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Right back at ya. You nailed the analysis on this one. Worked out just about exactly how you were thinking. Good luck next year, and hopefully we'll meet up in a playoff / championship some day.

Even if UGA had pulled this out, that wouldn't negate the ass whooping that preceded it.

Yep you guys have a good team. They are fun to watch. Sam is a stud, and that D plays fierce.

Texas is the better team. No if's, and's, or but's about it. They dominated at the LOS all night long. Ran the ball effectively and stopped the run as well as any team UGA played all year including Bama. Hope you guys run through the Big 12 next year and beat the heck out of those Sooners. I like your team much better. Physical football is where it's at.

Huge start

Good first drive.

Good start horns

I don't think so either. Both teams are gonna come with that mentality though

That's huge news. UGAs defense is noticeably worse without him

It will certainly be interesting. Two illuminating points about the Dawgs and physical play: 1. Kirby's motto for the team is "Make their asses quit" 2. Fromm after a win vs USCjr early in the year, was quoted with this, "Somebody had to pay for the preparation we do and today that somebody was South Carolina” I could see both of those things coming out of the Texas camp too.

Very nice hit. Decleater.

Here's a better way to look at it. D'Andre Swift conference games only averaged 6.90 yards per carry Elijah Holyfield conference games only averaged 5.91 yards per carry These numbers mean more because they cut out the weaker games as you noted, but also only include carries where the game was on the line and not when the third, fourth, and fifth stringers were salting away the game.

So, back to the original intent of this thread. I played around with the Pro Football Focus grades that were posted earlier in this thread, and did a little manipulation in excel to sort by Overall Grade for the combined teams. I took out the more situational players that had not played over around ~200 snaps. Here's the defensive side of the ball. (I'll put the offensive side in the other thread) INTERIOR DEFENSIVE LINE Player Overall Grade Run Defense Snaps Pass Rush Snaps Coverage Snaps Run Defense Grade Tackling Pass Rush Grade Coverage Grade Jr. Tyler Clark 83.7 143 183 0 87.8 75.7 68 n/a Fr. Jordan Davis (Questionable) 77.9 148 106 0 80 69.4 61.9 n/a Soph. Devonte Wyatt 72.3 84 118 0 77.7 71 59.4 n/a Sr. Chris Nelson 70.5 282 361 10 81.1 67.5 55.6 51.1 Jr. Julian Rochester 66.4 201 219 1 65.7 76.1 62.9 60.8 Jr. Michael Barnett 62.8 125 104 0 66.8 60.9 54.6 n/a Jr. Gerald Wilbon 61.1 99 118 2 63.1 48.7 60.1 65.1 DEFENSIVE END/EDGE RUSHER Player Overall Grade Run Defense Snaps Pass Rush Snaps Coverage Run Defense Grade Tackling Pass Rush Grade Coverage Grade Soph. Malik Herring 85.6 110 118 0 80.5 83.3 79 n/a Sr. Jonathan Ledbetter 82.5 170 224 0 87.2 80.6 67.4 n/a Sr. D'Andre Walker 81.9 221 252 36 79.8 75.8 75.7 75.7 Sr. Charles Omenihu 77.7 210 279 1 77.1 68.4 71 64.9 Fr. Brenton Cox 74 104 118 11 69.3 83.9 68.9 79.6 Jr. Malcolm Roach 65.1 122 133 50 79.4 55 57.4 49.7 Sr. Breckyn Hager 62.5 267 302 36 70.1 52.1 60.9 57.2 Soph. Ta'Quon Graham 57.7 139 148 3 62.8 48.1 57.7 53.6 LINEBACKER Player Overall Grade Run Defense Snaps Pass Rush Snaps Coverage Run Defense Grade Tackling Pass Rush Grade Coverage Grade Jr. Tae Crowder 74.6 173 9 142 60 73.1 78.4 84 Soph. Monty Rice 73.6 124 18 120 75.9 87 60.6 67.2 Sr. Gary Johnson 71.3 336 157 334 83.8 90.2 74.9 49.4 Sr. Juwan Taylor 70.1 184 45 227 68.6 78 65.3 69.2 Soph. Walter Grant 67.7 140 52 39 73.6 77.5 58 61.8 Jr. Jeffrey McCulloch 66.7 219 109 152 67.7 63.4 59.8 66.7 Sr. Anthony Wheeler 64.8 373 112 402 66.6 87 56.4 64.2 Sr. Natrez Patrick 56.5 182 22 147 66.8 43.1 71.8 41.2 CORNERBACK Player Overall Grade Run Defense Snaps Pass Rush Snaps Coverage Run Defense Grade Tackling Pass Rush Grade Coverage Grade Sr. Kris Boyd 80.2 384 9 536 89.8 82.7 76.7 78.5 RS Fr. Eric Stokes 79.1 143 3 182 68.4 76.7 54.7 81.4 Sr. Davante Davis 78.6 275 1 397 79.2 70.3 59.6 76.9 Soph. Mark Webb 73.2 59 3 149 69 87.6 56.1 74.3 Fr. Tyson Campbell 69.9 229 5 276 77.1 90 55.6 67.5 Jr. Tyrique McGhee 65.9 196 17 277 85.9 65.2 62 59.8 Sr. P.J. Locke III 55.3 380 68 473 64.1 50.3 55.1 51.5 SAFETY Texas Player Overall Grade Run Defense Snaps Pass Rush Snaps Coverage Run Defense Grade Tackling Pass Rush Grade Coverage Grade Jr. J.R. Reed 89.7 331 9 395 71.7 65.8 61.4 90 Soph. Richard LeCounte III 83.3 311 2 407 74.9 73 57.6 85.7 Fr. Caden Sterns 73.8 366 10 488 71.7 66.8 54.8 73.8 Fr. B.J. Foster 67.3 197 85 283 73.7 54.8 74.1 60.4 Jr. Brandon Jones 58.5 271 13 334 79.8 68.7 75.5 47.1

That was a great victory in the Red River Shootout. Gotta throw out all the stats and rankings when it comes to a rivalry game. Anything can happen when teams hate each other that much. For UGA and LSU, the Dawgs ran into a buzzsaw. They got rattled early, got thrown off their gameplan, and never recovered. Sucks too, because a W there pretty much would have secured a playoff spot even with the loss to Bama in the title game. UGA was overconfident and a little too full of themselves. Got punched in the mouth and lost all composure. The only positive from that game was a much needed attitude adjustment. Georgia's average margin of victory for the rest of the regular season Power-5 games after that was almost 20 points. They resolved to not be unprepared or lackadaisical again.

Thanks for the warm welcome. 😎 I know you're looking at the sack numbers, and making a judgement based on them being lower than one would expect. That's fair. The reality is you are going to be surprised at how uncomfortable in the pocket UGA will be able to make Sam during this game.