SEC Roundup (Week 1.1)

8-2 on Saturday play, unfortunately I was wrong on the Georgia game.

I am not much for saying that poor officiating cost a team a game. It happens; it is part of the breaks over the course of the game. In the case of the home cooking in Stillwater, Georgia had a couple of huge calls go against them, including one personal foul that set up the backbreaking TD to put Cowboys up for good at 24-10.

How bad was the call? The announcers continued to talk about it for at least 10 minutes. It was that bad. With that said …

I really thought that good things were in store for the Dawgs after they opened up on a great drive, but it because quickly apparent that on offense the Bulldogs could not sustain any sort of rhythm.

Cox is not the answer. Probably a good kid; smart … nice … all the intangibles, but if Georgia drops the South Carolina (home) or Arkansas (road) game, it will be time to bring this experiment to a close and concentrate on next year’s QB.

A college football team loses a quarterback and a running back in the first round of the NFL draft, and what do we hear? That they’ll be more of a team. That they’ll be better up front. That they’ll spread things around and function as well — maybe even better — as before. Nobody in Athens ever said, “Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno were holding us back.” At times, it just sounded that way.

Well, try this. Georgia just opened the season scoring 10 points against an Oklahoma State defense that ranked 93rd in the nation last season, which has been fairly the program standard. How does that make you feel going into SEC play? If can they manage only a field goal in their last 11 possessions against a defense poor by even Big 12 standards, how will they fare against South Carolina, or LSU, or anybody?

What else did we learn? The Bulldogs have to figure out how to get more touches for Green (4 receptions for 52 yards). I wonder if Samuel is the answer (20 carries for 87 yards); he looked tough enough, but often went down on ankle tackles.

Georgia has one week to right the ship before the Fighting Chickens come a calling. When was the last time Georgia started 0-2, or maybe 1-2? This year may go south in a hurry.

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