Bring It On

Dawgs win 31-21 as they begin to turn this series around and make it 2 out of 4 in JAX today.

FLA's lack of a kicker will hurt them and force them to turn it over on downs when they would have normally taken the 3 points. We also get 7 points on a defensive TD (or a really short field set up by our D) and 7 points from our special teams.

Leave your prediction in the Comments section.

For Your Viewing Pleasure

2 great videos below. The 1st video takes you from the early 80s to the mid 2000s. The 2nd video has a lot of Stafford, MoMass and Knowshon. Enjoy - if these don't get you fired up, you might already be dead.

Another Take on FLA's Injury/Suspension Report

Everyone knows by now that Chris Rainey is going to play in tomorrow's game. The sports talk hosts are loving Urban for making it an easy day to host and generate conversation. But, what is lost in all of this news is the fact that Florida's K Caleb Sturgis is out for the game, leaving the FL punter Chas Henry as the Gators' best option for FG's. He is 2/5 on the year with a long FG of 39 yards. I think that news will have a bigger influence of the outcome of the game than FL getting a (hopefully) rusty RB/WR back in Chris Rainey.

Pulpwood talks WLOCP

Warning: Turn the volume down if you are in the office or around your kids and don't want the profanity to be heard.

LINK: Pulpwood on WLOCP

Good Stuff

Funny video with CUM and his offensive coordinator - I have to give credit to the Georgia Sports Blog for finding it first.

Knowshon vs. Gators in '07

I swear if I ever have a 3rd kid, I might name him/her Knowshon. Doesn't matter if it is a boy or a girl. The 2007 WLOCP was the most fun I have ever had at a sporting event.

Debate of the Day.....WLOCP Edition

If you are Mike Bobo (or Mark Richt, depending on who you believe is actually calling the plays these days), how would you open the game as far as play-calling/gameplan goes?

OPTION #1 -

Punch the Gators in the mouth and run the ball all over them from the beginning. This is what we did back in '07 with Knowshon. I am not sure what the exact #'s were, but I think we ran every single play of that opening drive that culminated with the Celebration in the Endzone. If I had more confidence in our OL run-blocking, I would do this in a heartbeat. I would love to start the game with a 7 Minute drive with Ealey pounding the Gator's young defensive front. But, if we get stuffed in the backfield on the opening drive the way that Knowshon did in '08 (by Brandon Spikes) and go 3-and-out, nobody is going to be happy. The positive of this gameplan is obvious - send a message to the Gators that we are the more physical team and we are going to push you around all day long. My problem with this gameplan is 2-fold: a lack of complete confidence in our run-blocking AND I don't want to see us getting back to running such a conservative offense when Murray is proving to be a playmaker and with some dude named AJ as our WR.

OPTION # 2 -

Open the playbook up early - get the quick score and let the Gators know that we want to get into a track meet with them. Because we know that the Gators offense can't keep up with our offense. Just throw a little wrinkle that we never see BUT it has to be in our playbook somewhere. Do we not have anything in our playbook that involves Logan throwing a pass off a reverse or some kind of a trick play? I wouldn't be opposed to that sort of a low-risk, high-reward type of play early on hitting AJ deep and getting everyone fired up on the field. The positive side of this is making FL feel a little nervous that they can't possibly score at will with the mess that is their offense right now. On the negative side, the play blows up in our face, we look desperate playing FL again and it sets a bad tone for the rest of the game.

MY TAKE -

I think I am leaning toward Option 2. I am just worried that we won't get the push up front that we will need to sustain a long drive against a fresh set of defensive legs. As the game goes on and we wear them down, I think we can move that direction, but I want to see AM sling that ball around and open up our offense and turn this into a track meet. I don't care what changes that scumbag Urban Meyer makes, I don't think their offense can go toe-to-toe with our offense.

What do you think? It is easy to complain about our play-calling (hell, I have ripped Bobo many times in the past) after the gameplan doesn't work. But, if you were setting the gameplan before kickoff, what do you think we should do with our opening possession? Leave your thoughts in the Comments section.

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DIRECTV Customers

For all the Dawg fans that don't have Charter or Comcast, you have to order tonight's game via ESPN Gameplan. I just hung up with DirecTV and the game will be on channel 790 and will not be blacked out. The bad news is the game is only being offered in Standard Definition. If you order ESPN Gameplan for just 1 day, a charge of $24 will be added to your next bill. There is also a service fee of $1.50 if you order through the automated phone system and a $5.00 fee if you order it through a customer rep. You are not able to order the 1 day Gameplan on the internet - But, if you want to order the rest of the season of ESPN Gameplan, you may do so on DirecTV's website for $73.

You can call DirecTV at (800)GET-SPORTS to get to the automated system or to speak to a customer rep if you have any questions.

UGA-Kentucky

Prediction Time -

On offense, Aaron Murray continues his march towards greatness and will begin to make people re-think their SEC Freshman of the Year ballots. As of Sunday morning, Marcus Lattimore is not the shoo-in that everyone thought he was after he ran over us. Dawgs put up 30+ today.

On Defense, the players continue to show they they "get it" as Kentucky is held to under 20 points for only the 2nd time this year. Todd Grantham is going to look like a better hire every week that the season goes on.

Final Score - Dawgs 31, Cats 17. What say you? Leave your prediction in the Comments section...

Greatest Sports Calls

Here is a list of Sport's Greatest Calls, complete with YouTube videos. Munson's "Run, Lindsay, Run" checks in at 10th on the countdown.

Do You Remember 2007???

Heading into the Florida game, we had already lost to South Carolina in Athens, gotten absolutely thumped in Knoxville, and barely escaped Nashville with a last second win over lowly Vanderbilt. Then we turned into (in my opinion), the best team in the country and finished with a #2 national ranking. I am certainly not saying that we are going to do the same thing this year, but we can still make it to the Georgia Dome if we can build off last week's blowout win over UT. I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out...

- first things first, we need to win out. That part is obvious. But, not as daunting a task as we once thought, considering that Florida looks very average.

- we need Kentucky to knock off South Carolina this weekend in Lexington. It should be very interesting to see how USCe handles prosperity.

- we need Florida to beat South Carolina.

- That would leave us in a 3-way tie for 1st in the East with SC and Florida. The 1st tiebreaker is head to head competition, which would be thrown out since we beat FL, FL beat SC, and SC beat us. The 2nd tiebreaker is record of the tied teams within the division. UGA and FL would both be 4-1, while SC would be 3-2 (thus eliminating SC from the GA Dome). Next up would be head to head between FL and UGA.

- the other scenario would involve SC winning vs. Kentucky but finding a way to lose 3 other SEC games (after Lexington this weekend, they still have to play @ VAN, vs. UT, vs. ARK, and @ FL). Yes - that's an enormous collapse, but this is still South Carolina we are talking about.

I'm not saying we have a great shot, but stranger things have happened. And I will definitely be tuning into the SC-Kentucky game this Saturday night.

Big Bad Bruce

UGA VIII will finally be introduced to the college football world on Saturday when we play Vanderbilt. "Big Bad Bruce" is 13 months old, weighs 55 pounds and is the grandson of UGA VI.