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SEC Championship Review | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John review Georgia’s 28-7 win over Alabama in the SEC Championship.
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:00
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You had more rushing yards than the University of Alabama this past weekend. ah I like, yeah, we should actually make a, we should have made a graphic like my got a podcast, more rushing yards than Alabama. Yeah.
00:00:17
Speaker
Welcome to My Got a Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and review Georgia's 28-7 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship. We talk about our experiences on Saturday and what stood out to us during the game.
00:00:31
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00:00:47
Speaker
Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
Game Outcome and Analysis
00:00:53
Speaker
Just like we predicted, Jim. yeah Like an all-timer. Like, totally. and I nailed my prediction.
00:01:04
Speaker
I mean, i predicted we were going win by one point.
00:01:10
Speaker
And your defense, you were pretty accurate on our score. i think you were even closer. and you You had us had like 27 points and we had 28. Like, here we go.
00:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. I think we just we undersold. just didn't anticipate I didn't anticipate that the Alabama offense would not show up. I mean, it was like anemic. it was oh I wasn't prepared for that. that That looked like like our defense looked like.
00:01:36
Speaker
looked like 2022, 2021 defense. Yeah, they did. it yeah it was it was definitely a um It was definitely an all-time effort from everyone um top to bottom.
00:01:50
Speaker
um Kirby Smart outcoached Kalen DeBoer. I made the comments early on that Kalen DeBoer, like you could see like in you could see in the closeup shots, like early on, like he had a furrowed brow, almost like when you're like, you're questioning, like what's going on. Like you, you don't know, you don't have any, and he didn't have any answers. um There were no answers from him. There was no answers from Ty Simpson. Ty Simpson's body language was ah very unpositive.
00:02:25
Speaker
did night Night and day from his body language in Athens. Yeah, and I'm going tell you, man, um I almost said on the podcast that, like, Jim Miller being out could potentially be, like, a ah blowout situation for us because if they can't run the ball, they would be absolutely hosed. And that's exactly that's exactly how that panned out. I mean, Jim, congratulations.
Georgia's Victory Over Alabama
00:02:51
Speaker
You had more rushing yards than the University of Alabama this past weekend. Yeah. uh i i like yeah we should actually make a we should have a graphic like my god a podcast more retching yards now let's make let's let's make it like a a chat gvt banner or something like that oh man yeah yeah it's just incredible just incredible um does that like the game don't like okay Alabama has been like the hump we couldn't get over. we thought we, we thought Kirby had a saving problem. Then it was like, does Kirby have an Alabama problem? I mean, like for you, like how much does this alleviate that? Like, I think back like when we won in Indianapolis and Fowler's call was like demons be gone, you know, Georgia wins or whatever it was like, and it can, they continue to be an issue.
00:03:44
Speaker
um It feels like something changed on Saturday. don't if that's too, like if that's too much. I don't know. i mean, I've been bantering with Bama fans all day long. It's almost like, that ah you know, we joked about it that that their game against us in September was their Super Bowl.
00:04:01
Speaker
um Like, basically every game against us is a Super Bowl for whatever team we're playing. And that... Seems to be playing out in the social interactions that I'm seeing. Like you'll post something about Georgia and then like a Bama fan will chime in like congratulations on that third victory over Alabama. You're three and 12 or whatever yeah against Alabama. And it's just like at this point, I feel like that Alabama fans only care about beating Georgia.
00:04:31
Speaker
They don't care about winning national championships. They don't care about winning SEC championships. They only care about beating out Georgia. And it just so happens that, you know, when it matters, we have more wins over them than they have wins over us.
00:04:48
Speaker
Um, like, I guess, congratulations on your three point victory in your super bowl back in September. Um, statistically you should have lost. Right. Um, if you want to hang your hat on that, that's fine. But you know, when the cards are down, we've got two national championships and three sec championships post COVID.
00:05:09
Speaker
Um, yeah, your coach that you guys hype up with the black hoodie and all that crap. Um, He ain't got nothing to his name so far.
00:05:21
Speaker
Yeah, there's definitely
Game Highlights and Key Plays
00:05:22
Speaker
stuff. Somebody replied to something that I think I sent out from the podcast, and I just try to ignore it now. um I could have responded. I think actually it was when GATA had posted the the picture.
00:05:37
Speaker
a Coach sent it, I think. 51-7 had commented on it. But anyways, I have black jersey at like they what do you call it? Fanfare? I guess like there were are the jerseys of all the oh yeah yeah georgia it's black jersey and some Bama fan got in there like, oh you can wear Georgia. Go ahead and wear black because it's your funeral. Like bring it out like that old joke from whenever that was. It's like, I don't know, man, I guess DeBoer went to one and in his black hoodie. I don't know.
00:06:02
Speaker
Agreed. Anyways, that's what I thought. I didn't I didn't tweet it back. ah I just stay out of it now Yeah, I'm just glad that he's lost in that stupid black hoodie twice now so we can just dispense with any of the the voodoo the voodoo magic that he's got with that. I mean, yeah.
00:06:21
Speaker
completely shut down everything that they wanted to do from an offensive standpoint. Like the score, I think even in the, even in some of the post game analysis that I was watching, like if you watch the sky cast, which I highly recommend watching the sky cast view, if you're wanting to see like X's and O's and things that you didn't see on the broadcast, like cash Jones completely destroying Bray Hubbard.
00:06:46
Speaker
Oh my gosh, that was that was wild. That was a heck of a block and an amazing play called by Bobo. Yeah, on the SkyCast view, you've got ah you gotta to everything. You can see all the different plays developing. um You know, see Brayhover get destroyed by Cash Jones if you're interested in such novelty.
00:07:08
Speaker
um But in the post-game analysis, I can't even remember who the guy was that that was talking, but he basically said that you know Georgia wins 28-7 and it really wasn't as close as that scoreline shows. Yeah.
00:07:22
Speaker
it really did feel like It really did feel like it could have been a potential name your score game. I mean, I was sitting there thinking like, man, we we need to we need to hang hang half a hundred on them kind of thing.
00:07:33
Speaker
and Yeah. just just Just pour it on. Because, you know, on the in the back of my mind, I kept thinking like, no lead is safe with these a**holes. Sorry, Carter.
00:07:44
Speaker
Yeah. Dude, I mean, i felt the same way. i mean, when they when they scored and then we had to punt, know, so they they had the ball down 14. i didn't i didn't like that very much. But thankfully, Thorson, with his incredible night, pinned him deep and they turned it over on downs and then it was kind of...
