Is this another soft schedule for GA again?

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HoopCreekVol said:
Is GA playing any tough teams this year? Will they be challenged in 2023? Besides us, of course.
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Their schedule is awful. To be fair them, they did have Oklahoma scheduled, but Sankey forced them to cancel the series because of OU coming into the league. That said, their schedule is awful, and they will probably spend at least part of every practice preparing for us like they did last season.
 
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Well, they have lost a lot of talent so I don’t expect they’ll be close to what they’ve been the last couple years. I think the East is up for grabs and we’ll be playing Bama twice this season, with us winning the 2nd more meaningful game. 😁
 
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Volintheswamp said:
Well, they have lost a lot of talent so I don’t expect they’ll be close to what they’ve been the last couple years. I think the East is up for grabs and we’ll be playing Bama twice this season, with us winning the 2nd more meaningful game. 😁
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if I recall correctly, they had 15 players drafted into the NFL after the 2021 season when they won NC. Then went out and won the NC again... Be careful with them not being close to what the have been
 
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LWSVOL said:
if I recall correctly, they had 15 players drafted into the NFL after the 2021 season when they won NC. Then went out and won the NC again... Be careful with them not being close to what the have been
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They do have a question mark at QB at least. Unfortunately it’s a battle among 2 or 3 high 4 and 5* recruits.
 
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UGA is basically playing Georgia Tech and we are playing Virginia. We are playing Alabama & Texas AM and they are playing Auburn & Ole Miss, otherwise our schedules are basically the same. UGA does usually play 2 power 5 out of conference opponents a year. UGA, UF and S. Carolina are the only SEC teams that regularly do that. Everybody else including us plays 1 or 0.
 
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The fact is UGA has an easier road every year than us until the conference expands.
2024 will be business as usual for us and an experience the Dogs aren't accustomed to seeing.
 
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Softest of soft. And why wouldn’t they? Polls for years have placed win-loss over SOS.
 
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Essentially, all this complaining about our schedule is simply more complaining that Alabama has been our permanent cross over, because Florida and Georgia are both more aggressive schedulers than we are as demonstrated by the out of conference scheduling of the 3 teams below. Georgia and Florida typically schedule at least two power 5 teams out of conference (power 5 opponents listed below in bold). We haven't scheduled more than one since 2003.

Tennessee's OOC schedule 2016-2025:

2016- Virginia Tech, Appalachian State, Ohio, Tennessee Tech.
2017- Georgia Tech, Indiana State, UMass, Southern Miss.
2018- West Virginia, East Tennessee St., UTEP, Charlotte.
2019- BYU, Georgia State, Chattanooga, UAB, Georgia State.
2020- PANDEMIC/ALL CONFERENCE
2021- Pitt, Bowling Green, South Alabama, Tennessee Tech.
2022- Pitt, Ball State, Akron, UT Martin.
2023- Virginia, Austin Peay, UTSA, UConn.
2024- NC State (replaced OU game), Chattanooga, Kent State, UTEP.
2025- Syracuse, UAB, not scheduled yet, not scheduled yet.

Florida's OOC schedule 2016-2025:

2016- Florida State, UMass, North Texas, (lost Presbyterian due to Hurricane).
2017- Michigan, Florida State, UAB, Northern Colorado.
2018- Florida State, Colorado State, Idaho, Charleston Southern.
2019- Miami, Florida State, Towson, UT Martin.
2020- PANDEMIC/ALL CONFERENCE
2021- Florida State, Florida Atlantic, South Florida, Samford.
2022- Utah, Florida State, South Florida, Eastern Washington.
2023- Utah, Florida State, McNeese, Charlotte.
2024- Miami, Florida State, Central Florida, Samford.
2025- Florida State, Miami, Florida A&M, South Florida.


Georgia's OOC schedule 2016-2025:

2016- North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Louisiana, Nicholls.
2017- Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Appalachian State, Samford.
2018- Georgia Tech, Austin Peay, Middle Tennessee State, UMass.
2019- Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Murray State, Arkansas State.
2020- PANDEMIC/ALL CONFERENCE
2021- Clemson, Georgia Tech, UAB, Charleston Southern.
2022- Oregon, Georgia Tech, Samford, Kent State.
2023- Georgia Tech, Ball State (replaced OU game), UT Martin, UAB.
2024- Clemson, Georgia Tech, UMass, Tennessee Tech.
2025- UCLA, Georgia Tech, Austin Peay, Charlotte.

