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At what point will UF's hex over UGA be "officially" over?
Posted on 11/3/13 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 11/3/13 at 3:39 pm
IYAM it officially ended yesterday. Their HC has never beat UGA, their coaching staff (were there any holdovers from meyer? I genuinely don't know) has never beaten UGA, and the majority of their entire roster has never experienced a win in jacksonville. We have 3 wins in a row, 4 of the last 7, and 5 of the last 10.
For some reason, media and fans still want to use 1990 as a measuring stick in this rivalry. What spurrier did against goff and donnan doesn't mean shite. Spurrier is long gone. Richt has turned this rivalry back around to where it was under Dooley, which is to say we're finally going down there and EXPECTING to win, not hoping and praying we can keep it close. Hell, just look at the last 3 years:
2011- We're down 17-3 and murray has looked like shite. We end up getting 2 crucial TDs on perfectly executed 4th down plays. We have a RB run roughshod to take the final lead, then throw a ballsy pass on the last drive to seal it.
2012- Again we look like shite in the first half. Turnovers galore. But despite that, we cause even more of them than we make. In crunch time we get a 40ish yard run after catch, then cause the game sealing fumble on their last drive.
2013- Could have EASILY won this game by 40 if it weren't for a few frick ups here and there. However, after we see a 20 point lead dissolve to 3 in the 4th quarter, we've just been stopped on 4th down in our own territory, commit a penalty to give UF the first down and ALLL the momentum. This is the type of situation that past UGa/UF games would see us frick up and UF take the lead. But what happened? Held em the first 2 downs, then get a 15 yard loss on a sack. After recovering the punt, we run out the last frickin 8 minutes or however long it was, including big plays by backups.
You can count the times we've been assrammed by fate in this game. The phantom timeout in 93 as we took the lead. Jasper fumbling in 98 or 99 (can't remember the year) as we were about to crack it wide open. Lito Sheppard's INT return right before the half in 2000 that was ultimately a backbreaker. Pollacks lateral and terrence in 02. Bennett's missed FGs in 03. Shockley out in 05. Lumpkin fumbling and returned for TD in 06. Etc. Whatever could go wrong for us down there, it did. But recently, WE'VE been getting the breaks. We're getting timely interceptions and fumbles. We're making big plays in the clutch. We're the ones putting all the pressure on them.
I don't know about yall, but I think we can officially put this curse to pasture. Jacksonville is ours again.
For some reason, media and fans still want to use 1990 as a measuring stick in this rivalry. What spurrier did against goff and donnan doesn't mean shite. Spurrier is long gone. Richt has turned this rivalry back around to where it was under Dooley, which is to say we're finally going down there and EXPECTING to win, not hoping and praying we can keep it close. Hell, just look at the last 3 years:
2011- We're down 17-3 and murray has looked like shite. We end up getting 2 crucial TDs on perfectly executed 4th down plays. We have a RB run roughshod to take the final lead, then throw a ballsy pass on the last drive to seal it.
2012- Again we look like shite in the first half. Turnovers galore. But despite that, we cause even more of them than we make. In crunch time we get a 40ish yard run after catch, then cause the game sealing fumble on their last drive.
2013- Could have EASILY won this game by 40 if it weren't for a few frick ups here and there. However, after we see a 20 point lead dissolve to 3 in the 4th quarter, we've just been stopped on 4th down in our own territory, commit a penalty to give UF the first down and ALLL the momentum. This is the type of situation that past UGa/UF games would see us frick up and UF take the lead. But what happened? Held em the first 2 downs, then get a 15 yard loss on a sack. After recovering the punt, we run out the last frickin 8 minutes or however long it was, including big plays by backups.
You can count the times we've been assrammed by fate in this game. The phantom timeout in 93 as we took the lead. Jasper fumbling in 98 or 99 (can't remember the year) as we were about to crack it wide open. Lito Sheppard's INT return right before the half in 2000 that was ultimately a backbreaker. Pollacks lateral and terrence in 02. Bennett's missed FGs in 03. Shockley out in 05. Lumpkin fumbling and returned for TD in 06. Etc. Whatever could go wrong for us down there, it did. But recently, WE'VE been getting the breaks. We're getting timely interceptions and fumbles. We're making big plays in the clutch. We're the ones putting all the pressure on them.
