On Aaron Murray, the TO binge and those scoring Ogletrees
Alec Ogletree racked up major bonus points with this soaring interception. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
This post is an adjunct to the Georgia-Ole Miss game column, which can be found here.
1. Aaron Murray is pretty darn good. He was sacked five times in the first half, twice off play-action fakes. (Generally speaking, play-action should buy an extra second.) He wound up completing 21 of 28 passes for 384 yards and four touchdowns. The second touchdown came three seconds before the half after Murray pumped left, ducked right and threw long to Tavarres King. The third was a deep throw to Malcolm Mitchell down the right sideline for the touchdown that put Georgia ahead 21-10. Murray completed 13 of 15 second-half passes, with no sacks. Update: Murray now ranks sixth nationally in passing efficiency.
2. Five plays, four turnovers: Has there ever been a wilder sequence? For posterity’s sake, we recap the dizzying minute midway through the second quarter. Georgia’s Keith Marshall fumbled, recovered by Ole Miss. The Rebels’ Vince Sanders fumbled after catching a pass, recovery by Damian Swann. Todd Gurley rushed for five yards. (No turnover here.) Gurley carried again and fumbled, recovered by the Rebels. Bo Wallace threw long, the pass being intercepted by Alec Ogletree. Five plays, four TOs. Holy Toledo.
3. Zander Ogletree outscored his twin brother Alec 6-2. A fullback, Zander scored his first collegiate touchdown on a 8-yard burst in the third quarter. Eight minutes later, linebacker Alec would dump Ole Miss running back Jeff Scott for a safety. (Safeties are technically scored by teams, not individuals, but who cares?) Said Alec: “I’m sure he’ll try to joke on me.” Said Zander, whose given name is Alexander, speaking of familial bragging rights: “I’m the older brother (albeit by minutes) — it felt great.” Georgia publicists believed this to be the first time siblings had scored, even unofficially, in a Georgia football game. Basketball would be another matter: Think of Jarvis and Jonas Hayes, not to mention Coco and Kelly Miller.
By Mark Bradley
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GTBob
November 4th, 2012
2:54 pm
How many more top ramked teams would you need to beat?????
Sorry but going undefeated is more important than a couple of key wins. Voters also aren’t just going to forget that UGA wasn’t even slightly competitive against South Carolina, and barely hung on to beat Tennessee and Kentucky. Two of the worst teams in the FBS.
Eric C.
November 4th, 2012
2:56 pm
Ha, dang it GTBob, we know you think UGA is an invalid title contender, and it is annoying to sift through your gibberish, so would you please start your own blog.
Optical illusion ...
November 4th, 2012
2:57 pm
Hilarious, Rick James. I remember using that analogy when I was 10 years old.
If you’re too stupid to understand the REALITY that GT is not eliminated from the Conf
Championship game then, as you stated to me, “if that makes you feel better run with it.”
IMO, no GT will not get to the CG even if Miami loses their final 2 ACC games, b/c GT won’t win their’s. In fact, I think they will lose them both.
Rick James
November 4th, 2012
3:01 pm
@Optical illusion …
Hilarious, Rick James. I remember using that analogy when I was 10 years old.
If you’re too stupid to understand the REALITY that GT is not eliminated from the Conf
Championship game then, as you stated to me, “if that makes you feel better run with it.”
IMO, no GT will not get to the CG even if Miami loses their final 2 ACC games, b/c GT won’t win their’s. In fact, I think they will lose them b
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Stupid?????????? I’m a Georgia fan on Georgia blog and you’re trying to sale Georgia Tech to me? Yet you call me stupid because I dont care? Please..
Rick James
November 4th, 2012
3:03 pm
@Optical illusion …
Hilarious, Rick James. I remember using that analogy when I was 10 years old.
If you’re too stupid to understand the REALITY that GT is not eliminated from the Conf
Championship game then, as you stated to me, “if that makes you feel better run with it.”
IMO, no GT will not get to the CG even if Miami loses their final 2 ACC games, b/c GT won’t win their’s. In fact, I think they will lose them both
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I dont care about Georgia Tech..Simple enough?
Optical illusion ...
November 4th, 2012
3:06 pm
Intelligent sports fans realize that UGA is 1-1 vs. relevant competition, USC & UF, and 7-0 vs. no team that is even mediocre.
Their remaing schedule consists of the SEC’s worst or 2nd worst team, Div II GA Southern, and a GT team that made BYU’s horrendous offense look like Oregon.
Unless BAMA pulls a UF (6 TOs), UGA will go into their bowl game at 1-2 vs relevance, and 11-0 vs. below mediocrity.
