more pathos on top of more pathos) — yeah, we still run Georgia. It’s laughable. You run Georgia because a kicker missed a point after, but go ahead and strut around and stick out you chests on national TV, if it feels good. For the rest of us, the initial laughter and then after more reflection, the sympathy and then the pity feels pretty good too. We Still Run Georgia — it’s hard to stop LOL. Maybe you should get 2010 State of Georgia (College) Championship Rings engraved with that little gem. Usually only high schools do that kind of thing, but we can make an exception this year.

Surfdawg

November 28th, 2010
1:31 am

What size do you want CAPTGULTERMAN
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Surfdawg

November 28th, 2010
1:35 am

Or did you already get one in 2008

Youidiot

November 28th, 2010
1:35 am

This article officially pushed me over the edge. Sir, you a joke. We won. It doesn’t matter how, we won. Tech has one of the best offenses in the country. We all expected them to score a lot of points, and they did. So did Georgia. And our offensive line has performed below expectations? Yeah. That’s why we’ve scored 30+ points ever since Colorado. We battled back. We started 1-4. People were saying we were one of the worst teams in college football. We battled back. We fought hard against Auburn. It was a game till the 4th quarter. Fought hard against a Florida team that seemingly beats us every year. But we battled back. From 1-4 to 6-6! That’s a 5-2 finish, thank you very much. Hey Jeff! How’d your Jackets finish? 4 out of 5 losses to end the season? HAHA! A loss to Kansas? Oh my. Ya know Jeffey, there’s nothing more I love then seeing your disgusting Jackets fall yet again to a superior Georgia team who you’ve gone 1-9 since the start of the decade. Have fun in Shreveport with yet again another loss to Georgia sitting in your head!

One of the worst articles I’ve ever read. It’s so obvious your for the rambling wreck who’s only beaten Georgia once in 10 years. Congrats on the one win btw!

Jeff

November 28th, 2010
1:48 am

To gt nuke at 11:54 p.m…. NO SIR! You do NOT get a free pass on this one…. let us score, olsing by 8 is just like losing by 1, Tech just doesn’t have the guys to win close, etc.etc. NO SIR! All I heard from Tech people this summer was how you were ACC champs, your recruiting was SO much better, Georgia is weak, our defense can’t win games, we have a freshman QB while you have a SR, etc. etc. etc. All I heard was how Tech was going to whip Georgia in Athens, just like in 2008. And I ALSO read on blogs how ALL these Tech fans SWORE this was a 10 or 11 win season and a guarantee to get back to the ACC title game.

No, you don’t get a pass on “oh, well, at least we had a mathematical chance, we’ll be better next year, can’t wait until 2011, etc. etc. etc.” When GEORGIA fans say that, you kill us and say we are losers… but factually, if we’d had AJ Green earlier this year and if we’d had maybe 3 or 4 fewer turnovers all year, Georgia would be looking at 10-2, not 6-6. And of our losses, almost all were to ranked, bowl-bound teams… how many teams have to play Carolina AND Arkansas AND Florida AND Tennessee AND Mississippi State AND Florida AND Auburn in one year? Oh and ALSO play the defending ACC champions as their rivalry game?

You have to face facts and ADMIT stuff… you don’t get a free pass with “Gee whiz, you guys just beat an average Tech team, wait until next year, etc.” Nuke, that is LOSER’S MENTALITY, and THAT is why Georgia runs this state.

Sorry, Tech fans… hate to say it, but your smart-a** remarks earned it…. WE OWN YOUR SORRY BUTTS! We’ll win nine out of the next 10, too! 42-34 baby… enjoy THAT for a year! Now, quit your incessant yapping and worry about your basketball team… you might get beat by Georgia on the court this year, too!

Jamie

November 28th, 2010
1:49 am

Should have been 63 to 34.

King fumbled on the 10 yard line, Murray got satopped twice inside the 15 yard line on 4th and 1’s.

There’s 21 points.

Wes Durham's Gigantic Bottom

November 28th, 2010
1:49 am

Captguitarman…..it hurts, doesn’t it? It is tough to be proud of the way the UGA defense played tonight, but I would rather be saying that than going to the Tech blogs trying to downplay a GT win…..9-1…….CPJ is 1-2 vs. CMR….you Techies thought CPJ was going to usher in a new era in which GT dominated the series……reality hurts, doesn’t it?

Surfdawg

November 28th, 2010
1:50 am

YOUIDIOT don’t let that hack get the best of you.He can’t beat us so he just tries to cause chaos by writing over the top and controversial articles about UGA when ever he can. Just take a deep breath.