I don't know about yall, but I think we can officially put this curse to pasture. Jacksonville is ours again.
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Posted on 11/3/13 at 3:54 pm to WG_Dawg
agreed, although I think I might bear the emotional scars of a childhood full of difficulties in Jacksonville for the rest of my life as a fan.
It is nice to expect to win. That doesn't make me enjoy it any less
It is nice to expect to win. That doesn't make me enjoy it any less
Posted on 11/3/13 at 4:14 pm to Crowknowsbest
I think the hex is officially over, but it will be a few years before I stop getting nervous every time we play down there. It will also be a few years before UF stops being chippy all game and accepts their beatings like they should.
Both of those will end when we lay a 40 pt game on them and just dominate. Almost what we did this year if it weren't for the lateral.
Both of those will end when we lay a 40 pt game on them and just dominate. Almost what we did this year if it weren't for the lateral.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 4:20 pm to DawgInHisPrime
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it will be a few years before I stop getting nervous every time we play down there
I still get nervous everytime we play UT, UF, AU, and GT. No matter how good or bad the teams are, simply because they're huge games.
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Both of those will end when we lay a 40 pt game on them and just dominate
We beat the mess out of em in 97 and that didn't mean much of anything. I'd always said winning 2 in a row is really going to be the first step in the tables turning again, and we've now won 3.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 4:28 pm to WG_Dawg
I've always said we have to win multiples. I was a dumbass and really that we would win in 08 and started telling everyone, here comes the reversal and we'll win two in a row. Well history shows that I was an idiot but I felt that things had changed. I remember Bobo, Hines and CO. beating the mess out of the gayturds in 97, great game. Then in 98 we got spanked. We have to just put our foot on their throats and start beating the everloving shite out of them and the media will leave it alone. Probably will not happen under Richt but can hope.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:00 pm to Remington Dawg
Going into the game, I had no emotions aside from the typical "frick florida" and "God, why did I drink until 4 the prior morning and wake up at 9."
However, even up 20 at half and feeling better than I did that morning, I was still in knots about losing the game. That is a gut-wrenching feeling I will never lose in Jacksonville and - on the bright side - it makes that victory knee and march down the ramps oh so much sweeter.
However, even up 20 at half and feeling better than I did that morning, I was still in knots about losing the game. That is a gut-wrenching feeling I will never lose in Jacksonville and - on the bright side - it makes that victory knee and march down the ramps oh so much sweeter.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:04 pm to tylerdurden24
When we whip that gator arse. At least for me. I'll take 3 wins but a good ole fashioned tail whipping will make me not nervous any more.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:07 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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I'll take 3 wins but a good ole fashioned tail whipping will make me not nervous any more.
Well that's just false. Even if we had won 42-10 yesterday, come kickoff next year you'd still be nervous.
Like I said, I'll always be "nervous" for this game, simply because it's a big rival. I'm so torn up the entire week before tech every year I can barely function. I'm just saying, the whole "Georgia can't win in jacksonville, how are they gonna find a way to frick it up this year" mantra should be put to rest at this point.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:34 pm to tylerdurden24
Enough wins and that feeling will go away. I grew up expecting to beat FL. HW's last year was a 44-0 thing of beauty.
The first few years of Spurrier were sort of "yeah, okay" for me. Spurrier then made it personal. After a while the ways GA found to lose were sadly comical. Now, world order has been re-established.
I have to admit one of reasons I am not fond of Richt is the "rush the field" game. We owned FL for most of my early life. Winning with gimmicks, other than trick plays, cheapened the experience of listening to those jort wearing SOBs whine about losing to the dawgs.
The first few years of Spurrier were sort of "yeah, okay" for me. Spurrier then made it personal. After a while the ways GA found to lose were sadly comical. Now, world order has been re-established.
