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Sadly it's often not been close or exciting, but I'd like to think that Super-Secret-Agent Muschamp has done his part to endear himself to the Dawg faithful by destroying the beast from the inside. Anecdotally, the Georgia-Florida rivalry runs in 20-year cycles. The Vince Dooley era, the Steve Spurrier era (with Zook doing his best to wreck Spurrier's legacy and Meyer redeeming it), and the new era of darkness ushered in by Muschamp. Love it or hate it, it's the one game that Dawg fans and Gators alike have circled on their calendars.

And yet so few of the posters would eeeeeeever need to worry about catching anything, were that the case.

I beg your pardon, the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is played at EverBank Field, and it's always quite exciting.

It was close till the 4th quarter, then it opened up considerably. How does Nebraska fare against HUNH offenses? That's the way that Mason prefers to play. He was being reined in by the OC during the first part of the game against Tech, and then Mike Bobo let him go hurry-up and that's when the beautiful stuff started happening.

We watch it every year after the game against Georgia Tech. Their most active message board is called StingTalk. 12:01am of the last Sunday in November begins a cathartic purge they refer to as "Butthurt Sunday" and goes through till midnight. During those hours, they can bitch, moan, whine, cry, tear their clothes and heap ashes on their heads about the previous day's loss to UGA. It's practically the de facto Yellow Jacket New Year's Day. This year, after blowing a 20 point lead, StingTalk straight up crashed. It was awesome.

To a point, the season is what it is, but were it not for a fluke tipped pass for a TD against Auburn (not to mention a no-call helmet-to-helmet against Murray to end the AU game) and blatant referee interference with a BS targeting call that literally changed the result of the Vanderbilt game, Georgia would have been 10-2, playing Bama in the SECCG. That's a huge difference from 8-4 and mired in the morass of apathy that both of our fan bases find ourselves in. I'll even give Clemson for having made fewer mistakes than we did, and abstain from playing the injury card against MiZzzou and just own those losses. All things considered, UGA was precariously close to playing at much higher bowl tier.

I once wept because I had no shoes... then I discovered HuskerBoard and instantly felt better about being a discontent Dawg fan.

I'll be watching the game from bed with my female fanbase, but at least y'all know that Penny from Big Bang Theory will be watching again! With both teams feeling like unwilling participants in this, I've taken to calling it the TaxSlayer.com Jigsaw Bowl.

Ugh, didn't we just leave this party? At least both fanbases are simultaneously underwhelmed by this pairing. I don't know anyone who's excited over this bowl, but at least we have each other, I suppose.

I'm afraid your efforts to analyze this section of the game pales in comparison to that of the UGA fanbase. We've been agonizing over this for the last seven days solid. It's not possible to dwell on a loss more than this one, as we'll constantly be second-guessing the what-if's about this year's SECCG for the next 30 seasons. It's been well documented that the OC Mike Bobo was the one who called down to Richt to go for the fade play. With his hindsight goggles firmly on after the game, Bobo has said that it was his call and he wishes he had it back to have Murray spike it. The rationale on the entire drive was that the faster the offense went, the more Bama was on its heels. If the fade to Mitchell had worked, even if he was shy of the endzone, he would've been able to step out of bounds and they could get another play in. The problem comes in when the Bama DL tipped the ball, Chris Conley instinctively brought the catch down at the 5. On any other play, he would've been heralded for his receiver instinct to make a play where there might not have been one. Murray has had his questionable calls at the line in the past, but this wasn't anything more than his following his OC's orders, which were confirmed through CMR.

If Martinez goes to the air out of desperation, he will be lining the pockets of Rambo and Shawn Williams, because it'll translate directly into improving their draft stocks.

It's unexcusable to give up 350 yds on the ground to any team, but if you're going to do it, the reigning national champs are the ones that are going to make it look easy. Let's not forget that the "sh**ty" run defense also stopped Bama at the 1, and came up with the 3 & out stop that allowed that final 1:12 drive.

None. Just my own speculation. My money's on him hanging it up after next year, but it could go as far as 2014, in this amateur's opinion. As for the "why"- Spotlight fatigue, first and foremostly. He's about to begin year 13 at the same school.

When Richt leaves, it won't be for another team. It'll be to go give pedicures to the Pygmies, or something similarly altruistic.

I'm cracking up that it censored the word "Black out" when I referenced it to 2008 vs Bama. That is poetry, and that little line of script needs to be dropped into every UGA fan forum.