🏈 🔎 A closer look at this weekends opponent, Georgia.

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2024
8/31	vs	Clemson (10-4)	W	34	3	ATL
9/7	vs	TN Tech (non-IA)	W	48	3	Athens
9/14	@	Kentucky (4-8)	W	13	12	Lexington

2025
8/30	vs	#72	Marshall (2-2)	W	45	7
9/6	vs	NR	Austin Peay	W	28	6
9/13	@	#16	Tennessee	W	44	41

 

[mando]

Sell out to stop the run, then get off the field on 3rd down. Wommack needs to use pressures to confuse Stockton and make him see some ghosts. Protect Ty and get 140+ yards from the ground game.

So do what we haven't done so far this year and struggled to do on the road?

This is a LOS game and a road game which does not bode well for the good guys.

 

[bamaledge]

Momma said if ya ain’t got nothin good to say then keep ya gums together.

BUT, I just don’t see the oline pushing Ga around.

 

[UAgrad93]

Screen game to Riley could be deadly.

Screens to backs and to WRs will slow their aggressiveness. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see some type of screen to the TE in the middle of the field.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

 

[TerryP]

Since no one will choose to answer the original question about Georgia, I'll change it.

Do you think that Tennessee's offense is better, worse, or the same as Alabama's?

 

[Justneedme81]

Georgia is slightly worse than 2024 due to secondary issues this year. Their DL isn't quite the same but getting the job done..

Tennessee offense is still unknown. Haven't played anyone significant but what we saw is that they're doing same thing they did last year but is it better than Alabama? I don't think so.

 

[BamaFan334]

Since no one will choose to answer the original question about Georgia, I'll change it.

Do you think that Tennessee's offense is better, worse, or the same as Alabama's?

Since no one will choose to answer the original question about Georgia, I'll change it.

Do you think that Tennessee's offense is better, worse, or the same as Alabama's?

Interesting question. I think Tennessee's offense looks faster than ours, but I think it's perception over reality. They have been streaking down field whereas I feel we cross the field more and take it the distance. Riley makes us look faster as an offense, but Ty seems to be on the move more than Aguilar. Simpson is the better quarterback, but Tennessee has flashed more than Alabama in my mind. Tennessee has also played more teams of note to me as well, so maybe I'm biased on production against competition at the moment. The Georgia game will show a lot. Tennessee started hot, but slowed a lot. Can Alabama maintain four quarters of running and throwing the ball?

 

[Justneedme81]

Interesting question. I think Tennessee's offense looks faster than ours, but I think it's perception over reality. They have been streaking down field whereas I feel we cross the field more and take it the distance. Riley makes us look faster as an offense, but Ty seems to be on the move more than Aguilar. Simpson is the better quarterback, but Tennessee has flashed more than Alabama in my mind. Tennessee has also played more teams of note to me as well, so maybe I'm biased on production against competition at the moment. The Georgia game will show a lot. Tennessee started hot, but slowed a lot. Can Alabama maintain four quarters of running and throwing the ball?

 

[Justneedme81]

I think Alabama takes what defense gives them but Tennessee find a way to force square in a circle sometime and they've been lucky lately.

 

[TerryP]

I think Alabama takes what defense gives them but Tennessee find a way to force square in a circle sometime and they've been lucky lately.

Weigh that thought against UT getting 175 on the ground against UGA. They've been allowing in the mid-80's.

On the same note, somewhat related, Bama's opponents so far this year are allowing about half of that UGA total average.

 

[Justneedme81]

Weigh that thought against UT getting 175 on the ground against UGA. They've been allowing in the mid-80's.

On the same note, somewhat related, Bama's opponents so far this year are allowing about half of that UGA total average.

What's missing is that we didn't have Jam.

Are the stats skewed because of who both teams played in last few weeks?

 

[TerryP]

Are the stats skewed because of who both teams played in last few weeks?

I haven't looked at what kind of efficiency numbers FSU, ULM, and UW have on defense. I just caught the average today while looking around.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Parallels

 

[TerryP]

Parallels

Didn't know how to text. Parallel to being out of touch.

 

[RTB.com]

 

[BamaFan334]

Played their asses five times in Atlanta. Honestly home game for them and probably even more to their advantage than Sanford. Dome with 95% of the tickets...

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

 

[TerryP]

Scrape mentioned defensive pressure the other day and how UGA was getting after the QB.

As you guys well know, Bama hasn't been getting their share of sacks this season. Through three games they are ranked #115th in the nation with four. (Ole Miss is also tied at #115; four games played. Notre Dame is as well through three.) So, do you know who else happens to be in that group? Georgia.

Are they getting to the QB and just not finishing? (There is a 10 yard difference in lost yards favoring Bama.)

For the number of sacks on the season both teams enter the game with four a piece.

Flip side of the coin:

Here's where it gets crazy and Ole Miss is in this group as well. How many sacks has Bama allowed this season? Four, losing about 10 yards per sack. UA is tied with several other teams at #34 in the nation. So, do you know who else happens to being that group? Georgia. But, a total of 10 yards lost through those four.

Four and four. Based on what you have read, heard, and seen...would you have expected to see this?

(I was looking at these numbers thinking about Notre Dame and Arkansas this weekend. UArk has played four and only allowed three sacks this season. What shocked me? In four games, with 16 sacks allowed on the season, welcome the Auburn Tigers. Another four...four a game.)

 

[TerryP]

...still looking over ratings from different outlets this morning. Trends continue.

Connelly's SP+ ratings: It's a predictive model. The link explains his formula.

TEAM	OFFENSE	DEFENSE	SPECIAL TEAMS	OVERALL	SP+ RANK
BAMA	39.5	13.8	0.1	25.9	4
UGA	38	15.8	0.6	22.7	9