LIVE: Another win keeps Georgia in SEC East hunt
Another "partial sellout" flows through the gates at Vanderbilt Stadium.
NASHVILLE — If I’m a little slow getting this live blog started, it’s because I just ate about 27 pounds of barbecue — the combo plate of ribs, pulled pork and brisket — at the Wildhorse Saloon. Seriously, it’s some of the best Q I’ve ever had — and I’m sure I’ll be sweating it out in the middle of the night.
PETA did not endorse my lunch. But I will.
Most of you probably have been to Nashville at some point. For those who haven’t, I highly recommend it. Watching Steve Spurrier and South Carolina almost blow a game at Mississippi State is about the only thing that prevented this from being a perfect day. That is to say, they didn’t blow it. The Gamcocks got a touchdown pass from Connor Shaw to Alshon Jeffery with 3:50 left and escaped Starkville with a 14-12 win. A South Carolina loss and the door to a division title would’ve blown open today
Elvis, Elvis, everywhere. (How much BBQ could he put away?)
for the Bulldogs.
South Carolina already has endured turnover at the quarterback position (Stephen Garcia was kicked off the team) and Saturday saw running back Marcus Lattimore suffer a sprained knee in the fourth quarter. After the game, Spurrier told the media Lattimore’s injury “could be serious. He could be out a while.” The Gamecocks are off next week before resuming Oct. 29 with consecutive SEC games against Tennessee (road), Arkansas (road) and Florida (home).
The Opryland grotto. The river is completely natural.
So going into tonight’s game against Vanderbilt, the Dogs (3-1) trail South Carolina by (4-1) by a half-game in the SEC Eastern Division, with the Gamecocks still holding the tiebreaker edge. Florida (2-2, 4-2) kicks off against Auburn tonight at the same time as the Georgia game.
For Georgia, this game against Vandy really is about making the Florida game mean something. Losing the first two games of the season to Boise State and South Carolina basically left the Dogs with little to no room for error.
That's my wife on the left, posing with Steve Spurrier, I think.
It’s understandable if you’re still not sure what to think of this team. Since starting 0-2, the Dogs have won four straight over Coastal Carolina, Mississippi, Mississippi State and Tennessee by a composite score of 130-35 The three SEC wins have come over schools that entered the weekend with a combined conference record of 0-7.
If Georgia struggles tonight, something is wrong. The Commodores have lost their last two SEC games (Alabama, South Carolina) by a combined 55-3. Their offense is awful, their defense decent. It shouldn’t take a lot of points to win this.
For what it’s worth, Georgia is 51-18-2 all-time in the series and has won 15 of the last 16 meetings. The Dogs’ have won nine straight in Nashville since their last loss in 1991 (27-25 under Ray Goff).
OK, that’s it for now. I’m going to do some laps. I’ll be back shortly for the duration.
By Jeff Schultz
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Jeff Schultz
October 15th, 2011
8:25 pm
2 banks of lights jsut went out.
JB
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
3 FG’s trys against Vandy…………and we’ll beat who that’s ranked
kerryb
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
Abdullah The Butcher, Did you eat some bad fish? Florida is not killing anyone. They’re re not good anyone.
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
i dont think AM can pass because his head as swelled so much that his arm hits his head on the pass follow threw
5150 UOAD
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
Give me a break. PLAY ball. It is darker when it rains.
Not even wrong
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
Wow all that money and high dollar graduates and they can’t pay their light bill. That is high class right there!
SCDawg
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
You are correct Antidepressed…I stand corrected.
Vain Jangling
October 15th, 2011
8:26 pm
Lights out? Well, that’s an omen for sure.
kerryb
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
They’re not good enough.
