Texas is a very good run defense, best in SEC at 75 YPG, but passing defense is 12th at 235 YPG. Texas has middle of SEC in total offense at 10th. They will try to hit big pass plays all night long, it's going to be a test for Dawgs corners and safety's. Dawgs need to stay out of long 3th downs and have some success on ground, and keep TX offense off field. I don't see this game becoming a shoot out, but do see both teams in 20 to 30 point range. The one point that sticks out about TX, in last 5 games they have given up 298,210,258,382,365 passing yards. I like our chances at home, but its going to be deep 4th quarter battle.

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Posted by SemperFiDawg

Member since Sep 2014

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Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:10 am to PCDAWG

If there's ever been a game where needed to pressure and sack the QB this is it. Manning has a strong tendency to wilt quickly under pressure and his mechanics go to crap. I pray we don't witness another game of pitch and catch because he does have the ability to get hot if given the opportunity.

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Posted by Violent Hip Swivel

Member since Aug 2023

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Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:15 am to SemperFiDawg

Alabama would've been the game where we needed to pressure and sack the quarterback, because their quarterback actually went through progressions and threw passes further than 10 yards past the line of scrimmage.

Texas offense has settled into a chickenshit horizontal quick game offense, so open field tackling will probably be way more important than pressuring the quarterback.

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Posted by TLA

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Member since Aug 2013

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Posted on 11/12/25 at 12:57 pm to PCDAWG

quote:
long 3th downs

This is the second time you have used “3th” in less than a week. Are you crazy or just plain stupid?

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Posted by PCDAWG

panama city

Member since Sep 2021

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Posted on 11/12/25 at 1:09 pm to TLA

Probably a combination of both, since I waited 20 years for UGAs 1980 Championship and 40 years for the next one.

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Posted by WG_Dawg

Member since Jun 2004

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Posted on 11/12/25 at 2:02 pm to PCDAWG

Last night I watched both Texas games from last year and it was jarring at how differnet we looked. Like it might as well have not even been UGA. I know the portal era fricks your roster over yearly but all of the guys below made at least one noteworthy play against Texas last year, and are no longer on our team this year:

beck
dom lovett
etienne
arian
mykell
jalon walker
dan jackson
chambliss
starks
80% of the OL (fairchild/wilson/ratledge/truss)
damon wilson

I mean damn. Granted...not all of beck's noteworthy plays were positive ones, ditto for some others no longer here (julian humphrey ie). But still...it was a bit surprising.

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