re: Clemson VS Uga to open season

you earned it by making ur entire persona here about being a huge douche.

He’s a gamecock fan so I think that’s the schtick

I think 2023 Georgia was the least talented team of the last 3 Georgia teams and they still went undefeated in regular season. I actually think their squad this year looks better top to bottom.

Georgia’s front 7 should be a lot better than last year and seems like the only recipe that works against Kirby lately is multiple Spread variations with bunches and motion and elite QB play (Bama w/ Bryce Young ‘21, Ohio State w/ Stroud)

Clemson offense hasn’t done that in a while. And Klubnik is painfully average. I could see Clemson D keeping them in the game til late 3rd quarter but unless Klubnik has made some exponential leap this offseason, this should be a 3 score W for UGA.

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Nobody in their right logical mind thinks Georgia will walk into Clemson stadium and out right pound y’all.

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Georgia is in trouble if they walk in to Clemson's stadium on August 31st considering the game is being played in Atlanta.

If the Dawgs do not cover I will be surprised.

As a UGA fan I'm biased, but I live in SC so am not totally unfamiliar with Clemson. I think UGA is in better position to handle an early season game like this.

The biggest factor that impacts early games more than later games is experience. UGA return 14 starters this year (more than they have any of the last 3 seasons). Clemson returns 11.

While both return starting QB's, Beck was much more effective than Klubnik was. Clemson returns more starters on offense than UGA, but their offense wasn't particularly strong last year (50th in the nation in total yards compared to 5th for UGA).

The issue is Clemson only returns 3 defensive starters (according to their website it looks more like 4-5 to me based on stats). Their defense was top 10 last year (just like UGA) but that's a lot of new guys to work in for a day 1 matchup in college football.

The other issue facing Clemson is matchups. UGA's returning 4 out of their 5 starting OL and Clemson is replacing 2-3 DL. UGA's while Clemson DL may turn out to be great, we're still talking about game 1 and that sort of edge in the trenches is very important.

On the flip side, UGA's biggest question on defense is Julian Humphries taking over one of the cornerback spots. The issue is I don't really feel like Clemson has a WR to take advantage of that. Clemson's returning WR's are solid, but weren't really scary last year.

Clemson's strength on offense is Mafah and the running game. UGA has an experienced and deep front 7 with great run stuffing safeties. I tend to think teams are going to have to be more passing focused this upcoming year to have success against UGA and I don't think Clemson looks like that sort of team.

Again to the point of experience... UGA as 3 underclassmen listed as starters on defense compared to 6 for Clemson. UGA has 1 on offense compared to 2 for Clemson.

All of the above suggests UGA would have an advantage if the talent levels were even just based on experience in an early matchup. But the reality is UGA has more talent too. That's why UGA is a 13.5 point favorite.

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I don’t think it was a thing as much as a spurrier shot across the bow. He famously quoted he loved playing uga early in the season bc half the team is suspended

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UGA used to suspend players for unpaid parking tickets.

In case you didn't know, that's what it usually means to be arrested for driving with a suspended license... it got suspended because you didn't pay parking tickets. I can tell you from personal experience, all of the ticketing agencies in Athens (Campus police, Athens city PD, clarke county sheriffs office) all were aggressive as hell with parking tickets around the UGA campus.

We don't suspend players for that anymore (or if we do, we have someone on the staff who must be checking daily and making sure those tickets get paid). I can't remember the last "suspended license" arrest for UGA and we used to have 4-6 to start every season.

UGA's reputation for criminal stuff was never particularly warranted. Our finishes high in the fulmer cup rankings always came from the above parking ticket offenses, a few alcohol related arrests and weird arse stuff.

We had a player arrested for assaulting a trashcan. Another fell asleep on a toilet in a bar and got "public intoxication". One got arrested for touching a pregnant woman's belly. Another was arrested for "emerging from an alley on a moped". We had a guy arrested for getting punched in a bar but not throwing a punch himself. We had three different guys get charges for shooting BB guns in their dorm room.

UGA's arrests are generally all college stupidity and parking tickets. Anyone with serious charges is off the team immediately (such as Nick Marshall who stole from his teammates and ended up the QB at Auburn or Zach Mettenberger who was charged with sexual assault and ended up as the QB at LSU or Johnathan Taylor who was kicked out of UGA for assault and battery and ended up at Alabama... where he got kicked off their team for domestic violence.

Georgias biggest question is who replaces 80% of their offense in Bowers and McConkey. Georgia fans will say, “oh our back ups are better, you’ll see”, but as a Bama alum and fan, those two guys were great and easy bailouts and targets for your QB. Georgia like Clemson and Bama will always have stout defenses, but can they consistently score is the question. A preview of that was in the SEC title game last year without your two studs. If they play, yall probably win. But they didn’t so you got beat.

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Clemson VS Uga to open season
Jim Sweet
I have a bad rap here so I wont talk junk want honest opinions about how this game will go

Uga looks pretty loaded but so are we especialy on defence

Dont know much about Ugas qb but ours now has plenty of experence


Should be a monster game!!!

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Here is some advice: either bring lube, or invest in a rape whistle. You’re going to need them.

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Georgias biggest question is who replaces 80% of their offense in Bowers and McConkey. Georgia fans will say, “oh our back ups are better, you’ll see”, but as a Bama alum and fan, those two guys were great and easy bailouts and targets for your QB. Georgia like Clemson and Bama will always have stout defenses, but can they consistently score is the question. A preview of that was in the SEC title game last year without your two studs. If they play, yall probably win. But they didn’t so you got beat..

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Bowers and McConkey were each injured for large portions of last season.

Bowers accounted for 16.7% of UGA's passing yards last year. McConkey accounted for 11.2%. That's 27.9% in total, which is a lot less than 80%.

UGA hasn't focused on one or two guys in any of their offensive seasons in recent memory. They spread the ball out a TON.

Oh and both of them played in the SEC title game last year (though they were dinged up). Bowers had 5 catches for 53 yards. McConkey had 3 for 38.

For comparison, that's less yards than Isiah Bond and Jermaine Burton had for Bama in that game... and they both left Bama.

What kept UGA from winning was a missed FG on special teams and an unforced fumble on a toss sweep that led to a Bama FG.

In fact Bond and Burton had more yards than Bowers and McConkey (1466 compared to 1192) and a higher percentage of their teams passing yards than Bowers and McConkey (47.5% compared to 27.9%). Unlike UGA, Bama offenses tend to focus on 2-3 guys rather than spreading the ball around.

You're basically wrong on a whole bunch of different levels with your post