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Georgia Tech Review | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John review Georgia’s 16-9 win over Georgia Tech.
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00:00:00
Speaker
like maybe Gunnar was sick. um My dad then responded and said, maybe his girlfriend broke up with him. um And then Kim then responded by saying, maybe cow died or something. I don't know. That was Kim's joke. Kim said, maybe something happened to one of his cows. Something happened to one of his cows.
Introduction & Game Overview
00:00:19
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Welcome to My Got a Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I review Georgia's 16 to 9 win over Georgia Tech in the Benz. We talk about our experiences on Saturday and what stood out to us during the game.
00:00:32
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Rivalry Game Challenges
00:00:48
Speaker
Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
00:00:54
Speaker
Just as we predicted.
00:00:58
Speaker
Oh, boy. ah Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clean old-fashioned hate, man. You know what?
Offensive Struggles & Rushing Dominance
00:01:06
Speaker
that yeah We talked about it on the on the on the preview episode that, you know, you never know with these with these rivalry games on on what version of the team is going to show up or, you know.
00:01:18
Speaker
anything of Anything of that regard. any given Saturday, the in-state rivalry can boil over into a number of different things.
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah, clearly. Yeah. In this case, the offensive ah windfall that I thought that we were going to experience was was definitely not not there. And I think there's a lot wrapped up in that, and I guess that we can kind of get into that here.
00:01:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like the way the game started with us running the ball, I was like, oh yeah, like, Felt like we would be able to run on them. We could thought we would be able to pass on them too. Obviously we could not. Um, but yeah, that was, I guess that was my first half frustration was, you know, like like 51 to seven GATA keeps asking like, how many times do you run the toss sweep? but Like, like until they stop it kind of thing.
00:02:14
Speaker
It wasn't a toss sweep. This one, it was just like the handoff of the gut. It was like, they couldn't stop it in the first half. And I was just like, I was literally run the dang ball Bobo.
00:02:26
Speaker
Um, did you see the woman in the stands with the run the dang ball hat on? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. It's like, geez. Uh, so anyways, I don't know.
00:02:36
Speaker
was weird. It is definitely weird. um I think that if you if you look at if you look at the stat line, if you look at the team stats, like you just look straight up and down the the team stats, it's like, good grief. like Everything is so even. like We flip-flop on...
00:02:56
Speaker
We flip-flop on passing and rushing yards. But like on paper, there was so much. I mean, we we were so even across across everything.
00:03:07
Speaker
The only exception being that with us rushing so much more than they did, We had a lot more rushing attempts.
Defensive Strengths
00:03:16
Speaker
We had a little bit, and we had a slight advantage on the yards per rush, which I feel like is probably the story of the game is that we had the ball for 10 more minutes than they did.
00:03:28
Speaker
hundred percent. Yes. i mean, that was, that was a difference. We we played, we played ball control. i mean, we played keep away, basically keep away from that offense. And then when their offense did have the ball, our defense didn't let them in the end zone.
00:03:41
Speaker
You know, I mean, Yeah, didn't allow him at all. like This was definitely a game like sixteen to nine like was What is happening? It was so weird. Well, especially with the way both of these offenses have been playing. you know like It was uncharacteristic for both of them. I think in the whole, like if I had told you, kind of talking points, I feel like I could have believed that Georgia's defense would slow down the Tech offense.
00:04:11
Speaker
I'm very surprised they slowed down our offense the way they did with their defense. yeah i was expected so If I told you before the game that we would have 70 passing yards Oh my God. do you think the score is going to Wow.
00:04:26
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I don't know. The flip side is if you told me Nate Frazier had like, what, what did he have? Like 98 rushing yards at halftime or something like that? Like, I don't know something. He ended up with 108 yards rushing. Yes. Um, at some point we need talk about what happened in the second half specifically, but
Play Anticipation & Strategy Shifts
00:04:44
Speaker
honestly, that was my thing. It's like, how does he have almost a hundred in the first and 10 yards in the second half? That was,
00:04:49
Speaker
That was interesting. yeah there's like There's a lot interesting about this game. i It doesn't make sense. So Graham posted about this. Graham posted about this. And i speculated in the chat a few times that
00:05:06
Speaker
There were multiple plays where it felt as though Georgia Tech knew what we were doing. And I don't know if that's like they intercepted signals or like we've, they they read into some tells that we have on offense or something along those lines, but I'll use a specific example.
