Good morning and Happy New Year! Well, Whinin’ Day and the Bucknuts will get to watch the rest of the CFP from their couch. Time to put Ole Miss on the couch with them.
Now, I’m no prognosticator, I’m just a fan. However, last season, headed into the Sugar Bowl, I was uneasy about the game and, to my horror, it didn’t turn out well for the good guys. Don’t have any of those feelings this season. This team has grown up and made huge strides as we watched them all season. Ole Miss might get some early points but, I look for UGA to take over, at the latest, by the second half. Don’t think Ole Miss can overcome us. Last year, the middle 8 killed us, got us down so far, we couldn’t rally back. I trust Kirby to button that up today.
In other news, there’s a couple of other games today as well. Part of me wants to see Bama shut Indiana down and shut up all the B1G idiots. But, I don’t really want to see Bama for a 3rd time this season so, I’m conflicted. As far as TT/Oregon, I’m pulling for TT, although I really don’t care which one wins.
So, here’s the TV lineup for today, with all the broadcasts being aired by E$PN:
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 2026 CFP Quarterfinal – Capital One Orange Bowl
(5) Oregon vs. (4) Texas Tech
Hard Rock Stadium – Miami Gardens, FL
12:00pm ET | ESPN
Joe Tessitore, Jesse Palmer, Katie George and Stormy Buonantony on the Playoff Quarterfinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl
Command Center (ESPNU)
SkyCast (ESPN2)
CFP Quarterfinal – Rose Bowl Game
(9) Alabama vs. (1) Indiana
Rose Bowl Stadium – Pasadena, CA
4:00pm ET | ESPN
Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Holly Rowe alongside Kris Budden are on the call for the Playoff Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game
Crimson Tide Sports Network Powered by LEARFIELD (SEC Network)
Command Center (ESPNEWS)
SkyCast (ESPNU)
CFP Quarterfinal – Allstate Sugar Bowl
(6) Ole Miss vs. (3) Georgia
Caesars Superdome – New Orleans, LA
8:00pm ET | ESPN
Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, Molly McGrath and Laura Rutledge close out the night at the Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Georgia Bulldog Sports Network from IMG College/Skycast (ESPN2)
Ole Miss Learfield Radio Network/Skycast (SEC Network)
Command Center (ESPNU)
This post is open for your comments throughout the day.
Go Dawgs!
Well that sucked. And Kirby isn’t going after a portal quarterback.
If we lose to a Pete Golding coached team we’re not a very good team. What is it about Ole Miss that we can’t cover their receivers? At all.
When Chamblis buys them half a minute scrambling around it’s inevitable that someone is going to get open..and they don’t have to be open by much for him to connect. We have to face it..they’re just outplaying us big time.
They’ve worn us out! Well, Kirby. You’re gonna have to adapt to survive in this new age. Can’t always out physical teams. You are going to have to get a quarterback that can do to other teams what all these great QBs do to your teams. The boys got whipped today and ain’t much left in the tank. Maybe you can convert 8 fake punts on this drive.
Who else is hearing Willie Nelson singing softly in the background … Turn out the lights, the party’s over….?
ANOTHER 3 and out
Three and out exactly what we did not need.
OK..how about four and out?
That sucked and was one of the dumber things Kirby has ever done.
It’s almost like Kirby threw in the towel with that fourth down cluster F..
Offensive line has been terrible. The interior line play has been downright embarrassing.
Really wondering at this point if Gunner isn’t hurt or something.
I do not want to see a called QB draw ever again. Gunner is beat up and doesn’t have much in his tank for QB runs. Either run it with your RBs or pass it. Quit these BS qb designed runs. Come on man.
What the heck?
I don’t remember Ole Piss’s defense being this stout? It’s like we have 0 weapons. We have Delp, Luckie, Branch, Bell and Young and yet this is what we’re doing?
Even Kirby said we need to do a better job of possessing the ball
This game is done and the radio crew is saying there was no play call it was a freeze play.
Offense is failing far more than the offense. Iron sharpens Iron.
Good night guys.
They are literally selling out to stop the run and Gunner can’t find anyone to throw to. Lol. Bobo did nothing but eat cheetos the last month.
We miss Bobo tonight. Toliver is getting abused.
Yep
Well, that was fucking stupid. Like Justin Fields fake punt stupid.
Game over.
What
The
Fuck
Tolliver was not supposed to snap it but thought OM guy jumped offsides. Just stupid to put him in that position.
I hope Ole’ Piss gets the hell stomped out of them next week.
