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Struggle to look even decent in week 1 against vastly inferior competition. Follow that up with overhyped wins against down teams that look didn't look formidable at all and I just don't see how there can be confidence going into this week.

Now I know it's fun to hop on the bandwagon of the Cinderella, but considering the recent trend of catastrophic seasons and historical tendency to be humbled when on the cusp of challenging the truly elite it's tough to justify the level of confidence I've seen on display. With another representative of the truly elite class of college football up next this week, I certainly hope Georgia fans can keep things in perspective and aren't too hard on their boys for coming up short in the limelight yet again.

In 2014, State skyrocketed from unranked to #1 in just after beating then #8 LSU, #6 A&M, and #2 Auburn in consecutive weeks. Those three teams all finished with identical 8-5 records and 2/3 (Auburn and LSU) lost their bowl games.

The 2016 A&M team also comes to mind. They started out the season unranked but were #6 by the time they played #1 Bama in Tuscaloosa. They had three ranked wins at that time: #16 UCLA, #17 Arkansas, and #9 Tennessee. UCLA finished 4-8 and Arkansas finished 7-6. Tennessee finished 9-4 and ranked #22 nationally.

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Posted by deltaland

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Posted on 9/27/21 at 3:47 pm to Tornado Alley

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2014, State skyrocketed from unranked to #1 in just after beating then #8 LSU, #6 A&M, and #2 Auburn in consecutive weeks. Those three teams all finished with identical 8-5 records and 2/3 (Auburn and LSU) lost their bowl games.

Yea but that was a really good team. Lost to Bama by 5. Then our POS D coordinator quit trying against OM and the bowl game because he had another job lined up

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