Live from UGA: Will we see a Cocktail Party hangover?
Coming down won't be easy. (AJC photo by Bob Andres)
Athens – Let’s stipulate that Georgia cannot possibly be as energized for this week’s game as it was seven days ago. Let’s also stipulate that Georgia has more talent than Ole Miss and is playing at home. It wouldn’t be surprising if the Rebels took an early lead and held it awhile. It would, however, be positively stunning if Ole Miss led after four quarters.
It’s also worth noting that Florida, which lost to Georgia, trailed Missouri 7-0 at the half in Gainesville today. (Hey, wasn’t it just yesterday than even some Georgia fans considered Florida too good to lose?) But the Gators have since forged ahead 14-7. Which doesn’t mean they’ll hang on and win. It does, however, underscore the peril inherent in post-big-game blahs.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but motivation — especially the motivation of 20-year-old amateurs — is an ephemeral thing. The Bulldogs have had a week of being slapped on the back. (Surely some of those backslappers harbored private doubts pre-Jax.) It would be human nature to follow an impassioned performance with a lesser one. That said …
The longer games go, the less passion matters. Contrary to popular belief, games tend to be won by the team that plays better, as opposed to harder. Again we note that Georgia has better players, which leads us to predict: Georgia 31, Ole Miss 20.
But you know me. I’ve been wrong a time or two. I’ll be here to watch and report, and I’d appreciate your company. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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DawgNole
November 3rd, 2012
6:44 pm
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:26 pm
Just hanging out man. Honest question. Why is UGA playing their starters in this game?
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80sDawg
November 3rd, 2012
6:44 pm
Georgia has looked good this second half. I wish they could put a complete game together. Maybe they will in the SEC CG!
dawgs01
November 3rd, 2012
6:44 pm
smith a great game tonight
Jimmy
November 3rd, 2012
6:44 pm
Aaron Murray is feasting on a very young and inexperienced secondary.
Lots of fun, but he needs to do it against a top ten team in a big game.
Not GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:44 pm
Nice job by the dawgs.
Lets go Falcons. It will be tough without Spoon……
Donald
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
@ Jimmy, you are dumb if you think UGA won’t play for the BCS title if they beat Bama. We beat Bama we are there.
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
Not that I care much about comparative scores, but …
Alabama 33, Ole Miss 14.
Texas 66, Ole Miss 31. At Ole Miss.
Buckeye
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
FREE LILLY!
Swami Sez
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
If UGA goes 13 – 1 they will be left out of title game …Book It! Pathetic loss to South Carolina stings!
Mark Bradley
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
Wasn’t Florida in the the top 10?
dawgs01
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
jordan jenkins got around that tackle like he was shot out of a cannon
Big Crimson 75
November 3rd, 2012
6:46 pm
Mark Bradley
November 3rd, 2012
6:42 pm
Not that I care much about comparative scores, but …
Alabama 33, Ole Miss 14.
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Bradley — don’t do it.
There was a downpour in Alabama that night.
I assure you the score is misleading.
kerryb
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
Swami, that depends on if SC loses another game. If they don’t that will help UGA. Computers don’t care how you played a game
kingdaddy
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
Where did all those imaginary nerds go, lol…why do they hate me???
Not GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
@Jimmy
“Aaron Murray is feasting on a very young and inexperienced secondary.
Lots of fun, but he needs to do it against a top ten team in a big game.”
See the TD drive against #2 FL. Rarely does someone throw for 300+ against a legit top 10 defense. That is why they are legit top 10.
Murray played well against FL in the 2nd half. He had 2 15+ yard passes dropped. But I remember 1 pass that wasn’t dropped by Mitchell.
Murry doesn’t play behind a line as good as Alabama’s.
kerryb
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
ND just threw a INT in the end zone with 3:59 left Pitt 20 ND 12
Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
Very very satisfying win for the Dawgs. Sorry all you Richt haters and Murray haters and Bobo haters. You’ve got to go and be miserable (actually continue to be miserable) while all the rest of us are happy. Now on to Alabama LSU and see who we’re gonna get in the Championship after we dispatch of Auburn. (Had a frustrated Auburn fan give me his tickets for free! Awesome!)
FALCONSRUS
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
thank you pitt and k williams
atlfalconsfan0125
November 3rd, 2012
6:47 pm
Mark,
We won in Florida in spite of Aaron Murray. Dont kid your self.
Mark Bradley
November 3rd, 2012
6:48 pm
In spite of Aaron Murray throwing the clinching touchdown pass?
td
November 3rd, 2012
6:48 pm
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:43 pm
Big Crimson 75, you really think UGA will jump an undefeated K-State team that has played a much tougher schedule?
If Georgia wins out then it would mean that they beat the number 2 and number 1 team in the country playing in the hardest conference in the nation.
Where is that weak schedule at?
Big Crimson 75
November 3rd, 2012
6:48 pm
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:43 pm
Big Crimson 75, you really think UGA will jump an undefeated K-State team that has played a much tougher schedule?
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Bob — the Big 12 is the old WAC with better athletes.
