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October 6th, 2015 06:56 AM
It’s something Georgia has lived through more often than it would like so Malcolm Mitchell can remind younger players it can still be done.
All is not lost even after a 28-point drilling by Alabama on Saturday night, the senior wide receiver said.
It was another early October loss at South Carolina in 2012, a 35-7 undressing that prompted some fans to egg quarterback Aaron Murray’s house and roll it with toilet paper.
“It was kind of the same outcome,” Mitchell said. “We still went to the SEC championship game. We still had an opportunity to accomplish our goals. It’s almost like déjà vu unfortunately. This loss doesn’t change our mind-set and where we want to be at the end of the day.”
Georgia (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) went 7-1 in the SEC that year. The Bulldogs would win an underwhelming SEC East this year and play in the league championship game if they go unscathed through its remaining five SEC games because it would have the tiebreaker against Florida. The Gators, the only other ranked SEC East team, are 3-0 followed by Georgia and Kentucky at 2-1, Missouri at 1-1, Vanderbilt and Tennessee at 0-2 and South Carolina at 0-3.
“If y’all remember Alabama lost to Ole Miss a couple of weeks ago, too,” Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt said. “Aight, so they’ve kind of responded in the right way and that’s part of it.”
Would a one-loss Georgia team that wins the SEC get in the four-team college football playoff?
“Unless Georgia starts steam-rolling people, this loss, even if they win the SEC championship game, this loss is going to be remembered,” Mike Greenberg of ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike” said Monday morning. “Championship teams don’t lose that game.”
Co-host Mike Golic, the former Notre Dame and NFL lineman, said, “If they run the table and roll some people, absolutely they have a shot to be there.”
“They got embarrassed on their home field,” Greenberg countered.
Danny Kanell, the former Florida State quarterback under Georgia coach Mark Richt and also an ESPN analyst, said if Georgia plays Alabama in the SEC championship game and wins “people are going to completely forget about this game. They’ll remember the last game they saw.”
The 38-10 to Alabama marked the 10th time since 2009 that Georgia has lost by two touchdowns or more, including a 38-20 loss to Florida in 2014, 41-26 to Missouri in 2013, 35-7 to South Carolina in 2012, 35-21 to Boise State and 42-10 to LSU in 2011, 49-31 to Auburn in 2010, 24-10 to Oklahoma State, 45-19 to Tennessee and 41-17 to Florida in 2009.
Richt told WSB-TV in the locker room after the game of the Alabama loss: “I know our fans are sick about it and I don’t blame them. It’s no fun to have that kind of performance.”
His job is to get his team up for the next game and the games after that.
“Guys are pretty resilient,” Richt said Sunday evening. “Everybody hates the sting of losing and sometimes that sting helps motivate you for the next one, too. That’s how we’ve got to approach this thing.”
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October 6th, 2015 06:56 AM
It’s something Georgia has lived through more often than it would like so Malcolm Mitchell can remind younger players it can still be done.
All is not lost even after a 28-point drilling by Alabama on Saturday night, the senior wide receiver said.
It was another early October loss at South Carolina in 2012, a 35-7 undressing that prompted some fans to egg quarterback Aaron Murray’s house and roll it with toilet paper.
“It was kind of the same outcome,” Mitchell said. “We still went to the SEC championship game. We still had an opportunity to accomplish our goals. It’s almost like déjà vu unfortunately. This loss doesn’t change our mind-set and where we want to be at the end of the day.”
Georgia (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) went 7-1 in the SEC that year. The Bulldogs would win an underwhelming SEC East this year and play in the league championship game if they go unscathed through its remaining five SEC games because it would have the tiebreaker against Florida. The Gators, the only other ranked SEC East team, are 3-0 followed by Georgia and Kentucky at 2-1, Missouri at 1-1, Vanderbilt and Tennessee at 0-2 and South Carolina at 0-3.
“If y’all remember Alabama lost to Ole Miss a couple of weeks ago, too,” Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt said. “Aight, so they’ve kind of responded in the right way and that’s part of it.”
Would a one-loss Georgia team that wins the SEC get in the four-team college football playoff?
“Unless Georgia starts steam-rolling people, this loss, even if they win the SEC championship game, this loss is going to be remembered,” Mike Greenberg of ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike” said Monday morning. “Championship teams don’t lose that game.”
Co-host Mike Golic, the former Notre Dame and NFL lineman, said, “If they run the table and roll some people, absolutely they have a shot to be there.”
“They got embarrassed on their home field,” Greenberg countered.
Danny Kanell, the former Florida State quarterback under Georgia coach Mark Richt and also an ESPN analyst, said if Georgia plays Alabama in the SEC championship game and wins “people are going to completely forget about this game. They’ll remember the last game they saw.”
The 38-10 to Alabama marked the 10th time since 2009 that Georgia has lost by two touchdowns or more, including a 38-20 loss to Florida in 2014, 41-26 to Missouri in 2013, 35-7 to South Carolina in 2012, 35-21 to Boise State and 42-10 to LSU in 2011, 49-31 to Auburn in 2010, 24-10 to Oklahoma State, 45-19 to Tennessee and 41-17 to Florida in 2009.
Richt told WSB-TV in the locker room after the game of the Alabama loss: “I know our fans are sick about it and I don’t blame them. It’s no fun to have that kind of performance.”
His job is to get his team up for the next game and the games after that.
“Guys are pretty resilient,” Richt said Sunday evening. “Everybody hates the sting of losing and sometimes that sting helps motivate you for the next one, too. That’s how we’ve got to approach this thing.”
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