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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.

Agreed. You can't convince the vocal Anti-Richt faction that if they get their wish, we could be in the same boat as Auburn or TN with their dumpster fires of programs. Replacing your HC is not a proposition to entertain lightly. My personal theory is that when the current UGA president retires in May 2013, Richt informs him and the AD that 2013 is his last season. This allows the incoming president to lead a thorough search for a high octane, high protein HC. When you know it's coming, you can take all year to court a Chris Petersen, Gary Patterson, Pat Fitzgerald, et al. Even if you have to wait until the off-season, you can bring in the Grudens of the world for interviews. At least having a list of qualified, vetted candidates to bring in the 2nd week of December is better than the train wrecks of the SEC coaching changes this year. Except Arkansas. Their AD gets the Balls of Steel award.

We've got plenty. You're more than welcome to borrow one of ours. That's the beautiful thing about the SEC, every league game has the opportunity to wreck your season. Vandy's up, and on UGA's radar thanks to their punk-ass coach getting into a screaming match with our DC- Grantham after the 2011 game. James Franklin had a dozen HS recruits in the stands and wanted to be the big shot. We pretty much silenced them in Athens, this year. I think we held them to a FG. Tennessee has, historically, been a regular rival. They keep shooting themselves in the foot with their coaching carousel, though. Don't get me wrong, Dooley wasn't the answer in light of the dumpster fire Lane Kiffin left ablaze, but to be honest they never should have fired Fulmer. They set their program back at least another 5 years by ashcanning Dooley. Their solution is to bring in the one FBS coach that Derek Dooley beat this year? Squirrel, please. South Carolina has been our boogeyman for the last three years. They weren't even in the picture till Spurrier came on board there. It has nothing to do with SC and everything to do with HBC's (Head Ball Coach) past at Florida. We'll hate Ohio State for the same reason. Well, that and they're Ohio State. The series with Auburn is the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, but I think they'll be back before Tennessee will. It'll be interesting to see how much of the 2010 MNC magic was Malzahn and what part of that was Chizik. Given that Chizik was a losing coach before they brought him in, and Cam/Fairley were his saving grace that year, my money's on Malzahn. The big determining factor will be how much of this incoming recruiting class they can salvage. They've got a Top 5 class, as I type this, but they're hemorrhaging players. Alabama wasn't ever an issue till the 2008 B******, and obviously this year's SECCG. Still hurts to think about how close we were, but to spike or not to spike, we gave up 350 yards on the ground when the defense returned 10 of 11 starters. There's your real storyline. To come within 5 yards or 10 sec of a National Title berth in spite of it is what makes it really sting. We don't play them every year, but it seems to be memorable when we do. And then there's Florida. True, deep-seated hatred in that stadium in Jacksonville, every year. Winning two in a row against them for the first time since the 80's was nice. It's beautiful to think that we're in Muschamp's head now. As a player and a coach, I think the stat is that he's 0-6 in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, (0-4 as a player at UGA and 0-2 as UF's coach). Add that Ga Tech can win every 15th appearance of Brigadoon, and you have half of your regular season schedule with fierce rivalries at your door. It puts UGA in an interesting position as the season goes along. Barring anything lopsided like Auburn's wholesale collapse, it's an any given Saturday proposition.

Therein lies the Husker dilemma- try to stop a run first offense that has two stud freshman RBs- one of whom will run slap over people and the other who will kick on the afterburners within 5 yards of the LOS. If they don't have any luck stopping the run, then it's Gurshall (Gurley + Marshall) highlights with 200+ yards each all day and the game is over mercifully quick since the TOP would be over 40 mins for UGA. If you at least commit to trying to plug up the run game, then Murray carves up your secondary when everyone's all in to load the box.

A large chunk of the Bulldog nation has been saying the same thing about Mark Richt since the letdown of the 2008 team. #1 Preseason ranking, demolished at home in the first half by Alabama in primetime, and consistently underwhelmed in many cases since. And this is in light of a current 11-2 season coming on the heels of a 10-4 season last year with an SEC East title each year.

Yeah, mad props to the Husker fans on here w/o the My Little Pony stuff. Few things will water down a good X's & O's discussion like a lavender unicorn sig.

Here's our thumbsucker in action, gentlemen... The QB might get rid of the ball, but he's still going to be pulling turf out of his facemask.