Another weekend of college football is gone, but the geniuses were out and about to give us things to laugh about.
Let’s start today’s trip around the message board world in Hogtown to find out the latest on the Corn Dogs and Handbags.
Sun Belt Billy is 1-1 since receiving his vote of confidence from Scott Stricklin and UF. The Gators end any hope LSU had of making it to the SEC championship game and the CFP. In response, the Cajuns regret not hiring Napier from Louisiana when he was available, and a segment of the Handbags embrace Napier as their guy. Kirby has to be thinking, “I love it when a plan comes together.” Some are touting DJ Lagway as their guy next coming of Cam Newton or Tebow. Remember, Gators, you said the same thing about Anthony Richardson.
Need to beat Florida State to finish bowl eligible (they ain’t beating Ole Miss even in Hogtown)? At Florida, you can do that.
Let head up I-95 to the Palmetto State for our next stop to check in with Drink.
People are talking about South Carolina as a potential playoff team if things break a certain way. Based on what? A soft schedule, a win over Texas A&M, and close losses at Alabama and at home to LSU (see above). The Poultry have had a good year for Gamecock expectations. I’m guessing Orlando is salivating at the chance to sell a bunch of tickets to them.
Missouri, Missouri, Missouri … you blew it. A team that started in the top 10 and as a playoff contender. Now, you’re an also-ran again. If you were still in the Big 12, you would probably be in contention for that playoff spot (probably same for Oklahoma). Have fun in Charlotte or Nashville, Tigers.
Let’s run over to Fayettenam to look in the team with the softest schedule in the SEC … Texas.
Someone needs to tell this genius to get away from his phone or laptop before posting. This is what passes for football analysis in the Lone Star State. You don’t even know your main rival’s head coach’s background is on defense.
On to the game, Texas barely breaks 300 yards and scores just 20 points on a defense that yielded 63 the last time out. Not a good look, Sark. Not a good look, Quinn. You are fortunate the SEC office gave you a joke of an SEC schedule for these 2 cycles. Texas A&M is waiting in Kyle Field and would like nothing more than to make their season by pinning a loss on you.
Let’s go up to Madison to jump around with Oregon.
Oregon fans don’t like the Big 10? Who woulda thunk it? Trips to West Lafayette, Indiana; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Madison, Wisconsin are convenient. You have to have the money of Phil Knight to follow one of the west coast schools in the Big 10.
On the officiating, we could have told you B1G officiating sucks (#TylerSimmonsWasOnsides). On the teams, anyone could have told you these teams aren’t entertaining to watch. Suckers …
Let’s end today between the hedges as the Georgia ownership of Tennessee continues unabated.
If you have been on social media since the game, Tennessee fans have been showing plays in super slow motion to try to show the officials screwed them. In every case, even the ABC rules experts were saying the officials got it right. The bottom line, Vols, is that your vaunted defensive line could get no pressure on Carson Beck, and, when you did, Beck went full his idol, the GPOOE, a couple of times and averaged over 10 yards per run. On offense, just admit Kirby has your high school offense figured out. Which team was more explosive on offense? That brings me to comment on our geniuses.
Saturday night was a perfect reason why you should always take a deep breath before posting. The Georgia passing offense looked Monken-esque on Saturday after the first 10:00. Guys were running open everywhere, and generally, Beck was hitting them. Welcome back, tight ends. The first TD pass to Oscar Delp was an NFL throw. If our guys catch a couple of well thrown balls, Beck has over 400 yards. This was the Carson Beck we thought we would see all season. This is the Carson Beck that can take us deep into January.
Tell us what you saw on Saturday in the comments below.
New plan for blog success:
Tell people to post less during games on the Game Thread
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Profit!
(I keed, I keed…)
Oh, I have no problem with people posting on the game day thread (waiting for the check to come in). Just don’t be defensive when people tell you that didn’t age well.
Yeah, I really have to bite my tongue and remind myself it’s a 60 minute game. First quarter had me worried, but then Beck took off, trucked a safety and it was wide open after that.
Same here..But I pride myself in that I am usually civil in my negativity.
I was definitely in my feels, as the young’uns like to say, in the 1st quarter. That drop by Arian was about what I expected, and the offense looked like they hadn’t learned anything. I might have made some disparaging comments on this site at that time, so I can certainly understand the kneejerk reaction that other fans have. I think it would be different if Q1 was somewhat unique to our season, but it sure did appear to be business as usual for Bobo & Company. That being said, they flipped a switch in Q2 and looked like world beaters.
GO DAWGS!
PAC officiating was the worst but Oregon did get some home cooking.
With this playoff debate, everyone is talking about signature wins but, I would add worst looking Losses. Bama’s L to Vandy is the worst of the contenders in the SEC. I am not saying it is more important than a W over, UGA, Bama, Texas but it should be taken into consideration. No way a 3 loss South Carollina should be in the playoff.
I was watching a video on how Texas ducked much the top of the SEC and Penn St and Indiana did the same in the Big10. I miss the pre expansion conferences and the BCS.
Ole Miss L to Kentucky is worse.
I would love a game against Indiana in the tournament.
My expert analysis states that orange sucks. So that’s why we won. Had they shown up in a different color they might have had a chance. 8 in a row, and that one hail Mary is why it isn’t a bigger number.