00:08:03
Speaker
Over at that point, but I was same way. Like, don't let up, keep it going. They honestly, like they had a lot of empty yards. Like if you look at Simpson stats, they look decent. at least like yardage wise. I mean, think he ended up throwing for 200 something yards, um but they were pretty empty, I guess.
00:08:24
Speaker
I mean, you you factor in that, let's see, there was a huge chunk play with Ryan Williams where you he does his patented like spin move gets 30 yards every single time. Yeah. um And then you had the trick play, which came at the end of the game, which was just absolute, like, fantastic.
00:08:47
Speaker
First of all, it was annoying and frustrating, but then second of all, it was very delicious at the same time. It was like, they are so desperate that they pulled that play out. They pulled the yeah annexation of Cuba or whatever it's called.
00:09:00
Speaker
um But the yeah, that was that was just absolute delicious, delicious desperation. Yeah. And then the other one the the where the ref, there was another chunk play that they got where the ref got in the way of our guys.
00:09:15
Speaker
And I would, most most everybody is have been you know talking about how that was the MVP of the game. But like, we should have tackled him like three or four times after that. So yeah if not for that, it might have been a shutout.
00:09:30
Speaker
I mean, that drive, so that was that on the touchdown drive. It was extended by two 15-yard penalties. So that happened twice. That too, yeah. And then, the yeah, then there was the ref shield.
Alabama's Offensive Challenges
00:09:40
Speaker
and i'm i I'll say great play by, who was was Bernard, right? i mean Yeah, Jeremy Bernard. Yeah. Yeah, he did. so i mean, he put a pretty good stiff arm on two guys, so I will give him credit for that. But I agree with you. He's still, we should have got to him is what it is. The the one play, I think the best play that Simpson made was an incomplete pass. I think it was already 28 to 7 at that point, but there was a point where we had him... but should it probably should have him sacked couldn't get home and he kind of backyard football there was like bo nicks was back back there again he's like running around in circles and then he went up in the end zone and i think one of our guys got out his hand on him i think kg boulder might have got his hand on it um because on the broadcast initially it just looked like the bama receivers dropped it but i think it got tipped slightly but was this the one that ryan williams dropped in the end zone
00:10:28
Speaker
Not so there was the one he dropped in the end zone where Ellis Robinson was on him like over in the left. This was like on the like close to the camera like on the near side of the field in that corner. Simpson was just like running around in circles in the backfield heaved one into the corner of the end zone and it was almost good. Yeah. That one.
00:10:44
Speaker
Yeah, and it was it was like a low ball, if I remember correctly, too. Yeah, he definitely is a good – I think he's a good player. not having Not having the run game ah was was absolutely his kryptonite. And like I said – When you say that this game was a turning point, I hesitate to say that because there's still some really good and talented players.
00:11:08
Speaker
That said, i think i think that Jam Miller is the last of the Saban running backs that is left on this Alabama roster, and I have a feeling that that may be the that may be the the straw that breaks breaks the camel's back in terms of like the the viability of Kalen DeBoer and the SEC moving forward.
00:11:36
Speaker
Minus three rushing yards in the SEC championship game. I don't care who you are. and don't care i don't care what team exists on planet Earth the in the history of SEC football.
00:11:50
Speaker
if you can't If you can't run the ball in the SEC, you're screwed. yeah um I also think that Caden Proctor is the last great you know holdout of the Saban era offensive lineman as well. And yeah, dude, I don't know.
Georgia's Defensive Prowess
00:12:10
Speaker
like If they can't replace those players with the same level talent that Saban and all of his you know staff was able to assemble, we might be looking at the you know you know the We might be looking at the the downgrade of of the Alabama brand in general because um it didn't feel like a Saban team. It didn't feel like a the classic Alabama team.
00:12:35
Speaker
They were every bit of a wounded animal. um and Fortunately, our guys were able to put the kill shot on them. Yeah, I mean, because that's been the thing, right? It's like even when those all those other things were true, we would shoot ourselves in the foot in the past. And i just feel like... Protect the ball, win the game.
00:12:55
Speaker
Protect the ball, win the game was 100% true. um We did that and we made them... Yeah, and we forced the turnovers. Um, but I just feel like the mentality, the mentality that we showed felt different than the way we played against these guys. Even when we beat them in 21, this still felt different. I feel like Kirby approached this game differently and that could be, that could be off. I don't know, but that it, it felt that way, but I'm a on TV.
00:13:22
Speaker
I agree. I agree. 100%. Um, the team, particularly on the defensive side of the ball felt nasty.
00:13:33
Speaker
Yeah. Um, everything about the team's attitude was nasty from, from the first whistle to the final, final whistle. Did you watch all the post game stuff?
00:13:44
Speaker
like Like the, with the sec network cast was on the stage and interview like, like with Roman Harper. Cause no, I didn't, I didn't get a chance to watch all that, all that stuff. We were in the midst of sports. Yeah. Okay. So Roman Harper actually said that he spent time on both sidelines and that the Georgia sideline felt completely different than the Alabama sideline that on the Georgia sideline, it was personal and they were just fired up and in at the entire game. And he said, Alabama basically didn't wake up until they scored their touchdown. And they were like, Oh now, and he was like, at that point it was too late, you know? So I thought that was interesting.
00:14:20
Speaker
And that's a Bama guy. I mean, he played a Bama. So. Yeah, I think that um there's something to be said about did they take their foot? Did they even like, kind of like Georgia in the in the Georgia Tech game, like we kind of got to a ah comfortable spot because we knew that we were going to, you know, we knew that we were going to win the game. So we didn't want to like put too, too much, but I don't know. At a certain point you're down 21 to nothing in the fourth quarter.
00:14:46
Speaker
I mean, you, I think I was sending you guys the screenshots. Like, I mean, effectively, i mean, from a statistical standpoint, this game was over in the second quarter.
00:14:59
Speaker
um it was very obvious that this game was out of hand. I mean, if you really wanted to split some hairs, like you could say that it was, we had a 98% win expectancy with nine minutes and 45, 46 seconds left in the third quarter at 21, nothing.
00:15:15
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. I mean, just ah i mean like 2017, JP cannot comprehend that level of domination i mean of an of an Alabama team.
00:15:30
Speaker
it I mean, we basically did to them what we did to Arkansas in 2002. Exactly. 100%. exactly a hundred percent know mean? And it all started with the block punt. And like, that's something I i was thinking about. I started thinking through to myself, like how many SEC championships we have blocked a kick in and correct me if I'm wrong, but I was trying to go through it in my head. I didn't like look this up, but I'm pretty sure last year we beat when we beat Texas was, is the only time we've won the SEC championship game and not blocked a kick of some sort.
