re: UGA and CLEMSON reactions to beating us

You have to understand the typical Georgia fan's psyche to understand why wins over a top ten team bring such elation.

Georgia fans are raised on Larry Munson and Vince Dooley, two of the biggest woe-is-us poor mouthers that ever were associated with college football. They are sacred to every Georgia fan out there. No matter what, Munson and Dooley used to question our ability to win before every single game we played...be it against William & Mary or Alabama. Both did it for drastically different reasons, of course; Munson did it to drum up interest in the radio broadcast, Dooley to inspire some kind of focus in the team...but for the fans, it just came out as pessimism.

Georgia fans heard that sort of thing year after year after year to the point where it became a part of a Georgia fan's mentality. There's a pessimism that's a part of every single Georgia fan. If there's not something wrong with our team, we'll make something up just so we can complain about it. We'll elevate every opponent to juggernaut level just so we can worry amongst ourselves the week leading up to the game. When we do find ourselves facing a solid, top ten program like LSU or Bama (or any other top ten program we face), well, the worry and pessimism levels go through the roof.

That's why, I think, Georgia fans treat wins like this as if they involved some sort of championship. When we've convinced ourselves the entire week leading up to the game that we can't win, when we do, it just feels that much larger.

The funny thing about all of this, though, is that when we lose, most of us Georgia fans will immediately discredit all of our pessimism and find no valid reason for losing whatsoever.