Man our 2024 season sure was wild

been rewatching some games and man last year was such a rollercoaster. I fully and wholeheartedly believe that if we win the SECCG in 2023 we cruise to the title, Michigan was a joke. So excitement was high coming in for sure.

-Open up with clemson and although started slow we ended up pummeling them. This didn't quite give 2022 oregon vibes, but still was enough to think holy crap we might be really damn good again.
-Week 3 against UK was the opposite as we played one of the wrost games of the year. Put up 3 points in the first half (losing) and trailed friggin 9-6 entering the 4th quarter. Let a former QB that was on our team last year make us look silly scrambling around. Up by only 1 with 8 minutes to play before eventually hanging on. Yikes.
-Next week looked like a night terror you can' wake up from for about 60% of the game. We eventually went video game mode and stormed back and looked like a totally different team, before defensive and offensive blunders in the final few minutes created yet another brand new innovative way to lose to bama. Beck at this point looks...shaky.
-Next week we get a hapless AU in the lousiest and sorriest sanford atmosphere for a DSOR I've experienced thsi century. Felt like being in a library
-Next week we get another shite team in MSU and we looked like shite too. This team was 1-5 heading into the game yet beck's turnovers kept them in it and we were only up 10 heading into the 4th before wnning by 10.
-At this point clesmon is a distant memory. We look entirely pedestrian and the rest of the season doesn't really look at that promising, especially since we go on the road at night to the #1 team that looks like an offensive juggernaut. And then of course in typical fashion, we totally flip the script on its head. We look incredible. Defense flying around. Etienne running possessed. Receivers catching the ball. Of course beck kept frickin up but it didn't matter. We thoroughly dominated on both sides the entire gmae. One of the more signature wins in UGA football history, if we're being honest. Now things are lookin back up again!

-we get a bye week after a massive win before facing a mediocre UF who is potentially about to fire their coach. Beck has one of his worst games as starter and we're losing by 7 at Half to a team playing its backup QB. Like seriously wtf? The game is tied with 5 minutes left before we ultimatley pull away, but this definitely didn't maintain that same high that we felt coming out of austin
-the next week we play, truly, one of the worst games I've ever seen under kirby. Aside from being handed a turnover on the first possession nand scoring quickly, we looked like a JV team the entire rest of the game in a rainy day in oxford. I mean honestly we didn't look like we belonged on the same field. We would've lost to ole miss 100 times out of 100 that day. Jsut utter shite.
-now we get a top 10 UT who has played well, including beating the bama team we can't beat to save our lives. Down 10 immediately and tied at half, but we did like we always do lately against UT and pull away. Great win and beck has a hell of a day. Ok maybe we're turnin the ship around yet again!
-We host a barely .500 tech team and holy shite, what in the world is going on here? They essentially run that same QB draw with a lead blocker all game and we for some reason refused to try to stop them. Scored ZERO points at half and are down 17-0!! Down by double digits entering the 4th and are down by 14 with 4 minutes to play. Give credit for our resilience (and dan jackson) for somehow getting to OT, which was a total clusterfrick all on its own. We come out of this one again feeling like shite and like clemson/texas are distant memories.

-we enter the SECG against a texas team with just our loss on their schedule as they are cruising and we are sinking so it feels like our time has run out. And then, yet again...we play out of our heads! It wasn't pretty and our offense didnt' do jack shite the first half. Gunner comes in, we start picking things up, and the defense played elite and now we're SEC champs.

-Ok, if we can do that we can do anything! Good/bad/good/bad..now we're back to good again! We get several weeks off, let gunner get all the #1 reps, and we get a perennially overrated ND team in the sugar bowl after a 1st round playoff bye. This should be a cakewalk. And then we look even worse than we did against ole miss. Just painfully and horrendously lost, underprepared, whatever else you want to say. Just a total embarrassment.


If some foreign person only watched our 2 games against texas they'd think we had the best defense in america and were a national title team. If they only watched ole miss and ND they'd wonder if we were capable of even winning 3 games all season. That was one of the more wildly swinging up and down seasons I can recall in a while. Here's hoping that 2025 is a bit more consistent, on the good side.