Marcus

November 28th, 2010
1:52 am

Aaron Murray is the reason UGA almost lost. He should have gone out there on defense and stopped the triple option on his own. And his completion rating was a horrid 79% with 271 yards and 3 touchdowns. Are you kidding me? He is the worst QB ever to play at UGA.

TGT

November 28th, 2010
1:55 am

Hey Tech Still Sucks,
You may too many presumptions. We were lucky to win the game tonight, and if you can’t acknowledge that, you can go back and watch more reruns of 1980. We are not a good football team right now, and I think we all know what you can do with your all caps declarations! I’m the UGA class of 1991, did you even attend UGA?

RomeDawg

November 28th, 2010
2:14 am

Newsflash Jeff, WE WON! This is a Tech team that started the year ranked in the top15 by some publications and we waxed their arse yet again. This is a Tech team that was supposed to get better every year under Johnson.

Face it Jeff, Richt has Tech’s number. 9 out of 10!

azdawg

November 28th, 2010
2:25 am

GA won but it was a terrible win. In 50 years of following GA football this is the worst defense GA has ever put on the field. They couldn’t stop dawg crap. Grantham is the worst DC we’ve ever had. The players, with few exceptions are over rated and mediocre at best. Blame that on recruiting and conditioning and coaching. Crap, Dukes def did better than GA at stopping tech. What an embarrassment to watch. Richt ought to be ashamed to collect his pay check. The Offense as good as they look at times are as terrible as they look at times. cannot get a foot, a stinking foot, for a 1st down and also a TD.

Schultz is right. Richt has his work cut out but I believe he will not be able to right the ship next season. He loses some of his best players to the NFL and graduation and there’s no body to replace them on either side of the ball. If he retains Grantham all hope is lost. He needs a younger and more energetic strength and conditioning coach. Bobo is walking a tight rope. He teeters between being good and awful at playcalling. Neither Ealey nor King are SEC caliber backs. Over rated as well. And forget about the veteran OL (and their coach). They proved tonight they’re not the talented group Richt bragged aBOUT in preseason.
You can go on and on about this team. They’re a 6-6 team and proved it tonight. tech gave GA this win. How can anyone get excited aBOUT thjis win when all it proves is there’s very little light at the end of the tunnel in GA’s future football prospects. God help us.

DodgerDAWG

November 28th, 2010
2:29 am

Jeff, At least once I would welcome an unbiased article from the left based ajc, but after 41 years I, like geatech, have became used to subpar performances…Yes, the game was filled with miscues, but at the end of the day UGA won, just as they have 9 years of the past 10 and I suspect just as the series will continue until GSU or GSU (whoever declares the right to become Georgia second best football program) removes gatech from this humiliating series. Congrats to the BULLDOGS for completing a season with a .500 record and a less than expected post season appearance, but after this year we have a sophamore quaterback who leads the nation in freshman quaterbacks in yardage, touchdowns and QB rating. We have struggled, we have fought, we have won and we have loss, but anytine we beat the nats from north avenue it is a GREAT year. I will enjoy playing the tech grads on the golf course for the next year and drinking freely from their wagers. As always GLORY GLORY to OLE GEORGIA, GLORY GLORY to OLE GEORGIA, GLORY GLORY to OLE GEORGIA and to hell with gatech (and the biased ajc)…42-34, 9-1, 61-35-5, and we RUN THE STATE.

DodgerDAWG

November 28th, 2010
2:32 am

AJC….SACK jeff

Gregory

November 28th, 2010
2:32 am

Defense won all 6 games so far.

Held 2 teams to 7 points (La Laf & Id St.)
Shutout Vandy
Forced 4 TO’s against Tenn for the win
Forced 3 TO’s against Kent for the win
Forced 4 to’s against Ga Tech for the win

Also held Miss St. & SC to under 20 points.

Defense made some big improvements in National Rankings this year:
#36 to #21 in rush defense
#59 to #29 in pass defense
#38 to #25 on total defense

Grantham will be getting a raise. What a tremendous job.

Big, big strides on defense.

DodgerDAWG

November 28th, 2010
2:34 am

AJC, why don’t you show my posts saying “SACK jeff”

Dan

November 28th, 2010
2:39 am

What happens to Aaron Murray in the 4th quarters? Auburn game–ouch.

Tonight’s game?
Third and long–sack.
no pass completions.
fumbles a 4th and 1 play to ice the game.

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Duluth Dawg

November 28th, 2010
2:51 am

UGA’s win tonight was like whip cream on a turd. The whip cream was the win and the turd is Tech. As has been posted before, Techies you don’t get a pass tonight. There are no moral victories. “Turkey Neck” Johnson is 1-2 against UGA and was lucky to win his first game against UGA. Richt is 9-1 against Tech. Techies, do you see a trend here?