Unquestionably, Tennessee has had the hardest overall permanent opponent draw from the West, since divisional play began in 1992:

Alabama is 284-101 (5th most wins in CFB for the period since 1992)
LSU is 267-121 (11th most wins in CFB for the period since 1992) &
Auburn is 251-134 (19th most wins in CFB for the period since 1992)

Tennessee is 248-138 (24th most wins in CFB for the period since 1992)
Georgia is 294-103 (3rd most wins in CFB for the period since 1992)
Florida is 284-112) (5th most wins in CFB for the period since 1992).

While Tennessee certainly has had the toughest draw of permanent Western Division foes, LSU and Auburn can likewise claim that they have had tougher draws than Alabama for their permanent Eastern Division foe. Otherwise, the conference schedule rotates and sort of is what it is, except for 2020 the pandemic year which was basically drawing straws from what I understand. Georgia played Alabama that year, as did Tennessee.
 
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vol_in_ga said:
Softest of soft. And why wouldn’t they? Polls for years have placed win-loss over SOS.
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That's just objectively not the case. If it was, you'd have that year's best mid-major team (Boise St, UCF, Cincinnati, Utah/TCU before they entered the P5, etc.) be #1 in the polls/BCS/CFP every year. And you wouldn't have had an Alabama or an Ohio St get into the CFP without even playing in their conference's title game. Those are all clear cases of the opposite; placing SOS over win-loss.
 
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So Tennessee played the 3rd best team and the two teams who tied for 5th (since '92), every year (through '21), in the first half of our schedule. Sounds easy enough to manage.
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
So Tennessee played the 3rd best team and the two teams who tied for 5th (since '92), every year (through '21), in the first half of our schedule. Sounds easy enough to manage.
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Yep, that's brutal, but those are our 3 main rivals, and they've all been pretty good the last 30 years.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Their schedule is awful. To be fair them, they did have Oklahoma scheduled, but Sankey forced them to cancel the series because of OU coming into the league. That said, their schedule is awful, and they will probably spend at least part of every practice preparing for us like they did last season.
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That’s a recipe for losing 2 or more games a year. No program would do that. You can’t preach taking every opponent seriously while overlooking every opponent but one.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
They said they did that last year. Seemed to work out for them pretty well. Almost cost them the Mizzou game though.
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No they didn’t. Find a link or article or anything. Find any team in college football that did that. Maybe on the bye week when teams work on self development and begin some install for the second half of the schedule teams. But that wouldn’t be exclusive to just that one game.
 
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Otis1105 said:
That’s a recipe for losing 2 or more games a year. No program would do that. You can’t preach taking every opponent seriously while overlooking every opponent but one.
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I don't think Georgia uses part of every practice for UT, but they do intermittently allocate extra time in both the offseason and during the season, because the offense is so different. They did that with GT and the triple option too. I believe with Tech they'd spend time in fall camp and a portion of one practice per week during the season.

It's a bit more pragmatic to spend extra time on UT's offense than it was for GT because the hurry-up component is something that other teams use, i.e., two minute offense before half time or playing from behind in the fourth quarter.
 
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DawgInterloper said:
I don't think Georgia uses part of every practice for UT, but they do intermittently allocate extra time in both the offseason and during the season, because the offense is so different. They did that with GT and the triple option too. I believe with Tech they'd spend time in fall camp and a portion of one practice per week during the season.

It's a bit more pragmatic to spend extra time on UT's offense than it was for GT because the hurry-up component is something that other teams use, i.e., two minute offense before half time or playing from behind in the fourth quarter.
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You do that for every team. to say every week was a Tennessee week is asinine. Bye week you work on the second half of your schedule. spring practice you may even rep some opponents but probably not because of install.
 
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Otis1105 said:
You do that for every team. to say every week was a Tennessee week is asinine.
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Of course. From what I can tell they don't overlook anybody from a preparation standpoint, with the possible exception of an FCS team. The Mizzou game wasn't because Georgia didn't prepare. It was an SEC road game and no successful team takes those for granted. Complacency may have played a role and turnovers didn't help. Georgia outgained them 480 to 290, 28 first downs vs 14. Every team has occasional tough games against an overmatched opponent for no apparent reason.
 
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Otis1105 said:
No they didn’t. Find a link or article or anything. Find any team in college football that did that. Maybe on the bye week when teams work on self development and begin some install for the second half of the schedule teams. But that wouldn’t be exclusive to just that one game.
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Whoops. Another one…
 
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