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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Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
We look like crap against KY
MenVsBoys
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
How did we beat Vanderbilt? Seriously.
Jimmy Crack
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
If I was Ford I would pull my commercials.
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
I hope yall realize granthams numbers are worse than willie martinez numbers. i am not saying i wish we had willie bc he was awful what i am saying is grantham is worse. last yr we were a horrible defense look at the four losses not the wins against horrible teams that finished under 500. Wake up dawg fans grantham is overrated and his scheme is to hard. he needs to simplify it. no one has never had the talent that this defense has on it not even saban at bama last yr. we had 4 or 5 first round grades on defense. grantham might have killed those grades though.
Ward
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
Now the UK defense looks unstoppable… This is AWESOME…it’s great to be a bulldawg
muleshoe
October 20th, 2012
7:26 pm
well. Kentucky’s d-line is dominating so far…
Ward
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
I will take anyone now over Richt…ANYONE
Bigdawg63
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
Get ready dawg fans, getting ugly already! Where are all the Mark Richt supporters now???
dawgingatorville
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
Totaly unprepared, Time for Richt to go…. How many times will Florida rebuild with a new coach and be in the mix in just one or two years and UGA can never even climb the damn hill…
FIRE RICHT, FIRE BOBO, FIRE GRANTHAM
Russ, the Temporary Mascot aka UGA IX
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
Mark, I need a little curtain on the door of my house so nobody can see me in here. This is embarrassing.
ugafan13
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
WHOA is correct. Are we sure we even got the team off the bus. GEEZ this is revolting!
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:27 pm
What an absolute joke. #72 hasn’t recovered from his butt whipping against USC. The guy obviously can’t pass block so why isn’t a TE or RB helping him?
I’m a big fan of UGA, but I’m so sick of this crap. I hope they lose so changes will be made.
Gary Tanner
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
UGA loses one game … one game … and a coaching change is absolutely necessary, says the readers of AJC blogs. Nice, so-called fans, nice.
Browndog
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
UGA looks flat, slow, tired and just plain not interested in being on the field.
Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
It’s the same tired old story with the UGA Dawgs……..they beat the “FLUFF” teams but Florida is going to expose them for the pretenders that they are.
Even if they get to the SEC championship game, by way of the SEC East, everyone already knows what is going to happen….I’m just keeping it real!!!!!
Not a Chance
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
Teck would kick Dawgs butt. Again, poor coaching. This team is not even ready to play. Watch UK come down and score again by just running it down our throats.
TGT
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
THIS TEAM HAS ITS HEAD IN ITS A$$ AGAIN!!! COACHES MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!
AND: WHY IN THE WORLD CAN WE NOT RUN A FREIKIN TOSS SWEEP??!! WHY DO WE TURN AND PITCH IT WHEN THE BACK IS RUNNING BETWEEN THE TACKLES??!! GET TO THE EDGE!!!
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
it is horrible coaching and nothing more. we are unprepared and motivated on top of being coached down. How do you come out playing like this when you just realized you can still reach all of the goals that were set in the off season. I DONT GET IT
Hairy Dawg
October 20th, 2012
7:28 pm
I not worried. Kens Tuck will wear down in 4 quarter. We just keep smacking them loser cats and we win.
Go Dawgs!
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
We shouldn’t get pushed all over the field like this.
Richt can’t get the team ready to play with intensity.
Al
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
@Gary Tanner
You must be at Disney World
GatorsforRicht
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
That is correct, I honestly do not think we will beat Bama, but is next week looking good for us or what? Next week may resemble 2008, you guys really do make it easy for us.
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
@dawgs01
I’m starting to agree that the D is too complex. Every damn play there are guys running free and UGA defenders are arguing over who had who…..
Just a damn joke.
Johnny Appleseed
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
We need another contract extensions these coaches arent payed enough
Ward
October 20th, 2012
7:29 pm
This team has had no heart in years…
Big Wally
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
You would never know that this team even practices between Monday and Friday.
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
UGA line backers are horrible in this system.
J.J.M.
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
This team will go nowhere with this head coach he’s too soft
Beast from the East
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
You boys ready to come down to Jax? I think the Mighty Gators will be more than ready.
Johnny Appleseed
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
Hopefully we can dance in the endzone next week for more motivation
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
Getting dominated at the line of scrimmage by KY.
superdawg
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
BY FAR THE WORST COACHED TEAM EVER AT UGA . BE BETTER OFF WITH RAY GOFF
OR JIM DONAN
RunninWithTheDawgs
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
Kty. started out extra strong. SO WHAT? Dawgs 42 Cats 17
azdawg
October 20th, 2012
7:30 pm
neither side D nor O showed up tonight. terrible X 100000000. don’t care if the dawgs pull this out need to fire all the coaches and get some a$$ kicker in there who can get these so called star athletes to play. BS!!
dawgs01
October 20th, 2012
7:31 pm
ITs not one game we loss man. it is last yr and 08 and this crap you are watching right here. Thats why we are tired of this. what will be the excuse after tonight if we barely win or lose. we were tired from watching the sc and florida game so we wont be doing that anymore.
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2012
7:31 pm
Whitlow scramble for a FD.
Bigdawg63
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Hey Gary Tanner, are you watching the same game we are watching? Georgia is losing to a really bad Kentucky and Kentucky is driving again on our pitiful defense!
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Dogs can’t stop a running QB.
muleshoe
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
59Jenkins is godawful slow…
Ward
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
I think everyone here needs to start a writing campaign to President Adams and Greg McGarity to remove this staff immediately… We can bring in Clarke Central coaches to finish the season… Let’s go ahead and state for the record that this staff is done.
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Geathers with a sack. First play any defender has made, at least to my memory.
Big Wally
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Once again, another Mark Richt coached team that is not prepared to play.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot aka UGA IX
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Coach Grantham was making $750,000 before they called him in and gave him a raise. I think he could buy some bling with that to help us in recruiting. I am expecting a big personal foul real soon. Just keep watching.
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Why is it so hard for this D to contain a QB? Because they use the NFL style pass rush that blows up the field. USC blew us apart because of this and LSU didn’t try to sack the QB they just contained him. FL will kill us because of this.
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Kentucky almost converts on a draw on third and 12.
phil
October 20th, 2012
7:33 pm
LOLOLOLOLOL!
We stink!
Captain Obvious
October 20th, 2012
7:33 pm
KY already has 70 yards rushing.
Orange12
October 20th, 2012
7:33 pm
SC beat UGA 35 – 7. FL beat SC 44 – 7. Could be a long night in Jax if UGA doesn’t snap out of this funk.
Jimmy
October 20th, 2012
7:33 pm
Do not buy ESPN Gameplan.
Poor picture quality.
son's who?
October 20th, 2012
7:33 pm
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