The Mean Machine in red & black gets back on track today.
Game info:
Kickoff: Noon, October 4th, 2025
Location: Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium (93,033) | Athens, Ga.
Records: Georgia (3-1, 1-1 SEC) vs. Kentucky (2-2, 0-2 SEC)
Rankings: UGA #12, Kentucky NR
TV: ABC – Joe tessitore, Jesse Palmer & Katie George
Audio Stream: georgiadogs.com
Satellite: SiriusXM 84
All-Time Series Results: Georgia leads 64-12-2 and has won the past 15 straight.
Last UK Win: Kentucky won on Senior Night in Athens in 2009, and that was UGA’s last home night game loss until last week’s game against Alabama. (26 straight home night games)
Here is today’s game program from Georgia Dogs dot com.
In the grand scheme of modern day college football, last weekend was just a minor setback, everything is still in front of these Dawgs, keep improving and be hitting on all cylinders by season’s end and let’s see where they go.
Go Dawgs!
Duhn, Duhn, Duhnnmmmn….less of that blasting through the stadium speakers on second down will be more. Give the fans something to cheer about and they will. Goooooo Daaaawg!!!
This is probably a went offense does something in the first half and the bobo apologists go there see, he doesn’t suck.
Then when we play a live team we regress.
Never give up.
Love the program cover! It would be cool to have a set of those around the house.
Agree. The cover is great, and I’d love if you made similar covers a regular feature of the game day posts.
I will do what I can, if y’all find any suitable for use, send them my way.
I’m probably in the minority, but I enjoy Tessitore. I always feel like he’s one play away from going full Musberger with some random comment.
Man, I can’t stand Tessitore. So glad this game is also being broadcast on the SECN with the skycast coverage so I don’t have to listen to either him or Palmer. I wish they did this for all games to be honest. Very few of the callers are worth listening too.
Joe needs to take a gummie to calm down. He makes a 2nd down run for two yards sound like the play of the century.
Could be worse. We could be the B1G and have Gus Johnson call the games. He’s good for March Madness. In small doses.
We threw to a TE! Hallelujah!
Nice opening drive!
That guy is yuge!
Bobo almost always follows up the first td drive with a bust. I was gonna say let’s see if anything has changed. Then we fair caught on the 2 yard line. Not a lot of football IQ and situational awareness needed to not pull that crap.
In your professional opinion is this 2nd drive as you predicted?
No. Much, much better!!
Well, that will do it. Kirby letting Bobo letting the offense play to their strengths. Say what!?!
Was our offensive coordinator responsible for the defensive call on the Ky td?
Seems Bobo got the message. Here’s to hoping it sticks for the whole year.
Kentucky lost to SC last week by three scores.
If Sellers is healthy, SC is a decent team.
98 yards with Gunner getting into his running groove. Go Dawgs!
Just not used to seeing our defense gashed but it is what it is at this point.
Defense is still woof!
moving the ball so well…don’t know why we decided to get greedy on that pick.
Do we have any non-screen plays for Branch?
Never mind
Team is still sloppy on both sides of the ball. Bama catches that 3rd and 9 ball for a big gain. So the D was beat, on the offense they have missed on some big plays.
I am glad to see Gunner run the ball more. IMO we need Gunner to be a run threat and run more RPOs and empty sets. UGA needs this game to hopefully polish un their game for the remainder of the season.
We are playing with the refs behind UGA thus far.
Thorson is still money.
Suit up, boys. Kirby might be looking for OL volunteers soon.
no kidding LT in the locker room and LG limping.
No worries Cash Jones is ready. 😉
It’s getting critical quickly. Hopefully this as bad as it gets today.
I just started eating. Its gonna take a while.
So you’re telling me last year we actually had better OL health than we would this season. Seriously, is there some sort of ancient curse on this teams good health?
Don’t remember back when Searals and Bobo sent guys for shoulder surgery every year?
Well…we make opponents miss FGs
“Old Lady Luck just smiled on us”.
I like the rotation of the RB’s and getting Stockton more involved in the running game. Passing game still looks like a work in progress. TE involvement in the game plan appears to be limited to run support as in pre-Monken days. Bowens has clearly earned RB#1 designation. Good to see us handling business.
Injuries injuries injuries
I bet we go vanilla in the 2nd half. Gotta save the good stuff for later…lmao
I expect a lot of run plays in 2nd half. I also, feel that is the right tact. Defense is still leaky, keep the ball away from their O.
Our 2- minute defense is embarrassing
Our defense is not elite.
Yet.
Is there anyone in the student body who played DE and can actually get to the QB?
Does David Pollack still have any eligibility left?
