re: can USC leapfrog UGA this week?

I think USC is likely to leapfrog if for no other reason, UGA lost yet another top linemen for the year and the voters have been getting itchy on the trigger finger ever since Sturdivant went down. However, after yesterday, I am pretty confident that the UGA offense can score on anyone. The defense was hard to evaluate as a whole since Richt was substituting individual players throughout to get some evaluation in. Yes, USC looked better, but with first games of the sesaon, you have to look at them with a grain of salt. Carroll loves proving how awesome USC is by travelling to a so-so team and putting it on them the first game of the season. Richt knows he had one, and possibly two scrimmages to get ready for the real season. OF course he is going to coach differently. I think next week will be a better chance to evaluate the defense because less mix and matching will be occurring.