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Georgia fans know better than to tempt fate. There have been far too many years when it all should have worked out, but the universe delivers a gut punch instead. See 1982. See 2002. See 2007. See 2012. See 2017. To know Georgia is to know pain. It’s inspired at least three R.E.M. albums.
But this year, this Georgia team is different. It has to be.
The Bulldogs dominated previously unbeaten Kentucky on Saturday. Backup QB Stetson Bennett started again and threw three touchdowns. The backfield committee ran for 166 yards against a Wildcats defense that was allowing just 3.4 yards-per-carry this season. The defense, led by Heisman contender Jordan Davis, held Kentucky to just 243 yards — nearly half of which came on the Wildcats’ final two drives when the game was well in hand.
In the aftermath, there’s an obvious question: Who could possibly stop Georgia now?
It certainly isn’t Florida, which fell to a shorthanded LSU 49-42 in a game that is best explained as Dan Mullen trying to spite Tigers boosters who had hoped to fire Ed Orgeron this week.
Mullen likes to play Darth Vader, but this recent stretch of Florida football has exposed him as little more than a Wile E. Coyote. Orgeron painted a tunnel on the side of a mountain, and Mullen ran right into it. He’s become the hapless villain more likely to have an anvil fall on his head than to chase down the roadrunner. (Of note, UTSA remains undefeated, too. Meep, meep.)
LSU lost its star receiver, its top two corners, and Orgeron’s crawfish delivery guy wrecked his Honda. The Tigers had no chance to win, but Florida found a way. Emory Jones and Anthony Richardson combined for four interceptions. Todd Grantham, a fan favorite in every SEC town but Gainesville, coached a defense that surrendered 321 yards on the ground. Tyrion Davis-Price ran for 287 and three touchdowns by himself, the most ever against a Florida defense, breaking a record held by Herschel Walker. It takes a special kind of awfulness to let…
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