LOL! UGa fans think they didn't make playoffs because...

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LouderVol said:
problem with the conference thing is you are already weighting those championship games with the 5 power conferences. you are already saying 1 conference champ isn't good enough.
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That's why I say a 6 team playoff with the 5 cc plus 1 wild card. 1 and 2 seeds get a bye
 
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tennesseepride84 said:
A conservative second half cost them the playoffs. Thats what happens when you try and play the clock and not your opponent.
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Especially against Bama. I believe we have done the same in the past with the same results. Anyone remember the 9-6 Bama loss in 82 I think. I have tried to block it but it pops up every now and then.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
I wouldn't say that. You all were very lucky to win that game. And you all should be sending the playoff committee thank you cards. No way Saban wanted to see them in the playoffs.
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If Kirby thought 2nd and 26 was getting old, he's going to be hearing 4th and 11 in his sleep.

Finishing was Richt's problem too.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
I wouldn't say that. You all were very lucky to win that game. And you all should be sending the playoff committee thank you cards. No way Saban wanted to see them in the playoffs.
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I would have been fine seeing them in the playoff. Bama could just roll Mac Jones out there in the second half, and UGA would fold like they always do.
 
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joevol33 said:
I know we're "supposed " to hate Florida and bama more. That said, Georgia fans are the most entitled fanbase I've ever seen, to not have won crap in 4 decades.
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If you want to make a Georgia fan really upset, remind them Georgia Tech has a more recent national title than they do.

The thing about Georgia fans is that they go from despondence to euphoria back to despondent so quickly. Way quicker than any other college fanbase, and all college fanbases ride emotional roller coasters.

I think a lot of them genuinely believed that what they did last year (making it to the CFP final) put their program on par with Alabama. Now some of their fans are wondering if Kirby is just like Richt. It's hilarious. Since 1980, I'm not sure a football program has underachieved more than Georgia's has. What has happened at Alabama (the dynasties they've had) should be more likely to happen at Georgia, honestly.
 
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I personally don’t think UGA deserved the fourth spot. I think they were one of the 4 best teams, but certainly not one of the 4 most deserving. Having said that, I do think it’s funny how the narrative has changed. Before the season started everyone said UGA would take a step back because Kirby needed richt’s players or they lost 31 seniors or they were propped up by a bad schedule. Then Kirby takes that team full of freshman and sophomores and puts them into a position to beat a historic bama team who was favored by two touchdowns and all of a sudden the narrative changes. In the span of a single game UGA went from a team who had no shot and wouldn’t come close to the playoffs to a team that should’ve beaten #1 bama easily and that Kirby’s coaching cost them the game... lol it’s definitely funny looking at how the narrative changed so fast. As far as the fourth down call, I don’t mind it. It was pretty obvious the Georgia defense was gassed and that momentum had swung to bama. Considering this was supposed to be a down year for Georgia, I’m happy with it. lol also no Georgia fan thinks smart will be saban. The only time I hear that is from fans of other teams trying to get a rise out of Georgia fans. Literally no one thinks that smart will match the success of the best college coach of all time. We’re just happy that smart was able to take UGA to a place it hadn’t been in 3 decades in his second year. He’s overachieved 2/3 years he’s been here, and richt is tanking in Miami.
 
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Atlanta917 said:
I personally don’t think UGA deserved the fourth spot. I think they were one of the 4 best teams, but certainly not one of the 4 most deserving. Having said that, I do think it’s funny how the narrative has changed. Before the season started everyone said UGA would take a step back because Kirby needed richt’s players or they lost 31 seniors or they were propped up by a bad schedule. Then Kirby takes that team full of freshman and sophomores and puts them into a position to beat a historic bama team who was favored by two touchdowns and all of a sudden the narrative changes. In the span of a single game UGA went from a team who had no shot and wouldn’t come close to the playoffs to a team that should’ve beaten #1 bama easily and that Kirby’s coaching cost them the game... lol it’s definitely funny looking at how the narrative changed so fast. As far as the fourth down call, I don’t mind it. It was pretty obvious the Georgia defense was gassed and that momentum had swung to bama. Considering this was supposed to be a down year for Georgia, I’m happy with it.
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Define "down year." Before the season started, there were only a couple games tops you could picture them losing. They were the overwhelming favorite to win the East, which means there's a chance of winning the SEC, which means there's a chance of making the CFP. They did exactly that. They played Alabama closer than people thought, but I don't think anyone was shocked it was a close game.
 