00:16:00
Speaker
I know we we blocked a punt
Game Day Rituals and Fan Interactions
00:16:01
Speaker
against Arkansas. We blocked a punt against LSU 05. 17 against Auburn, we blocked a field goal. What about 0-2, we blocked a punt Arkansas. Like that was the, to get everything going. Yeah. And then in 20, in 22, LSU, we blocked the field goal that Chris Smith ran back for a touchdown. So right just like special teams.
00:16:25
Speaker
So Kirby Kirby mentioned that before the game at game day, like standing, sitting right next to right, right next to Kaelin to bar. It was like and a special team play is going to come down. Like there's always a special teams wrinkle.
00:16:39
Speaker
I got to say, man, like the vibes were good pregame, like the vibes, like the omens type stuff. um Like I went out and did my grocery shopping before the game, like to get all of our our stuff ready. When I do that, like every year, SEC championship day, like I go get the stuff for the bean dip or whatever. And usually, like,
00:16:57
Speaker
I'll go to the store and I'll run into like a guy and like a Bama hat. And like, he gives me a look and I give him a look. he' like And like this one, this time i had to go to two grocery stores, get all my stuff. I got a go dogs from someone at both. I got a go dogs from a guy in the parking lot at Publix. I had a ah go dogs from the barista at Lowe's, Lowe's foods.
00:17:14
Speaker
ah It was fantastic. I saw no but Bama fans and I came home and I was like, omens. I think I texted you guys. So the vibes are good. Yeah, the vibe the vibes were good. i got lots of go dogs all throughout.
00:17:27
Speaker
um I also have to comment. This is for John Michael D and the Little Stitious Club. And I know multiple people had reached out to us. I think Robert Wolf tagged me on Twitter as well.
00:17:38
Speaker
There was no wallpaper this week. So the school missed Wallpaper Wednesday. ah Wednesday was also Signing Day. So I think we were all saying they forgot. we did a little research and found that there was no wallpaper.
00:17:51
Speaker
no, there was a wallpaper when we played Alabama in 21 and in 23 in this game. So then we decided, Hey, maybe it's a good thing with no wallpaper. What I did right before kickoff was what I went and looked up. There was no wallpaper last year either. So maybe that's a thing now. Like we don't do wallpaper Wednesday, sec championship, sec championship week. So,
00:18:13
Speaker
This is confirmed. Confirm the graphics team. are Our team, our team's a little stitious. Exactly. Exactly. So sorry. This is the kind of analysis that I do. This is how I break things down.
00:18:27
Speaker
Hard hitting journalism here. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just, I just imagine that um Jim waking up and coming downstairs with his coffee, man, we kicked our ****.
Surprising Plays and Strategies
00:18:42
Speaker
Oh, man, basically. But dude, how about like on the just as we predicted joke? I mean, a did not have blocked punt by Cole Spear on the bingo card and then certainly did not have first touchdown scored by a pass to Roderick Robinson on the bingo card.
00:19:00
Speaker
Just amazing. That's where I say, like, the top to bottom, this game was just utter domination because Mike Bobo was, i mean, he batted 1,000 in the red zone.
00:19:12
Speaker
Like, this was not a game for the Bobo haters. The stats are going to sit there and look, like, pedestrian in terms of just the numbers. I mean, ironically,
00:19:24
Speaker
Jeremy Bernard was the leading receiver in this game. um So, you know, Zachariah Branch had five five catches for 53 yards.
00:19:35
Speaker
um And even Nate Frazier, you know, like we outrushed them, but Nate Frazier only had 52 yards rushing. um it's It's just crazy to me. And just looking at at Alabama stats, they had 11 rushing yards, but obviously they had minus three net um their gross was only 11 i actually didn't even uh hill the running back had 11 yards rushing okay i don't um i don't have the the team stats in front of me let me pivot okay i actually actually just pulled it up they gained only 27 yards rushing yeah they gained 27 and lost 30 yeah man that's fantastic
00:20:17
Speaker
I admire them. They they kept trying. um They only had 16 attempts. like that That's crazy. that all right so let's Let's talk about the the makeup of the game and how it became what it was. so First off, like i was pregame JP was crashing out because we lost the coin toss.
00:20:40
Speaker
um
00:20:43
Speaker
Internally, i was like... du um So, but we we won the coin toss. We proceeded to go down. i can't remember what the play-by-play was there, Jim. but was i would say I would call it like a four and out. Like we got a first down in the first play of the game, and then we went backwards and punted.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah. So, okay. Yeah. Four plays, 13 yards, three minutes off the clock. We punt immediately. Like the, this did, this did not spark joy. No.
00:21:14
Speaker
However, what did spark joy was the fact that Brett Thorson dropped one just inside the 20 yard line. Yep. And I said, okay, it's fine. Brett Thorson pinned them back. They're going to have to drive the field. they They proceeded to go three and out.
00:21:30
Speaker
Then we proceeded to go three and out. And again, he dropped at the 20. want to say he dropped it inside the 15, if I remember correctly, but, um but then they, they ended up punting.
00:21:40
Speaker
And so, you know, we had, we had back-to-back punts. They had back-to-back punts. And then we finally scored a touchdown. On their second punt was the one that we blocked and then we scored. Right. Because it was four plays, 21 yards. yeah um but yeah but i mean Effectively, what we were doing was that we were losing we were losing yards. We were not gaining like touchdowns and points, but we what we were gaining was field position.
00:22:07
Speaker
so We were net positive significantly in the field position battle early in this game. and The way that that manifested itself later is that we ended up netting ah We ended up netting like, i want to say like 39 minutes.
00:22:25
Speaker
We had the ball. And so it became effectively a game of keep away, which is why I say that the game could have been a name your score, but we didn't need it to be a name your score game because they were doing literally nothing with the ball. And so it just became a game of keep away.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, completely agree. And I mean, they couldn't they couldn't muster anything. I mean, we were the defense was pinning their ears back. Schumann's dialing up the pressure. he was working. you Even when we didn't get a lick on Simpson, he was feeling the pressure. And then once we once we did, once we hit him, he ran that zone read and kept the ball and got absolutely blown up, I think, by Gabe Harris. And i mean, that set the tone on that play.
00:23:08
Speaker
It did set the tone. I think that um Ty Simpson did not want any part of the Georgia defense to the to the tune of you know later in the game when he had like a little little zone read and he had Quintavious.
00:23:22
Speaker
Is that his name? I think that's right. Yeah, Quintavious Johnson was 33. Number 33, yeah. Yeah. he was He was ready and dialed up to to lay a hit on on Ty Simpson, and Ty Simpson just slid.