Saint Simons, Tax Jacket, m, Real Old Gold two words: SUCK IT!!!! You guys are good at that. Excellent training at the North Avenue Trade School.

Jack Bower

November 28th, 2010
3:00 am

You guys that kill Bobo must have never played the game. This offense can be penciled in for 3o points plus any night. It’s not because their offensive line (that stinks) that they hang points up consistently…it is the play calling. Guys are wide open. Screens are hardly ever expected when ran. Running plays seem to come when blitz’s are. It’s the defense. You can’t win in The SEC and not play adequate D.

san diego dawg

November 28th, 2010
3:09 am

the most frustrating part of watching this 2010 team is seeing flashes of brilliance for one to three series on both sides of the ball and then watch them self destruct in slow motion. You can see why these kids were 4 & 5 star recruits. This team is loaded with athletes. The problems have to be either coaching related or these kids just don’t have the drive to be winners on & off the field. Richt still has a lot of problems to fix…maybe too many.

Crackberry Pie

November 28th, 2010
3:15 am

Mike Bobo is terrible I predicted 6 straight plays he called tonight. The sad part is that I only predicted 6 plays. Get a 7 point lead then run on 1st, run on second, force a pass on third and long when your qb is 14-17 with over 250 yds at that point. You cant make this stuff up. I would bet my house that I could destroy Bobo or Richt in a game of ncaa, especially in the coach only mode.

Tech Tony

November 28th, 2010
3:24 am

While those that say that CPJ’s offense will never be a juggernaut in the two minute drill all I can say is that you certainly have evidence on your side. But to those who say it’s a high-school offense that is easily stopped, well, evidence shows that you’re wrong. Way wrong. The game, based on talent level, probably should have been a blowout but it wasn’t. I can’t say this with any certainty but I suspect that it would have been a rout under Chan Gailey. It wasn’t and the credit belongs mostly to Paul Johnson.

From a UGA perspective, and believe me, based on the football knowledge exhibited by the UGA crowd on this blog I doubt I’ll get a sensible answer, I’d like this question answered (c’mon, there are some pretty bright UGA fans on here from time to time so help me out here): why, when you know that UGA has put more defensive lineman in the NFL than any other school over the last 10 years, switch to a 3-4? In doing that, aren’t you walking away from what it is you have done best?

Ok, now I’ve vented. I’ll congratulate the classy UGA fans, all three of you. We blew chances, you blew chances but you won the game and deservedly so.

John Galt

November 28th, 2010
4:05 am

If Miami’s AD will call me, I’ll get him Mark Richt’s phone number.

I have blindly backed him for 10 years, but I now get nauseated when I see his emotionless demeanor on the sideline when we are playing like we haven’t practiced in a month-

John Galt

November 28th, 2010
4:10 am

Tech Tony-

I believe that your answer is that the 3-4 is the appropriate defense to match up with the spread offenses so many teams run today.

The relevant question is “Why don’t you switch your defense in anticipation of a wishbone defense”? We did it in high school, from game to game, so I guess these developmentally challenged recruits that we have in Athens just can’t handle it.

My apologies to the other developmentally challenged students.

timboy6

November 28th, 2010
4:37 am

Let’s see how Grantham does after he gets some of his recruits. He’s playing the hand he’s been dealt right now.

wonder

November 28th, 2010
4:41 am

Does anyone in GA..expect folks to go to the comode bowl with this team?
If the nats gash you for 400?..you have serious problems.
Bowls are outdated anyway..but the fact that this team can play in one..
makes them worthless.

wonder

November 28th, 2010
4:48 am

Obviously..many here think tech should be on par with uga?
WRONG..the money and the resources are 5 times higher in Athens..
so you should be 5 times better.
Any dawg fan that was “pleased” with this performance? Turn in your card now..

mowreck

November 28th, 2010
5:33 am

Dave, wanted before anything else, to tell you how much I enjoyed playing your little pick-um football contest. Great thing for an old retired guy, except for the exercise. Oh well, my fingers are in GREAT shape! Thanks again.

huffsleeper

November 28th, 2010
5:54 am

Of all the poor coaching I thought the worst was the decision to score the last UGA touchdown. By taking a knee you win 100% of the time. By scoring you give Tech the ball with a chance to tie the game. Tech coaches realized this and Georgia’s didn’t. Neatherthal coaching with no math skills.

NewnanDawg

November 28th, 2010
5:58 am

Can’t wait to see how the dawgs do next year without Green, Houston, Durham, Boling, Dent, etc. We can only hope Miami makes Richt an offer he can’t refuse.

