ATHENS — Georgia football hasn’t lost a regular season game since 2020, so the Bulldogs haven’t had much to worry about where the College Football Playoff Committee is concerned.
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45-23, close game.👍
Well...it IS almost as close as 33-18. Lol
The eye test doesn't lie...OSU got beat...AND...they had a bad game. They just couldn't "Stop Michigan"...or, UGA, for that matter. Despite what some ****'nuts think...defense is not just "desired"...it's "required", in order to be truly "Elite".
A lesson the BIG10 has never learned...defense is not "optional".
Everyone always points out that Alabama lost two close games last year. They also won a couple of close ones that could have gone against them as well. The politics here are about who gets in to play for the National Championship. There is no doubt that this process still crowns that best team in the sport. Does the process always include the best "also rans"? No. Every team can have a bad day and lose, but the best consistent winner emerges. This year, Ohio State played their best game of the year against a UGA squad that was struggling. UGA still won.
This is spot on. They played their best game. Stroud had his best game as a Buckeye. We played our worst game. Part of what happened still bothers me because it is on the coaches. In the first half and part of the 3rd quarter we played the same type of defense we played against Alabama in the SECCG last year where we didn't bring enough linebacker pressure. Of course OSU was holding all the time, just as Bama was in that SECCG. What changed 2nd half (mostly late 3rd and 4th quarter) is the same thing that helped us in the NCG against Alabama. We blitzed over and over again. Still pissed that we came into the OSU game not expecting them to hold and playing that contain defense with very little linebacker blitzing. We should have been doing that (e.g. blitzing) the whole game. Also, Carter did not play his best game and looked tired and none of our DL could get out of the grasp (literally) of the OSU OL.
