re: I thought the SECCG was a meaningless game

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A first round draft pick got injured in a meaningless game and robbed him of the ability to play in the playoffs. There is no changing that but you can try to color it any way you want.

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In theory a player is just as likely to be injured in a first round playoff game as he is in a conference championship game, except with less time to heal up.

They were playing for a first round bye which is yuge. But meaningless from the standpoint that both teams were in the CFP

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You can certainly argue it was "meaningless" for texas who was 1000% in the playoffs regardless of what happened.

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Certainly not meaningless for Texas. I would have loved to have won it our first year in. To be honest, it was awesome just getting to Atlanta in our first year despite all the talk that our hand-picked schedule was weak. Nevertheless we still had to perform and we got there.

Now on to the playoffs to have some more fun. It’s sad that all this will be over in a few short weeks.

it sucks for the loser because Texas has to play four more games while Tenn sat at home with a bye before their four games

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The game is pretty much the same as it's always been; high risk and high rewar

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There wasn't a "risk" in playing in the game this year. Everyone knew that the winner and loser were getting into the playoffs. I do think that there was much more of a risk in playing before the 12 team playoff. GA didn't get in last year because they lost the game.

Both teams playing in SECCG got in
Both teams playing in ACCCG got in
Both teams playing in the Big 10 CG got in

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It sure as frick wasn't for Georgia

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Tell that to your qb and punter.

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We completely dominated the 1st half

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Incorrect.

• Never made it into UGA’s red zone
• Sacked twice for -8 yards
• 4 penalties for 45 yards
• Threw an INT after recovering your own fumble on the first series
• Missed a FG
• Had 12 rushes for just 37 yards

The only thing you “dominated” was our 2nd-string CB, Daniel Harris #7, making his first start on short notice after our starter quit last week. That’s smart scheming by Sark, and accuracy by Ewers. But exploiting one match-up between the 20’s when you hold the ball for >20 mins and come away with 6 points isn’t “dominating” anything.

The story of the1H was simply 1) both Defenses winning their side of the ball, 2) both teams’ WR drops, 3a) Texas’ missed FG, and 3b) UGA forgoing a FG in place of a stupid Hail Mary call.

It was actually a pretty poor 1H from an Offensive and ST execution standpoint

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and somehow had more points in the 2nd half

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Incorrect. UGA outscored Texas 13-10 in 2H

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and somehow had more points in the 2nd half
Incorrect. UGA outscored Texas 13-10 in 2H

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I was only talking about Texas.

6 points first half on 5 drives, 45 plays and 215 yards
10 points in 2nd half on 5 drives, 28 plays and 126 yards

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We completely dominated the 1st half

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Georgia 22 plays 90 yards 5 1st downs, 3 points
Texas 45 plays, 215 yards 10 1st downs, 6 points

That's domination. We moved the ball at ease for most of the half, but it just didn't show up on the scoreboard, mostly because we kept getting stupid penalties that could have been avoided.. our fault, not blaming the refs, and yes, Georgia played a big role in that as well. Then again, we never had red zone success, so perhaps the penalties helped because we actually were forced to kick field goals.

The play of the game was the fake punt though. Great call by Kirby.

We ran a trick play on a punt as well.. not sure technically if we should have been called for a false start or if y'all actually jumped.. I just saw 15 people move all of the sudden and was like wtf is going on? Clearly it was planned to try and get GA to jump offsides, but we either fooled the ref or didn't execute it the right way.

At the end of the day, I believe your experience paid off. I also think Ewers is a liability in games like this.. he is good enough to beat 95%+ of teams in the country.. but he shits the bed at times.. TBD if Sark will use Arch more in the playoffs.. and I'm not saying Arch is ready for that moment, but Ewers has shown that he isn't so far..