Georgia Bulldogs Countdown to Kickoff: Day 33
Just 33 days separate the world from watching a hungry Georgia Bulldogs team take on the Ducks of Oregon. ‘But they just won a National Championship,’ you may say to yourself.
‘How can they possibly still be hungry?’
Well, even though Georgia won its first football National Championship since 1980 by the score of 33-18 (there’s the 33 for today), Kirby Smart’s made it perfectly clear that the team will not be hunting.
The Dawgs are doing the hunting, thanks. And 33 points against Alabama in any rematches down the road may not be enough.
‘But Bulldogs aren’t hunting dogs,’ you may say to yourself.
And Crimson Tides aren’t Elephants.
College football is just the greatest, isn’t it? It doesn’t have to make sense.
Just like Georgia scoring 33 points and holding its opponent to 18 points is weird, in context.
According to Twitter, that was a Scorigami for Georgia football. It was definitely a Scorigami for College Football’s National Championship game.
‘What in the Wide World of Sports is a Scorigami?’ you may be asking yourself.
It’s when a score combination happens for the first time in a sport, or for a team, or in an important game.
The score didn’t matter to Georgia fans, of course. It could have been 14-7. A dub’s a dub. Georgia’s defense slowed down the tide and 33 points was enough.
But will it be enough if these two teams play in the postseason in 2022?
Georgia averaged 38 points last season, a tick behind Alabama’s average
The Tide put up 39.6 points per game in 2021.
Georgia held Alabama well below that average in the National Championship game, but not in Alabama’s 41-24 SEC Championship victory.
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For alabama, that was a nine-point drop from what it averaged in its 2020 National Championship season
With Bryce Young and Jermaine Burton and Jahmyr Gibbs anchoring the Tide offense in 2022, will Alabama take another step back, or will the Tide get back into 40+ points per game territory?
That test is up to Georgia’s younger defense if it plays again next season. The predictions coming out of SEC Media Days indicate that they will.
Georgia’s offense improved from 2020 to 2021 under Todd Monken.
If that trend continues, the Dawgs offense may still need to bring its A-Game in Atlanta or the CFP or the National Championship if that’s where they face the Tide.
Scoring 33 points was great when you had a legendary NFL Draft defense. Cherish it. Enjoy it.
I know it’s only August 1st. But I can’t help but already feel like the Dawgs would need to pack a few more points on the board to compete with this 2022 Alabama team.
They’re hunting, too.
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