Bama scored 35 on Wisconsin and scored 37 on Ole Miss on a "Murphy's Law" night. Why would you think UGA could hold them to 17? Pete is exactly right!
I'd suggest three or four factors that might lead to a lower score...
1) First start for Coker in a very hostile environment. I fear several turnovers. Receivers are being stared down and I think UGA has the LB corp and secondary to get a couple of picks.
2) Our general trajectory. We just haven't looked sharp on offense in the last two games. I don't know why we look worse than we did in Wisconsin, but we just do, in my opinion. Maybe that's a combination of a very good OM defense and a very vanilla game plan against ULM, but we look less confident, crisp, and coherent on that side of the ball. See the 16-page thread entitled "Offense out of sync..."
3) Again, the road environment, but this time concerning kicking. I'm worried that we haven't kicked a pressure FG yet and don't think that 90k screaming fans will help with that. I could see us hitting a chip shot, but I don't look for much more than that. I think we'll go on 4th and short all the way up to the 22-25 yard line.
4) The injury to Foster might have a pretty big effect, overall. Coker gets a lot of blame, but I also don't think we're getting separation with most of WR's. We have to be able to take the lid off their D, but it's hard to do that with short, covered patterns.
I totally respect those who see it differently. UGA is somewhat unproven as well and our defense is special, of course. I just don't feel confident based on our last two games.