00:23:34
Speaker
like Didn't even try to like dive for extra yards. Didn't try to like throw the ball away. just Just kneeled, basically. My dad tech texted me ah like like a link to a tweet with the video of that, and he said Gunnar would never.
00:23:50
Speaker
Gunner would never. That's kind of what I was thinking. like There were a couple times – there were definitely a couple times that Gunner was running the ball, and I was like, golly, Gunner, like can you please just like chill out? like he got fact He got smacked around a couple of times. He did. And I think that that's part of the – that was part of the strategy. like Basically, like I think that he was instructed on multiple situations where – Take take two two looks, and if it's not there, like don't put the ball at risk and just scramble and get get whatever you can kind of thing.
00:24:24
Speaker
yeah um there were There were definitely some situations like that where it was like, oh, shoot, no one's open. Let me just get a few yards. Yeah, yep. The one criticism that I will have is i really am really, really, I'm still puzzled by bringing in Chauncey Bowens um to ice the game at the end. And i think that he ended up getting hurt. And I still don't know. i haven't seen any updates on that. that That was definitely one frustrating component of ah of the end of the game.
00:24:55
Speaker
I have one. I have an update. i i I looked this up. ah So Graham Coffey went to or was on like Kirby's press conference. I think he did like a playoff virtual thing today. And so he had posted his notes on Dog Central, which everybody go check that out. um But Kirby basically said he's fine. That it was he if you watch the replay, it's But one's got, he got turned spun around and he landed on his back really hard.
00:25:23
Speaker
So basically it was just that it was the impact of landing on his back. His back started bothering him. And he said by the end of the game, he was okay. Or like by the end of the night or whatever, did he felt okay? So i was worried it was like his leg, you know, like his ankle again or whatever had been wrong before. Cause he had that leg sleeve on and I was like, Oh no, that was, that's good because you definitely didn't want anything to, you didn't want anybody to get hurt at the end of this game kind of thing. Yeah, I definitely rage texted you about that, um about why is he in there. so why why Well, I mean, that is that's a valid question. Like, if yeah he was questionable all week long, like, I assume that he didn't practice as much. Like, I get wanting to give someone reps at the end of the game to, like, you know, maybe he's chomping at the bit and Kirby decided to reward him or something. I don't i don't know. But, like, to me, it just seemed like a it just seemed like a flippant
00:26:11
Speaker
A flippant decision um that was not needed. Like we were, we were in no danger of losing the game when he came in. It was more so just a let's ice this game and get out. Yeah.
00:26:22
Speaker
Yeah, it did. Yeah. It iced it. Got us into victory formation. A couple other nitpicky items. Gunnar Stockton nearly got Nate Fraser killed a couple of um one One, I think he just got the wind knocked out of him, but we were all, I was rage texting you. We were like, oh my God, he broke a rib. yeah no. yeah Yeah. Nate Fraser's dead. He's down.
00:26:47
Speaker
what i was gonna do I'm assuming he just had the wind knocked out of him on that play. Cause he, he got up and was trying to stay in the game after that happened. So, yeah, yeah he definitely, he definitely had something happen to him, but hopefully, hopefully he's fine, you know, longterm, but yeah.
00:27:06
Speaker
Yeah. Lots of things, lots of things I think that had been set up. Like I said, i think that Bobo was in his bag on so many levels. um You talked about it, that we set up the first touchdown to Rod Robinson.
00:27:22
Speaker
We set that play up in the game versus Tech, um which I thought was incredibly astute from from your perspective. So hats off to you, Jim.
00:27:33
Speaker
um we the The touchdown to Zachariah Branch, I believe, to ice the game, if I remember correctly, but um the touchdown to Zachariah Branch was a complete setup as well because Bray Hubbard completely crashed on Cash Jones.
00:27:53
Speaker
um on that third down play because it's just like a play that we've we've run that play all season long so everybody bitching and moaning about why are we running screen pass to cash jones on third down like why are we doing this why are we doing this then all of a sudden when it matters in a game that matters against an opponent that really matters to everyone uh bobo drew up an absolute knife through the heart um of alabama with a Screen pass fake to Cash Jones that ended up going to Zachariah Branch, who, you know, to his credit, played it perfectly.
00:28:29
Speaker
He set it up like he was going to block and he didn't and caught the pass and ran it in for a score. So he also acted like he was going to run backwards and then cut upfield.
00:28:41
Speaker
Incredible move to like breaks by his ankle and then go in.
Individual Player Contributions
00:28:45
Speaker
Also, I got to commend Cash Jones on his acting job. yeah of I mean, he was like Jamie Tartt out there. Give me the ball. Give me the ball. And yeah Ted Lasso. Look at me. I'm not here. like Look at me. That's all I can think of. was like, oh my gosh, we were in the Ted Lasso play.
00:28:59
Speaker
ah um So it was a great job. And i I think someone had pointed out like the way he jumped, it kind of and made it look like it was an overthrow, you know, and I think Bray Hubbard kind of looked back and then, and then when branch takes off and cash just leveled Bray Hubbard's, sorry, Hunter, that was pretty sweet. Hey, that was something we talked about. Figure out a way to get a block on Bray Hubbard in this game. And we did it.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That was amazing. And Hey, the unofficial official with his touchdown, he, he scored a touchdown. it Dylan Bell had a good game. he played He played really well. They're talking about him a lot broadcast, too.
00:29:32
Speaker
He did have a good game. um No payday. was a no payday game. Yeah, didn't he? And just four for four on extra points. It's a great game. Yeah.
00:29:43
Speaker
Great game for for him. um ah Yeah. People are talking about it. you know like You get healthy and get hot at the right moment. And I feel like that Georgia is that team right now. Yeah.
00:29:57
Speaker
Yeah. That team that showed up in Atlanta, if that team shows up plus Chauncey Bowens, I don't think there's a team in the country that's going to beat these guys.
00:30:08
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And that's under the umbrella of Tolliver. Holy cow. Yeah. like He played completely out of his shoes, replacing Drew Bobo. Like I almost got to the, like, did did Drew Bobo just lose his starting job? Like what's going on?
00:30:26
Speaker
Yeah, he he delivered. He definitely delivered. Next man up, and he filled the shoes. It was impressive. It was impressive for sure. Next man up, ah Nate Frazier, heck of a job running 13 carries.
00:30:41
Speaker
and then An anemic number of yards, and you know the yards per rush for the team was 3.4. um But those were very well very well run plays, I guess is what I'll say about that.
00:30:56
Speaker
And I think, you know, we kind of framed the preview episode as what has changed since the first time we played. And I want to call out two players there, um starting with who you were just talking about with Nate Frazier. I mean, his he it was a big turning point in that first game when he he fumbled the ball and he I mean, I know we've joked in some games where like you'll see him running and he's like he puts two hands on the ball.
