This quote stood out to me from the article, “Everybody was saying let’s finish this fourth quarter strong,” the Georgia safety said Wednesday in Atlanta. “Let’s not have the same thing happen as last year but you know …”
This sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. They were thinking so much about not letting the last game happen again, yet our guys were thinking that they were in the game no matter what happened. In a way, our thinking can create our reality. Our guys go into every game believing they are never out of it, no matter what happens, but this quote makes it sound like the UGA players believed deep down that something would happen to cost them the game the entire time. That was the real difference between Bama and UGA on Saturday.