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Baseball… been berry, berry good to me.

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I opened up my “studio” this past weekend and captured video of all 3 of the Diamond Dawgs’ 2026 SEC Baseball Tournament games. If ya missed’em, turned it off after we were down 6-0 or just wanna relive this glorious weekend, all 3 games are now online at my Rumble channel (including post-game celebrations and trophy presentations). Or, you can just watch them from here… “Grab a brew. Don’t cost nothin’.”

2026 SEC Baseball Tournament Quarterfinal: UGA vs MSST

2026 SEC Baseball Tournament Semifinal: UGA vs Boogereaters

2026 SEC Baseball Tournament Final: UGA vs Arkansas

Bonus – SEC Inside: Georgia Bulldogs Track & Field

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Georgia Bulldogs Baseball 2026 – LSU @ SEC 2026 Regular Season Champion Diamond Dawgs: 2026-05-09

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GTPR is primarily a football blawg. But, we all cheer and root for UGA to win at every sport. If you’ve been living under a rock since 2026 started, you may not be aware that the baseball team is pretty darned good. On Saturday, they beat LSU and, along with some other games going our way in the SEC, clinched their first Regular Season SEC Championship since 2008.

I managed to get a good capture of the entire game plus the postgame celebration and interviews. So, I decided that it was worthy of being archived alongside the football games I’ve been saving. And, because I’m such a nice guy, I’m sharing it with all of you. Enjoy!

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Will Georgia Be The Last SECCG Champions?

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Well you had to know it was coming.

The most-discussed 24-team model is an all at-large field determined through the CFP rankings, with an automatic spot for the Group of Six leagues. The format adds one playoff round and 12 additional games. The top eight ranked teams would receive a first-round bye while seeds No. 9-24 play in the first round on campus.

Conference championship games would be eliminated and the playoff, presumably, would start immediately after the regular season — a long-discussed shift in the postseason calendar to open a path for the national title game, now played the third week of January, to return to the second Monday in the month.

To that end, coaches also recommended that the regular season should include one, not two, bye weeks and that the minimum number of days between games be six — moves that they believe will also help shift up the playoff calendar.

So who makes up this esteemed Board? Here you go:

Though the board has no authority within the NCAA or College Football Playoff governance structure, the group includes prominent coaching figures with influence over decision-makers, such as the conference commissioners and university presidents presiding over the CFP. The AFCA board includes names like Bret Bielema (Illinois), Brent Venables (Oklahoma), Clark Lea (Vanderbilt), Rhett Lashlee (SMU), Joey McGuire (Texas Tech) and Pat Fitzgerald (Michigan State).

Most likely, if it goes through, you’ll be back to determining a season conference champion rather than determining it in a championship game.

At least if it’s the last one, we finally took it to Alabama.

But I have to ask, doesn’t this feel oddly familiar? It seems like Georgia goes back to back to win a national championship, then get jobbed in the selection for the 2023 CFP, NIL and Portal goes wild, and the CFP is expanded. Now, we’ve gone back to back in the SECCG, so let’s move to get rid of it.

As a reminder, the SEC Conference Offices are in Birmingham, Alabama. I’ll go put my tin hat on and let y’all discuss.

Editorial Note: G-Day Will Be Televised

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One of our loyal commenters noted that I had pulled an old Tweet from Brooks Austin regarding the G Day television opportunity. I didn’t notice that it was a 2025 post when it was embedded in the article, so I wanted to send a quick correction and extra information for those of you who’d like to watch the greatest yearly QBR Debate in Georgia football.

Last month, the Georgia Bulldogs confirmed that the annual G-Day scrimmage would take place at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 18. At the time, the announcement noted that the 2026 spring game would not be broadcast or streamed by any platform, but would be covered by the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network. According to the G-Day schedule on the Georgiadogs.com website, the game will now be streamed by ESPN+/SECN+. There is a listing on ESPN as well, which can be seen here.

So, if you’ve paid your money to Mickey, you should be fine to see it. Apologies for the error scamps, and thanks to all of you who sent your well-wishes yesterday regarding this minor blip in life. Now, let’s get back to the show.

Steve Smith Weighs In on Zachariah Branch. No, I Didn’t Say Stephen

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Of all the opinions out there, this is certainly one of them.