61-39-5

November 28th, 2010
6:24 am

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YAD

November 28th, 2010
6:39 am

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

hop

November 28th, 2010
7:07 am

the sad part is dawgs will lose many of it’s playmakers next year and without greene,durham on offense, our record next year could be worse.

our recruiting class will not help much because most of the top players will go somewhere else.

they now this ship is sinking fast and a new coach will be in athens in 2012 so the dawgnation will have to suffer one more dismal year.

Cal fan

November 28th, 2010
7:33 am

Have to give credit to #18 on the GT team. That guy was something.
Why do some of the UGA fans not like Mark Richt? He seems to be a great recruiter and A.J. Green will great in the NFL. UGA has a great young QB and GT has a good offensive line. Neither team has a very good defense. Do you think Miami will try to hire Richt since he played there?

Fair and Balanced

November 28th, 2010
7:33 am

How do we know GA is the state champion? Neither Tech nor GA played GA State or GA Southern!

Sloan

November 28th, 2010
7:39 am

Very seldom do I watch UGA win a game and am compelled to proclaim them the worst UGA team I have ever seen. But that’s what I did last night. There are so many things bad about this team, and so few that are good (A. J. Green, Aaron Murray, Justin Houston … that’s about it unless you include the punter and kicker). As a UGA alumni, I pray that Coach Richt can turn it around, but in my heart I don’t believe he can. He has a poor coaching staff on the offensive side of the ball and an unproven one, at best, on the defensive side. Stacy Searel’s work with the O-line this year should grade out as an “F” when you consider that the O-line was supposed to be our big strength going into this season. Mike Bobo gets a “D” for calling some of the most inexplicable plays at some crucial moments during the course of our grand 6-6 season. On defense, it is just too early to tell if Coach Grantham and company need a couple of seasons to get the 3-4 installed with the right players or if Richt made a very expensive mistake in hiring those coaches. But what is certain about the defense is they played no better than Coach Martinez’s unit did last year.

Caoch Richt is a good football coach and a wonderful Christian man. However, I am afraid he has surrounded himself with some really poor excuses for assistant coaches on both sides of the football. I pray that I get proved wrong about this, but the evidence to this point suggests not.

I am a season ticket holder and missed the entire home season this year for the first time since Coach Richt was hired. I live about 4.5 hours from Athens so we normally go to 2 home games a year since it is such a major time and money investment to go to Athens to take in a game. I just didn’t see enough in this year’s team to make that kind of investment. I wonder how many games we’ll go to next year?

Russ

November 28th, 2010
7:45 am

I slept like a baby last night after a fine Georgia win. Many of you will owe Richt an apology this time next year when the 2012 team is 10-2 or 11-1. Watch for it.

Meyer, Miles, Saban, Brown, Stoops, Joe Pa, they all have a few off years. Nobody is going to be 11-1 or 12-0 every year. Those days are gone.

Russ

November 28th, 2010
7:46 am

2011. Its early.

kpdawg

November 28th, 2010
7:47 am

When will you guys realize that negative comments on blogs affect recruiting? Like it or not, in this day and age, kids read this stuff. The more you talk about getting rid of Rict, the more kids go to Alabama and Auburn.

Wes Durham's Gigantic Bottom

November 28th, 2010
7:54 am

Has any ajc writer pointed out that UGA improved dramatically in reducing the number of penalties and an improved turnover ratio? I guess that would be giving the coaching staff some credit and unacceptable…..they would rather write articles about what a great job turkey neck did in almost beating the in state rival……well, CMR is 9-1 against the trade schoolers and 2-1 against the greatest, smartest, coach in the history of college football, so he must be doing something right.

Bullwinkle

November 28th, 2010
7:57 am

IF you use your quarterback to run the ball, he will get hurt. He will get hurt. Remember, even the guy who invented college football had a quarterback named Tebow who got hurt and actually lost to Georgia

Beast from the East

November 28th, 2010
7:59 am

Congrats, Dawgs!

Bullwinkle

November 28th, 2010
7:59 am

Congrats to the Gamecocks for a great season, by their standards. Beat the Cheetahs!

Bullwinkle

November 28th, 2010
8:03 am

Next Year MEYER will quit, AGAIN

Bullwinkle

November 28th, 2010
8:04 am

O anf congrats to the Gamecocks, and beat the Cheetahs!!!

Coffee Bluff DAWG

November 28th, 2010
8:05 am

We’ll take the win and move onto a bowl game but last night was frightful. GT defense had no pass rush nor secondary but we were almost as bad. UGA should have scored every time they had the ball.

UGA needs to begin turning this thing around – we have fallen so far it is hard to watch some games.