Last time UGA had to replace the OL to that degree was the Blackout Year and we know how that worked out. With the OL and their secondary as scary as it is I simply see no way they go 12-1, but that's why they play the games.
It was just a typo, has been corrected. Sorry about that.Just curious about Georgia's 12-1 and 8-1 record. They only play 8 SEC games right?
Or if you are picking them to beat Bama in the SECCG, wouldn't that make Bama's SEC record 11-2 and 7-2?
Just confused that you have Georgia playing one more game than anybody else.
USC has issues at the corners as well. No clear top dog in the SECE. Mizzou defending SECE champ, but they lost a ton. USC lost the least in numbers, but what they did lose was high quality (Shaw, Ellington, Clowney, Quarles, Hampton). UF was a train wreck last year, but a healthy Florida team could be a contender if the qb just doesn't suck. No clear leader, but UGA is as good a pick as any.I'm not going to make a strong argument against anyone who has called the UGA pick questionable. This year is going to be pretty nuts, I'm betting.
I held off responding until our "Rating the Units" article published, which it did this evening. It sort of fleshes out why we think Georgia is as good a bet as any to be there at the end.
The overarching point here is I don't think there is a team out there this year, from any conference, that could run away and hide with the trophy. If Jacob Coker is everything Alabama fans have dreamed of, Alabama may be the only team that could pull it off. But Alabama's kicking game broke down at the end of last season and I see no reason to believe yet that it's been fixed. It's awful tough to win a title without kickers. At least Alabama won't lack for athleticism on coverage and return teams.
Georgia's biggest obstacle isn't the QB -- it's Richt's management style. As for their OL, it's three starters they're replacing and they've got some good talent among the newbies. USC has to replace more on defense than UGA, so I'm not sure I buy the logic that USC is all that better off.
It sure is. Alabama lost 4 games that McCarron started, and 2 of those were due to abject failure in the kicking game. A third (OU Sugar Bowl) was a direct result of one of the kicking game implosions (AU), so the way I see it is we would have only one single loss since 2010 if we had fielded just a consistently competent kicking game during that time. A program like Alabama should never have to sweat a FG inside the 30 yard line.It's awful tough to win a title without kickers.