re: The Dawgs are already in mid-season form

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When Mark Richt took over, VOLS and Florida were top 10 year in and year out. Kirby gets to sleepwalk through 6 of his 8 SEC games.

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When richt took over SC/Vandy/UK were mostly peons. UT and UF were both phenomenal in richt's FIRST YEAR, then UT began their steady descent into mediocrity and UF dropped off in a major way as well. AU was consistently "pretty good" like they always are. We played bama twice in richt's first 3 years that were coached by mike shula.

Kirby has to deal with a SC/VU/UK that obviously aren't elite but are much better than their early decade counterparts. He's played a mega-elite bama twice, both teams of which are likely better than any richt ever faced in 15 years, aside from 08 UF and potentially 10 AU. He also faced a mullen-led MSU (compared to the croom version richt faced) and a freeze-led OM (compared to the nutt/orgeron versions richt did).