00:05:26
Speaker
ah There was the play, i believe it was the was it a fourth down play when we ran Cash Jones and he like nosedived basically right on the yard to gain.
00:05:36
Speaker
yeah yeah That was where we had the amazing like ACC play review where Georgia Tech called a timeout to challenge the spot basically. yeah And we had a window inside of what it's like in the ACC where you have full transparency into the review process. That was that was amazing, by the way. yeah It was incredible.
00:05:56
Speaker
Good job, ACC. um but so so On that play, if you go back and watch that play, we line up and it's like their defensive end, like I feel like he pointed, but like I feel like that they knew what was coming. So players shifted over and they had numbers to that side of ah of the play. It was actually kind of a miracle that we got the first down, but it was very clear like that they shifted everything over because they knew where the play was going.
00:06:27
Speaker
And i don't know. I don't know if that's just like luck of the draw. Like they just made a great call on a great time. And we just happened to out execute them just slightly enough to get the first down there.
00:06:38
Speaker
But there were multiple plays like that where it felt like that they knew exactly what was going on. Okay, so two things on that. One, if you're saying it was a miracle, I can't confirm if this was what it was, but I'm not going to not say that. My sister actually lit a candle before that play to help us gain the first down, and we did. So, again, not saying that was it, but not not saying that. awesome Is this like when when the the Mexican grandmas... ah the abuelitas they light the candle they light the candle basically Lily actually took a picture of my sister she was like kneeling on the ground like holding the candle up and Cass Jones got the first down um so that that definitely happened I will say, though, the other thing is, I mean, there's a lot of crossover between these two teams, right? So you've got Buster Faulkner was on staff.
00:07:30
Speaker
um You know, he was ah an analyst under Munkin here. A lot of the concepts and offensive stuff is still left over from that. and he worked with Bobo back then as well. um And the other thing is they've got all these, i mean, they there are multiple transfers that Tech has. um They played at Georgia.
00:07:48
Speaker
So i don't know. I guess it's possible. although I guess you would maybe think things have changed enough since then to prevent those guys knowing anything, but i don't know. Who knows?
00:07:59
Speaker
guess it's possible.
Key Player Highlights
00:08:00
Speaker
Yeah. ah Yeah. I don't know. It just, you're telling me that the Georgia offense that has been operating so efficiently on a quarterback has been completing 70% of his passes against some of the best teams in the country.
00:08:14
Speaker
All of a sudden we come up against one of the worst defenses in the country that's been giving up over 300 yards passing the last several weeks. and you're telling me that they came in and were able to shut Gunnar Sockton down to 70 yards passing.
00:08:30
Speaker
like it does It just does not compute. Yeah, i I will say Gunnar, mean, i know i don't i guess i don't know how much of it is their defense versus how much of it was him. Like, he looked off.
00:08:43
Speaker
He looked uncomfortable, like, really, the whole game. I mean, like, even from the start, he just looked a little little little off. um I kept waiting for him to, like just turn that corner or whatever, and it never...
00:08:57
Speaker
It never really happened to the point where, I mean, when the game ended, i looked at my dad and I was like, was he sick? Like maybe Gunnar was sick. um My dad then responded and said maybe his girlfriend broke up with him. um And then Kim then responded by saying. Maybe cow died or something? I don't know. That was Kim's joke. Kim said maybe something happened to one of his cows. Something happened So, they ever one of his cow so yeah, I don't know. I don't know. He was definitely, he was definitely off.
00:09:24
Speaker
Yeah, he was definitely off. i tell you who was not off, though. Our kicker. yes Dude, absolutely. I actually had that written down, that Peyton Woodring was the MVP of this game.
00:09:36
Speaker
Payday. it was It was a payday multiple times. MVP mvv of the game. i just like i can't I can't stress enough like how quietly he's had such an elite season.
00:09:48
Speaker
Career at this point. Well, yeah. Right. I mean, i I saw this on the internet, and so it must be true. And I'm going to apologize because I can't remember who posted it. um But it was like, as of right now, he actually has like the highest like field goal kicking accuracy percentage in the history of the SEC.
