WG_Dawg

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Sadly this is definitely one major downside of the 12 team playoff.

Most teams have their playoff spot locked up by time the big rivalry game rolls around if its the final week of the season.

A big upset in a rivalry game doesn't carry nearly the same weight it used to.

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hell it's not even reserved for rivalry week, it's pretty much any week.

OSU/Texas in a matchup of powers to open the season? So what? The loser still has ample wiggle room.

Bama/UGA didn't end up meaning shite as it relates to making the playoffs, nor did FSU's major upset of bama to open the season.

It used to be EVERY SINGLE GAME mattered, since if you had 2 losses you were practically donezo. Now 2 losses is no sweat, and depending on how the chips fall you could conceivably still sneak in even with 3. It's ridiculous.

Last night I watched both Texas games from last year and it was jarring at how differnet we looked. Like it might as well have not even been UGA. I know the portal era fricks your roster over yearly but all of the guys below made at least one noteworthy play against Texas last year, and are no longer on our team this year:

beck
dom lovett
etienne
arian
mykell
jalon walker
dan jackson
chambliss
starks
80% of the OL (fairchild/wilson/ratledge/truss)
damon wilson


I mean damn. Granted...not all of beck's noteworthy plays were positive ones, ditto for some others no longer here (julian humphrey ie). But still...it was a bit surprising.

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Texas plays very, very poorly on the road


Texas is 12-2 over their last 14 regular season road games?

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you realize you can play poorly but also win, right?

Just look at their road results this year...anyone can obviously see they have played poorly. Against shite competition at that.

First half UGA vs OU-Texas would lean towards a Texas win
Second half UGA vs Every-Other-SEC-Game-So-Far-Texas would be an arse whipping in UGA's favor

If we split the difference and say both teams play on about teh average of what we've seen so far...that would be UGA. Especially at home.

Texas beat the SEC's 2nd worst team by 3 in OT. They needed OT to beat the worst team, a team UGA just walloped. Texas is simply not a great team that has been skirting by week after week.

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Not sure why so many are against it

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like it or not, perception is reality and the perception is that if we change our jersey color (regardless of the reason) it would be seen as needing some extra juice or motivation. You're right we are 5-1 in them and the jerseys have less than zero to do with why we lost in 2008. The times we've worn them since:

-2016 against a total scrub so no talks of "fake juice"
-2020 at night at home against MSU. Covid season so everything was kinda wonky
-2020 bowl game. Again a quarter full crowd in a weird situation overall.

If we were to wear them for example this weekend against Texas, it just looks like "oh look at Georgia needing to pull out the alternate unis to help them beat Texas". I disagree with that mindset, but that's what much of america would believe. And heaven forbid we lose in them it's all anyone would talk about.


As has been mentioend many times before, I adore the black jerseys and want to wear them so what makes the most logical sense is to do one of two things. either have it be a standing appointment like the last home game each year (makes the most sense IMO), the first night game of the year, whatever. Or just designate an annual blackout game in like the spring. All these schools like Tenn, OU, AU, etc that have super well done and expertly cooridnated fan color coding don't just do it lazily the week of the game like our halfassed stripeout, they start letting fans know when they get their season tickets. They plaster it all over social media from like March all the way to game time so people are aware MONTHS in advance. On that note, if we picked some random game and let people know "hey we're doing a blackout for [this game]", I think it'd take a lot of the fake juice out of it.

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Neither side seems to be in a hurry.

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which is crazy to me. YTTV has to be losing more and more subsribers by the day, and I think I read something the other day that like 15% (or something) of ABC/ESPN's advertising revenue was from YTTV streams. It seems like it'd be in the interest of both parties to get this done quick as hell.

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WG, you need to get in on this. Subscribe immediately, and then check back in.

It’s like a puzzle.

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you've definitely sold me and I will end up getting ATV for a limited time just to watch.

Only debate now is go ahead and jump in, knowing I will have an agonizingly long wait between episodes each week, or join next month when I can binge most of the season at once. Tough call. I'll probably just do it sooner rather than later, although fundamentally I despise the thought of getting another streaming service. We already have netflix, HBOMax, Prime, and Disney+/Hulu through the inlaws.

Just text me your inlaws login bro

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Who’s been better at a position we needed someone to step up?

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Derion Kendrick transferred from Clemson and locked down the CB1 spot the entire 2021 championship year.

Obviously Branch is in that same class too.

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Not when it’s 11:00am and our team has already been slow out of the gate….

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Would you prefer a road game at night? An early game on the road is absolutely preferred from a gamesmanship perspective

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And when your son has a playoff football game starting at 11et. Watching UGA on my phone for the first 1.5 quarters sucks

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That makes sense for sure, but is a personal thing. I'm at the game but will be back to my house by dinner time so I love it.