Make the lemonade while there are still plenty of lemons. Amazing how pitiful Tenn has become.
azdawg
November 4th, 2012
3:07 pm
Given the time and protection AM is an effective passer once he gains confidence and does’t turn it over. It was evident as the game went on and he threw some of the prettiest passes in his career. It was a lousey start by his OL giving up 4 sacks early in the game. Many of us feared this wou;ld happen after the JAX high. Even CMR looked dazed as the dawgs O struggled its first two possessions. I think JJ is still hurting as you didn’t see the fire he had in FL game but half a JJ is better then most LB’s in CFB. As usual the D came on strong and as the O came to life the dawgs started to click on all 8. Certainly hope MB’s knee injury is not serious same for the OL.
Dawgs should handle AU yet we all know it might take until the 3rd qtr to begin pulling away and come out w/a win and the div title. Its in AU and they’ll want revenge for the beating GA gave them in athens last season. Fans may think this is going to be a cakewalk for the dawgs but there’s always that nagging feeling these dawgs never make anything easy.
Too early to talk AL in atlanta. Thats one scary team. Have to be crazy to wantb to play them.
Optical illusion ...
November 4th, 2012
3:08 pm
Yeah, I’m sure you don’t, Rick. Is that why I’ve seen you post many a time on GT blogs?
Keep it up tough guy … maybe you’ll become relevant in the music world again.
Rick James
November 4th, 2012
3:13 pm
@Optical illusion …
Yeah I have posted on Tech blogs but it does not make a fan nor want to engage in pettiness with you..
Rick James
November 4th, 2012
3:17 pm
@Optical illusion …
Yeah, I’m sure you don’t, Rick. Is that why I’ve seen you post many a time on GT blogs?
Keep it up tough guy … maybe you’ll become relevant in the music world again.
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And you’re a Tech fan on a Georgia blog,so what? I just choose not to get involved in pettiness with you over a team I care nothing about.If that makes me stupid in your eyes so be it..
bigddawg
November 4th, 2012
3:23 pm
also chad and his late brother alec kessler in uga basketball…
01HAWK
November 4th, 2012
3:41 pm
Uneducated DAWG fans.
You have a zero chance to get to the BCS game. You laid an egg versus USC and FLORIDUH is making your win look real bad with the way MIZZOU played FLORIDUH. The GATORS do not even look like a top 10 team at this time.
The only way the SEC gets a team in is if BAMA wins out……………………………No CRYSTAL will be coming to ATHENS anytime soon.
You had as good of an opportunity as any team in the country and you BLEW IT !!!!!!!!!!
GTBob
November 4th, 2012
3:57 pm
Can anyone name the last team to play in a National Championship that lost a regular season game by 28 points or more? Has it ever happened?
JB
November 4th, 2012
3:58 pm
Was that Ole Miss or Southern Miss the Dawgs whupped up on Saturday. Not much difference. With a good solid game by Murray and the D playing with their hair on fire, this Dawg team could hang with Bama. We got a better defense and a much better QB than LSU
JB
November 4th, 2012
4:00 pm
Question. Will Auburn bus in fans for the game next week ala Jessie Jackson?
GTBlob
November 4th, 2012
4:01 pm
Aaron Murray is probably the best quarterback I have ever seen play this great game of football.
GTBlob
November 4th, 2012
4:03 pm
I really hope one day Tech can play as well as well as UGA, they could really learn a lot by watching those boys from Athens play the game.
Jim
November 4th, 2012
4:04 pm
It is good to see we are starting to use the fullbacks. I think that is 2 TDs in 3 games from that position. I wonder why we do not use Richard Samuel as a fullback? Also, we are starting to throw to the tight ends again.
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
4:08 pm
hey GTBob, in 2001 BCS title game, Miami played a Nebrakska squad that lost to Colorado 62-36; thats a 26 point spread to all you Georgia fans…I did the math so you wouldn’t have to…Miami was the only undefeated that season…all of this is meaningless since Bama will beat the snot out of Georgia in SECCG…
JB
November 4th, 2012
4:09 pm
Bobo to Kentucky rumors everywhere………………………………..OK, just me but??????
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
4:11 pm
GTBob, Nebraska lost Big 12 title game vs Colorado 62-36; still went to BCS title game VS Miami..Colorado finished 9th in final poll…
JB
November 4th, 2012
4:11 pm
That will be a tough job to fill. It has to come from the Cord. ranks as no coach with ANY resume is going near the place. It’s a build a resume place….as in , if you can win at Kentucky, you can win anywhere….
GT fans, not their alumni
November 4th, 2012
4:13 pm
The Murray haters and the UGA haters are for the most part, closet GT fans. They, as usual, are reeling from yet, one more horrible CPJ football season. They know that UGA and NC will destroy them and it is so transparent.
