That was as satisfying a win as we’ve had in a long time. Off the top of my head, the last time we really laid a beating like that on what was supposed to be a good team was maybe the 2010 SEC-CG? Or all the way back to Ben Leard over UGA?
As happy as it made me, though, it only magnified the inexplicable failure at LSU. As I was asked by a LSU fanatic late in the fourth, “how the hell did we beat y’all?†And as I answered (which pissed her off) “no excuse for losing that game..†Take that cluster fuck away and I’d be good. This is too talented a team to have two shitty losses.
I was still a little concerned to watch us hand off up the middle over and over late. But we were getting a push so it worked. Where I was most encouraged was with the defense keeping its foot on the gas. In 2013, up by 20 we started playing soft and trying to keep everything in front of us. Near fatal collapse. Did the same against FSU in the title game. I’ve never understood that. Saw state do it against bama in the last two drives. Why? When you are limiting the opponent to virtually nothing, stay after that ass. That’s what we did until the very last drive — in which they predictably cut us up for a TD — note: it never works, don’t do it. I liked that we kept the heat on.
Georgia fans today are claiming
a) they did it to themselves with penalties and mental errors
b) Kirby done filed away that challenge and the pass. God help AU if they play us in the CG. They will pay that back double.
c) they are the better team, just had a bad day
I don’t think any of that is true. They hadn’t played anybody. And it showed.