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ATHENS, Ga. ā It was cute, really.
The way the Georgia players rushed over and crowded the sideline to woof at Alabama when the Crimson Tide took the field for pregame warmups Saturday ā it was like watching a 10-year-old boy put on his fatherās suit. Like the Bulldogs were all grown up now, big and bad enough to intimidate the Tide.
So much posturing. So much bravado.
So little substance to back it up once kickoff came.
Georgia came out talking the talk, then walked the walk ā straight into a brick-wall Alabama defense. Final score of this soggy mismatch: Alabama 38, Georgia 10. Not only was the final score embarrassing to the nationās No. 8 team, so was the display of fake juice.
āWe embraced it,ā Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones said of the pregame dust-up. āWe liked that. We knew it was going to be a fired-up game.
Nick Chubb in what amounted to garbage time, holding a 35-point lead ā he mentioned it six times in his postgame remarks. And while Richt downplayed the pregame confrontation, Saban did not. He was furious with his team.
That made it 24-3 at halftime, and when Georgia backup QB Brice Ramsey served up a pick-six just five plays into the second half, the Sanford Stadium stands began emptying in a hurry.
āWe got whipped, we all know it and weāve got to do something about it,ā Richt said. āWeāll watch film and face the truth and look for ways we can improve.ā
Some truth to chew on: Georgia might still win the SEC East this year, but itās hard to envision the Bulldogs being good enough to beat the SEC West representative if it comes to that. (And it could come to be a rematch of this mismatch.) And so thereās that ceiling again.
Mark Richt can take a team pretty far. But itās hard to take a team all the way when thereās always at least one awful performance waiting to happen at just the wrong time.
All bark, no bite: Georgia put back in its place by resurgent Alabama
The way the Georgia players rushed over and crowded the sideline to woof at Alabama when the Crimson Tide took the field for pregame warmups Saturday ā it was like watching a 10-year-old boy put on his fatherās suit. Like the Bulldogs were all grown up now, big and bad enough to intimidate the Tide.
So much posturing. So much bravado.
So little substance to back it up once kickoff came.
Georgia came out talking the talk, then walked the walk ā straight into a brick-wall Alabama defense. Final score of this soggy mismatch: Alabama 38, Georgia 10. Not only was the final score embarrassing to the nationās No. 8 team, so was the display of fake juice.
āWe embraced it,ā Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones said of the pregame dust-up. āWe liked that. We knew it was going to be a fired-up game.
Nick Chubb in what amounted to garbage time, holding a 35-point lead ā he mentioned it six times in his postgame remarks. And while Richt downplayed the pregame confrontation, Saban did not. He was furious with his team.
That made it 24-3 at halftime, and when Georgia backup QB Brice Ramsey served up a pick-six just five plays into the second half, the Sanford Stadium stands began emptying in a hurry.
āWe got whipped, we all know it and weāve got to do something about it,ā Richt said. āWeāll watch film and face the truth and look for ways we can improve.ā
Some truth to chew on: Georgia might still win the SEC East this year, but itās hard to envision the Bulldogs being good enough to beat the SEC West representative if it comes to that. (And it could come to be a rematch of this mismatch.) And so thereās that ceiling again.
Mark Richt can take a team pretty far. But itās hard to take a team all the way when thereās always at least one awful performance waiting to happen at just the wrong time.
All bark, no bite: Georgia put back in its place by resurgent Alabama