00:10:05
Speaker
Oh, wow. how How have we not seen this graphic from yeah ESPN? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Although I guess moving forward, I'd rather they not show any graphics like that because hashtag like announcers curse.
00:10:19
Speaker
no True. That's how it's been able to go on so long. Cause they're not talking about it. Yeah. Seriously. Nobody's talking about it. Forget I said anything ESPN. Yeah. Don't listen. ah but Yeah, dude, we were talking about this on the podcast before the podcast, but according to the win probability, which the nerds apparently have a really tough time understanding win probabilities because, I mean, basically this game was over with four minutes left in the first quarter, according to according to yeah ESPN, because that is the lowest win probability that we had in the entirety of the game when it was zero to zero.
00:10:58
Speaker
ah We had a 78% win probability at that point, and it only went up from there. um Yeah, I think that when we were talking about this, like basically with four minutes and 30 seconds left in the second quarter when UGA was up 10 to nothing, our win probability was 91%, and it didn't drop below that the remainder of the game, which is just absolutely wild to me.
00:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, that that feels wrong. I don't know else to say it. Like, it definitely didn't feel like it 99.9% or whatever it's saying there when they were throwing a Hail Mary, you know, with a second left.
00:11:42
Speaker
I mean, I guess it was or whatever, but. They do they don't like they didn't they didn't go away. They kind of kept plucking along. and i mean Obviously, we said payday the MVP, but also like that one touchdown. i mean That's literally the difference of the game. We got we we got one touchdown. They got none. i mean yeah We were correct about one thing. Haynes King was the was the Georgia Tech. ah Yeah, absolutely.
00:12:11
Speaker
Absolutely. he's The kid's good, man. He's good. He is good. He had himself a ball game. He did, and I thought that we did a pretty good job of stopping his run game. That was impressive.
00:12:23
Speaker
That was impressive. Yeah, if you told me before the game that we would hold Haines King to 39 yards, which I believe that that was an over-under that I got destroyed on, but um the yeah i would I would have taken that. um I would have said, yeah, we we win that game all all day long.
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah. Welcome back, CJ Allen, on that note. Yeah. I didn't think he would play. didn't think he would play. And if he played, I thought he would play, like, some.
00:12:51
Speaker
I mean, dude started and just played a normal game. Like, that was, I was not expecting that. Agreed. i think that yeah i think this this was definitely a continuation of an upward trend of the UGA defense stepping up when when it was needed and the offense was not getting things done. i'd still like like The conspiracy theory inside of me is that At some point, Georgia's coaches realized that they were getting hosed in some way, shape, or form, that Georgia Tech just knew what was coming from an offense standpoint, and they just decided to just pack it in and not and just and just shut this thing down because they realized that they weren't going to get scored on.
00:13:33
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we totally shut it down the second half. I mean, um we didn't really try to do much of anything. i mean, we took a couple of shots and the shot plays didn't really work. Oh, i don't, i don't know. I guess we, the shot plays we took were more so in the first half. Um, I'm honestly, I can't remember if we even really tried that in the second half. Um,
00:13:53
Speaker
when When we started calling the plays where it was like the Gunner Stockton just quarterback sweep to the side, that's when I was kind of like, I feel like we've thrown the game plan out the window.
00:14:04
Speaker
this point And that was like late in the first half when
Offensive Analysis & Missed Opportunities
00:14:08
Speaker
that started happening. It would be like third and 10 and it would just be like gunner, like quarterback sweep to the right. And he would get like eight yards, but then we punt.
00:14:15
Speaker
um I don't know. it The whole, the offense just felt off. Like I said, I felt like we were running kind of at will early and we were keeping balance for balance sake is what I felt like. mean, I know you can't like do the same thing over and over and over again, but I mean, i don't know, man. It seemed like it worked every time.
00:14:32
Speaker
Every time we ran Nate Frazier up the middle in the first half, it worked. Um, and he was like nine yards of carry, I think in the first half. Um, and then we would go away from it and it wouldn't work. And then, you know, opening drive of the second half, it was like pass, pass, pass punt.