00:31:20
Speaker
He's like, I'm not going to let this one go. And so I just, I love it for him that he played so well in this game. mean, he had a huge game against them. And that's a major bounce back. And the other one that we had talked about heading in on the other side of the ball is Ellis Robinson.
00:31:35
Speaker
I mean, holy cow, we have seen him grow up this season. He is playing on a completely different level now than he was at the beginning of the year. um He, and it's not just coverage. Like it's also a run support.
00:31:48
Speaker
think on the first, on their first third down, they tried some kind of end around sweep thing and he snuffed it out and absolutely leveled the guy. So heck of a job for Ellis, Ellis Robinson,
00:31:58
Speaker
Great game. And then, uh, don't know. I guess there's something about Daylon Everett and sec championship games and and getting interceptions. So that's pretty good dude Daylon Everett, Dracori Thomas.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, dude. He like Johnny, he replaced Aguero. Yeah. And I think Aguero has lost his starting job for the rest of the season. When Dinkins was playing, like we've got all these guys coming in. It's like, holy cow. Like we, we have the, you know, memo, you're allowed to coach your players up and have them develop during a season, you know, to where they can play at the end of the year. So everyone, everyone's roster has injuries all over the place. and we've got our freshmen and sophomores coming in and stepping in and making an impact.
00:32:43
Speaker
I think that someone messaged out like the the makeup of the of this team right now is underclassmen, largely underclassmen, yeah especially on the defensive side. um It is scary what that team could potentially look like in the coming years um with the the level of talent that we have and the guys that are executing at such a high level that just feel like they're catching their stride.
00:33:10
Speaker
um Yeah, dude. You talk about a no-name defense. like this is ah This is the epitome of a no-name defense with the exception of the backfield because you've got Dalen Everett and you've got... Like KJ Bolden.
00:33:25
Speaker
j oh yeah K.J. Bolden and Ellis Robinson. I think that both of them, I think between the two of them, had one reception allowed on at least six or so six six targets, I think, K.J. had. And then Ellis had like four or five targets. like And there was one reception between the two of them.
00:33:47
Speaker
I mean, you're talking about completely eliminating... an entire facet of the game when you've got team guys that are playing at that level. Not to mention the fact that the defensive line and the linebacking core is like, we've we've got the return of the reincarnation of um the reincarnation of Roquan Smith going on right now with the way that our our linebackers are running around and flying to the ball. We've got gang tackling going on.
00:34:15
Speaker
I mean, every every component of the no-name defense that we have come to love about UGA, none of them are completely dominating on the stat lines. like we don't have like a We don't have that Roquan Swift or or Nolan and Smith or N'Kobe Dean type guys, but all the ones that are there are definitely playing at a high level.
00:34:38
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that i when you were talking through that, all I could see in my head was the play where Simpson threw to their tight end to get a first down and CJ Allen just put his helmet in the guy's chest and he dropped it it. was like a chef's kiss. I mean, there were a couple there were a couple of plays like that And ill I'll shout out Davin Bellamy. If you haven't if you're not following him, um I can't remember what his little video is. He has a ah name for his videos, like class or something like that. um But anyway, you know he does the film breakdowns, and he puts it in from the perspective of ah of a player.
00:35:13
Speaker
And there were multiple plays where you had guys that were engaging, players are engaging in the play and the teammate came in to clean up.
00:35:25
Speaker
um Whether it be Chris Cole Quintavious Johnson going at at a at a at an offensive tackle where the offensive tackle is engaged with one of them, but then tries to stop the other and the other one keeps going. It's like a, the way that he described it was like, it's kind of like a layup, a pass, a passing layup situation where I pass to you, i go around the defender, you pass to me, and then I toss it up to you for an alley-oop dunk kind of thing.
00:35:54
Speaker
Yeah. Um, In soccer, they call it tiki-taka. It's like, you know dink and dunk or however you want to describe it. that's kind of That's kind of what I saw from from a lot of this. Like, you know, there may be a guy out wide that was, I think one of the examples that he gave was...
00:36:13
Speaker
um a pass out wide and one of our guys was tackling and then you know cj allen comes and cleans up you know you get a hit you get a hit on the end i get a hit um it's just an assist basically like the gang tackling all that kind of stuff yeah uh team meeting is is team meeting that's what he calls it yeah you're right team meeting i couldn't remember i looked it up well yeah i knew it was something I'll tell you, man, when I knew you you're talking about when you kind of know it's over, or you look at the statistics, right? We're like at nine minutes when we scored to go up 20, 21 to nothing.
00:36:49
Speaker
If you look at the ESPN thing, what was it? 98% or whatever. Right before we scored, when I realized, oh my gosh, Bobo is trying to scheme up a touchdown pass for Taylor and Taylor so that he can redeem himself. And man, he was open.
00:37:03
Speaker
ah he He would have had a shot. Gunner was thrown at his home. Unfortunately, was tipped. But I was like holy cow, like we're scheming up feel good place here. This is incredible. Bobo is in his bag. um He was that play was that play was amazing. Like he would have walked in. Yeah, it was going to be easy to show. And I was I was getting overly excited about that. and And Ella was watching with us and she didn't understand. So I explained it to her. I was like, you see, he dropped a touchdown. in the first game and then he got hurt and he hasn't really been playing and he's back and so they like were trying to get him a touchdown like against Alabama and then Ella like got emotional she's like oh that's so cool
00:37:39
Speaker
I made the joke that this was Redemption Saturday. Yeah. Like earlier in this, earlier in the week, like Nate Frazier, like I think again, it was probably a situation where a Bama fan started getting chippy in Twitter.
00:37:51
Speaker
And I just had to say like, this is going to be the Nate Frazier redemption game book it. And it, and sure enough, it it kind of was. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:02
Speaker
I definitely, you know, we talked before the game about does SEC championship matter or not? Sure. It's fun to win them. I'll say that. It was pretty sweet. It doesn't suck to win. i was marked safe from hearing roll tide for the next month or
SEC Championship Significance
00:38:18
Speaker
so. um Yeah.
00:38:21
Speaker
The sad thing is, is that I thought that this, I thought that we beat them enough to where we weren't going to be To where we weren't going to play them, but are there, they were going to be eliminated from the CFP, but sure enough, man, what a bunch of this, this, the last couple of days here, Jim have been just absolutely wild.
00:38:41
Speaker
um I don't know. I think college football has kind of jumped the shark in many ways. Yeah. Yeah. um a I think even I think I saw this. I was watching.
