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Kirby is the coach for a reason but I'm sorry, in that situation, let's take the tie and go to OT, and win it there. I think our odds would have been a lot better than trying to throw it in from six yards out, into tight windows and spaces, to a receiver who had already stepped out of bounds so couldn't legally even catch the pass. But the play that bothered me most was the play before that, when we did the handoff to Bowens and lost three yards. I thought — and even Greg McElroy said — that we would just run Gunner Stockton two more times from the 3-yard line. If he gets in great. If he doesn't, we're kicking a field goal to tie with under 20 seconds left. I know it was a read option and Stockton chose to give it to Bowens when he probably should have kept it. But, I never would have even given him the option. Just put the ball in Gunner's hands for better or for worse.

Like the game itself, CKS comments leave me scratching my head.
The final 3rd down call seems like Coaching 101, shouldn’t require decision-making or even multiple syllables (run ball, bleed clock, kick FG, force OT).
After that, (still no "decision-making book" but full sentences required), remind DB’s what they learned in Pop Warner ball…for the next 56 seconds keep everything in front of you, foul if necessary, but DO NOT let a player run behind you.

Coaching malpractice of the highest order. But the game had plenty of bad coaching from the Georgia side.

Explanation about the 3rd down call absolute hogwash. (I would say it more succintly but…) its like Monken's short yardage goal line jumbo packages have been stricken from the playbook and can never be used. Ga should have been undercenter with 3 TEs a 300lb lead blocker in the backfield with either Mccray or Bowen taking the ball on 2nd down and 3rd down or something like the Broderuck Robinson td run/ pass option which was thrown into Bobo's blackhole like many other successful ones never to be used again.

still feel that way bout Vegas or refs with that no call on the facemask?

Georgia lost because they didn't get aggressive on offense. They let Ole Miss hang around

Never could figure out why everyone was saying we would win this game easily. We always struggle against running QBs. Thought this was gonna be our toughest matchup. Gabe Harris being out was huge. Jacorey Thomas being out was a big deal. The biggest deal was screwing around with a 21-12 lead just absolutely screwing around. Transfer portal is about to wipe out some teams tomorrow. Our defensive recruiting this 2026 cycle can’t happen again. Fans keep saying this team is gonna be so good bc it’s so young but the transfer portal is about to be a free for all. Just like last year with a month off heading into the sugar bowl, I just thought our gameplan would be better. Injuries got to us. That’s a tough one. Not sure the best team won. Frazier getting hurt and putting Mcray in there to run outside was dumb. Did it earlier in the game and he is a north south runner get his shoulders turned and he is slow. Why Bowens wasn’t in there I don’t know. That ****.

OMG, @zonadawg61, I was saying the same thing about that first drive. We were just rolling and then we just up and try to go deep (which is not Stockton's strong suit) for absolutely no reason at all. That killed our momentum right then and, though we didn't know it at the time, was just a preview of what was to come in terms of play calling. Why late in the game and with Ole Miss down to two timeouts, didn't we just keep running Stockton from inside the five. He either scores a TD or we kick the field goal to tie with like 12 seconds left. Instead, we give them nearly 60 seconds to do just what they did — work their way into field goal position. For all the good Kirby Smart does at coaching, he still can't manage the end of halves well — at all.