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Why Georgia football national title hopes better than odds suggest
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Why Georgia football national title hopes better than odds suggest
ATHENS â Kirby Smartâs Georgia football program finds itself in a familiar place atop the SEC, but the Big Ten buzz remains louder than ever.
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I'm totally fine with being overlooked since Kirby and the team ALWAYS draw motivation from that. I am way more ticked off about the SEC coaches and media giving CKS no love for Coach of the Year. That's more than insulting…it's petty and immature. The same folks picked Texas to dominate the SEC this year because the Dawgs didn't have the players and then rationalize their decision to snub Smart with the tired "he's expected to win" line. Total BS! Jealousy is an **** thing!
I think the toughest teams in the field for Georgia to play are Ohio State and Ole Miss. Georgia would crush Indiana, and handle all the others just fine. Go Dawgs!
The buzz will end soon enough. The Buckeyes are no where near the team they were last year, especially late in the season, and Indy has never seen a defense like what the Dawgs are bringing. I think the Rebels will score about half as many as the first go round. Kirby could not change his defensive scheme until he could trust the back end. The players have all bought in and are now producing numbers comparable to the two National Championship years. The Dawgs are going for three out of last five, and will have beaten the two teams that won the other two. Dawgs on top!
I don’t gamble on sports but I can tell you this the Dawgs are gonna win the Ntl. Title barring a complete and total implosion. Save up your money for all the Dawgs Ntl. Title gear because it’s coming !! Go Dawgs !!
I agree with you, but…
The Dawgs are going for three out of last five, and will have beaten the two teams that won the other two.but…could you explain ⬆︎this statement⬆︎?
I have no idea what you mean there.
Thanks.
Go, Dawgs!
A team winning a national title without a downfield or reliable intermediate passing game (even the power option Nebraska teams of the 1990s had a downfield passing game) or a dominant running game (which those Nebraska teams certainly had, 400 yards per game in 1995 versus under 190 per game for UGA in 2025 and about 260 per game in 2017) would be something to behold. No one that UGA has played this year has had time to gameplan for their very unusual offense except Georgia Tech, and Tech didn't have the future NFL athletes in their front seven (actually front six as Tech plays a 4-2 defense) to stop UGA's running game.
Notre Dame was able to basically ignore Indiana last year and gameplan UGA's lack of OTs and WRs (though they still lost their best DL for the rest of the playoffs in that game … I don't think that he would have been able to make much difference against Ohio State regardless). Ole Miss will be able to replicate that by ignoring Tulane. Plus they played UGA earlier this year. I am not worrying as much about Lane Kiffin not being there anymore as he is an offense guy and the new head coach is their former DC and he will play both roles during the playoff. If UGA is able to get past Ole Miss in the first game, it is safe to say that they will go far and that Kirby Smart will have innovated a new way to play offense in the modern era.
we beat Michigan in 2021 and Ohio in 2022.
No one we play in the playoffs will have extra time to prepare for us except the winner of ole miss and Tulane. Two schools that are both replacing coaches. If we advance there it’s all normal prep time. And as I’m sure you know…we get to prep for them as well.
is your team competing in the playoff or are they on the outside looking in?
@Kasey UGA went from not winning the SEC East with SB IV getting benched in 2020 to only losing 2 games the next 3 years. So none of this "we beat Michigan and Ohio State when both UGA and the other teams were very different" stuff.
My team? It was once Georgia Tech! But I gave up on them when the AJC successfully got Chan Gailey, who was TRYING to build Tech into a real football program based on recruiting future NFL athletes, defense and building both lines, fired in order to have them return to "more exciting" mickey mouse gimmick football that only got them 8 wins a year when the ACC was even weaker than it is now. I will only start back rooting for that program if they hire a coordinator from the SEC (Vandy doesn't count) or a Big 10 powerhouse (Northwestern doesn't count). As they right now have a former player and assistant coach from their gimmick era as head coach, they are back to their old ways of meaningless upsets of better programs actually trying to accomplish something, losing winnable games against lesser programs like Louisville (against whom Key is 0-2), Syracuse and Pitt and giving their all to knock off the big powerhouse on their schedule only to inevitably lose (when Key was a player that was Florida State, now their great white whale is Georgia). Here's the hilarious thing: even if Georgia Tech had beaten UGA this year, so what? They still wouldn't have gone to the ACC title game or the playoff. But focus on beating either NC State or Pitt - the great defensive effort that held UGA to 16 points would have been better used on keeping Pitt and NC State below 40 - and you do both. Yes, Tech knocked Miami out of the playoff last year. Big deal. Miami still recruits better than Tech ever will with Key, is in the playoff this year and will likely be in it every year going forward if they expand it to 16 teams. Meanwhile Tech, who will make beating Georgia their Super Bowl every year so long as Key is coach, is going to keep going 7-6/9-4.
Tech has so much potential. Urban campus. Tons of talent in the state. Academic reputation to recruit nationally. All it takes is a real football guy to tap that potential. But they're stuck on this "we're an academics ACC school and not a football factory like the SEC or the Big 10" so they deserve what they get. I can't bring myself to root for Georgia, but as I live in this state I might as well enjoy championship football wherever I get it. I would definitely rather see those titles go to Georgia than to Clemson or FSU.
@JimWallace asked a question and I tried to answer it. Nothing much more to it than that.
Glad you’ve given us some history on your allegiances.
I can appreciate your sentiment here, but it cracks me up at the same time. Let me paraphrase your comment: "The dawgs will absolutely win unless they absolutely don't. Count on it". 😂
Yeah I guess it does kind of come off like that. As you’ve seen my many posts I’m sure far from being the most articulate that’s for sure. I see what you’re saying and in that context it was sort of silly. But you know what I meant. I really do believe they will unless they have some Very uncharacteristic play for a Kirby Smart coached Dawgs. I don’t vaguely see that happening but in CFB anything is possible. Now you know why I had a D in HS English !! 🤣
Dude...he lost me, when he basically said, "Chan Gailey was a good coach"....Lol.
He was mediocre at best...and if I'm not mistaken, Gailey also failed at Florida before he coached Tech. I remember him being a lame hire, in our (family) opinions.
Chan Gailey was the Pittsburgh OC when he got hired as Dallas HC when Switzer left. That obviously didn’t work out, so he took another job as OC before he got the Tech job. I think he did ok, but his offense wasn’t a fit for Tech. Then Paul Johnson came in with his high school offense. Brent Key seems to have them on a better path, but his whole offensive staff is in Gainesville now.
And the main cog of his machine is out of eligibility (H. King) or is most likely transferring to floriduh (Philo)…..
Will be interesting to see how tech and Brent Key compensates!
Go Dawgs!
That's right....Dallas! Lol.…he was still a lame hire...imo. Both, in Dallas and Tech. I had forgotten about Switzer and his gun-totin' self. Dallas was flailing when they hired him. Lmao
Thanks for straightening it out. I meant to go back and look at it.