Let’s talk about Georgia

I read somewhere that Female Georgia Bull dogs periods attract Wolverines.  They can smell the menstruation.

Millions of peaches, peaches for MI. 

What about 2015?  It improved by more wins than the 2011 team did.

This team has not overachieved.  Maybe from an expectations point of view, but if you paid attention this is not a fluke.  This is a really good to great team.  Just a couple calls from being 13-0.

2011 felt like a fluke all year.  From the improbable last 2nd win under the lights to needing a stop to beat a not very good OSU team, to the way they beat Va Tech in the Sugar Bowl.

This seems sustainable.  Like the beginning of something special.  

Savannah is a very underrated vacation spot. Beautiful, great weather, tons of things for the family to do. Highly recommended.

Those are my favorites, but Augusta is nice along with the Columbus and Lagrange areas.  Not much else left except small towns that  people tend to avoid due to stereotypes. 

As a side note, I'm a native Georgian who's father was a GT alum, so there was no red allowed in our household.  Michigan better beat the tar out of jawja.  Finally we have a mentally tough team, and if there's anything I've learned from a lifetime here, it's that the UGA teams are very prone to the same insecurities and confidence issues that have plagued us in the past.  Punch those a-holes in the mouth hard and fast and watch them fall apart and shut up all the dawgs fans around here. 

St. Simons Island is pretty good also. 

I stay in a place called the Partridge Inn in Augusta whenever stay down there, and a couple years ago (late August, early September) they had the flags of all the SEC teams hanging from the porch awning, and notably out of place among them was a maize and blue Block-M flag.

I'll take it as a sign.

For what it's worth, Alabama fans have wanted to fire Doug Marrone into the sun because the OL has been pretty awful by their standards. 

Believe me, that is not GA's back yard. It's a fur piece for most Georgians, drive time 11-12 hours from Atlanta, for example, and Michigan grads will be there in force. 

Relative backyard? That's like saying Athens is in our (relative) backyard? Athens is closer to us as the bird flies than Athens is to Miami. Fans that want to drive have a very long drive ahead of them even if they are coming from Georgia. 

Bama's RB corp is also in shambles. Brian Robinson has had hamstring issues and was questionable for the SEC game, but played anyway and looked like he was struggling. Their #2 got hurt in mid November and is out for the rest of the season. Their #3 is rushing for 22 yards/game.

Sitting out?  Do you think any player from any team would ever sit out a playoff game?

I am pretty sure that no NFL teams would ever draft (at least in the first 3 rounds) a player that skipped a playoff game.

FWIW, Athens is a 12 hour drive from Miami.  Most folks will be flying in so 1.5 hour flight vs 3 hour flight doesn't make that much difference.  

I think the location is neutral. Fans from both schools will be there, it's Ross's backyard, etc.

I guess you might technically be right, in that I'd prefer Michigan's matchup with Cincinnati or Notre Dame or Oklahoma State, which are all worse teams than Georgia. And I think Georgia is probably a better team...

But the game Georgia likes to play is the game that Michigan is good at playing. A low-amplitude slugfest, and our guys can slug pretty hard. One thing we cannot say about this Michigan team is that they have not played quality defenses, because we absolutely have. Georgia's defense is better. They've got athletes everywhere. But Michigan has played strong defenses, and Michigan has enough experience with stuff on offense not working perfectly to not get flustered if Georgia shuts the offense down on a couple of drives. 

This is not the sort of thing where Michigan is completely outclassed, the way I imagined us to be against the firepower of Ohio State. At least, not on the surface. I'll wait to form a firmer opinion until I see the deeper work of guys like Alex and Ian, but I am cautiously hopeful.

And, really, this is free money anyway. 

 I believe Georgia will come out pissing fire, wanting a rematch with 'Bama.

Which is why they will lose, since they are playing UofM.

Caught looking backward and forward at the same time.

LOTS of Michigan fans in Florida though. I don't think that will make much of a difference.

Bama has struggled to run all year. They've averaged 5 or more ypc every year since 2016. This year, it was 4.1. Their lowest since 2007.

I don't know if that's because they're putting more of a focus on the passing attack or what.