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Georgia vs Samford: one final look on The Georgia Show

On3 imageby:Wes Blankenship•09/12/22
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You may be ready to turn the page on Georgia vs Samford. It’s South Carolina week, after all.

And the Dawgs didn’t play up to head coach Kirby Smart’s standard.

But the Associated Press poll voters didn’t care about that.

And they didn’t care about Stetson Bennett‘s ‘down day’ (300 passing yards, two total touchdowns, no turnovers).

Do you think they cared that AD Mitchell left the game in the first quarter with an ankle injury, or that Todd Monken’s offense only managed to score three touchdowns against a FCS opponent?

No way.

Despite all the evidence presented against these Dawgs (mainly from their own, hyper-critical fans on social media), 53 AP voters still marked the Dawgs down as their number-one team in the country.

Alabama’s 20-19 win at Texas gave Georgia 36 more first-place votes (53 total) than it had last week (17).

Despite those 53 votes of confidence, Georgia figures to have plenty of motivation for the week ahead.

Even though Kirby Smart says ‘standards don’t need motivation,’ a little extra couldn’t hurt after what really was a frustrating 33-0 victory, if there is such a thing.

On this week’s ‘Sunday Final’ edition of The Georgia Show

(Sundays at 8:30PM ET/ Wednesdays at 8:30PM ET on YouTube )

I took a look with DawgsHQ senior editor Jake Rowe and team reporter Palmer Thombs to examine what the win means for Georgia.

Other than the number-one ranking, and another source of rat poison, what do we take from this one after 24 hours to think about it?

Does the sluggishness signify a troubling trait about this team?

Or can we just chalk it up to a bad day at the office?

Follow our show on Spotify, Apple or YouTube to hear our thoughts. Rowe and Thombs also offer up a puzzling perspective on the AD Mitchell injury that you won’t want to miss.

New segment for Georgia football fans: Dawg Stocks

We offer up our takes on whose stock is up, and whose stock is down, in Georgia football or beyond.

I chose D’Andre Swift‘s rising stock. The Lions back (and former Georgia football player) ran for 100 yards or more in a Lions week-one game since Barry Sanders in 1996.

Not everyone went the same route as me, though, as Jake Reuse also joined Rowe & Thombs to end the show.

We get real real this week, talking about Georgia’s first SEC opponent and first road game.

Get your head right.

We’ll talk Georgia vs South Carolina more live on Wednesday.

Still, we couldn’t get out of this Georgia vs Samford episode without talking about the main challenge facing Georgia on Saturday in Columbia.

Tune in and see if you agree.

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