Live from Lexington: UGA’s back in the ol’ SEC East chase
The team in blue is on the mind of Georgia, which plays a different team in blue tonight. (AP photo)
Lexington, Ky. – Two weeks after Georgia lost by four touchdowns in Columbia, the Bulldogs again have the opening they need. Yes, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. But if Georgia is good enough to beat you-know-who you-know-where next Saturday, the Bulldogs will stand atop the SEC East with only two winnable conference games (Ole Miss and Auburn) remaining.
Dept. of details: Georgia does need to beat Kentucky here tonight.
Dept. of reality: Georgia should beat Kentucky by 30 points.
Even if Kentucky were any good, I can’t imagine the Wildcats could stand with a Georgia team that’s coming off a bye and is sure to be enthused by the news that is Florida whipping South Carolina in Gainesville. Kentucky, however, is not any good. Even by UK standards, this is an awful assemblage. Its four SEC losses have come by 38, 21, 13 and 42 points. The 42-point loss at Arkansas was shortened to three quarters by a merciful thunderstorm.
Yes, I know that the Gator-Gamecock tussle isn’t officially over, but I’ve seen enough. Florida’s not losing today. South Carolina, which looked so good against Georgia, hasn’t looked the same since, and now the Gamecocks are pondering a rather epic slide: Could the same Chickens who were ranked No. 3 in the land only eight days ago wind up in Chick-fil-A Bowl?
And now you’re asking: If South Carolina wasn’t half as good as it l0oked against Georgia, what does that say about Georgia? Feel free to discuss among yourselves, while we await the 7 p.m. (or thereabouts) kickoff. And I thank you for your patronage.
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azdawg
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
my god, another missed extra point!!!!!!!! hire a freakin spec teams coach!!!!!!!!!!!!! this absolutely rediculous.
Arizona Dawg
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
This team is so totally unprepared, uninspired, and overrated. We so suck.
demoney2291
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
OK lemme see if I got this right you were demolished 2 weeks ago, bye week last week SC loses then they lose today as well suddenly you or back in control of your own destiny and you come out like this not to mention this team has you as their homecoming game what is wrong with this picture
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
Hairy Dawg
Can’t believe you are talking smack.
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
THis defense absolutely drives me crazy bc i know the talent is there but they are constantly out of position and are soft and weak minded. i thought grantham solved the problem this weak but i think this is the worse our defense has looked all yr. We got worse and this is not jarvis fault bc he would be on the edge anyway they are doing this right at you john jenkins and geathers right at yall
KDS
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
The offense will score zero next week! Murray will choke and Bobo will be bobo
Sunbury Ga dawg
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
M. Morgan missed PAT again…………
Browndog
October 20th, 2012
8:03 pm
Now how quickly will UK score?
John
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
How many of those touchdowns against a Top 10 team? Murray has the most useless record in UGA history.
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
Georgia needs a stop. Can’t believe I’m saying this. I thought it’d be over by the half
SEC Football
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
WE MAY WIN THE GAME BUT WE ARE IN TROUBLE NEXT WEEK!
DEFENSE READ TO MANY PRESS CLIPPINGS BFORE THE SEASON.
HATE TO SAY IT BUT WE ARE NOT A SEC CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBER TEAM.
vampire bill
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
Tavarus King wearing an earring… man my HS coach would of cut my ear off. Richt is soo soft
JoeDon
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
A touchdown, so what? Keep things in perspective. This is KY for God’s sake! The way GA played the 1st quarter, a team like FL will put the game out of reach in the 1st 15 minutes. We have not had a clutch, quality team in years…please, please, please change out the coaching staff.
Todd grant ham
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
What’s that? Morgan’s third pat miss? Good grief!! can’t remember a UGA kicker that missed that many In a career.
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
Funny. A UGA kickoff coverage guy is running down the field and a KY player has his jersey with both arms fully extended. How can an official not see that.
DAWG with two bags over head
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
Did you notice how well LSU adjusted to A&M.? We could have had Chavous if CMR hadn’t kept Martinez for so long. This bunch of bozos couldn’t adjust during the game if their lives depended on it.