00:38:56
Speaker
um It was Notre Dame's AD was talking to Dan Patrick. I know I watched that. I feel like I didn't get this quote from that. Somebody was saying that, you know, if it was just four teams this year, would be pretty easy.
00:39:09
Speaker
And it's like, man, hi I agree there. don't know. I think 12 never made sense. And I think it's showing that right now. I think 16 would be easier. I'm not saying to go to 16. I think if they had just gone to eight, eight this year is very easy. It's pretty clear cut.
00:39:26
Speaker
Frankly, anyone below six, I don't think is has a huge argument this year. like it Kind of like whatever, like put whoever in, I guess. But that's that's my take of it.
00:39:37
Speaker
um I think either the Tuesday show should go away. with the week to week rankings, it won't because it you know, they can advertise for it on ESPN. Um, or I would like to believe that the committee learned something on the, they should have just ranked Miami ahead Notre Dame weeks ago.
00:39:57
Speaker
you know, we had the easiest data point in the world that they beat them on the field. And we keep saying with this whole, I think that's the big talking point of the expanded playoff is let's settle it on the field. Well, if they already settled it on the field, what are we doing?
00:40:12
Speaker
i don't know. So I feel like that, that whole, that all that drama could have been saved weeks ago. Yeah, there's a couple of things that i don't that are leaving a really really, really bitter taste in my mouth with with how things have transpired. Number one, Miami moving up one spot without playing a game just just reeks of, I don't know, reeks of corruption, in my opinion. um Because the ACC didn't want to they didn't want to let the a they didn't want the acc to get left out kind of thing.
00:40:46
Speaker
um the the doomsday scenario happened that we were yeah the chaos the chaotic scenario happened you know duke won and um yeah whatever um Honestly, i don't have a huge issue with what... I mean, i would have put in Miami in and over Notre Dame. I just think they should have done it three weeks ago, four weeks ago. Not not this week.
00:41:08
Speaker
you the like I don't necessarily disagree, but for you to allow them... all right, so the the precedent that was set... is the number one and number two teams.
00:41:21
Speaker
ah You're telling me that a one loss non-champion Big Ten team is ranked higher than one loss SEC champion. That to me is one of the more dangerous precedents that was set in this whole thing. But when you allow a team...
00:41:39
Speaker
to jump another team when neither of those teams played, that is also another dangerous precedent to set because nothing changed about what happened. Like if yeah you wanted to make the political argument that we're going to rank them ahead of XYZ team, because, you know, that's just how we want it. That's just how we're going to do these things now, I guess. I don't know. Like rank them ahead of, ahead of that team.
00:42:08
Speaker
So that nothing nefarious, so that the optics look better, if that makes sense. Yeah, no, I agree. That's i'm saying. I think they should have done it. i mean, because they did their explanation. The explanation was, well, BYU lost so badly to the same team again that we dropped them. And after we dropped them, Miami and Notre Dame were sitting next to each other. And then we said, you know what? They played each other. We should flip them.
00:42:30
Speaker
That was basically the explanation for how the mechanics of it, which, again, you could have done that weeks ago. And I think they should have. So I'm I'm hopeful that. I'm say that in Kirby terms, that they will learn from that. I don't know they that they will. And where you're talking about precedent, honestly, I'm not sure that precedent really matters. I feel like they just, they rank it every week and they come to it every week uniquely. And so I'm not really sure. i mean, I think Georgia should be number two. I think, I think that is, it is wild that you can have a conference championship championship.
00:42:59
Speaker
a kind of The SEC champion is not ranked higher than a non-champion of any other conference. I think is wrong. I don't think they should have that. i think Georgia should be number two. um And, you know, again, like back to the joke of did the SEC championship matter?
00:43:16
Speaker
Neither team moved in either direction. We were three and stayed three. Bama was nine and stayed nine. And think that's... frankly, they should have moved down. Yeah. i mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:27
Speaker
How do you, how do you move down Ohio state and don't move down Alabama? Right. like Right. Like, again, that's another precedent that just reeks of corruption in my opinion.
00:43:38
Speaker
like I'm not sure that it's, it's corruption. I think it's a, I think it's more, we're making it up as we go along. I mean, are you saying that I'm giving them too much credit?
00:43:48
Speaker
i think that, yeah. Uh, Oh, I guess so. Yeah. So if they had been moved to, if Alabama had been moved to 10, so that would have set up either way that would have set up a ah rematch for Alabama.
00:44:04
Speaker
So you moved them to 10. So where does that push everyone else? I'm going to tell you what would have happened.
Playoff Structure and Controversies
00:44:11
Speaker
If that was the case, then Notre Dame would have stayed because you would have had Alabama in between Miami and Notre Dame. So Notre Dame would have been at based on their explanation.
00:44:19
Speaker
i think that that would have been a much better I think that that would have been a much better result, in my opinion. That's actually what I thought they were going to do. um I think I texted you that. I expected Alabama to drop. to i My prediction was Georgia to Alabama 10, and Notre Dame would stay at 9. I was kind of throwing up in my mouth about that because I thought we were going to get the winner of AM&M and m in Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.
00:44:44
Speaker
Yeah. yes So... I mean, what do you think about the, mean, the, the bracket in general, I guess. So the the bracket in general is okay. I think that the two things that stick out to me is JMU and Tulane. Like they stick out like a sore thumb when you you have teams like Notre Dame and Texas, but,
00:45:05
Speaker
who are talking about their worthiness of of playing. And it's really hard for me to accept that JMU is in the CFP and a team like Notre Dame and Texas are are sitting at home.
00:45:18
Speaker
yeah Vanderbilt even. Yeah. i just i just look at that I just look at the makeup of some of the schedules of some of these teams.
00:45:30
Speaker
like I don't even know. i mean, shoot. JMU just hired Billy Napier, who was fired from the University of Florida because he was so bad. like what how do you How do you get fired up in terms of like the CFP? like All of a sudden, he's he wakes up and and he's part of a CFP team.
00:45:50
Speaker
I mean, and with this, that without someone made that great line that Billy Napier, his school made it to the CFP before he did or something like that. um The other thing is we are, with this scenario, we're in that one where there are three teams in the playoff who or do not have the coach...
00:46:10
Speaker
Or will not, I guess. i So I guess with JMU and Tulane, both of the coaches have taken other jobs and are staying for the playoff. But they they both will be gone. And then obviously with Ole Miss, you've got Lane is gone. I did see a great joke, and I can't give credit because I forgot who it was. But it was Tulane versus Dolane in that 6-11 matchup. I thought that was pretty good. Okay, let let's just run through this real quick. And you tell me, Jim, if this makes any sense at all.