GET this haters ….. UGA is ranked # 6 and rising. We will destroy GT soon, after we get through stomping Auburn. After that, we will play in tne greatest game of all …. THE SEC CG.
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
4:13 pm
JB…better defense than LSU???? surely you don’t believe that…no one else does…
Joshua
November 4th, 2012
4:15 pm
GTBob,
UGA has played 2 top 10 teams and will almost certainly still play the #1 team in college football. How many teams have tougher schedules than that? Perhaps LSU – that is IT.
DawgNole
November 4th, 2012
4:29 pm
Tampa Gator
November 4th, 2012
2:01 pm
Oh………if Florida just had a decent offense instead of a horrible one. The defense…..even when riddled by the flu (as in yesterday)……is one of the best in the country….along with Bama, LSU, and Georgia.
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Oh come on, TG. Last week it was the refs; this week, the flu. You can do better.
DawgNole
November 4th, 2012
4:35 pm
GTBob
November 4th, 2012
2:54 pm
Sorry but going undefeated is more important than a couple of key wins.
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Now is it “than” or is it “then,” Bob. 10,000 times. Remember? Liar.
drbasic1
November 4th, 2012
4:38 pm
@gtBOB HAWK ETC…
Maybe i am wrong just stating what i hear on XM radio and Espn…They believe Ga would jump over any of the undefeated teams because they play an SEC schedule. Also due to as other have said, they would have beaten the number one and two teams….I don’t know, they may know a little more than you and your logic….just saying
DawgNole
November 4th, 2012
4:39 pm
Eric C.
November 4th, 2012
2:49 pm
Why is the Auburn game at night? Would rather it be at noon just to get it over with…those road night games (see @ SC) are a little more uncertain with the crowd getting into it more. Remember Auburn nearly defeated LSU in a night game. Hopefully the offense get’s it going early and doesn’t let Auburn sniff any shot at a victory.
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Schedules with respect to time of day are determined by TV networks. It’s been that way for a very long time.
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
4:52 pm
Georgia has played the 24th ranked schedule in America…Notre Dame 7th toughest…Kansas State 30th toughest…the last three games on schedule do nothing for strength of schedule…McGarrity will hurt UGA in post BCS era unless he schedules better OOC games…all Georgia can do is run up the score the next three games…and hope someone knocks off KState and/or Notre Dame…this scenario is based on the preposturous notion that UGA can beat Bama…
tony
November 4th, 2012
4:54 pm
If Aaron Murray plays with a sense of urgency from the 1st snap as he does when he’s playing from behind, he could beat any team in the country.
Game Changer
November 4th, 2012
4:57 pm
@DBASIC -
The combined record of sec teams UGA has beaten is 13 wins and 31 loses. Florida accounts for 7 of the 13 wins. It is a total joke to hear such rationale you spew, uga has play two football teams in 2012. Loss badly to south carolina and escaped a win against florida in the other,in a terribly played football game by both teams.
gt4ever
November 4th, 2012
4:58 pm
@JB
Alabama is in another league, as you soon will find out…. I mean anything is possible, but your weak defense will fold like a house of cards against a real good team… Your offense has never seen a defense as good as Alabama’s. I say the odds are with bama, but that’s why you play the game…
Bc400dawg
November 4th, 2012
4:59 pm
What’s up dawg fans?! Saturday can’t come sooner I don’t know why tech fans are on here trashing a better team but I’m new to this so I’m assuming that that’s normal
gt4ever
November 4th, 2012
5:01 pm
Well Bc400, because it’s a football blog… Good grief some of you Dawg fans are just so sensitive….
Bc400dawg
November 4th, 2012
5:05 pm
No I know footballs trash talking and all but when a 4-5 team is trash talking a team that owns you in all aspects it doesn’t make sense to me
Eric C.
November 4th, 2012
5:19 pm
DawgNole, oh really? Thanks for clearing that up…never would have guessed. Let me be more clear…why would a network want to show this particular game in prime time? Auburn is the worst team in the SEC and on paper, this should be over at halftime…great for ratings. I understand it is an east clinching game, but still.
With that said, it should be an easy win, but strange things happen at night on the road…like Mettenberger looking like Peyton Manning.
Gator
November 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
When did Georgia stop letting criminals on the team?
neutral observer
November 4th, 2012
5:26 pm
“With a good solid game by Murray and the D playing with their hair on fire, this Dawg team could hang with Bama. We got a better defense and a much better QB than LSU”
JB,
Have you lost your mind sir? Nobody outside of perhaps a few delusional dawg fans thinks that Georgia has a better defense than LSU. That’s insane.
