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UCF?
Well we ain’t Bama so once we get on their level and win 5 ships in 9 yrs then we can maybe stop worrying so much. We can’t look past teams. Even Bama only had one undefeated season of the 5 they won. Every SEC opponent deserves respect.
None of us are looking past them. We just aren’t biting our nails in anxiety over them. We believe those days are over. There’s a new sheriff/philosophy in town and I think many on this board have chugged the kool-aid
Lifted this from the SBNation forums. It shows the statistical likelihood of going undefeated based on projected win probability:
Taking it for granted is not a good quality in a fan base. And it’s why Saban is often defensive in his press conferences, because he doesn’t want people taking it for granted.
Every SEC win should be appreciated. Well, some more than others. Like UT is quickly becoming a has-been. But every SEC win. Some good OOC games too.
We should worry about LSU, SC, Auburn, UF, UT, UK, AP, Mass., Middle Tennessee, Missouri, Vandy, GT--did I leave anyone out? Gotta bear down in every game as if we're playing for our lives. On a given Saturday any team could beat you.
He doesn’t want his players taking it for granted. The fans have little to no impact on their performance. We can be as overzealous and unreasonable as we want. It’s time for the UGA fanbase to start acting like we believe we will win instead of biting our nails over USC, Mizzou and Kentucky...
Keep in mind, in Kirby Smart's 2 years Georgia has been blown out by a SEC West team on the road, Ole Miss in 2016 and Auburn in 2017, so don't be surprised if we struggle a lot at LSU this year.
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Here’s the last Saban press conference I saw. He’s very frustrated at the media for implying Bama could just replace with other players the injuries they’ve got on D. If he were just worried about what his own players think, there’s no way he’s as successful as he is if the media has more influence on his team than he does. There’d be no reason to get that frustrated and use profanity. Who the media really does talk to is the fans. Relevant part starts at 5:00. He does mention the fans in passing in the rant:
And there are other options in between biting nails and believing. You can have confidence without taking a win for granted.
But maybe it only seems to me some people are taking it for granted because they’re responding to people they feel like are fretting too much... In different contexts, maybe they don’t sound like that to me. I don’t know.
We're going to make LSU look like we did Miss St. last year.
Here, there, Scandinavia? It don't matter where we play. Dawgs on top BIGLY.
IMHO
Georgia beats LSU by 10 points or more - and might just run up the score on Ed “Snakebit” Orgeron and his joke of an offensive coordinator. I think he found him playing dominoes at an old timer’s bar. LSU’s defense is good but they’ll be on the field far too long because of a one dimensional (no running game) offense.
Georgia has a ton of talent, but it is very young and inexperienced in spots. I think they improve a lot as the year goes by—Bentley and Samuel pose the biggest threat to our secondary and LBs. Mizzou isn’t far behind on the danger scale. Many will be in their first SEC game at WB—very hostile environment. The turf is messed up, and it will likely be scorching hot. LSU and Auburn are later in the year, after the depth and talent start to season. I’m worried less about them, even though they have more talent than SC/Mizzou.
Interesting that in their model we have exactly the same win probability against Tennessee as we do against UMass.
I would have Mizzou at the top of my list because they would at least have the ability to make big plays and score on offense. If you look at the games that Bama has lost over the past 5-7 yrs or so it is generally to a potential offense that wins something of a shoot out. Examples: Texas A &m with Manziel, Ole Miss the two yrs with Chad Kelly and that offense, the natty game against Clemson, etc. Teams generally aren't able to grind out 20-17 kind of games with them and win. Mizzou has Lock at QB and they seem to grow 6'3"+ WRs and small shifty RBs on trees up there. I think that game, in Mizzou, has as much upset potential for us as any.
Says a lot about what S&P+ thinks about UT this year...