00:46:38
Speaker
Okay. JMU. has played Weber state. They lost to Louisville. they They've got that in common with Miami. They played Liberty.
00:46:49
Speaker
They played Georgia Southern. They played Georgia state. They played Louisiana, the raging agents, old dominion, Texas state. They played Marshall barely won against Marshall.
00:47:00
Speaker
um They played app state, Washington state and coastal Carolina. Yeah. Oh, Oh, and Troy. Sorry. They they played Troy. Yeah, yeah that was in the the Sunbelt championship game.
00:47:12
Speaker
Compare that schedule to literally anybody in the, like, that was on the bubble that didn't make this this team the the playoff. Like, to me, that that just seems really egregious. ah And then this is going to get even worse next year because apparently it's come to light that some memorandum of understanding was signed with Notre Dame that if they finish ranked number 12 at the end of the season that they're guaranteed to get into the playoff.
00:47:40
Speaker
which is just wild to me. Again, the college football has jumped the shark this week. So in that scenario, like, so if that was in effect, I'm, I'm just stating this to make sure that I understand this correctly. Cause I think I do. So if that were in effect right now, that means that Miami would have been out, right?
00:48:00
Speaker
That correct. Okay. So basically the, you, the, the two kind of funky rules are one, the five highest ranked conference champions are in. And if Notre Dame is in the top 12, they're in.
00:48:12
Speaker
So those are the two kind of automatic things. I do think and I saw someone there. There was an article in The Athletic um over the weekend about, you know, how you can avoid some of these things. I do think all these these conferences have gotten so big with the conference expansion. mean, in the SEC, had a four way tie at first.
00:48:32
Speaker
ah You know, there were four teams that went seven and one. You had to go through all the tiebreakers to to determine that it was Alabama and Georgia. So in the SEC, would say it worked out OK, right? Like you've got two premier teams.
00:48:44
Speaker
The ACC had a huge log jam at second place. And when you went through all their tiebreakers, you ended up with Duke in there. Um, I don't know if they need to look, I don't know how the ACC tiebreakers work. Um, but it feels like tweak how the scheduling balance is. mean, like, you know, obviously no one's questioning that Miami is better. I mean, if Miami had ended up in the ACC championship game and won it, we wouldn't have this problem. Um, also if, and then we were kind of pulling for the doomsday, like if, if Virginia had hung on, then Notre Dame would be in.
00:49:17
Speaker
um I think probably. Sure. Who knows? Who knows? I don't know. I just think that this is a situation where, okay, congratulations, Indiana. You won the big 10. Your reward is that you get to play either Alabama or or Oklahoma.
00:49:34
Speaker
I will say that. And Ohio state, Ohio state's reward for losing The for losing the game is that they get to play either Miami or Texas A&M, which probably are some of the most fraudulent major teams on this bracket.
00:49:50
Speaker
And then you've got Oregon sitting there that they get to play JMU and they're playing potentially Texas Tech in the next round like well. I feel like that. And then Georgia, we get to, we either get a rematch with Ole Miss without their coach or we get to play Tulane. Like I feel like Indiana got screwed.
00:50:09
Speaker
Well, I think in last year, i think Oregon got screwed, right? Because Oregon ended up with Ohio State in the second round after their bye. I will say, i will say this though. When that happened, they made the change. They got rid of the,
00:50:21
Speaker
you had to win your conference to get a buy, right? And they had to change that. Let me tell you what the, what the bracket would be this year. If we still had last year's rules. Okay. Okay.
00:50:32
Speaker
So you'd have, uh, we actually would have moved up to two because you have to be a conference champion to be in the top four. So it'd be Indiana one, Georgia two, Texas tech three, two lane would have been the four seed.
00:50:43
Speaker
And so this is where it gets crazy. So two lane would have an automatic bite of the quarterfinal, Tulane would get the winner of number five, Ohio state versus number 12, James Madison. So that is correct. John Ohio state's path. If we still had last year's format would have been, they would have to just beat JMU in Tulane to make it to the semifinals.
00:51:03
Speaker
If we still had last year's format. So just be thankful that they did change that. Even after ike was kind of thinking in my head, like, man, like, did we overreact to that last year? you know, how's it always going happen? And oh my gosh, I'm so glad they did that. Think of how much, how outrage we would be.
00:51:19
Speaker
Ohio state lost the big 10 championship. And all they have to do is beat JMU and Tulane to make it to the semifinals. Like that would have been horrible. And they get And they get an on-campus home game. And he would have gotten an on-campus home game. Also, we would be getting we would be getting the winner of Ole Miss and Alabama, by the way, in the old format. So just be thankful that that went away.
00:51:36
Speaker
Fair enough. What I'd like to see go away next is get rid of get rid of the the neutral site second round. I think they should flip it.
00:51:47
Speaker
I think the opening round should be at both sites. And then if you got to buy, only those teams get the home game. Yeah, that's a reward the reward the reward for winning and doing well in your season, it should be an extra home game. Yep.
00:52:01
Speaker
Yep. Yep. I don't know. Get off my lawn. I mean, yeah i think the way you fix it is you contract to eight, but what do I know? I know you can't do that now. I mean, honestly, like there's there's only four teams. There's only four teams that are worthy of this entire thing, in my opinion. You've got Indiana, you've got Ohio State, you've got Georgia, and I guess like the the fourth, like i could say I could say Texas Tech or Oregon. I don't i don't know. like yeah probably i mean I guess for posterity, you've got to put Texas Tech in there, but those are the only teams that really deserve to be here.
00:52:37
Speaker
I don't disagree. And that, that if you take the the current rankings and apply it to the 14 term format, that's what it be. It would be Georgia, Ohio state in a semifinal in Indiana, Texas tech and the other.
00:52:48
Speaker
So what was wrong with that? i don't know. I don't know. I think it would have been a lot more fun. And we would have had ah teams like Notre Dame not taking their football and going home, which is like the, ah and then we wouldn't have conferences finding their teams for declining their bowl invitations, which just seems wild to me.
Coaching Attitudes and Bowl Games
00:53:08
Speaker
How do you not want to to the pop-tar bowl? The pop-tar bowl is the best bowl.
00:53:12
Speaker
God bless Clark Lee. oh oh man. Yeah. Seriously. Basically saying that I only get so many times with these guys. Like i want to play every game that we can like, and he didn't, he didn't whine. didn't whine and complain. He said, this is no one's fault. He said, we, you know, he said it's on us. Like we didn't do enough to get in. I mean, breath of fresh air, absolutely breath of fresh air.