ShowmeYurTD's
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
Tech just fired their d coach……
Dunwoody Dawg
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
Actual quote from Richt on 790 the zone the wee of the South Carolina game. “Well I don’t really worry too much about motivating the players, I sorta let them do that themselves. I worry about getting them in position to make plays.” Mark, you validated with one sentence what we fans who understand football have known all along. That stoic, flatline demeanor of yours spreads like a cancer through the team and we end up with this.My God I can’t take any more.
cmac22
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
ugaly is an overrated team with poor players & terrible overpaid coaches!! They may beat KY but will lose by 30 to FL
Since Vince
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
What a total embarrassment to be a Dawg fan right now.
scrappy
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
When KY fires Joker, let’s replace Grantham with him.
Bill
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
It’s amazing that a school that is so proud of its football program tolerates such a crappy football program.
DawgFanInBama
October 20th, 2012
8:05 pm
Has Ogletree been eating brownies before games lately? He looks terrible.
Dumpster fire
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
We have a code one in progress, what’s a code one, a dumpster fire, repeat dumpster fire those have been common around here lately….
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
to me ogletree is the only player on defense that will hit somebody and plays with passion but he gets caught in traffick alot bc of poor coaching
Todd grant ham
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
MArk, remember the old column. Richt has put the excitement back into UGA Kentucky games
scrappy
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Watching a Georgia PAT is like watching Lucy hold for Charlie Brown. Same result.
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
What are our linebackers doing?
In the 3-4, linebackers must defend the run.
They don’t know what to expect from KY.
Sad.
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Short of the first down. Rambo with a nice bringdown
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Watch how our guys on the edge rush up field. Good running QB’s will run right underneath them. Which is what is happened against USC and will happen against FL.
demoney2291
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Sec football I gotta agree with that even if they win tonight every week will be a challenge
Dawgs1965
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Short.
DEP
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
cmac22…..I see a Tech Turd troll is in the house
Since Vince
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Our Defense looks like they would start for a jr college.
ShowmeYurTD's
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
Rambo finally showed up
Highly Respected Southern Troll
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
What’s up with all of the missed PATs? Tech missed one today, Southern missed two today, and now this…
Help
October 20th, 2012
8:07 pm
I need a good laugh, what channel is this on?
AmeliaDawg
October 20th, 2012
8:07 pm
Maybe we should wear silver helmets for the UGA/FL game.
Orange12
October 20th, 2012
8:07 pm
Glad he held on to that one.
Todd grant ham
October 20th, 2012
8:07 pm
So Richt told McGowan to catch the punt. But didn’t explain the fair catch rule.
MenVsBoys
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
Georgia players just aren’t smart. what is wrong with them?
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
We are in big trouble next week. Florida is the best at special teams and they good at running the ball and they play extremely physical on defense. how in the worlf do we match up with that. someone please tell me.
Wcoladawg
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
Isn’t McGowan told to fair catch everything? If not they should!
DAWG with two bags over head
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
At least K-State is kicking WV.
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
8:06 pm
What are our linebackers doing?
In the 3-4, linebackers must defend the run.
They don’t know what to expect from KY.
BS. They don’t know what they are supposed to do. They just rush up field as hard as they can and the backs are running right where they were.
guerillatraveler
October 20th, 2012
8:08 pm
Excuse me senator but Aaron Murray is no David Greenne nor Andy Johnson (can I bring that up, comparisons being odious etc?.) Oh it’s just a game, but Kentucky looks like er Southern Cal tonight or er Florida . . . It’ll be a muggy night next week in J’ville, accent of the mugging.
DawgFanInBama
October 20th, 2012
8:09 pm
Has UGA gained ANY yards off punts this year? Why does it seem like they NEVER have time???
vampire bill
October 20th, 2012
8:09 pm
Auburn has to be excited to play these dawgs down the road. I’m sure they are tired of losing… Man this sux
nobody
October 20th, 2012
8:09 pm
Richt must really not care about Special Teams
1. Mitchell constantly returns. Every time he messes something up
2. Punt Return never calls a fair catch. Guess nobody taught them they could
3. We have two kickers. One has a higher percentage on kicks over 50 yards than he does on PATs. Yet we always use him.
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
8:09 pm
THey tell them to fair catch bc that is easy coaching bc if you return it you got to coach the guy on when to return it when to faircatch it and how to hit the hole and which sideline to attack and how to make guys miss so we just have them fair catch it that the easy way out