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05_never_again said:
Define "down year." Before the season started, there were only a couple games tops you could picture them losing. They were the overwhelming favorite to win the East, which means there's a chance of winning the SEC, which means there's a chance of making the CFP. They did exactly that. They played Alabama closer than people thought, but I don't think anyone was shocked it was a close game.
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Before the season started every talking point about UGA was that they lost 31 seniors and that they were propped up by a bad division. Add that to the fact they lost their entire front seven to the draft and graduation, no one gave them a chance. Also no one thought the SECC would be close. The line was UGA +14.
 
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Atlanta917 said:
Before the season started every talking point about UGA was that they lost 31 seniors and that they were propped up by a bad division. Add that to the fact they lost their entire front seven to the draft and graduation, no one gave them a chance. Also no one thought the SECC would be close. The line was UGA +14.
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+14 might have been the smallest margin Bama faced.

the playoff line against Oklahoma is +14.5
Mississippi State was around +21
Bama was favored by 14.5 against LSU at LSU

everyone picked UGA to win the East.
the down year was as others have said, down compared to '17. not down compared to the SEC.
 
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LouderVol said:
+14 might have been the smallest margin Bama faced.

the playoff line against Oklahoma is +14.5
Mississippi State was around +21
Bama was favored by 14.5 against LSU at LSU

everyone picked UGA to win the East.
the down year was as others have said, down compared to '17. not down compared to the SEC.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that a 14 point spread is not indicative of a close game. In fact it started at 10 and immediately went to 14, which imo, shows that most people did not think the game would be close. It wasn't ridiculous to think that UGA would take a major step back after losing what they did and having such a young defense, and at the end of the year they were still in a position to make the playoffs. If that's a down year for Smart, then I believe he is doing a decent job. It'll be interesting to see how he does next year, since there will be more expectations than the year he just had. The schedule will also be remarkably tougher with ND being the third game combined with expected improvement from UF and UT.
 
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05_never_again said:
If you want to make a Georgia fan really upset, remind them Georgia Tech has a more recent national title than they do.

The thing about Georgia fans is that they go from despondence to euphoria back to despondent so quickly. Way quicker than any other college fanbase, and all college fanbases ride emotional roller coasters.

I think a lot of them genuinely believed that what they did last year (making it to the CFP final) put their program on par with Alabama. Now some of their fans are wondering if Kirby is just like Richt. It's hilarious. Since 1980, I'm not sure a football program has underachieved more than Georgia's has. What has happened at Alabama (the dynasties they've had) should be more likely to happen at Georgia, honestly.
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I don’t know man. I think when we played UGA we went through those emotions all in one play! Despondent with them dropping back to throw again, euphoric when we got a fumble, and straight past despondent to WTF when it was picked up and run in for not just a first down but a TD.
 
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Atlanta917 said:
I guess what I'm trying to say is that a 14 point spread is not indicative of a close game. In fact it started at 10 and immediately went to 14, which imo, shows that most people did not think the game would be close. It wasn't ridiculous to think that UGA would take a major step back after losing what they did and having such a young defense, and at the end of the year they were still in a position to make the playoffs. If that's a down year for Smart, then I believe he is doing a decent job. It'll be interesting to see how he does next year, since there will be more expectations than the year he just had. The schedule will also be remarkably tougher with ND being the third game combined with expected improvement from UF and UT.
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I agree that Smart did a good job for most of the year. LSU was weird and the end of the Bama game are some cause for concern. Our game was closer than anyone thought it should have been, except for some extremely blind dumb luck on your part that was a one score game. really until UGA lost to LSU I thought UGA was sleepwalking, which reflects on the coach.

I think the distinction here is what UGA is expecting vs what they are getting. UT would be lucky to have results like what Smart is doing. But other top programs wouldn't have been too impressed with this year. Being runner up is what got Richt fired, and the comparisons between their two schedules is freaky how similar they are. so early success at UGA doesn't necessarily mean championships later.

of course everyone is playing for second while Saban is around.
 
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Atlanta917 said:
I personally don’t think UGA deserved the fourth spot. I think they were one of the 4 best teams, but certainly not one of the 4 most deserving. Having said that, I do think it’s funny how the narrative has changed. Before the season started everyone said UGA would take a step back because Kirby needed richt’s players or they lost 31 seniors or they were propped up by a bad schedule. Then Kirby takes that team full of freshman and sophomores and puts them into a position to beat a historic bama team who was favored by two touchdowns and all of a sudden the narrative changes. In the span of a single game UGA went from a team who had no shot and wouldn’t come close to the playoffs to a team that should’ve beaten #1 bama easily and that Kirby’s coaching cost them the game... lol it’s definitely funny looking at how the narrative changed so fast. As far as the fourth down call, I don’t mind it. It was pretty obvious the Georgia defense was gassed and that momentum had swung to bama. Considering this was supposed to be a down year for Georgia, I’m happy with it. lol also no Georgia fan thinks smart will be saban. The only time I hear that is from fans of other teams trying to get a rise out of Georgia fans. Literally no one thinks that smart will match the success of the best college coach of all time. We’re just happy that smart was able to take UGA to a place it hadn’t been in 3 decades in his second year. He’s overachieved 2/3 years he’s been here, and richt is tanking in Miami.
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Richt still had a better record at this point in his career at UGA than Smart does. Smart may be better overall but so far that hasn’t been proven.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
I don’t know man. I think when we played UGA we went through those emotions all in one play! Despondent with them dropping back to throw again, euphoric when we got a fumble, and straight past despondent to WTF when it was picked up and run in for not just a first down but a TD.
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Every fanbase is an emotional roller coaster. I'm not talking about emotions during a game. I'm talking about how Georgia fans view their entire program. After they won the SEC last year, Georgia fans talked about their program as though they had just reached the same status as Alabama - and a bunch of them acted like they had won a national title after they beat Notre Dame.