00:53:37
Speaker
And you look at, I've seen a lot people talk about this. You look at how we approached that orange bowl versus how Florida state approached that orange bowl. And we just went down there and took care of business and look at where we are right now and look at where Florida state is.
00:53:50
Speaker
Yep. Agreed. i think it'll be interesting to see. Like, I hope that Notre Dame actually like put some teeth behind their threat with the ACC and starts to back away from their loose alignment with the ACC.
00:54:06
Speaker
um Frankly, I think that they should just join the big 10, but that's just me. Yeah. Yeah. Um, okay. Just because it just popped into my head. I don't want to forget. Uh, quick coaches over on their unders check.
00:54:19
Speaker
Uh, you got me this week and we are separated by three picks in the year. So you went six and one this week, JP. Well done. I went five and two, uh, you're 51, 49. I'm 54, 46. Um, and then on the pick comes, we're actually only one game apart in the pick. Um, I went two and one this week. You went one and two.
00:54:39
Speaker
I'm 37 20. You're 36 and So coming down to the wire across the board, shout out Coach Drill. Thank you for bantering with us during the game. And thank you for for doing this for us here. week Much appreciated.
00:54:51
Speaker
Yes, sir. Thank you so much. ah Well, now we get to see if we can buck the trend from last year of seeing all these guys that get a month off from football can win one. Yeah.
00:55:05
Speaker
Yep. i I think the... where Where I was running through how the bracket would have been laid out with last year's format, I think the format change will lead to that. I would be...
00:55:18
Speaker
Highly surprised if all four bi-week teams lost this year, like last year. so Yeah. well i don't I don't know what we'll do as far as like so quick housekeeping, John. I don't know what we'll do. i mean, obviously, we'll preview the Sugar Bowl before we get there. um Is there going to be a bowl pick-em? I was going to say, maybe we should do a bowl pick-em episode at some point before the next games.
00:55:42
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe we can do something so we can at least pick pick the the playoff games. I know we've had some content discussions, so I'm sure we'll have something. Okay. Okay. We'll plan that. Cause I was going to, I didn't know if we wanted to, we'll table that. No need to, we're too far out. No need to pick the first round games or anything.
00:55:58
Speaker
Right, right. So when does bowl season actually kick off now? Bowls or like the playoff? So the first round games. All of the above.
00:56:09
Speaker
The first round playoff games begin next, like not this Friday, but next Friday. i think that's the 19th. So that Alabama, Oklahoma is like Friday night, little Friday night lights in Norman.
00:56:23
Speaker
And then the other games are spread out across Saturday. That's all that I do. So not too much of a downtime, but when does the first bowl game go off? When do the degenerates get to watch like the ReliaQuest Bowl on Wednesday night or something like that? Hey, the ReliaQuest Bowl is somewhat respectable. That's the old Outback Bowl, by the way. when i saw Sorry, the Birmingham Bowl, whatever it is. Sharifport. Sharifport. Yeah. Yeah. no't city bowl And don't throw the pop tarts bowl in there. Cause I think the pop tarts bowl is awesome.
00:56:54
Speaker
Dude, Notre Dame BYU would have been a great game. I mean, i guess now it's Georgia. That would have been a good game. so now it's, now we get Georgia tech BYU instead. Thanks Notre Dame. I found it. I have gone to a trusty website, FBSchedules.com. December 14th.
00:57:10
Speaker
I've got the cricket celebration bowl is in, wait, here
Kirby Smart's Achievements
00:57:14
Speaker
we go. So that's in Atlanta. That's South Carolina carolina state preview. And I'm 8 PM Saturday, December 13th, the bucked up LA bowl hosted by Gronk.
00:57:26
Speaker
Amazing. Uh, hold on. I will now tell you my favorite bull name. That one was close. Um, and I can't find it. The Snoop dog. Oh, there's a, it's a, there's a full name. It's, I just see it listed here as the Snoop dog Arizona bull.
00:57:42
Speaker
I believe the full name is the Snoop dog Snoop dogs, gin and juice by Dre and Snoop Arizona bull, I think is the full name. Incredible name.
00:57:53
Speaker
I'm looking at some of them. Yeah, we can we can do the both pick-em. Let me let me give you leave you with one one fun fact on Kirby and Georgia in in rematches. Because we had talked about Kirby being 3-0 in the in-season rematch games.
00:58:10
Speaker
So shout out to Mallory Reads. I found this from her on on Twitter. She said Kirby Smart has now coached four in-season rematches at Georgia. He's 4-0 in the second meeting, and his defense has allowed exactly one offensive touchdown in each of those games. So that's Auburn 17, Bama 21, Texas 24, and Bama 25. Say that again?
00:58:33
Speaker
Only allowed one offensive touchdown in each of those games. across ah In each game, he allowed one offensive touchdown. One touchdown per game. I was as about to say, wait second.
00:58:44
Speaker
Yeah, and it's not on average. It's just exactly one in each game. What I hear you saying is that Kirby's dialed in on keeping it personal. Yeah. yeah and i And I took that personal. I will say that there were a lot. So so Alabama came into our house and broke our streak.
00:59:01
Speaker
We broke a lot of streaks for Alabama as well. We broke Alabama's 17. They had a 17-game Atlanta win streak that came to an end.
00:59:12
Speaker
Oh, that's right. yeah okay They had a four in a row against Georgia and Atlanta that came to an end. um Yeah. they they They broke some streaks for us, but we broke some streaks for them. Additionally, Jim, I don't know if you know this or not, but we also moved into second place all time in SEC championships.
00:59:34
Speaker
We are now tied with Florida. Oh. i For most SEC championships. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. we're chispping away We're chipping away at Alabama because they haven't won any.
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00:59:48
Speaker
But they they have their regular season Super Bowl games that they talk about, but they have not won a whole lot of anything since COVID. Yep. yeah Well, I guess since 21 when they they beat us in the SEC championship. Yeah. Yeah, they've got two SEC titles, but no Nationals.
01:00:05
Speaker
Yeah. ah I got say, i was less, I was more, um was more so the success baby meme than I was Ben Affleck meme on Saturday.
01:00:18
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Very good.
01:00:20
Speaker
Well said. Well said. yeah i do ah well Well, Jim, it's great to be back-to-back SEC champions. If you're going to, just when we thought we were out, they put us back in. um If we're going to be in, you might as well win it.
01:00:37
Speaker
And we won it. We did the dang thing. We're firing on all cylinders. And I'm really excited to see what this team can can put together over season. the next couple of games here.
01:00:48
Speaker
And I say that with emphasis, we have a couple of games left. Love it. Until next time, go dogs. dogs. go dogs