Swami Sez
November 3rd, 2012
6:48 pm
SC will lose to clempson….. Book it!
dawgs01
November 3rd, 2012
6:48 pm
notre dame just lost pick in the end zone thats one down and another will be out of the way tonight after bama and lsu and i hope it is lsu bc bama wont fall much if they lose cause it would probably be close at tiger stadium so if lsu loses and notre dame we move up to four and either oregon or k state lose tonight too one of those days just watch
UGAJD
November 3rd, 2012
6:49 pm
PITT 20 NOTRE DAME 12 – Will ND fall from the ranks of the unbeaten?
Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 3rd, 2012
6:51 pm
Samuel IV is in the Game!!! Now I’m really, really happy. Samuel IV, the hero of last year’s win over Florida. I love that guy! Come on Samuel IV, take it to the house!!!!! That would be awesome.
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:51 pm
Bob — the Big 12 is the old WAC with better athletes.
Is there any good conference other then the SEC? You know it doesn’t really make the SEC look better to say that everyone else is terrible, right?
O'Ventbrel
November 3rd, 2012
6:51 pm
UGA is getting some serious help. Notre Dame has under 5 minutes to salvage a perfect season.
kerryb
November 3rd, 2012
6:51 pm
Now Pitt slopping it up
Swami Sez
November 3rd, 2012
6:51 pm
Bobo goes Vanilla!
son's who?
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
ND, down 12-20 to Pitt, just threw an INT into the end zone with 4:00 left in the game. I pulled for Notre Dame to return to prominence until this past week. Mike Golic, of ESPN’s “Mike and Mike In The Morning”, a ND grad with kids on the team, went on and on about how great ND was this year. What REALLY got me was when Mike said NO WAY does either UGA or Florida lay defense on a level with theIrish.
Putz
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
notre dame just lost pick in the end zone thats one down
I wouldn’t call that game over yet.
atlfalconsfan0125
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
@Mark
There wouldnt have been a need to throw a clinching TD pass, had he scored on any of the 3 drives which resulted in 3 dumb picks that he threw in the first half.
That game was won by Jarvis Jones and the Defense. Florida had 6 Turnovers and still were driving to tie it at the end.
Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
Oh, 0125. Wear a napkin. You just got served by Mark Bradley. Hahahahhaahahhahahhahahhahahhahaha. Nice one Mark.
Big Crimson 75
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
Dawgs01 — rational thinking.
Trust me, y’all want Us to win tonight.
son's who?
November 3rd, 2012
6:52 pm
*Play
Jimmy
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
Donald
November 3rd, 2012
6:45 pm
@ Jimmy, you are dumb if you think UGA won’t play for the BCS title if they beat Bama. We beat Bama we are there.
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And Donald you are either too young or too forgetful to remember your history.
Beating Bama doesn’t mean voters will respect UGA enough to put them in the big game.
We have played poorly. Our schedule is too easy. We were humiliated on the big stage.
It will take a miracle for us to get in it. It will take a total collapse of the teams above us.
DawgNole
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
Big Crimson 75
November 3rd, 2012
6:34 pm
ND is gonna lose.
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Mark Bradley
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
Did you really expect Georgia to throw on third-and-11 up 27 points with four minutes left?
I mean, really.
kerryb
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
Swami, You’re up by 20 on 3rd and 14 with 3:38 left. Stupid not to run
Flo Rida
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
@Mark here’s another comparative score: The single losses for both Florida and UGA:
UGA’s loss to SC – 35 to 7
FL’s loss to UGA – 17 to 9
Which one was the bigger smackdown? Can you ‘Dawgs fans even do basic math I wonder?! (rhetorical questions for some of you, I guess)
GTBob
November 3rd, 2012
6:53 pm
UGA is getting some serious help.
How does Notre Dame losing help UGA?
kingdaddy
November 3rd, 2012
6:54 pm
We will be 8-1 and some of you maggots will still hate everything UGA. Can’t please some people…
Mark Bradley
November 3rd, 2012
6:54 pm
Even Ole Miss isn’t throwing now.
Big Crimson 75
November 3rd, 2012
6:54 pm
Is there any good conference other then the SEC? You know it doesn’t really make the SEC look better to say that everyone else is terrible, right?
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Bob — I love PAC-12 Football.
kerryb
November 3rd, 2012
6:54 pm
GTBOB, get them out of the way
Swami Sez
November 3rd, 2012
6:54 pm
Where are the Fickle UGA fans? Stadium is almost empty. never see that at SC. Pathetic!
son's who?
November 3rd, 2012
6:55 pm
The tackling this game seems MUCH improved.
Jimmy
November 3rd, 2012
6:55 pm
We saw last year…the voters will put the two BEST teams (in their estimation) into the MNC.
Bama should never have been playing for the MNC last year.
They didn’t win the SECC.
But guess what…that game apparently doesn’t matter all that much.
DawgNole
November 3rd, 2012
6:55 pm
Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 3rd, 2012
6:43 pm
Definition of Irony: Somebody with a name like Dawgnole calling somebody (actually anybody) an idiot.
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