00:14:49
Speaker
Like what are, what are we doing? It was like, you know, i was like, went away from what what was working. Exactly. And it was like we were it was like the top press is like, well, they think we're going to run it. So we're going to pass it or something. I i don't know. It was you run the ball to open up the pass, Jim. yeah It definitely was – I'm surprised that I didn't hear more from ah from Craig because this was the perfect Bobo game. It feels it feels like it was tailor-made for Bobo haters, which I was definitely like kind of in their corner because it was just like, what is going on? But like I said, my my putting on my tinfoil hat is is just saying that –
00:15:30
Speaker
I think that we just kept things as plain Jane as possible just to win the game. It's almost like the perfect Kirby Smart game. Like, all right, we got enough points here, guys. Let's just shut it down.
00:15:41
Speaker
but It was. and um i i think the frustrating thing was like, how many tweets were there? i saw i saw many. And I know there were texts going around as well. it's like, all right, well, I guess we're just going to we're just gonna death march it and then the new game will end. It's like, will we keep having to punt? It's like think the death march never really happened. um I don't know. I guess it kind of happens. We marched down the field. Maybe we didn't score. or Maybe we didn't whatever. But like you said, we played keep away.
00:16:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't end with a ball in our hand though. I'll say that we didn't, we never got, we didn't get into victory formation. Fair enough. Fair enough. Uh, we did, we did throw, we did throw a tight end out there to bad to pass down, which I thought was amazing.
00:16:27
Speaker
Ooh, man, that was like a major upgrade. Jaden Riddell, right? it was Jaden Riddell. That was ah such an upgrade from the Tennessee Hail Mary in 2016 where, i mean, it wasn't a tight end, but what we put like Lorenzo Carter back there, I think. um This was much, much more well ah well executed. I was yelling at the TV. I was like, do not rush three, do not rush three. And I don't think we did.
00:16:51
Speaker
um But yeah, yeah i mean, huge sigh of relief when that ball got batted down. don't know about you. Like I was kind of freaking out. Yeah. I'd be curious to know, like ah if you, if any of you guys, you know, heard, like, I haven't seen this, but like, I wonder why Jaden Riddell was like, why was he the spike man? Like was he, was he, does does he have like a ah closet volleyball experience? Like what's going on?
00:17:17
Speaker
Good question. Good question. I just, why was it him? Cause he's not the tallest player on the team. Yeah, i I do know they said that that's how they practice It's like he is the one that they put back.
00:17:29
Speaker
So, but yeah, but as far as the why, I don't know. yeah Maybe he's got the the highest vertical or something like that. Yeah. um and I guess I think like, i think isn't, isn't Ellis, isn't i Elias Williams. Isn't he like, yeah, he's like six, seven, six, seven. This is see the only way we're going to get the kids to stop it is if we keep doing it until they stop it. just to point that out. out um Which by the way, if you haven't watched home alone with your kids, you should totally do that because there's so it's it's like so ah automatic. Yeah.
00:18:02
Speaker
They say six, seven, like so many times. That's funny. We'd said that like a million times over Thanksgiving. um My guess there though is Williams is a freshman and Riddell's been here a couple of years. I don't know. right Right. That's, that's my best guess.
00:18:20
Speaker
Fair enough. I like it right I guess a couple other nitpicky things, and I don't want to just nitpick the whole time, but on the offense, again, the first half. So well one thing that, again, was just like the whole, it was off, and it kind of felt like some things went back to how they were earlier in the year. With Gunnar, early in the year, i think our complaint was there would be someone open downfield and he would run.
00:18:44
Speaker
He would miss the person who was open and take off. And I feel like that kind of stopped at some point. And he was making the correct decision there. On the... On the last drive of the first half, it was actually in the play where we got a first down because Cash Jones took illegal hands to the face on that play.
Clock Management & Second Half Strategy
00:19:03
Speaker
Dylan Bell was wide open in the end zone. So we had two receivers to the right. you had Dylan Bell, and I think it was Lucky out to the right. Lucky ran a post, and Bell ran some sort of like go route kind of deal. And basically the safety went with Lucky, and no one covered Bell. So once Lucky broke off, Bell was just streaking down the right sideline and Gunnar just, know. He never, it seemed like he was looking that way.
