Leisurely Paced Preview: Can Georgia do it?

by aorist9 on Nov 10, 2006 2:15 PM CST in Texas Longhorns Football

This leisurely paced preview will look at tomorrow's game where Georgia walks into Auburn for the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry"

The Game

Auburn is in some kind of holding pattern since their win over Florida that keeps them from beating anyone by as much as they should. Much of this may be a function of Kenny Irons being injured, and he is in fact still injured, though he will play against Georgia.

Georgia is having a really bad year by Mark Richt standards, but a win against hated rival Auburn can heal almost all their wounds. The Georgia defense has proven more porous than was first thought, and True Frosh Matt Stafford is still getting use to the college game. Hopefully the Bulldogs can really on the strong running of Kregg Lumpkin et al. Auburn has had trouble against power running at times, especially against Arkansas in their only loss.

At the very least we have weakness on weakness with the Auburn O on the Georgia D. We'll see if Matt Stafford can lead his team to scores on the offensive end for Georgia.

Implications for Texas

We certainly don't need Auburn to lose for a chance at the title game, especially if they get shut out of the SEC title game, but the Tigers are ahead of us in 4 computers, so a Tiger loss would give us a .04 bump in the computers, which will help us slowly inch our way into the MNC game. Also I believe it benefits everyone if Kyle is happy, and a Bulldog win over Auburn would make Kyle very happy.

Kyle hates Auburn

This has been a leisurely paced preview

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go auburn

I disagree.

Auburn is a buffer between us and Florida in the human polls.

Let 'em win out. The only thing that is important is that Arkansas does not choke the west lead. if Auburn is able to get to the SEC CG then they could possibly pass us.

by Matt @ Burnt Orange Nation on Nov 10, 2006 3:31 PM CST reply actions

Interesting point

Though I'll say that if Florida wins out, the odds are stacked against Texas playing a rematch with Ohio State, so it might be moot.

by Peter Bean on Nov 10, 2006 3:34 PM CST up reply actions

But if Auburn doesn't make the SEC champ game...

Then Florida will jump them in the polls. Right? And if they do make the champ game, we'll have more to worry about than a buffer.

by aorist9 on Nov 11, 2006 12:33 PM CST up reply actions

florida

well, I think as long as Florida doesn't rise too far in the human polls we will pass them.

Our computer score can't possibly stay this bad.
I'd imagine that we'll atleast get to #5 or #6 after KSU, A&M, and Nebraska. Unless Florida makes a drastic rise in the human polls (which considering the way they win unimpressively I don't think will happen) we should be able to make up the .002

by Matt @ Burnt Orange Nation on Nov 10, 2006 3:58 PM CST reply actions