{"id":1299,"date":"2008-09-28T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/09\/28\/georgia-gets-whipped\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:56:01","slug":"georgia-gets-whipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/09\/28\/georgia-gets-whipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia gets whipped."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/sports\/college\/logos\/uga_logo.gif\" alt=\"UGA Logo\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Let\u2019s start by giving all the credit to Alabama.  It is obvious they came well prepared, were hungry for a win, and executed their game plan flawlessly.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot think of a game in recent memory where Georgia was so clearly dominated to the point that they looked out classed, out coached, and out played.  Alabama looked heads and shoulders better than Georgia; dare I say the best team in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For Georgia, things went down hill fast.  First, on Alabama\u2019s game opening drive, Georgia\u2019s leader on defense, Dannell Ellerbe, left the game with a knee injury.  Second, Georgia forced a fumble, but a stupid hands to the QB face pentality reversed the call, and Alabama went on to score 31 unanswered points to take a 31-0 halftime lead.  Remember these words from last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPenalties continue to be a concern, as Georgia gave up 104 yards on 12 flags, although there were 2-3 BS calls.  Georgia has to be more disciplined or the penalties will come back to haunt them at an inopportune time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Georgia gave, yes <i>gave<\/i>, Alabama 8 first downs because of Georgia penalties.  In the end it would not have mattered, because Alabama was clearly the better team, but it certainly did not help.<\/p>\n<p>So where to from here?  Before the season started, I expected Georgia to be 4-0 going into the Alabama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt stretch, which would result in a 7-1 record.  So they are on track with my predictions, but can they actually beat Tennessee and Vanderbilt in back-to-back games after the ass kicking they took at the hands of the Crimson Tide?  Vanderbilt, yes <i>Vanderbilt<\/i>, actually controls the SEC East.<\/p>\n<p>It is not so much that Georgia let an opportunity slip away.  Alabama forcefully took it from Georgia.  The good news is that Georgia can regroup, and force a rematch in the SEC Championship.  After being exposed during last night\u2019s Black Out game, I doubt Georgia can run the table to have the opportunity to take out Alabama in Atlanta in December.<\/p>\n<p>The sun still came up this morning.  Forwards and onwards.  Go Dawgs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start by giving all the credit to Alabama. It is obvious they came well prepared, were hungry for a win, and executed their game plan flawlessly. I cannot think of a game in recent memory where Georgia was so clearly dominated to the point that they looked out classed, out coached, and out played. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/09\/28\/georgia-gets-whipped\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia gets whipped.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}