Are we the team?

I feel like it's a huge indicator of how this program has turned around. Somehow, all that in your OP isn't enough anymore.

Offense: 35th nationally, 5th in SEC
Defense: 6th nationally, 1st in SEC

Statistically, I think we're in a good spot. But the exciting thing is this team still feels young and raw. Who knows what this team will look like in a couple of months?

People are bitch bc this team is so damn frustrating to watch. We are whippin asses but it just doesn’t feel like it. Everyone also knows this shite ain’t gona work when we face better teams, bc so far we’ve played against 5 trash teams.

We won by 26 points yesterday in a game we were favored by 32. Last week, we won a game by 14 in a game we were favored by 14.

And yet some people are upset

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I'm pumped about 2019 and 2020, because I feel like this team has a ton of young players who are starting to mature and will be forced to mature more over the course of this season, but there's no way you can look at the last two games and say you're thoroughly impressed with this team.

I still think we'll win 10 games, but I haven't seen anything that sells me on this team being in any way as good as 2017 or that sells me on them being real national championship contenders. They can certainly surprise me, and I hope they do, but at this point it looks like a lot of growing pains.

I think, though, that those pains will pay off in a big way down the line.

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100% agree, it looks to just be youth and inexperience that is hurting us. Lets just beat UF, Auburn, and Tech and I will call it a successful season. (obviously no losses to our cupcake games)

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People are bitch bc this team is so damn frustrating to watch. We are whippin asses but it just doesn’t feel like it. Everyone also knows this shite ain’t gona work when we face better teams, bc so far we’ve played against 5 trash teams.

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Go back and reread my OP. Then read it again and again until you're ready to come off the ledge.

Our average margin of victory is over 30 pts, and we've played two SEC road games. If that's not good enough for you, after replacing the players we did from '17, I don't know what to tell you.

You must be pretty damn good at your line of work to have that high of a standard.

5-0 but who have we played? #2 in the AP doesn't mean anything. Defending SEC champs doesn't mean jack this year. The officials didn't screw us out of a NC title, poor coaching did. If you take our D/ST scores you clearly see our offense is struggling to be what it should be. It's going to be a wake up call when we can't score more than 20 on LSU then lose. Especially after Fields is thrown in for no reason and fails to make a pass or is picked off after staring down a receiver.

I’m very happy to be where we are but also know that we need to be better to have a chance with the teams we have coming up or to have a chance should we make it into the SECCG.

CKS knows it too.

We have the players to hang with anyone. We just have to clean up our sloppiness and play more disciplined. If we can get that done rather quickly we’ll be ok.

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5-0
Ranked #2 AP
Defending SEC Champs (a bad officiating call away from NC)
Averaging 43 ppg

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That's all great. But we've played weak to marginal opponents this year.

The wins and stats are there because of the level of competition. But we're not passing the eyeball test in how we've played in some of those games.

I think people expected us to pick up where we left off last year due to the supposedly best offensive line in the country, a more experienced quarterback, and a stable of great receivers. Thus far, the running game that Smart likes to rely on to dominate opponents isn't as good as last year and it's apparent. We also seem to be more inconsistent overall.

Bottom line, we can all be happy about 5-0 and how far we've come since Richt, but I won't be convinced this is a top 4/playoff caliber team unless we beat a team that's closer in talent level. A win in Death Valley would silence most of the critics.