Sugar Bowl - Georgia v. Texas
January 1st, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
They always do. The formula works.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:36 PM ^
Well...this is surprising.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:36 PM ^
schadenfreude so far for Georgia and I am LOVING it.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:40 PM ^
The “all 22 cam” is the view every game should be from on tv!
January 1st, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
UM's '16 bowl against FSU there was a feed on ESPN that was the flyover camera (dont know what is realy called). It was interesting to watch a game from that perspective. You could see what the QB saw on pass plays.
January 2nd, 2019 at 12:07 AM ^
Yeah wish the all 22 feed was available with commentary and replays. Gets a little boring between plays and during timeouts.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
Georgia belonged in the top 4, yeah.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
Georgia so far playing their bowl game as unmotivated as U of M did. Expecting they will eventaully wake up. They are much better than Texas.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
C'mon Kirby, put Fields in at QB. Maybe that would convince him to stay with the Dawgs!
January 1st, 2019 at 9:44 PM ^
I always figured our offense was supposed to look like Georgia's.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:51 PM ^
Right now they’re mirror images. Neither of them can get anything done.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:44 PM ^
Maryland beat Texas. Go figure!
January 1st, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
Maryland was one good pass away from beating the OSU
January 1st, 2019 at 11:05 PM ^
...and still went 5-7.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:47 PM ^
Love that Home Alone Google commercial
January 1st, 2019 at 9:51 PM ^
Man, what our offense could be. Watching Texas and the tempo and playcalling, fuck, we look like a goddamn Middle School offense.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
Pop Warner is more like it
January 1st, 2019 at 9:51 PM ^
Granted they're playing several back ups and young players, but wow, very poor tackling by Georgia's D.
January 1st, 2019 at 9:52 PM ^
UGA is tackling almost as piss poor as us.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
the pace of the game has picked up considerably. very enjoyable to watch football like this. don't know why, but particularly pulling for texas.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
College defenses rarely come up with big 3rd down stops.
Edit: that was pretty good
January 1st, 2019 at 10:10 PM ^
Even tho UGA is struggling on offense. It looks 50 times more fluid and in sync than Michigan’s ever does.
There’s a semblance of continuity to it.
Michigans is just a random hodgepodge of plays put together.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:12 PM ^
Would LOOOVE to see Georgia fall....
January 1st, 2019 at 10:15 PM ^
Always want Texas to lose. They are 3rd in all time wins.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
Announcers in all three of the bowl games I watched have made a comment about "it is a good thing Alabama and Clemson are playing each other again?" The answer was the same each time. "It is a good thing because they are the best two teams. If you want to play you've got to catch up to them and beat them."
The subtext of this feels like "Alabama and Clemson are cheating their asses off. Shouldn't the NCAA do something about it? No. You've got to start cheating too and quit being a crybaby."
January 1st, 2019 at 10:22 PM ^
I could be wrong, but I think if ESPN is talking about it then they are more saying that the lack of parody may be a bad thing than the cheating
January 1st, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
After listening on the radio (while driving back from Georgia yesterday) to the SEC fans still complaining that 2-loss Georgia should have been in the CFB over either ND or Oklahoma, I'm strongly rooting for the Longhorns to blow them out of the Superdome
January 1st, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
Want Texas to win but I doubt they will
January 1st, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
I'm very surprised how flat Georgia looks. Their defense is struggling to slow down Ehlinger, a usually-porous Texas defense is holding up better than I expected, and frankly Texas just looks like it wants to be in the game more than UGa. I know it's blasphemy to say this around here, but sometimes one team just wants to play in a game like this more than the other, and I can get the Bulldogs being deflated after missing a chance at a CFP spot sort of not taking UT seriously.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:25 PM ^
They did say earlier that Uga had issues with bowl prep practices and had to sit guys until they got their heads on right. Could be carryover.
January 1st, 2019 at 10:43 PM ^
I love Karan Higdon, but he wouldn't break the 3 deep at Georgia. We need a running back like that at Michigan.
Zach Charbonnet looks to be that kind of guy. (crosses fingers)
January 1st, 2019 at 11:02 PM ^
Yes the way holyfield and Swift run their power and cuts are something none of our backs have. I did see some juice with Turner though.
I think Turner and Charbonnet give us a great 1-2 punch now.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:01 PM ^
So
Tbh this Georgia offense is looking janky to me. And it's probably because of Jake Fromm being off. What that tells me is the QB matters (duh!) But Shea has been off in both Florida and OSU game.
What I'm saying is that if Shea can become a sniper then I think alot of sins may be forgotten.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^
Texas would beat us
January 1st, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
Texas is gonna beat a lot of people starting next year I think.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
They have four losses.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:24 PM ^
And that’s relevant how? If you’re going to spout nonsense at least mention that they lost to Maryland and we didn’t.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:25 PM ^
Their record isn’t relevant?
You say a lot of dumb things, but that may be the topper.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:30 PM ^
The fact that they’ve lost four games has zero impact on their ability to beat Michigan. Do you even have a brain?
January 1st, 2019 at 11:24 PM ^
It is possible to improve over the season you know. As it stands right now Texas would beat us.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:28 PM ^
As it stands we don’t know because the teams will not play.Predictions of imaginary matchups based on bowl games against different teams in different circumstances is the height of absurdity.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:27 PM ^
I see them as a team on the way up, that's all. They got some horses.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:46 PM ^
And about to have the same amount of wins as us. Made their conference title game. Beat a playoff team. And beat the SEC runner up. The way they look now, all over the field, signals they would work us.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:17 PM ^
It is funny to watch another really good defense (UGa) down a couple of players struggle against a team that they probably would do better against with a full-strength unit. Again, Harbaugh is a terrible coach who kicks puppies and lies to everyone, and Don Brown should be shot out of a cannon because his brain has turned to mush, but sometimes having missing pieces can mess up your continuity and cause you to underperform.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
Georgia's main problem isn't their defense, it's their offense just like us.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:41 PM ^
Sure, their offense has looked bad. But Texas has scored on 5 of 9 possessions and seem able to move the ball pretty consistently. Also, Texas's offense isn't all that dynamic; they're S&P+ offense is a shade worse than Michigan's. It's been a weird game overall, but this Georgia team isn't playing well defensively either.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:20 PM ^
Jake Fromm and Deandre Swift collectively suck tonight.
Last time I checked Alabama didn't drop 62 on UGA's defense with all their starters playing.
I also don't see Texas dropping 40+ on them either tonight without said players.
Try again.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:29 PM ^
Does it matter though ? This isn't the Georgia team that almost took down Bama a few days ago. They are off. Did you see this coming ? I didn't.
If Texas scores and it remains the same they'll win by 20. That's a blow out in my opinion similar to OSU vs M.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:48 PM ^
If we're going to be technical, neither did OSU (which you're alluding to, I assume). ST accounted for 7 of those points for OSU.
I don't quite get your argument that because Georgia's offense has looked bad, that has any relevance to the defense also not playing well because they appear to be missing players. Georgia gave up 35 to Alabama, the #2 offense in the land per S&P+. They have now given up at least 28 points to Texas, the #29 offense in S&P+ (a bit worse than Michigan's coming into the game). They also gave up 36 points to LSU, which was 50th in offense by the end of the year.
My larger point is that it can be hard to play cohesively when players are out, and if we're going to (rightfully) chastise Michigan's defense for struggling the past two weeks, it doesn't hurt to recognize there can be contributing factors beyond "Don Brown doesn't know how to do his job" and "the players are bad and/or quit", two refrains I heard recently.
January 1st, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
Georgia is lifeless