If Tennessee won the SEC next year, this fanbase would be delirious, but given the depths to which we have previously sunk, I don't think many people would genuinely believe we had achieved something akin to what Alabama has over the last decade. A lot of Georgia fans did. Before the title game last year, a ton of their fans believed they were right there with Alabama in terms of prestige and reputation, but now a bunch of them think Kirby is the next Richt.
 
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05_never_again said:
Every fanbase is an emotional roller coaster. I'm not talking about emotions during a game. I'm talking about how Georgia fans view their entire program. After they won the SEC last year, Georgia fans talked about their program as though they had just reached the same status as Alabama - and a bunch of them acted like they had won a national title after they beat Notre Dame.

If Tennessee won the SEC next year, this fanbase would be delirious, but given the depths to which we have previously sunk, I don't think many people would genuinely believe we had achieved something akin to what Alabama has over the last decade. A lot of Georgia fans did. Before the title game last year, a ton of their fans believed they were right there with Alabama in terms of prestige and reputation, but now a bunch of them think Kirby is the next Richt.
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oh yes they would. just look at what happens after we win a game. after beating Auburn we were going to beat Bama according to at least two threads on VN. after beating Kentucky we were going to win out. we over react at everything.
 
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LouderVol said:
oh yes they would. just look at what happens after we win a game. after beating Auburn we were going to beat Bama according to at least two threads on VN. after beating Kentucky we were going to win out. we over react at everything.
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Saying we can beat Mizzou at home (an 8-4 team, unranked at the time) and Vandy (a 6-6 team) after just defeating a top 15 team is quite a bit different from winning the SEC for the first time in 12 years then claiming you're on par with a program that has won 6 SEC titles and 5 national titles in the last decade.

The dumbest popular mood I've seen this fanbase embrace lately were the "Feels like '98" shirts that popped up heading into the 2016 season. But even that is pretty far removed from "our program is just as good as Alabama."
 
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hUTch2002 said:
Richt still had a better record at this point in his career at UGA than Smart does. Smart may be better overall but so far that hasn’t been proven.
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I agree that it is still too early to definitively say Smart>early Richt, but early Richt wasn't Richt's downfall. I mean, look at Miami right now. They have the same problems that UGA did when Richt was on the hot seat. They can beat most teams any given Saturday, but also can lose to any team. In the later Richt years he had issues with playing down to the competition and it doesn't seem to have changed. Kirby took UGA to a place in his second year that Richt never made it to, so I'd certainly give the edge to Kirby right now. Kirby is also recruiting at a level that Richt never did, especially in the trenches. Judging by all of the "fire Mark Richt" threads on the Miami boards, I think they'd gladly trade Richt for Kirby right now.
 
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05_never_again said:
Every fanbase is an emotional roller coaster. I'm not talking about emotions during a game. I'm talking about how Georgia fans view their entire program. After they won the SEC last year, Georgia fans talked about their program as though they had just reached the same status as Alabama - and a bunch of them acted like they had won a national title after they beat Notre Dame.

If Tennessee won the SEC next year, this fanbase would be delirious, but given the depths to which we have previously sunk, I don't think many people would genuinely believe we had achieved something akin to what Alabama has over the last decade. A lot of Georgia fans did. Before the title game last year, a ton of their fans believed they were right there with Alabama in terms of prestige and reputation, but now a bunch of them think Kirby is the next Richt.
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Maybe UGA fans that are similar to D4H thought that, but no rational fan I talked to did. Everyone realizes it would be insane to expect the sort of success Saban has. Most UGA fans are optimistic about the future given Kirby's success on the field and on the recruiting trail. Saban won his first NC in his 10th year coaching, so I don't think it's crazy Smart hasn't won one by year 3. Smart is still a young coach and it shows sometimes, but I'd say he's been successful so far.
 
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