00:19:28
Speaker
Again, I'm saying this from like watching the replay where they were showing that cash, you know, had hands to the, to his face. So not really sure, but that was interesting like because Gunnar, he, he, he, I think felt pressure took off to run.
00:19:42
Speaker
That happened a couple of times, I feel like, because there was another play where he ended up running for three or four yards. But like right before he was running, he was literally staring at, I think it was Nate Frazier, where he could have dumped, he had a dump off like yeah right and right in front of his face. And he chose not to and instead like ran it and took another hit and went to the ground. and you know I think that Nate Frazier probably could have made more of of that play than, than he did. But yeah, i don't know. You're right. Like it kind of goes to the whole theme of the day. Like maybe he just had like a trip to fan hangover or something along those lines from Thanksgiving. Cause I'm sure that he has ah a very large gathering of folks for Thanksgiving, but
00:20:31
Speaker
I don't know. Something was definitely off, but like I said, I think I chalk it up to like, we we got enough points, we can win this game. We're going to pack it in, as was the approach, and just make it as vanilla as possible in the second half and not even like... Give anyone, give anyone any more film, give anyone any more like opportunities for injury. Let's just play the safe plays and just, and just go.
00:20:55
Speaker
yeah Losing, losing Drew Bubba was probably a not helping any of this situation in terms of like our ability to be creative. Because as soon as he went down, it was very clear that in the second half,
00:21:10
Speaker
you know Like you said, like you you kind of wonder why we stopped stopped running the ball. while you know I can't remember when Bobo went down, but I feel like it was before then, right? It was. So he was... And also, i have not heard specific details about this, but he left and then he came back. So he was out for, say, the second to last drive of the first half. And then he was back in...
00:21:30
Speaker
on the last drive from what I recall. Um, and then in the second half, he never came back out. That's how I remember it. I could be wrong. It's an, it's an extra day since the game, John, uh, court, uh, opposed to when we usually record with with the Friday game, but that, that's how I remember it. Um, man, also, I don't know what was going on with the clock management at the end of the first half, but like you can't take the timeouts with you kind of thing.
00:21:57
Speaker
Kirby loves the head he loves to save those timeouts for some reason. Man, he does. I don't know about you, that was that was my other yelling at the TV moment. I yelled at the TV for them to call a timeout on a third down, and i think that Georgia Tech ended up taking the timeout for us because i felt like that Gunner took a hit and he was kind of getting up really groggy. like He got up kind of slow. Mm-hmm.
00:22:19
Speaker
um on one of the hits and it was I think it was on our touchdown drive uh I want to say it was on that on that same drive where he got kind of knocked over and i remember thinking like oh my gosh he's getting up really slow and the play clock was running and it was like I just kind of looked at it and just kind of said to myself like oh my gosh call time just call time out like it's third down like let's let's let's like we don't have to rush this Yeah.
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah. There was a weird, there definitely was one, if not two times where they called timeout that I felt seemed kind of weird. where Why are you calling timeout? Yeah. Which their, their challenge, dude, their challenge helped us big time. Cause then they didn't, they were, they lost the timeout because of that, that they needed late. So that, that, that was helpful.
00:23:06
Speaker
but Yeah. I think that, uh, I think that something, something was definitely fishy going on because you just, I, Even in our worst game, i guess I guess you call this a clunker, you know, when you're clunkers. Yeah. um Even though it didn't feel like a clunker, like necessarily in the first half, like I thought we were going to run away with the game. Yeah.
00:23:26
Speaker
When we got the, when we scored the touchdown to go up 10 and nothing, which by the way, Zachariah branch still just, Holy cow. He's so amazing. He does. He does Zachariah branch things. I mean that the cut he made there, he just made the defender like the defender didn't have a shot to get. this is This is like one of, this is one of the best recruiting seasons, I think for why you don't leave the university of Georgia.
00:23:54
Speaker
If you're an elite level wide receiver, like the whole narrative is like, oh my gosh, Georgia, they just, they just pass to the tight ends and all this kind of stuff. But like, no, no, we pass to the elite players. Yeah.