Hell no. I don’t want Beck looking smart.
Unless we pull this out I’m pulling for IU.
Shitty call. Bad coaching 100%. So is Kirby on the hot seat next year because he can’t get past the first round of the playoffs?
Terrible decision by Kirby to go for it. 10 minutes left and you are are the better team against a team without their head coach.
Wondering if Gunner took a few too many shots early on.
We haven’t completed one single deep ball all night
To call for a deep ball is to say..”Let’s waste a play so we can punt in two more downs”.
Sometimes you just have a stinker of a game and this looks like one of those times…
Hunker down a couple more times now dawgs. Still in it.
I’m done with Bobo. Yes we scored. Might still win! Mistakes not of his making. But I just haven’t been in love with “good enough” all season and this is just not a well called game. I’m done. YMMV.
Say man, you gots any more of that Hard to Kill shit?…I needs some.
We can win this. With as bad as bobo the bozo has called this game. We can still “possibly” win.
Still I vote for a change at OC
Never happen. Bobo and Gunner will be back. Kirby will try and get a couple of receivers and then spend all off season trying to keep us from throwing to them until absolutely necessary. 🤦♂️
Fortunate penalty.
Another fortunate penalty.
Lets win this one!!!!!
3 not what we needed.
Not getting the 7 cost us the game.
Not running the ball on third down to run the clock down cost us the game. Settle for 3 and take it to OT with all the momentum on our side. didn’t need hero ball right there. So disappointing.
Even the bulldog radio guys are not to keen on our offensive play calling
Well, it was a good season, boys.
Some truly shitty play calling cost us that game.
So is Kirby on the hot seat next year because he can’t get past the first round of the playoffs?
Was it?
Please. 12-2, SEC champions with a team where almost 60% of the players are in the first or second year.
Nil, you’re smarter than that.
What are the chances yet another kicker whiffs?
Yeah game. Thanks Bobo.
Just think of all the shit I’m going to get done the next few weeks.
That’s what I said. 🤣
Once again we get the bye and can’t seem to get into rhythm for the game.
I guess yall were right.
Golding was the way to go.
Be proud of that.
We can bitch about the offense (feel free), but the defense’s inability to prevent explosive plays is just as responsible for the loss tonight.
That 3rd and 5 call should haunt Glenn Schumann for the next 8 months.
Terrible performance across the board – coaching, offense and defense.
On that last offensive possession, I try to run on 3rd down and, at worst, run the clock down to where the Rebels had no chance.
If bobo would block their interior dl!
Toliver and Gaston looked lost tonight. Some really bad execution. We missed Drew Bobo badly tonight.
I just hope Nate isn’t already lost for early 2026.
This was one where he actually had a chance to do something smart so that OM would have no time to put any drive together and we could live to fight in OT and he stupidly went for hero ball there by throwing it.
Do you think Kirby just has that headset on to listen to the old school rap channel on his Sirius XM app? Kirby made the call to go for the TD, and Bobo made the play call to do what Kirby asked. I guarantee Bobo didn’t make that call without Kirby’s blessing.
Yep. Ole Miss was out of TOs. Run the ball and get a TD or burn enough clock that Ole Miss has to play for OT.
I felt like I was watching week four UGA.
We win this game with Bobo at center. We were never winning this playoff without him. Season was done as soon as he went down; just took the right team to exploit it.
Throw in Metchie and Williams and its not close.
We lost this game for a few reasons but when your offensive play caller can’t adapt when things get tough then it causes the players to get frustrated and it showed tonight. Bad calls by all of uga coaches in this game bobo the bozo takes the cake once again. We’ll never win a natty with him as our offensive coordinator
Been saying this for years. He’s not elite.
That’s about as far as this team was going to go and better than expected. We were really missing some key pieces all year. I don’t know that Stetson Bennett will ever truly get the recognition he deserves for what he did (yes…the defenses were NFL all stars but he still had to pull games out).
Kirby needs to rethink the QB position. Gunner has been a great Dawg, all grit and winning drive. But he just doesn’t have a deep ball nor back shoulder pass. It limits the playbook too much.
Bobo should retire gracefully. The defensive coordinators are figuring him out. He’s not going to bring a fresh perspective and new ideas that are woefully needed. Another HoF Dawg, but time to move on.
Kirby needs some fresh coaching blood around him with the gravitas to challenge his game planning and thinking. It’s not a flaw, it’s what the very best do to keep getting better.
Go Dawgs! FTMF#
Honestly, we didn’t deserve to win this one.
Hats off to Ole Miss.