Need Tyrone Biggums at defensive end.
Bowens should be in the game at running back until he is too exhausted to play another down. Then rest him and put him back in. He is clearly our number one back.
Agree..he can wear a defense out.
I’ve always thought that when a RB gets hot, you give keep giving him the ball and he’ll get in the “zone” where he’s seeing the field and getting stronger.
But then, Nate has had some good hard runs today too.
Yeah, I thought Nate was gonna be our feature back this year. But I think Bowens is the man. I think the “zone” is a very real thing, and for god’s sake, don’t pull the guy and destroy that momentum.
Don’t ever remember having a D so unequipped to get to a QB. Its mind-boggling. There’s some guy goes by elk bst that’s trolling me. He’s about to ask if Bobo recruited the DL. The answer is no. Just want to get that out of the way.
The D isn’t getting to the QB, missed an open field tackle on the QB and receivers. Smart was known for his defenders winning thise one on one tackle opportunities.
Agreed with others, glad UGA is winning but this team has a long way to go to be elite.
I’ve defended the D but, there is no excuse for Kentucky’s success in the 2 minute drive. The biggest success was Stoops wasting 20 seconds with terrible clock management. He gave up the ability to run another play maybe 2.
Bellycheck is just stealing NC taxpayer money
Bill became Diddy or Jay-Z before our eyes: young girls and stealing money. 99 problems and winning ain’t one.
If Bill Belichick’s current stint at NC doesn’t prove that all on field results are all ‘bout coachin’ I don’t know what will.
He serves a purpose. Sell tickets, get some good recruits in, make headlines.
What kind of a bullshit extrapolation is this? Yeah because Belichick is grabbing a money bag we should therefore let Bobo, Searles, Schumann, and whomever else do whatever they want and appreciate the results. Hell let’s just pay them more to ensure they don’t leave for greener pastures.
Bill somehow forgot everything he ever knew about coaching. I hope Tom calls and thanks him a lot tho.
Belicheck has an elite pro coaching career, but he’s never won without Brady. Let’s see if I can do this correctly. If you can’t see that Brady was the most indomitable force in the NFL in my lifetime then I don’t know what to tell you. Bill is a great defensive mind & knew enough to put together coaches that allowed Brady to be Brady but he’s well down the list it seems of great coaches. He also has a huge gap of talent to compete with. Maybe the girlfriend thing is not a great life decision either
I hope the Dawgs are dominant in the second half as they so often are. Don’t let KY score on their first drive.
Hot mic on Kirby. 🤣
Yes in the passing game = Success.
TEs…f’ing autocorrect.
These kickoffs are looking weirdly Richtian.
Coach Fabris approves today’s plan.
Kentucky makes a lot of mistakes.
We’ve been fortunate to take advantage of them…
I’m impressed with the lack of penalties…even with subs on the line they are playing with focus.
Dammit Bobo!
One of Bobo’s best calls on that reverse pitch to Bell for a TD!
Showed some imagination there.
Brock, is that you?? Where the hell did that come from??
Why don’t teams just ask to always be in 3rd down against is?
Dillon Bell, have yourself a game! Lets keep it rollin!
If we ever get a sack on a QB I’m going slap my grandma.
She seems safe
Whoever just busted through the line gets the game ball! No matter that he didn’t get to the QB. He made it through!!
The Heisman.
Can we stop giving the ball to Cash Jones please? Good God.
Amen, brother
I still stand by my statement
It didn’t age well, but the problem is we don’t block well on his running plays. That pass shows what he can do in space.
He’s in to catch not run.
So why the hell do we keep giving it to him to run?
See my comment below.
I still stand by my statement.
I love we keep running the quick toss right to Cash Jones to prove it doesn’t work.
Welp…just when we were muttering out loud (or at least under our breath) about Cash Jones….Good catch and run for the TD!! He needed that!
Gunner is a cool customer. He’s had a very good game.
That’s where Cash is valuable.
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and tip your server.
He’s really good catching the ball coming out of the backfield. He’s a liability running the ball compared to everyone else in the RB room.
This, exactly. Even if he’s not a liability running he’s never the best option available
But is good when you throw it to him past the line of scrimmage.
35-7. And thus, the loss to Bama is gone like the darkness at dawn. Unfortunately so is our d-line rush…
Who is our kickoff specialist? Is he hurt? Why are we squibbing it?
They did exactly what we were trying to do there. We were kicking from the 50 and wanted to pin them back.
Chase the QB to the sideline. Come on, he should have been sacked.
I flipped over to the Skycast and didn’t hear the canned music. Did they turn it down/off?
There wasn’t as much today!! My ears thank whoever made that decision.