Also I’ve never seen Murray have a great game against a good to great defense. Never.Even the UF game he sucked. He has great games against really bad defenses and that’s it. The Alabama defense will shred him. Even you guys have to know that.
BBQ MAN
November 4th, 2012
5:41 pm
yo K st has or will play 5 ranked teams and have won all uga has played 2 ranked teams and was blown out by 1 of them and so won’t be jumping over ks anytime soon uga will win east and go to a BCS bowl, that’s it kiddos
Strat Cat Dawg
November 4th, 2012
5:54 pm
Assuming we tcb at Auburn and continue to play at a high level, we go into the SECCG 11-1 and ranked no lower than 5th. I’ll take that. Those who say we can’t beat Bama also said we couldn’t beat Florida. LSU showed that Bama is beatable. Will we actually beat them? There’s a reason they play the games…
Dr. P
November 4th, 2012
5:58 pm
hey, Murray graduated with a degree in psychology—-no wonder he’s a head case. Have you ever seen a psch major or grad that wasn’t ??
Artman
November 4th, 2012
6:01 pm
Says Bradley NOW. Once the Dogs get throttled in the SEC title game, Bradley will turn on him. LMAO
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
6:06 pm
what do yall think about Kentucky maybe bringing in Jim Tressel? He has lots of HS coaching contacts in neighboring Ohio. Not sure how long the just cause sentence handed to him by the NCAA is. No big time coach is gonna take that job…there are quite a few Sun Belt coaches who would jump at the chance, but thats a big jump…Tressel would bring in SEC/Big10 power football, run first, play defense…what else are they gonna do, go back to the Hal Mumme days, throw on every down?
Discount DoubleDawg
November 4th, 2012
6:10 pm
Still a lot of football left to be played. Georgia’s biggest hurdle of course would be Bama, assuming we make it to Atlanta.
Do I think we will beat Bama? No, I do not. Why would I? Bama is #1 and Saban usually doesn’t lose games when favored. Bama should win the SEC Championship game regardless of who the opponent is. Do I think it is possible that we win? Sure… just not likely. I am a Richt supporter and always have been through thick and thin. If he wins this game, it will likely keep the haters quiet for a while. If he loses, they will be chirping like they always do with absolutely zero perspective and grasp of reality. See Tennessee for the most likely result of a post-Richt UGA football program.
Not that worried about K-State. Most of the ranked teams they play will struggle to stay in the polls. Texas Tech, W Virginia, and Okie State are all dropping out (or will be soon). A 1-loss SEC Champion has a legitimate shot at making the BCS title game. As a Georgia fan, it’s nice to be having these conversations rather than wondering IF we are going to a bowl game or whether or not it’s in Shreveport.
shankit
November 4th, 2012
6:17 pm
It’s all about the protection Murray gets. If he gets pressured or sacked in his first series, then he tries to improvise. But, give him the protection, 4 seconds or more, with the Dawgs receivers, ain’t no defensive back gonna cover our receivers “cept for 4 seconds, Murray has proven he can deliver
All about the Offensive Line, and having a back that pick up a missed assignment or blitz that can block. Give credit to BoBo and/or Murray, they can’t control blocking.
shankit
November 4th, 2012
6:23 pm
Kentucky needs to bring in my ol’ buddy, Chris Hatcher,
tutored under Hal Mumme and Mike Leach at Valdosta State
and Kentucky, won the Harlan Trophy at VSU (Division 2 Heisman)
won a national championship at VSU as a player and a coach.
Coached Dusty Bonner at Kentucky, won the SEC passing as a
sophomore, and later played under Hatcher at VSU and won another
Harlan trophy and a national championship. And he and Colson beat
me and the pro in a night time golf tournament at the VCC. Go Hatcher.
based in reality dawg fan
November 4th, 2012
6:23 pm
forget what I said about Tressel…he’s essentially banned until 2017…
ddawg
November 4th, 2012
6:25 pm
Most of Murray’s critics have never played football at any level. I would challenge any of you to suit up and take a few snaps against SEC competition before you run your mouth.
birdo
November 4th, 2012
6:28 pm
Is Nick Saban taller than A Murray? Have to disagree with you about A Murray. He looks lost most of the time. Just watch his head on a pass play, he locks onto one guy, doesn’t go thru any progression. Watching LSU/Bama last night and the work of Z Mettenburger, I have never seen AM look that calm. This is ZM’s first year, not third. Why didn’t CMR get some time for our backup QB, with a 30 point lead.? I just don’t understand his management style. Does AM have photo’s of CMR ? Ask yourself , do we really look like #5 in the nation? Could we play ball with LSU or Bama? Do they play big boy football and we play Division 2?