Old Dawg Fan
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Lights going out is always a good sign
TXDOG
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Only way to turn this thing around is to lose this game and Richt will be gone for sure. However, none of us wants to lose to Vandy…AGAIN
Middle East Dawg
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Okay Folks…. This is what I’ve heard from a few different sources in reference to MY DUDE (Columbus, GA) Isaiah Crowell. It doesn’t make a lot of sense TO ME, but………. I’m hearing that he was simply being held out…….rested…nursing that ankle / wrist. Being that we’re playing Vandy and have a bye next week, coaches still want to get him his 20 carries, but simply decided to rest him????? That’s what a few “sources” have said. We’ll have to wait and see???????
Derobb
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Dadgum lights just went out! Fire Richt!
JB
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Do we think too much on offense?
F. Sinkwich
October 15th, 2011
8:27 pm
Dawgs make every team they play look like the GB Packers.
Coaching is an issue fer shure.
bi-polar dawg
October 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
run all day up the middle on the dream team of jenkins and geathers…bet they would do well in an eating contest…
kerryb
October 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
Shawn Williams is a beast of a safety
bi-polar dawg
October 15th, 2011
8:28 pm
you and williams both agree on that…
Antidepressed Dawg
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
***Correction…
Run the foot-ball
Run the foot-ball
Run a bad pass play
Try a field goal
Hit A Single
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
If the center can catch a pass on the fake punt, then you should be able to knock the crap out of him on the line of scrimmage anytime.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
Ok lets run the clock out like usual
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
Florida Gators will rule the Dawgs in 2 weeks
KB
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
My bet is we set on this great lead
JB
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
kerryb get ready. We put this mess in front of Fla,AU and Tech, we lose all three and you’ll have to follow Richt in the ACC
5150 UOAD
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
That was a STUPID kick plan
Vain Jangling
October 15th, 2011
8:29 pm
@JB – I don’t know, something tells me the problem is not “thinking too much.”
Orange11
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
Get some points.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
Run the clock out coach were not here to run the score up
dbc
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
How many times in the last three years have we seen a UGA team sleepwalk through a game. I’d say at least half the time. UGA can make the worst teams look like they should be ranked. I really think wins against Florida and Auburn are looking more and more like long shots. Chizik had to re-build over half his team and they improve every week. I honestly don’t know what Richt and Bobo do during the week, but it ain’t good.
ugafan13
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
We will continue to sux as long as CMR is the coach. He needs to fire BOOBOO and while he is at it fire hisself!
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
now that 6 yard pass over the middle i like
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 15th, 2011
8:30 pm
Please run the clock out coach we dont want to hurt their feelings
Russ
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
up the middle
JLB
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
If we just play with the lights out we may have an excuse to look so horrible against Vandy!
ugafan13
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
How many times are we going to try that stupid swing pass tonight?
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
but i hate the passes straight out toward the sideline
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
Coach run the clock out thats uga football
Derobb
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
Crowell missed catching the ball…Fire Richt!
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
Richt is getting happy because he is getting close to try another fieldgoal
KB
October 15th, 2011
8:31 pm
Hey we used a TE
5150 UOAD
October 15th, 2011
8:32 pm
FG attempt?
Hit A Single
October 15th, 2011
8:32 pm
How bout them Cavaliers and I didn’t even know they were still playing Div. I football anymore.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 15th, 2011
8:32 pm
Someone record this
we are actually trying to score before a half
Abdullah The Butcher
October 15th, 2011
8:33 pm
Richt is telling his team to get in field goal range
5150 UOAD
October 15th, 2011
8:33 pm
Murray NAILED hard
Old Dawg Fan
October 15th, 2011
8:33 pm
Terrible!
JB
October 15th, 2011
8:34 pm
Sorry folks, Murray is overrated
SCDawg
October 15th, 2011
8:34 pm
Interview with CMR at halftime…Coach, what has the problem been with Georgia in the first half? Problem? What problem. My OC is a freaking GENIUS…I don’t have a problem. We’re right where we want to be…field goals was the game plan all along.
Orange11
October 15th, 2011
8:34 pm
Points!
Old Dawg Fan
October 15th, 2011
8:34 pm
Wow we actually went for a TD right before half time.