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The weekend that was at Message Board Geniuses – week 12 edition

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Sark, who’s your daddy?

This weekend saw one team virtually eliminated from the playoff race while a rival that team beat convincingly keeps its playoff hopes alive with a big victory on the road. The message boards were lighting up all over the place. Let’s start out today’s trip in Louisville to check on the temperature of the Greater Anderson Cow College fan base.

Clemson wins a game, and it pisses off a portion of the fan base. I’m guessing Dabo isn’t going anywhere unless he decides to do it. I don’t see Clemson joining the coaching carousel fray voluntarily at this point in this season unless major donors force their hand. Clemson lost the game everywhere except on the scoreboard (the one place that matters).

The Tyler from Spartanburg segment of the fan base clearly believes that championships are their birthright. They forget that Dabo brought them that success (and expectation) and that there used to be a thing called Clemsoning.

I don’t care what Clemson does, but I am here to watch the fallout.

Let‘s move on to College Station to see the smoking crater that is the South Carolina football program following the biggest choke job you’re going to see.

Clemson lost the first game in program history when scoring 45 or more points a couple of weeks ago at home against the University of New Jersey at Durham. South Carolina says, “Hold my beer, Tiggers” by breaking a 286 game SEC winning streak since 2004 when leading by 27+. Ouch.

I’m here for the chaos in the Palmetto State. The only thing South Carolina has to play for is to ruin the remainder of Clemson’s season in Columbia.

Let’s move on to Tuscaloosa to check on the Bammers after their most recent loss to Oklahoma.

Bammers can’t decide if DeBoer is the genius that holds the key to success against Georgia or if he’s a bumbling fool from the West Coast who doesn’t get it. The Sooners get a blocked field goal, a pick 6 and 2 more turnovers while only generating 212 yards of offense themselves. Bama still controls their own destiny to get to Atlanta with a win at Jordan-Hare in the Iron Bowl. F-bum is going to be glorious on Monday with the Bammer whining and the Georgia gloating.

Let’s move on to Oxford as the Rebel fan base wants closure on Kiffin’s decision one way or another.

The Handbags are officially “there’s no place like home for the holidays” after Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss in Oxford (snicker). The majority of Rebel fans want Lane to stay in Oxford, and Lane said he loves Ole Miss after the game.

I still don’t think he wants to leave to take a higher pressure job in an inferior location (Baton Rouge or Hogtown). The media and the airplane watchers are going to be watching what happens over the next week as Ole Miss starts its preparation for the Egg Bowl.

Let’s end today’s trip in the Classic City after the Dawgs flex their muscles against Texas again.

Why can’t we bottle what we show against Texas to use against another opponent (cough, cough … Alabama … cough, cough)? After the Dawgs bowed up to force a field goal on the game’s first possession, the defense really allowed nothing except when put on a short field after the 3rd quarter interception.

Gunner Stockton > Arch Manning. I don’t think there’s much more to say than that.

On any remaining debate of Kirby vs. Sark, I’ll let a good follow on Dawg X who commented frequently at GTP summarize it for you:

While we’re on the topic of the win in Athens, let’s look in on the nerds’ take on Saturday night.

Talk about not being a ball-knower in this situation. I guess when it takes a last second field goal to beat a (checks notes) 1-win Boston College team, all you can do is to take a shot at your rival. Black Friday is coming, nerds. You’re going to get our best shot since we’re not likely to be in the SEC championship game. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

What did you see this weekend? Let us know in the comments.

Bye, Weak

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Steve Sarkisian has a cry.

Q. This is Georgia’s last SEC game. You have two more conference rival games after this. Having gone through his twice now, are you comfortable with the structure of your schedule or would you want a bye or a conference bye later in the year?

Steve Sarkisian: “I am not comfortable. I don’t think there’s enough continuity from a scheduling standpoint in the SEC. I understand with us being new to the conference and how schedules get set earlier, years in advance. I think there’s some distinct advantages that some people have where they spread out their non-conference games throughout the season, they play non-conference games in the second-to-last game of the season and we’re playing all ours on the front end.

They’re playing conference games earlier in the year when their team is 100% healthy. I don’t love our schedule, but it’s our schedule. So I do love it in the same breath because it is what it is. You play the schedule. You play the hand your dealt.

But I just don’t think there’s a lot of parody from a scheduling standpoint of who’s getting non-conference games when and who’s getting what level of non-conference opponents because of the impact that it has down the road when you start talking about the playoffs.”

Emphasis added. To be clear, we had some injuries heading into to our first SEC game, and they were some bigguns.

Georgia:

  • Juan Gaston OL, Questionable
  • Earnest Greene OL, Probable
  • Ethan Barbour TE, OUT
  • Chase Linton DL, OUT
  • Thomas Blackshear WR, OUT

Well, here’s some other things to consider when it comes to Texas’s schedule and rough going through the conference they were destined to “own”.

Reminder that Texas also got to avoid Alabama, Ole Miss, and Tennessee in their first two seasons in the SEC…yet still managed to lose to one of the most beleaguered/injured Georgia teams since 2021…twice.

Sark sounds like he needs an emotional support animal. I have a suggestion:

Tell me again about the rabbits, Lennie. It’ll be alright.