I’m starting to sound like a broken record but its the truth: Watching the game without the broadcast team rah rah inflection on Every. Single. Play. is a breath of fresh air. I also came to the conclusion that since there are dozens of cameras, the production team cherry picks the what they want the audience to see and the broadcast booth follows suit.
Watching all the plays from what amounts to the same camera angle for both teams gives a much better feel for what is actually happening and TBH? Even with the first quarter hiccups Georgia looked just fine. Tennessee got their asses whipped.
What channel carries the Skycast? I love that, but all I can find is Command Center and the regular broadcast. Both still have the yammering booth minions.
Hulu.
If you are able to get the ESPN app on your tv, you can find it there.
Fire Kirby!
I admit that, after last week, I was not expecting anything good from the Red and Black in this game, but, after the 1st quarter, they finally woke up and played the way that I expected them to play every game. I am not a Bobo fan and still think that we need a new OC (if we win the Natty this year, I’ll withdraw that statement), but he does deserve a game ball after that game. Not as many swing passes/WR screens and some actual deep shots! I just wish that he was more consistent and unpredictable with some of his calls (2 and long draws, a run on 2nd down if a 1st down pass is incomplete, etc.). Now I just hope that we don’t play down to the level of competition this weekend, don’t get any injuries and beat “The Enemy” (AKA the 1 team that we CANNOT lose to as they don’t know how to handle beating us, AKA the “Nerds” and the worst fans in the nation) the day after Thanksgiving. I just want to see us be as fired up to play them as they are to play us and then take it to them!
I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the runs on 2nd and long. Guess where else you see that? Every NFL stadium on Sundays. You don’t have success throwing on first down means you have to at least try to get to 3rd and medium. The best way to do that is to get 4-6 yards on the ground. 3rd and long is a very bad place for most offenses.
I would mix it up, but 3rd and 10 isn’t a good place to be.
Play calls look a lot better when the line of scrimmage is doing their job.
GTP is an incredibly unique blog and community. The live game posting is a huge part of it reflecting the “wisdom “, angst and glory for those of us who can’t attend in person. Our collective best snark comes out in real time. Let’s not criticize those comments in hindsight.
My point is that you make a stupid comment like we see on MBG or from various people on X/Twitter, be man enough to take the criticism when it comes back.
There’s a difference between snark and vitriole.
You should see the stuff we don’t post :).
(I’m happy that this little corner of the blawgosphere is here for our abuse and enjoyment. Thanks to you and all the folks keeping it going!).
Is there a GTPR gift guide link to where I can get that shirt?
I just googled Bobby Hill Josh Heupel.
The best bitching about TV announcers is the crap about Kirk and his side kick putting down Tenn. Actually, laughing at them. I think we all know Kirk is an Ohio crap head. He would rather GA lose than anything. Also, two announcers in the booth CAN NOT change a game. They might want to, but it is impossible for a mouth to change a play in the great game of football. Tenn. is full of crap and other stuff.
Please someone fix the “LIKE” button. When you roll over the button it should show who LIKES the comment. May not be important, but it is to me.
I didn’t feel like Tennessee was even trying to put pressure on Beck. I don’t know if Tennessee thought that they could get pressure with four and couldn’t because the O line played their best game in months and never changed their scheme to bring five or six. I will say this though. Last week Matt Stinchcomb was on 680 in the afternoon last week (as he is every week at roughly 3:30). He said, very clearly, that UT’s defensive line and the defensive line from Ole Miss were not the same and that he very much expected Georgia’s offensive line would be much better against UT. I was driving and only half paying attention so I didn’t catch the full reasoning, but I think that he said that UT’s defensive line was smaller and faster than OM’s and that played into the strengths of Georgia’s offensive line.
Pearce was practically a non-factor in the game.
I heard someone else say that too. The reasoning was that UT only has Pearce while OM had three monsters on their DL. Obviously it wasn’t that simple, but I expect it’s easier to scheme blocking assignments when you don’t have three NFL dudes coming at you every play.
Really wish Kirby had ponied up for Nolen, helicopter dad or not.
They tried with 4 in the first half but regularly brought 5-6 in the second half. (Narrator’s voice) “It did not work.”
I saw a tasty plate of crow, and it was delicious!
My favorite thing to post is “Bobo ❤️ screen passes” when we run them to what I feel is excess. I’m smart enough to know we run them to excess when we can’t run the ball or protect the qb but it’s how I vent. I will post the same post when we eventually break one for a td. As an aside, you don’t want to see my game day text thread. It is full of what I used to yell at the tv.
Here is my weekly “Can we fire CSS yet?” post. Good Lord we can’t run very well. I watched a clip from 2017 when everyone knew we were going to run the ball and they would have 8-9 defenders in the box and we were still picking up 7 yards a carry. I sure do miss Pittman.
Pass pro was much better and the Tennessee defense was not quite as good as advertised. Play calling was excellent and I loved how Frazier ran. Excellent game from Cash as well.
What you really miss from the 2017 offensive line are the three first round NFL draft lineman more than you miss Pittman. Not a knock on Pittman but he had great OL talent in 2017.
I would argue he recruited most of the talent and coached up the rest. Pittman is a great technician and a pretty darn good recruiter. While I agree the talent has to be there (The talent off depth on that Oline as Frosh and r-Fr is insane), it also means someone evaluated them, recruited them, and coached them up. Not sure I can say with confidence that Searels instills with me the same three abilities at any measure.