Georgia apparently has long odds they’re facing in the upcoming playoffs.
I have to say this is perplexing. I’m sure it has to do with the pathway to get there, but on the other hand, it shows that folks haven’t been playing much attention to football this year.
Texas played what looked like their best game this year against an actual team with a living pulse, but were also helped by a questionable blindside block call that negated a pick six. In reality, the fighting IPTAYs were the only decent opponent in the four semifinal game, and with a little home cooking the Longhorns were victorious. But that’s not saying much, considering Georgia and Cackalacky both beat the Tigers in the regular season and Texas lost to Georgia twice.
On the flip side, Ohio State got the other paper Tiger of the playoffs in Tennessee, which really only had one signature win all season and got boat raced by Georgia despite having 10-0 lead early in the game. Outside of that, the Suckeyes had spent all season long watching their billion dollar roster underperform, so color me skeptical that Just for Men’s team will keep that up for three more games. This is Ryan Day we’re talking about here.
And what about Notre Dame?
Another team that played virtually no one, then does to Indiana what we all expected they’d do. Suddenly these three teams are the favorites.
Makes me wonder what Dan Lanning thinks about this. I’m sure he learned a thing or two about motivation from Kirby Smart.
Someone just gave Lanning and Smart a Christmas present. Give these guys a few weeks to prepare and the proper hate, and you’ve got hell and a coach with a point to prove on your hands.
So let me understand this. Vegas has No-tru Nuts at 20% and Dawgs at 12.9% to win the championship but has us as a 1.5 favorite to win the game. I must be missing something here. Vegas playing with everyone’s head. They must have lost their ass on the first round.
I think this is ESPN’s “playoff predictor” based on their extremely flawed FPI analytics/power ratings.
While I was in Vegas last week, I bet Georgia to win it all at +475.
I can’t believe you got better odds than I did in the summer. I got them at -330 there at the time.
Shades of Buster Douglas….GO DAWGS!!
I am going to say this everyday until I am vindicated or look like an idiot: Where is the Notre Dame love coming from? They went 11-1 with a schedule where the two ranked teams they play are service academies, were in a tight game with a miserable USC team, and beat Texas 8&4 in College Station.
There other notable win was against Indifuckingana. This is the team that is going to man up against Georgia. Georgia with 3 weeks off. Georgia who has the best coach in the game. Georgia who won the SEC Championship with its back up QB against the other greatest team of all time non Ohio Division. Notre Dame!
I can’t see it. I don’t understand it. Of the remaining play off field I would favor Notre Dame over Arizona State and maybe Boise.
I know that we have a backup QB and Bobo. This is the same Bobo that got serviceable seasons out of Joe Cox and Huston Mason. I have got to believe that Stockton surrounded by the guys Kirby has recruited will be able to do better with Trevor Etienne and Nate Frazier than Mason did with Brendan Douglas or Cox did with Washaun Easley.
The sharps must have pounded Vegas as soon as that line opened with UND -1.5 to completely flip the spread within hours of opening. Everyone knew Beck wasn’t going to play in the quarterfinal, so that wasn’t it. The spread is where it is based on the Stockton unknown. If Beck were healthy, this would likely be Dawgs -7+.
Another up after Beck was confirmed out and the ND DL stud was confirmed out. Lines generally don’t move with a defensive player being out. Sharps know something.
They looked very physical along the lines of scrimmage on Friday night. Obviously taking the long run out, the rushing stats don’t look nearly as good, and I think our D will certainly be able to measure up against them. On O, presumably their game plan will be to bring tons of pressure on Gunner and if we can’t get the running game going, that could be trouble (same as it ever was…)
Gunner can do something Beck wasn’t great at. He can run. Getting pressure isn’t going to be as easy as they think it will be.
The nd question is, with the back up QB being the starter, do they attempt to take away the run game and force UGA OC into passing situations or take away the pass and force UGA football into “just run the damn ball” and remember also CKS do love him some field position game, with “Thor” sidelined, that portion of the game plan might be limited….GO DAWGS!!
Freaking Notre Dame. I can’t believe we still have this going on in 2024. No “the Irish” aren’t “back”. They’re not coming back. Isn’t it ironic that college football has actively tried to end dynasties in college football but it’s like they pine for them at the same time. They long for the day when Notre Dame was actually worth a shit and did t need assists from the sports media to prop them up. Ditto Florida State, USC and a few other “pedigree” programs whose history will apparently carry them in perpetuity and their relevance from the days of yore knows no shelf life. Beat their ass, Kirby. Beat the living shit out of those delusional Yankees and send their asses back home knowing they’ve finally played in a real football game.
The only thing I’ll say counter to my belief that this will be another Michigan in 2021 moment is that their coach schemed up a great defense against us in 2020 when he was at Cincy. And they still have 3 elite players on defense and a bunch of other good players. It’s still going to take a great performance by the Georgia defense (and Gunner not shitting the bed) to win the game. But I think both of those things are likely.
I bet that if you ranked the teams by their TV ratings it would look exactly the same.
We have established WHAT you are, Mickey. Now we’re just haggling over the price…
Who is that idiot from CBS?
Not sure his name, but he got lit up on Twix after he said it. He could be Dan Mullen’s replacement for stupid takes now that Cousin Eddie is back in the game.
The 1st round games pretty much sucked and proved that 12 is too many teams in the field. Will they contract the the field? Of course not. If anything, they will add to it and make it worse with more blowouts on the way. Are the 1st round winners as good as they appeared to be? Time will tell, but now that the pretenders are gone, let’s just get on with it. I only hope that all of the faith that I’m seeing being given to Gunner is justified and that Bobo doesn’t give him such a small playbook that it puts UGA behind the 8 ball by halftime.
Just FYI, now I can’t post via any browser on either my phone or computer. I got to WordPress and I’m logged in, but when I come back here, it tells me I need to be logged in to post.
I’m posting this from Jetpack.
Oh, and I love the match up with ND. They are going to try to out physical us. LOL!
Weird to me that Gunner is seen as such a liability. I understand that a first time starter in the playoffs is not insignificant but, and I say this as somebody who likes Beck and thinks his haters are idiots, it ain’t like Beck was lights out a lot of this season.
On a totally separate note, I have enjoyed the lesser bowl games this year. Northern Illinois and Fresno State was pretty dang entertaining game yesterday. And it looked to me like the NI players were pretty dang excited to win even if it was the Potato Bowl. Plus at the end we got the coach saying having the bowl of French fries dumped on him after the game was “The best dumpster fire of my career.” That had plenty of talking heads cracking up.
Yeah that was a good game! Thought Fresno State was going to runaway with 1st half.
I see where Justice Haynes is transferring to Michigan. I guess he REALLY doesn’t want to follow Dad’s footsteps.