00:24:08
Speaker
and we And we pass to the players who have have earned it, right, and are getting that spot. I mean, early on, there was the whole, where's Noah Thomas? Where's Noah Thomas? And then, you know, Kobe Young goes down, Noah Thomas, next man up, and now he leads the team in touchdown catches, I think, or he was going into that game. Like, you know, you you earn your way out of the field, and you get a chance to showcase your talent, so.
00:24:30
Speaker
Yeah, which, by the way, you talked about shot plays. There was a shot play at some point, I want to say it was in the first half, where we took a deep shot to Noah Thomas, and he was getting absolutely held the entire time, and they didn't call pass interference, and that would have extended the drive.
Game Outcome & Historical Context
00:24:46
Speaker
And even the announcers were like, Georgia fans are booing, and I think they've got a right to be. and it was like they And then they showed the replay, and the guy was holding him the entire time.
00:24:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I remember, i remember that one. Uh, there was one where I, all I lost it when they threw a flag on us for pass interference, but it was the one where they picked up the flag. Have you remember that? Whereas I was like, the ball was in the stands. What are we doing? There is no, there is no pass interference. Yeah. Dylan Bell had an amazing circus catch that didn't count because Gunner get Gunner overthrew it.
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah. You were, he was like just like one step out, right? Yeah. He was like one step out of bounds. Yeah. oh And he almost had another catch too, but the Georgia Tech guy had his arm between the ball and him. And when they fell down, like it kind of, it kind of like dislodged the ball.
00:25:37
Speaker
So they, they called it incomplete. I mean, frankly, like not many people had catches for us in the game, just in general. Right. Well, I, what I will say is like the Georgia tech towards the end of the game, which, you know, you can kind of see on their, know, their, their, their scoring summary or whatever, you know, they, they scored more points. They outscored us in the second half.
00:26:00
Speaker
um They started doing things that. that we we weren't doing. At one point I was like, oh, wow, imagine look take a look at that. like They moved the pocket and now they can actually like make some passes and throws and stuff. We didn't try any of that. like We weren't moving the pocket. We weren't doing anything.
00:26:17
Speaker
No, we we didn't. i am I'm totally with you. Like, we tried the the the the game plan looked different than usual, too, in general. Like you're saying, didn't try move the pocket.
00:26:31
Speaker
We didn't throw as many of, like, the screen left, screen right stuff either, you know? Like, there's usually at least, like, five screens to branch. Yeah. um We didn't really do that. Even the even the touchdown pass to him was... i mean, I think he had the first down when he caught it.
00:26:47
Speaker
And he cut up field and got the touchdown. So it felt... That was my run-the-dang Bobo comments were like... i think I texted you and coach and said like...
00:26:59
Speaker
I don't want to see anything other than an eight Frasier run at the middle or a screen to Zachary branch. Like, just do that. That was in the first half, though, where everything kind of fell apart in the second. But yeah, I am with you. It was kind of is kind of weird.
00:27:12
Speaker
Yeah, very, very strange game. So what was it Six to three, them in the second half? Is that right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Very odd. Very, very strange, Jim. We definitely didn't do, we definitely didn't like lose. Well, I guess technically we lost the middle eight or whatever. um You know, because we didn't get, we didn't get, we didn't get the good score at the, at the end of the half. Right.
00:27:37
Speaker
We had, we did get a field goal at the end of the half. So I think technically we won the middle eight three to nothing. Fair enough. Fair enough. But, but yeah, it's not, yeah.
00:27:50
Speaker
Score, kick a field goal before half and then go three and out and to start the second half is not the, that's not the, what you want to do. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I'm with you, man. You, you kick that field goal.
00:28:01
Speaker
It's 13 to three. had the ball start the half. You're thinking we score a touchdown here. you know, we're up 20 to three or whatever. And was not in the cards. Was not in the cards.
00:28:12
Speaker
That Cash Jones fourth down conversion, though that we talked about a while ago, like mean that was a huge play that got us the that extended that drive. That was our last scoring drive. I mean, it was our only scoring drive in the second half. That that was that drive that when Cash cut that first down with the at the middle.
00:28:29
Speaker
Yep. it's definitely It was a weird game. definite not i didn't feel It definitely felt Haiti, but it didn't feel clean old fashioned lady Yeah.
