That wasn't supposed to be a compliment. Oklahoma has the most talent in that conference every single season (UGA doesn't, but it's the same idea) and yet they have lost to Baylor by a combined score of 89-26 in the last two years. That should never ever happen at Oklahoma. They have two or three games a year where they play way, way below their talent level and it costs them in a big way. That's the similarity. Georgia just doesn't lose those games in humiliating, blowout fashion as often as OU does.

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Posted by wdhalgren

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Posted on 2/23/15 at 2:05 pm to VADawg

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That wasn't supposed to be a compliment.

Trust me, I take very little of what you post on this board as a compliment to UGA. So you're saying Oklahoma underperforms by losing to Baylor and Kansas St. Maybe so, and maybe that should seldom happen. But, the talent level in the SEC is more evenly distributed, and we simply do not have a massive talent advantage over most of our SEC rivals, even when they have a down year. On any given Saturday, if there's a reasonable level of player/coaching parity between two teams, then it's not uncommon to have an upset.

So we lost to South Carolina. Our defensive secondary was abysmal. We lost an entire two deep in the offseason, including three of starters. Steve Spurrier knows how to take advantage of that and Dylan Thompson had his highest qb rating of the season against us. It's not an excuse, just one of many reasons why we didn't match up well agaist a "bad" team. Those kinds of things happen when you don't have an overwhelming advantage in talent or experience. Yes, we might have won that game, but we could have also lost the Tennesse game for similar reasons. We had depth/talent flaws and it cost us some games.

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