I have to admit one of reasons I am not fond of Richt is the "rush the field" game. We owned FL for most of my early life. Winning with gimmicks, other than trick plays, cheapened the experience of listening to those jort wearing SOBs whine about losing to the dawgs.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:35 pm to WG_Dawg
One point might be an outlier. Two points make a straight line. Three points and you have a trend....
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:45 pm to davesdawgs
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Three points and you have a trend
I would just like to point out here, while everyone is busy sucking each others dicks about "order being restored", UF jus had a 3 point trend immediately preceding our 3 point trend...and they were beating us down 2 out of 3 of those points.
Im not saying don't be happy we won. Im also not suggesting that the "hex" isn't over...just saying that we only seem to be on roughly equal footing with UF now.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:49 pm to DawgHolliday
Three straight wins means it's over.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 5:55 pm to DawgHolliday
It was a good hard fought win now it's time to work on technique and getting ready for Auburn at the expense of this weeks 'cupcake.
Right now they are looking way past UGA and are dreaming of Alabama hopefully we can catch them sleepwalking and make them pay a heavy price.
Right now they are looking way past UGA and are dreaming of Alabama hopefully we can catch them sleepwalking and make them pay a heavy price.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 6:07 pm to DawgHolliday
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DawgHolliday
Try to keep up here. UF is the team that had been dominant for 2 decades. Winning 3 in a row was the norm for them, not the exception. It's not a big deal when we beat tech for 2 or 3 in a row because that's normal.
Us winning 3 in a row against UF hasn't happened since the late 80s, so yeah..it's a big deal. So, IYO, what will it take for it to officially be "over"? Winning 10 in a row? Winning by 50 one year?
Posted on 11/3/13 at 6:20 pm to WG_Dawg
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Try to keep up here
I think you need to follow your own advice, or at the very least, focus on your reading comprehension.
I did not say the hex was not over, and I even specifically said, "I am not saying its not over."
All I was pointing out was that our 3 point trend was immediately preceded by a UF 3 point trend. This means that 3 point trends are easily turned into an equal and opposite 3 point trend. Three game winning streaks mean roughly the same regardless of who wins them. You and the rest may think it means more for us to win 3 in a row. On and emotional basis, it may. In a "how does this affect the future?" sort of way...it doesn't.
We won something like 17 or 18 of the previous 20 prior to UF winning 18 of 20. This to me is a lot like the global warming argument. shite happens in cycles and small samplings of time do not allow for a complete picture.
Perhaps you are too young to remember owning UF. If that's the case, Ill forgive you and all the rest for being a little too giddy over 3 in a row.
My main contention was with the "order being restored" garbage. Order will be restored when we run off 7 out of 10 or so.
We have more or less pulled things back to even. This means we don't go into Jacksonville trying to figure out how we are going to find a way to lose the game. Now we go in knowing that its a toss up.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 6:21 pm to DawgInHisPrime
I get nervous when we play Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 6:58 pm to WG_Dawg
Muschamp is the source of the curse. Period.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 7:48 pm to tylerdurden24
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However, even up 20 at half and feeling better than I did that morning, I was still in knots about losing the game. That is a gut-wrenching feeling I will never lose in Jacksonville and - on the bright side - it makes that victory knee and march down the ramps oh so much sweeter.
Same. I was getting congrats texts and pats on the back but all I knew was 1) this was UF and 2) this is the same exact staff I've seen give up leads for years now. I wasn't convinced until that last penalty gave them the first down. I was still convinced the defense would find a way to give up a bomb to even Tyler Murphy's lowly arse
Posted on 11/3/13 at 7:48 pm to FinleyStreet
If this doesn't put your mind at ease, not sure what will. It is over, and it is just about right on time.
Posted on 11/3/13 at 7:49 pm to WG_Dawg
quote:That's not false on my end. I'm nervous before every game but it's a different kind of nervous when we face Florida, almost like I expect to lose.
Well that's just false. Even if we had won 42-10 yesterday, come kickoff next year you'd still be nervous.
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