1. Their rivalry is even older than ours, and just as fierce; 2. It was at Jordan-Hare. Any longtime Gator knows J-H is a potential death trap; 3. Georgia had two turnovers, giving Auburn short fields that led to touchdowns. 4. Auburn may not be as bad as their record. Their losses were to: Texas A&M at College Station (1) Georgia at home (22) LSU at Death Valley at night (13) Ole Miss at home What do you think our record would be if we played those four teams? It would probably be the same (4-4).
We might need to teach our DBs to play more bump and run and do what UGA did... stick to opposing team's receivers like glue. Someone already mentioned that it's not the talent of our DBs but the schemes our defense runs. That is probably true.
but didnt folks in the game thread complain about how the momentum changed after that play? So seems like it wasn't just CBS that may have considered that the "Play of the game"
...wrong...if it was Georgia they would have reviewed it, gave Georgia two more yards on the spot and hit us with a block in the back penalty 40 yards during the commercial break.
If UF decided to leave the rotten crooked SEC today I would applaud. They’ve never accepted Florida and they never will, because we’re different from the rest of the mouth-breathing southeast. They screwed us in the 80s for doing nothing more than Bear and Dooley were doing, and they screw us at every opportunity today. And they always will. We could flourish in another conference like the ACC — we’d make them money and they’d love us for it. I despise this conference and will never again pull for a damn one of these schools I don’t care who they’re playing.
If we were trying to win the game, I'd agree. Playing a backup against #1 puts 'im in a tough spot. My fear, though, is that Mertz gets hurt in meaningless minutes. Or, he gets hurt vs. Ark and we have a backup with nearly zero game experience.
Nobody said our team “gave up” after that screw job. But the wheels came off immediately afterward. It’s a young inexperienced team up against a 2-time defending national champion that’s twice as deep and experienced. To suggest our team is a tad fragile and can get rattled by such obvious favoritism and have a critical 1st down robbed from us deep in our territory isn’t an indictment of our team or our coaches. No we didn’t lose because of the refs. But we had fire and momentum rolling in the 1st quarter and those crooked damn refs washed it all away with their hoses. Answer me a question please: First, we got the 1st down and the ball was spotted on the field accordingly. If the refs can’t determine whether of not the call on the field should be reversed after 5 damn minutes of reviewing it, in what world do they then decide to overturn the call on the field? And then, how in hell does the ball get reset 2 feet farther back? Answer: it’s Kirby’s world and it’s called the SEC.
We were in our thirty yard line on that fourth down call. Converting it is not even close to a guarantee we would have scored. It was high risk, low reward and we payed for it. On top of that, the call was a dumb trick play that had Etienne passing the ball. May be the dumbest call in a long time.
Again, it IS important to remember that we all knew to a man/woman that we weren’t beating UGA yesterday. That’s “fine”. It just sux that all of our losses this season highlight our deficiencies and that’s tough to watch week in and week out: 1. POOOOOR S&C/lack of toughness 2. No difference makers on both LOS (the interior OL DIIIID play solid) 3. DBU moniker is a joke 4. Wrong play calls at the wrong time
