Okay, so I have to admit…I kind of had a brain fog when I posted last week. As Derek pointed out, it could’ve been a reference to the 2018 Rose Bowl, but out defense wasn’t exactly 2021/2022 defensive by comparison, so that could’ve ruled that one out. Some said the 2019 SEC Championship against Joe Burrow, with the descriptor of the greatest quarterback of all time. Some said the 2007 season Sugar Bowl against Hawaii, as Colt Brennan definitely fit that bill at the time and our defense ripped the Rainbows a new one that night.

Admittedly, I was referring to the 2018 Rose Bowl. Mayfield, as big of a douche as he is, is statistically one of the greatest college football quarterbacks of all time. Statistically. Ditto Colt Brennan, and Burrow fits the bill for a single season but not for necessarily an entire career. So sue me. Maybe our defense wasn’t as great as I teased it in the description, but I do love the 2007 Sugar Bowl, so let’s go with that. Mr. Peabody, roll that beautiful bean footage.

Dial it up to about 8:45 and watch Marcus Howard kill a man (no offense intended). The 2007 college football season was something to behold, and is worthy of a series of 30 for 30 stories. This was a Georgia team that came on strong late, had the famous black out against Auburn, the field storming against Florida, and I personally think was the best team in the nation at season’s end. What could have been. How we lost to South Carolina (6-6 on the season) and Tennessee (10-4) remains some of the signature weirdness and frustration that was the Mark Richt era.

Anyway, here’s this week’s WABAC description. Allow me to be as vague yet more accurate in this one than I was last week. Sorry scamps.

Welp, this should be an adventure, folks. Our new coach gets his first taste of an away game and it’s going to be nationally televised at their place, and they’re a Top 10 team, to boot. Lead by their cool as a cucumber California kid quarterback, the opposition has a good offense and a stiff, tough defense, to boot. We’ve already dropped one inexplicable loss at home to an unranked team, and there’s not much reason to be optimistic as most of the outlets have us as an 11 point underdog heading into hostile territory.

To make matters worse, it’s the first away game for our young quarterback, and with new offensive philosophy and play calls and all that, this environment isn’t exactly optimal for a new coach, new quarterback, and a new Georgia bulldog team to communicate. They’re favored to win the conference, we’re favored to come in third or fourth, at best, and a long, long recent history of misery was broken once in the past decade – last year – but it didn’t save the former coach’s career by any means.

This one can make amends for the earlier loss and redeem the new guy early in the minds of Georgia fans. Or this could be the game where many of us will question if we ever will have a head coach who can lead us back to the promised land that we’ve come to expect around here. This could be a career defining game…for better…or for worse.

Take a stab at it, scamps.