| FTBL South Carolina-Georgia dumb stuff, by Spencer and Ryan and Floyd

[RTB X Bot]

There’s simply too much dumb stuff in this game to put it under one spot in the Top Whatever. To account for all this stupid, we need the power of a RANKING WITHIN A RANKING.

1. Leaving your injured freshman quarterback in on one leg, then watching as that leg gets buckled. Ryan Hilinski gave his mom the okay sign, and he was a big reason South Carolina won, but we’ll see how long his knee keeps him out.
2. Will Muschamp called for a FIFTY-SEVEN-YARD FIELD GOAL on fourth and three from the Georgia 40 with the game tied and 40 seconds left. It missed.
3. Georgia hoped to attempt a game-winning field goal of their own, getting to the South Carolina 38 with 13 seconds to go. They ran two plays that got no yards, lost five yards on an illegal shift, and didn’t let Rodrigo Blankenship kick on the last play of regulation.
4. In the game, Georgia got five first downs thanks to South Carolina penalties. Three happened on third down, one on fourth down.
5. The Bulldogs had 30 first downs to South Carolina’s 16, outgained the Gamecocks by 171 yards, and played most of the second half against sophomore Dakereon Joyner and his grand total of 14 career pass attempts. Neither team thought he was going to win this game with his arm.
6. And he didn’t. The Gamecocks ran the ball on their last 13 offensive plays.
7. UGA quarterback Jake Fromm had never thrown more than 40 passes in a game. He threw 51 attempts in this game, averaging an anemic 5.7 yards.
8. Fromm had never thrown three interceptions in a game. Then he threw three interceptions to the Gamecocks’ Israel Mukuamu.
9. Prior to this game, Fromm had never thrown a pick six. The pick six he threw late in the first half was South Carolina’s only touchdown of the last three quarters and both overtimes.
10. Georgia entered averaging three sacks a game. South Carolina was averaging 2.6 sacks allowed. Every South Carolina quarterback was hurt. Georgia recorded zero sacks.
11. In the fourth quarter, Georgia held the ball for over nine minutes. The Bulldogs turned that into seven points.
12. Normally, an upset-minded team that’s outmatched on the road might roll the dice. South Carolina punted on fourth and five from the Georgia 45, fourth and two from the Georgia 49, and fourth and five from the Georgia 46.
13. They wasted a miracle interception to start overtime by missing a field goal on fourth and one from the Georgia 16.
14. In fact, the Gamecocks didn’t attempt a fourth-down conversion until the second overtime, on fourth and one from the 16 again. That, at least spiritually, is when they won this game.
15. South Carolina, having missed two field goals in this game, hit one in overtime. Georgia, having yet to miss a field goal before this game, missed one with this game on the line.
16. Georgia now has a transitive loss to Mack Brown and thus Dave Clawson.
17. Item #17 is only in this list so we have as many items as Georgia had points in a loss to Muschamp at home.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Also in this article, pretty entertaining:

11. Appalachian State, by Spencer
With 11:07 remaining, Appalachian State got the ball at their own three-yard line. This happened because Ragin’ Cajuns punter Rhys Burns dominated, landing three of his six punts at or inside the five, averaging over 49 yards per punt, and booting a long of 61.

Talking about the punter that much is never a good sign. But when the slog kicks in, do what App State did: SLOG BACK.

The campaign began four yards at a time. It trudged out of its own end zone. It wintered somewhere around the 50-yard line, resupplied, and pressed forward. On fourth and three at the Cajuns’ 34, the Mountaineers refused the cowardice of a long field goal.

After five months of hard marching, 19 plays, 14 runs, and a fourth-down conversion, the Mountaineers finally arrived at the end zone. A seven-yard Zac Thomas keeper made it 17-7, leaving just 1:55 on the clock for the Cajuns.

It was a suffocating thing of beauty. Most importantly, it ended this rock fight, freeing everyone to do something else. Also, it took some of the spotlight off the glory-hog punters for once.

 

[rick4bama]

Great 17 point on the game!