(Updated Sunday night)
Yessirreee, six pass attempts is really opening up the offense.
That's what Georgia's Aaron Murray has at halftime. Six passes, four completions, 67 yards. And Georgia has all of 135 total yards.
The Bulldogs are more than quadrupling the Hogs on the ground 68-12 at the half, but Ryan Mallett is 13 of 17 for 232 yards.
Misguided souls forget that Joe "OK, I threw like five really bad passes last year, get off my ass" Cox threw for 375 yards and five touchdowns in Fayetteville last year in a win.
Pesky damn facts.
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS
(First half)
Wonder if Steve Spurrier will ponder: "Yup, I guess there aren't any 6-7 quarterbacks in the NFL, either." ...
North Carolina is without 12 players for Georgia Tech's visit, and kept the Jackets out of the end zone late in the half, forcing a field goal after a 20-play, 87-yard drive that took up 10:32.
The Tar Heels may be the "us against the world" team this season. ...
Picked Georgia to win, sticking with it because of the typically brilliant and insightful adjustments that the Pooch coaching staff is legendary for.
Ahem.
Picked Tech to win, waffled then and waffling now. ...
Random Unrelated Thought: Everybody in an Olive Garden commercial makes you want to flat punch 'em in their giddy faces. ...
Minnesota nipped Middle Tennessee State on the road and lost to I-AA South Dakota. And your Lane Kiffins are 2-0.
So why would somebody go to this game today? Especially when it's a glorious 55 degrees and sunny in the Twin Cities. ...
Massachusetts has been scaring the bejesus out of Michigan all day, but the Wolverines are now up 21-17 at halftime, thanks to a score with 16 seconds left.
Does it stay close, or do the relieved Wolverines just roll in the second half?
SECOND HALF
(Late Sunday night)
I'm telling you, the SEC East is open. And I'm telling you, only Vanderbilt, despite a better record than Georgia and Tennessee, is out of the running.
Florida is quite capable of losing its next four games: Kentucky, Alabama, LSU, Mississippi State and Georgia.
Kentucky has taken care of business, which is a big step for the Wildcats. Mississippi State had a post-Auburn hangover against LSU, even nine days later, and Georgia folks are might worried about the Starkvegas Bulldogs.
LSU is a wild card headed by a wild coach, and Georgia is odd, but not nearly as bad as its masochistic faithful think, and "think" isn't the right word with fans anyway.
Yes, Aaron Murray needs to get rid of the ball quicker. No, Georgia won't kill everybody simply because A.J. Green comes back. That's an excuse, and increasingly annoying. Kris Durham has been pretty good, and Murray just missed on Saturday with a few passes that could've been long touchdowns.
Green isn't part of a defense that still can't tackle or cover, and those issues have absolutely nothing to do with going from a 4-3 to a 3-4 (which is not like going from a wing-T to the run-and-shoot, OK?)
It's not all the fault of Mike Richt and Mark Bobo, the two-head offensive coordinator monster. ...
Congrats, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, your reward for one of the ballsiest calls in years is two minutes to celebrate and then get heart pains. ...
Denard Robinson has thrown 76 passes and run 74 times. He's a quarterback. Balance like that shall get him killed at Michigan, which better get a defense so he can sit a little bit and learn that handing off quickly is not a bad thing. ...
There was no postgame press conference after Auburn-Clemson, just triage and a page for Hawkeye and Dr. Mark Craig.
Tigers galore were carted off or limped off the field, and Clemson quarterback Kyle Parker looked like he had wrestled Mark Mangino for the last slice of pizza. ...
Keep your eyes on Al Golden, rising the charts of "hot unknown coaches." He's at Temple, and the Owls are beating actual Division I-A teams anymore. They thumped UConn of the Big East, which dumped Temple years ago because the program was so obscenely bad. ...
Cops in Oxford better be on the lookout. Jeremiah Masoli has four picks and one touchdown and Ole Miss is looking at, well, who knows how many games the Rebels will lose.
Life was good in Oregon for Masoli and he got busted for pot possession and burglary. If the Rebels don't get it going, Houston Nutt might be looking for something to lighten his mood. ...
When was the last time a deep snapper was so roasted?
Do the math. Clemson's Matt Skinner double-clutched a field goal snap, and the good kick by Chandler Catanzaro was disallowed. Lose five yards, try again, snap it a little inside, and the kick to tie the game in overtime is wide right, and the Tigers lose a classic. ...
Montana Tech coach Bob Green is no dull quote, as per this, from the Butte (Mont.) Standard.
"Marriage and football are the same. "There's no ugly wins and there's no beautiful losses.
"In marriage, there's no ugly bride and no beautiful ex-wives. Nobody's going to tell you your bride is ugly or your ex-wife is beautiful."
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