DawginSC

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"the plains" ?

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Yes. They're the war eagle/tiger/plainsmen. They refer to their home field (sometimes) as "the plains".

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They're getting the favored Bama treatment now that bama has take a slight step backwards.

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How do you figure?

UGA was scheduled with 3 10-win teams in a row with OU, Vandy and Bama in consecutive weeks. OU and Bama were playoff teams.

Vandy and OU look to not be as good... but that's not a scheduling issue. If a team schedules the top 10 teams from last season and they all start playing .500 football, it's not getting a break from scheduling.

It's just bad luck (or good luck depending on your POV).

Nobody was going easy on UGA with the schedule. UGA just happened to get two of the teams who look to have taken pretty big steps back from last season.

Getting Florida, MSU, UK, Mizzou and Tennessee would have looked like pretty easy opponents from a scheduling standpoint based on last season. All were .500 or worse in the SEC where Vandy and OU were 6-2. And all of them are 1-loss teams right now while Vandy and OU have 2.

It's just luck.

It is odd hearing people say "You're schedule is soft because of Oklahoma. You should have played a real team like Mississippi State/Kentucky."

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By that idiotic logic LSU lost to the best team in the SEC by losing at Ole Miss

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Ole Miss is not being viewed as a "bad loss" for LSU. People are still treating it as if you lost to a playoff team... which is why you're ranked 10th despite having that loss.

LSU is also getting a ton of credit for the A&M win (another playoff team from last year who like OU already has 2 losses this year).

The rankings right now don't really matter, but at the end of the year I'm betting OU will be ranked ahead of UK, MSU, A&M and UF. Maybe Mizzou too. They play all of those teams this year and while they likely don't have the offense to beat teams like UGA or Bama, their defense is good enough to limit almost everyone else enough to give them a decent shot at winning ugly... just like last season.

I think some teams aren’t as good as their record suggests at this point. As they play each other some early darlings will end up being below average.

1. UGA
2. Bama
3. Texas
4. Tennessee
5. Miss
6. LSU
7. Missouri
8. Oklahoma
9. UF
10. UK
11. A&M
12. MSU
13. Auburn
14. VAndy
15. SC
16. Arky

The whole “UGA hasn’t played anyone” is kind of funny.

Bama is the second playoff team and third consecutive 10-win team from last season UGA has played. Everyone thinks they suck now due to them largely sucking against UGA.

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Oklahoma isn't goin to miraculously become a good football team in Dallas

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Texas has only topped 30 points once this year. Their offense is suspect enough that they are the kind of team that could lose to OUs defense only team.

Not sure it will happen, but it wouldn’t be a huge shock if it did.

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Who has Georgia played this year that's worth a shite? Any away games?

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The reality is we don’t know. OU was in The playoff last year and vAndy had 10-wins. Are we really confident in saying MSU and UK are better 4-5 games in?

Everybody looks down on teams when UGA wins big over them… but for some reason teams Bama blows out lose less credibility. UGA tends to only get credit for Brad ting a good team if it’s a close game.

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But you all have the easiest schedule in the conference.

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UGA can’t play themselves which makes it hard to play as tough a schedule as those who play UGA. They do have games against 3 of the 4 other SEC teams to make the playoff last year.

Of their 4 games against top 16 teams ranked right now, only one is at home.

Sorry, I really don't care if college kids smoke pot or get ticketed for speeding. Since he wasn't charged with DUI, he wasn't under the influence when he got his ticket, just in possession.

Speeding tickets are the primary thing people focus on with UGA. The second thing is "driving with a suspended license" which means unpaid parking tickets. I just don't care. I don't see why fans of other teams think it's a "gotcha".

But go ahead and get bent out of shape about it. All it means is that UGA's local police and sheriff precincts don't cover these up like most colleges do.

Your players are getting speeding tickets, parking tickets, smoking pot and drinking too. Athens and Clark County police simply won't cover it up.

39 dollar bond. Obstructing a sidewalk.

That's an Athens PD charge if I ever heard one.