In all fairness, there weren’t a lot of posts and corners that I can think of all season, to literally anyone. This could’ve been because of Gunner’s downfield vision issues and Bobo calling plays he knew Stockton could execute, or it could be working with what you’ve got and making the most of it.

Either way, Branch caught 81 passes and nearly had as many touches and yards in one year at Georgia than he had in two years combined at USC. And that’s with Offensive Guru Lincoln Riley.

I mean, I’d call that a success, and an SEC championship to boot, but what do I know. Was his film and tape limited because of the plays that were called on the field? Possibly. However, that’s why they have Combines and Pro Days, to show just that.

I think Branch will be fine. And I don’t think I’ll be turning to Mr. Smith for any more of his hot takes in the future, either.

2025, The Year That Wasn’t

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Remember this?

As it turns out, they are kind of the new Alabama, if by that you mean DeBoer’s Alabama. Kind of overhyped and disappointing.

Lo, it didn’t stop there. Also recall that 2025 was set to be the James Franklin breakout year.

He broke out alright. He broke out and headed to Blacksburg for a new job. But all was not lost, after all, as Penn State would come out victorious in their bowl game against another preseason favorite to go deep into the CFP, Clemson.

Welp, it was the Pinstripe Bowl, not the Sugar or Orange or anything. Cough.

Anyway, we ended the year on a sour note, but it’s safe to say we rose above expectations many of us had heading in to the year. With the expanded playoffs, it’s harder and harder to have the endurance and grit to push all the way to a Natty, so maybe expectations should be tempered, no? Let’s face it, at least we weren’t being lead by Brian Kelly or anything.

On that Irish connected note, what’s your takeaway on the biggest disappointment of the 2025 season? Was it a team, like an Oregon or LSU, who didn’t rise to the occasion? Was it the SEC face plant to end the season?

One thing that’s never disappointing is seeing stuff like this:

Let’s hear it. And what would you like to see more or less of in 2026?

Bowl Season is Over

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Well, sort of. The CFP rages on, but for the crowd that believes the new format ruins college football and bowl games, unfortunately Mickey has some news for you:

Notably, the Pop Tarts Bowl had the highest non-CFP viewership, even without Notre Dame. Notre Dame averages roughly 3.3 million viewers per game in 2025, only exceeding the 8.7 million viewers for the BYU-Tech tilt when the Irish played Miami (roughly 10 million viewers).

On the other hand, I’m seeing that the opening round of the CFP drew anywhere between 7 to 12 percent less viewers, which some are (in my opinion) incorrectly attributing to Notre Dame’s exclusion…but it’s also likely that the games weren’t an interesting draw anyway, with two rematches and all of them being blowouts, except for Miami-TAMU.

I watched the Duke’s Mayo Bowl and held on to some hope that Mississippi Staye would pull the win, but it wasn’t meant to be. All in all, I have to say there were quite a number of good ones, which I’d say were:

  1. The Hawaii Bowl – Hawaii walls it off against Cal with their backup quarterback throwing a touchdown pass
  2. The Sugar Bowl (only second because we lost, but admittedly it was high drama on New Year’s Day)
  3. The Alamo Bowl – TCU wins it in overtime with their backup quarterback because their starter hit the portal.
  4. The Pop Tart Bowl – Tech lost. Plus a good game.
  5. The Frosted Flakes Bowl – Over 700 yards passing and nonstop scoring giving Duke the 42-39 win.

Who seems to be winning the Bowl Season? While the conventional wisdom would be to say the B1G, based on record, I would say it’s the face-saving effort of the ACC, going 9-4 and having Miami advance to the semifinals. For a conference that looked to get potentially locked out of the CGP altogether, the ACC has stepped up (except you, Clemson and Georgia Tech) and made the most of a potential PR disaster of a year.

With Bowl Season being nearly over, what’re your thoughts? Did you like them? Hate them? Do away with the whole thing and start over? What was your favorite Bowl Game?

More Video from Last Weekend

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Good afternoon all. To tide everyone over from a weekend of no Dawgs football… here’s a couple of highlight shows from last weekend’s glorious SEC Championship game.

Kirby Smart All Access:

SEC Inside:

Oh, and if you want to comment on the games that are going on today, feel free to commiserate here.

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