Good News and Bad

The bad news first:

Vince Vance is out for the season. These are all freak injuries and I wish they would stop happening to us, but what can you do?

The good news:

Kiante Tripp is moving back there. He's already familiar with the position, so it's not as if we're breaking in a brand new pup. Aron White proved he's at least serviceable at tight end against UT, so the loss shouldn't be absolutely devastating.

More good news:

Since 2001 (when we beat Tennessee and they still won the East), the winner of the UGA-UT game has failed to reach the Georgia Dome just once, in 2006, when Florida won everything. Think about that. It's a nice little trend. You might say, \"But Tennessee is having a down year!\" Our last SEC title came in 2005, when Tennessee finished 5-6 and lost to Vandy.

More good news:

Knowshon has yet to hit his stride. He's averaging 97.8 yards per game, 5.8 per carry, and he STILL hasn't hit it. Part of this is due to the fact that we just don't have an offensive line, and part of it has had to do with the fact that Brannan Southerland was out for so long. Anybody notice that the team with the #3 rushing defense in the country gave up 101 yards to Knowshon in the same game that #36 returned? I don't think that's a coincidence. Brannan is a blocking force, and having him in front of KnoMo helps immeasurably.

More good news:

Georgia didn't move in the polls. For a team that started the year #1 and then moved down to #3 without losing a game, to then be jumped by Florida, BYU and (retch!) Oklahoma State when we do win is a nice little respect card to play.

More good news:

LSU lost to the first good team it faced, and lost handily, to a Florida team whose offense isn't even as good as it was last year. Do we still have to be afraid of their defense? Yes. Are they an unstoppable killing machine? No.

Even more good news:

Florida lost to a bad team in an infinitely winnable game.

The BEST news:

We finally, FINALLY beat Tennessee. There should be more celebration of that on this site! I don't care if it's by thirty over the defending national champs or by one over a winless Vol squad, they have taken it to us the past two years and it's time to CELEBRATE!!!!

I heard that Southerland is also being worked at TE.

After watching the UF/LSU game I have to say that UF's offense is MUCH better than last year. Last year it was ONLY Tebow and Harvin, now with Harvin, Demps, Rainey and James, plus Murphy AND they are now using all of them, their offense is very, very explosive. We do not match up with those guys, really concerns me (but that's normal).

I am very happy over our win. It makes it easier to drive through Tennessee after a W.
I think we are only going to get better. We take it to Vandy, not too good against the run.
We beat Florida. Mark my words.
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, Averagedawg. We always seem to get situational blindness to this fact sometimes, but just because UF took LSU to the woodshed, doesn't really mean a hill of beans next week. They lost to ol Miss. They should have spanked the next team they faced, but they haven't looked dominant all year, IMO. Alabama laid the pine to our Dawgs, then escaped UK. I'd hate to be Scar this week because I think LSU makes a statement. Texas beat Okla. but both teams might as well have sat their Ds. Watch out for Mizzou this week. I happen to think we're right where we need to be. The pundits have written the Dawgs off this year as overrated. If we get past UF, and I'm confident we will, we end up with one loss. That's not to say some of our wins won't be ugly, but they'll be Ws. Then they'll have to deal with us.

Limey, I couldn't have said it better. Every week in this league is different. I think, by the way, that LSU is very overrated, especially when you consider their game against Mississippi State earlier in the year. Then again, MSU sees them every year, rather than twice in every six the way we do. The bottom line is that you prepare each week for each game. You can't let hype -- or black shirts -- get in the way of that. Right now there is no Florida, there is no LSU. There is only Vandy.

There is only Vandy.