The canned music was for the synch with the wristbands.
There was less canned music than there was before the wristbands. Last game my ears rang afterwards even with ear protection. Today they don’t but the canned music was less than any game so far this season. We could actually hear the Redcoats!!
Love hearing the redcoats
Pugs has a cannon.
Accurate too. He doesn’t have bad wheels either. Hope he sticks around, but NIL and all, someone is bound to poach him.
I can get used to watching Puglesi to Williams.
Pug is looking good.
We have so many skill players and imaginative play calls but Kirby just insists on trying to prove our manhood on 4th and shorts with our depleted OL. Whatever….
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A SACK!
Who was it who said he’d slap his grandma?
That sucks. If she’s a Dawg she’ll understand.
Soon as I can catch her.
Me thinks Kelly isn’t a straight A student.
Why can’t we ever have a 2nd string D get off the field?? Dammit.
The over/under was 48.5?
yeah
Funny how that works
3rd and 8. How will they get the 1st this time?
Good freaking grief.
JFC… bama broke us by discovering we can’t stop 3rd/4th down plays.
3rd and Schumann
and 4th and Shumann…but we gave them several first down on penalties…
Bama’s qb/wr combo is weak too!
Other than this extremely painful 2nd string exercise in perfecting Kirbys bend but dont break philosophy, I’m fairly impressed with the Dawgs performance today. Not sure how that might change if Vandy beats Bama again. Lol. Go Vandy!!!
How vanilla is your D when friggin’ Jesse Palmer calls you out for lack of creativity? He clearly pointed out that we line up our DL exactly the same every 3rd down. No scheming, no trickery. I think we got too complacent out physicalling teams in the past and still don’t realize we need to scheme now.
What has happened to that DL sudden shift we used to do? Did they outlaw that?
They did. No sudden movements towards the line pre snap either.
So an LB can’t run up showing or faking a blitz either? That explains a lot.
On a post this week I said that they would continue to make rules to limit the D and create more scoring.
They were not moving TO the line before. It was all lateral movement.
Vanderbilt just did it and sacked Simpson.
Scary when Jessie the brain Palmer has you figured out. Hopefully it’s just the big lead not wanting to show anything new.
Not getting pressure by DL backed up with suspect DB play is no way to go through the SEC.
We are saving it so we can screw it up later in the season.
Jessie Palmer said it?
He’s like a defensive football savant and stuff.
Don’t trust your own eyes or watch film breakdowns. Listen to the sports media guys. They know.
After all Jesse is brilliant at all things!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AY9rpq/
He ain’t wrong on this one. Remember even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I really don’t think how you line up matters much. In fact, if you always look the same presnap its harder to know what we’re up to.
What matters is what happens after the snap.
If it doesn’t matter, then why did Kirby do it for years? It changes the blocking assignments, so you are hoping that someone gets confused on who they are supposed to take, and one gets free ESPECICALLY if you are bringing a LB or DB on a blitz (that we apparently have forgotten that you are allowed to do every now and again).
But that’s kind of the point, nothing is happening after the snap. I’ve become frustrated watching the complete lack of aggression this season. It’s gone down each of the last three years. Players? Coaches? Youth? Don’t know but it’s not a championship formula.
They don’t let us stem anymore, remember?
We have some fans that say we’re too complicated and some that say we’re too vanilla. Shocking. I read a comment a few seconds ago saying that we can’t win the LOS vs UF so we’ll have to manball. *sigh*
I say fans tend to be full of shit and guys with championship trophies are more worthy of my trust than fans who as a rule, don’t know shit.
There is a difference between lining up and letting the opposing coaches get clues as to what you are up to presnap and switching looks right at the snap.
The difference? Not being able to adjust to the change.
Football prep (its called “scouting.” There is also “self-scouting” which is “are we giving clues away by how we line up?”) is spent looking for clues from how people line up in certain situations so that you can predict what’s next and take advantage.
If you can’t tell what’s next because:
A) they line up exactly the same every time
OR
B) they are able to change the picture after the snap (not an option for a front btw)
then any scouter (or self-scouter) is going to conclude that you’re doing it right. Folks who don’t get that should be on or watching The Bachelor and keeping their sewers shut about football strategy and tactics until their cranialrectosis has been adequately addressed.
Can Ellis Robinson run a route? Good catch
Go Dawgs!
My deepest, warmest, strawberry shortcake wish is to find the motherfucking university of georgia tight ends and defensive pass rush/pressure on Saturday, October the 11th.
Dawgs surely a work in progress. I don’t see any gimmes on the rest of the schedule.
Today was a good step forward…injuries not considered.