00:28:41
Speaker
Uh, if that was the Invesco QQQ stuff going on or what? There we go. It was, it was, it's because it's because it was the first game that we played in the bins against Georgia tech. So, yeah, i I have to admit something. Um, these are the kinds of things that like, like the, the bad things that run through my head that I don't want to say in the podcast. Yeah. I had this whole like fear that we were going to lose to them. Cause like we always say like, you know, like we haven't lost at tech since 1999. And I was like, Oh, but this one isn't at tech. ah that was And then the fact that like the last two times we got to seven in a row, we lost on the eighth try. However, and I talked about this with Lily, like before the game, i was like, you know, like the last two times that happened that when we were going for the eighth,
00:29:22
Speaker
victory, it was in Athens. and So this was that first time we were going for the eighth, eighth in a row, not in Athens. um And I want hover on that a minute. I mean, that was the thing they could always say to us, right? Was that they had that eight game winning streak over us that we referred to as the drought.
00:29:38
Speaker
We had never done that. And now they can't hold that ah over us anymore. So now we've tied, we've tied the longest win streak in this rivalry at eight.
Implications for SEC Championship & Playoffs
00:29:48
Speaker
yeah we've Now we can say we've done that too.
00:29:50
Speaker
And 1999, me cannot comprehend that. we need to Do we need to make print the shirts that say fear the pinky and the thumb? Yeah.
00:30:02
Speaker
Seriously, we could do that. And I will also add, there is now a Christmas tree in our house. So it's up. we We can have, we can have Christmas. fine Oh yeah. Well, I mean, nothing to say other than flush it and move on.
00:30:16
Speaker
Like when, when the game move on, like there's a hundred percent guarantee that we're going to make the CFP. So we will survive in advance, even despite what may happen in the, in the sec championship game. Which, Jim, I'm not looking forward to that preview because i think I had sworn off this this this matchup the last time.
00:30:37
Speaker
So from not looking forward to it, Jim, not looking forward to that one. How crazy was that, though, that like we end, you know, we end that day with we're going to the SEC championship.
00:30:49
Speaker
On Friday. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. ah And also, just so everyone else knows, John, you did blame me in a text thread for that thing. Because I think Texas has to win.
00:31:04
Speaker
Sorry. you blamed I mean, you know, that, that was just as I predicted for what it was worth. Yeah. Apparently a and m is more fraudulent than I realized. um Let's just hope that the other teams that are above them, ah namely like the Indianas of the world that are just as fraudulent Something then about those rivalry games, man. Those those three in the SEC, I guess the the Egg Bowl, I guess, wasn't quite as close on Friday, but between Clean Old Fashioned Hate, whatever, the Texas and name at Lone Star or something, and the Iron Bowl. I mean, those games were all wild. The Iron Bowl was wild.
00:31:46
Speaker
Iron ball was wild. At one point I was like, Oh my gosh, we're to play Ole Miss and there's going be no coach. i I know that, that was the point where I was like, well, shoot, just go ahead and have that happen. I was definitely pulling for that. mean, you get to that you've got how them is out of the playoff and play a team with no coach, which is what would happen.
00:32:03
Speaker
It's one of those like butterfly effects, right? like if If Lane Kiffin, if if if if Alabama were to have lost that game, do you think that Lane Kiffin is actually allowed to coach beyond what happened this this weekend? You know what i mean? like Is he allowed to coach beyond the Egg Bowl at all?
00:32:22
Speaker
Um, I still think no. Cause I, mean, as much as he was saying, like, I haven't made it my mind yet from, I mean, and this is not inside sources. This is like what I've been reading on Twitter. It definitely sounds like he knew.
00:32:37
Speaker
um I saw some report that LSU believe they had an agreement from him like last week at some point. Um, I think it was all like he was, i mean, it sounds like he was trying to leverage stuff to stay.
00:32:50
Speaker
So who knows? Maybe that would have worked if they playing in the SEC championship. Yeah, because now you're talking about like you have less time to decide on a situation. and I mean, when was the last time Ole Miss was in the SEC championship? Have they ever played for the SEC championship?
00:33:07
Speaker
I don't think so. i mean, that game's only been around since 92 90.
