re: Serious question for Notre Dame fans

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Stockton had 234 passing yards in the game. ND had 244 total yards. Let's not act like Stockton shite the bed.

The turning point of the game was the second half kick return TD. Neither offense was doing anything with the ball.

The retcon of Beck being some world better is absolutely hilarious as well.

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Nobody said Beck was a world beater but it sure as hell beats having a guy out there that hasn't played. The fact that some of you can't see this is baffling. Carson beck had led them to a 12-1 record up till that point in the season. But he's unimportant to the game? Sure

This is just non sense. Beck was by far the better option at that point for UGA to win. Stockton managed 3 points in the first half and Georgia went down 20-3. Beck was trending in the right directions after massive games against Tenn and GT.

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Claiming Stockton was as good an option as Beck at that point. It's just stupid. Beck was trending up. 300 yard 3 TD+ type games to finish out the season. Kirby wasn't starting him because he was his buddy. He was the best option to win. Pretending Stockton was as good an option at that point is nonsense.

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I didn’t say he was as good an option, I said Stockton wasn’t a big dropoff. He went out and showed it too.

All those big games you’re talking about were against much weaker competition, some of it really bad.
UMASS - lol
Georgia Tech - he had 8OT to get 297 yards against a 7-5 team
Florida had a mediocre squad that was falling apart and about to fire its coach in a year
Tennessee lost by 4 scores and gave up 473 in the playoffs

They both played in the SEC CG, Beck was just above 50%, Stockton playing in his first meaningful game was 75% and beat a team that Beck struggled with in the regular season after throwing 3 picks and completing 50% of his passes.

You act like Notre Dame played bums; they beat Indiana, who had the core nucleus of the team that gave Alabama its worst postseason loss ever and won the national title the next season.

They played Ohio state closer than Texas

The sec was wildly overrated and here you are acting like everyone sucks and Georgia would have been a different team if they only had Carson Beck, though history tells a different story and his replacement played better than Beck did against similar competition.

lol. Dude went 20/32, 234, a td and no INT and you’re here saying the guy who had 12 INT and struggled against elite D’s, would have been some superior option in a game where Georgia’s OL got worked and they ran the ball 29x for 62 yards.

Here’s how the game actually unfolded:

Georgia tried to establish the run and failed spectacularly. 19 carries for 10 yards in first half. Take out the 3 sacks and lost yardage resulting from georgias OL getting prison raped, they had 16 carries for 40 yards.

Meanwhile, Stockton was 66.6% going 10/15 for 116 in first half with no run game

The game was 6-3 ND with :38 left. NDs DE blew by Georgias slow arse LT almost untouched and stripped Stockton as he had the ball cocked back to throw on a quick release route. ND scored a TD on the next play. Georgia took a knee.

Coming out of half, Georgia yields a Kickoff Return TD and all of a sudden they’re down 20-3.

So with no run game, Stockton proceeds to go 10/17 for another 118 and a TD in the second half.

You really think that game winds up differently with Carson Beck, who transferred immediately because the team didn’t like him.