00:33:12
Speaker
Whatever. like They would have had it something they would had a chance to to do something that had never been done in the program's history. So like would Ole Miss have would oldle miss had been like a little bit more acquiescing, I guess, for lack of a better description? But when you're asking for, when you're asking for hey, can I coach through the CFP, now you're talking like weeks.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yeah. Weeks. I mean, and by the way, like signing day is this week too. That's, that's where this the whole thing gets goes so complicated because you're, you're coaching this team, but I'm imagining you're recruiting for your recruiting class for your new school.
00:33:45
Speaker
So, I mean, I don't, I don't have any issues with Ole Miss saying like, thanks, but no thanks, you know, too much going on right now, yeah which I think that's a whole other conversation. and It's kind of like what we talked about with Andrew Carraway. And we had him on last off this past off season around the calendar.
00:34:00
Speaker
You know, like this right here, I think is the perfect example of why having this signing day at this time of year is bad. i mean, you've got Kiffin. i mean, there's a chance we end up with like three schools in the playoff.
00:34:14
Speaker
with either I don't know if these other coaches are are leaving um right away or not, but like two lane like two if makes it in, um their coach has gone to Florida.
00:34:28
Speaker
Yeah, he's gone to Florida. um I saw today the JMU coach, like he's going somewhere to like well i mean How many are going to end up with yeah yeah that don't have a coach? Yeah. I saw earlier BYU's coaches apparently emerged as a top prospect for the Penn State job.
00:34:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, don't know, man. like It's a bad look for college football if we've got these teams that are in the playoff with other coaches. And the fact that it happened at an SEC school was... You know, you, we, we, when we say like, it just means means more and all that kind of stuff. I feel like that kind of takes a bit of a blow when you've got a coach leaving from one school to another with the first ever 11 win regular season, you know, and the program's history. And then he's gone is kind of weird.
00:35:18
Speaker
Yeah. Agreed. i know. I don't know what what the answer is because i think what isn't the flip side of that like what happens to the recruiting period?
00:35:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean we used to have I think the issue is the early the whole graduating high school early you know and but what they used to figure be able to figure that out.
00:35:40
Speaker
I also just want be able to figure something. Yeah. I also just want signing me to go back to February before so we can and use fax machines and go to the blind pig and we bring back, just bring back the fax machine bring the ceremonial fax machine.
00:35:55
Speaker
Um, but yeah, anyways, off the rails. Um, let's hit, ah let's hit a quick recap for, for coach. Uh, let's see. I, but extended my lead ever so slightly in coaches over unders this week. I went five and three, even four and four.
00:36:13
Speaker
And then I believe we are all tied up in the pick them games. Um, I had a good week in the picks that the Texas thing came through and I think you had Tennessee. I think that was the other difference.
00:36:25
Speaker
um So shout out coach. Thanks for checking them and send them over. Like I always say, always a great, always a great feeling when we get the text from coach with the updates. Is it Jim? Is it?
00:36:35
Speaker
No, sorry. It was it was for for you. He was glorious this week. lately ah Thank you, coach. I kid, I kid. Yeah. yeah I guess. they it Thanks to Jim, we have thankss to gym we have an championship.
00:36:51
Speaker
i And when we can get into this, obviously, when we want preview that game, but we've already previewed them once. So I don't know how much there is to talk about like what to look for. Cause I think we kind of know it based on the first game.
00:37:02
Speaker
Um, but maybe we can talk a little bit about the whole, do you want to be in the sec championship? I think we should review Kirby's remarks post game. thought that was pretty interesting. Um, those kinds of things, maybe it was little playoff talk or something like will Vanderbilt get in.
00:37:17
Speaker
These are the, these are the burning questions. I'm sure we'll have lots of conversations about, about all of it. Even even the lousy stinking red elephants.
00:37:29
Speaker
All right, Jim. Well, it's another another clean old-fashioned hate in the books. Another Thanksgiving. Looked like you guys had a good time at FRIP. um And we will be back tomorrow. Well, as as of today, we'll be there tomorrow to record for the SEC Championship this weekend.
00:37:48
Speaker
Yes, sir. and And game day is going to be in town, so we're going to talk through it all. And Dawgs. Go Dawgs. go dogs