SB Nation Atlanta - Georgia Vs. Florida: Bulldogs back in control of SEC East after 17-6 win over Gatorshttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/46601/atlanta-fave.png2012-10-29T23:08:42-04:00http://atlanta.sbnation.com/rss/stream/33017012012-10-29T23:08:42-04:002012-10-29T23:08:42-04:00UGA, UF players and coaches involved in scuffle
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<p>Florida strength coach Jeff Dillman reportedly shoved Georgia safety Corey Moore before the Bulldogs' 17-9 win over the Gators Saturday. </p> <p>In a rivalry game as heated as Georgia-Florida, it isn't uncommon for emotions to run high. That happened in a pre-game skirmish before the Bulldogs' 17-9 win Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla. Among others, <a href="http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gatorbytes/2012/10/28/matt-elam-at-center-of-pre-game-incident-in-florida-georgia-game/">Georgia safety Corey Moore and Florida Strength coach Jeff Dillman were reportedly involved</a>.</p>
<p>The incident apparently began when Florida safety <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/111911/matt-elam">Matt Elam</a> bumped Georgia cornerback <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78597/devin-bowman">Devin Bowman</a>. According to the Palm Beach Post's Jason Leiser, Dillman engaged Moore before moving on to a member of the Bulldogs' staff: </p>
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<p>Gators strength coach Jeff Dillman, who later had at least one very animated conversation with a ref, was involved as well. Dillman shoved Georgia S <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/123021/corey-moore">Corey Moore</a>, then got in the face of a Bulldogs assistant.</p>
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<p>The game was testy throughout, as Georgia and Florida combined to commit 24 penalties for 227 yards. Several of those penalties were personal fouls. According to Florida linebacker <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78465/jonathan-bostic">Jonathan Bostic</a>, that's the kind of play to be expected when the Bulldogs and Gators meet:</p>
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<p>"It's something that's expected out of a rivalry game, just two teams going at it."</p>
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<p>With the win, Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) gained control of the SEC East. The Bulldogs are a half game behind the Gators (7-1, 6-1) in the division, but if Georgia wins its next two games against Ole Miss and Auburn, it will earn a berth in the SEC Championship Game for the second consecutive season.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/29/3574530/florida-vs-georgia-pre-game-fight-corey-mooreChris Fuhrmeister2012-10-29T15:16:55-04:002012-10-29T15:16:55-04:00Jarvis Jones named Defensive Player of the Week
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<p>Georgia Bulldogs' linebacker Jarvis Jones was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week after recording 13 tackles, 4.5 for loss, three sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries against the Florida Gators.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/georgia-bulldogs" class="sbn-auto-link">Georgia Bulldogs</a>' linebacker Jarvis Jones was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for his performance against the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/florida-gators" class="sbn-auto-link">Florida Gators</a> on Saturday. In that game, Jones recorded 13 tackles, 4.5 of them for loss. He also recorded three sacks, forced two fumbles and recovered two fumbles.</p>
<p>Over the last two seasons, Jones has recorded 22 sacks in 20 games, seven of those sacks have come against the Gators. He was also the catalyst for the defense that held the Gators to no offensive touchdowns and six turnovers. The Gators had only turned the ball over four times the entire season before Saturday's game.</p>
<p>The Bulldogs now only need to win their final two SEC games to clinch a spot in the SEC Championship Game. Next up, they play the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/mississippi-rebels" class="sbn-auto-link">Mississippi Rebels</a> in Athens, Ga. this Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and the game will be televised on CBS.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-ncaaf/2012/10/29/3572470/jarvis-jones-sec-defensive-player-of-the-weekTim Blank2012-10-29T12:01:04-04:002012-10-29T12:01:04-04:00Georgia 17, Florida 9: Ugly, but we'll take it
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<p>Outside of the tailgate area, there wasn't much that was pretty to look at in the 2012 edition of the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party — but somehow that just made Georgia's victory that much sweeter.</p> <p>Usually, in the wake of a big underdog win by Georgia's football team, this is about the time when you'd be reading something from me along the lines of "See, this is what the Dawgs have the capability to do at their very best" and "Mark Richt should be exhorting his players to play like this every week." No offense, but I don't think I quite want to see this kind of performance every week. It was a sloppy game (nine turnovers between the two penalties). not to mention a chippy one (24 total penalties for 227 yards); when I arrived home at the beach house in Ponte Vedra where we'd been staying the week, the opinions ranged from "an uuuugly game" (my girlfriend) to "this abortion of a football game" (EDSBS' own Spencer Hall, though even he had to laugh as he said it). Paradoxically, the effort that beat a third-ranked Florida team at a neutral site on Saturday might not be enough to get past unranked Ole Miss in Athens this weekend.</p>
<p>Here's the thing, though: Good teams can win convincingly when everything's going their way. <i>Great</i> teams find ways to win even when the circumstances are challenging and everything feels like it could completely go to hell at any given moment. And if you're going to ding Mark Richt for seeming to only win the first kind of game — <a href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/17/3514548/mark-vs-the-benchmarks">which I have</a> — then you also have to give him credit for winning the second, no matter how aesthetically challenged it was. Georgia just went into Jacksonville, a house of horrors for more than two decades running, and knocked off a third-ranked Florida squad to claim its first back-to-back Cocktail Party victories since the 1980s. If you can't be proud of that, what can you be proud of?</p>
<p>Not everything about the game was a comedy of errors, of course. Rather, linebacker Jarvis Jones provided a comedy of terrors, adding 13 tackles, three sacks and two forced fumbles to <a href="https://twitter.com/CaptainAnnoying/status/262567518449844225">a Cocktail Party stat line</a> that should enshrine him in the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame before he even graduates. He and Shawn Williams, run through the ringer all week for <a href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/24/3547318/shawn-williams-comments-uga-football">his comments publicly calling out his teammates</a> for playing soft, provided the emotional motor for the kind of defensive effort Georgia fans had been waiting to see all year long. The Dawgs didn't do anything fancy or unexpected; they simply recognized that Florida presented little to no downfield passing threat, crammed eight men in the box and dared <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/131897/jeff-driskel">Jeff Driskel</a> to win the game with his arm. There were brief flashes where Driskel looked like he might do it, too, finding frequent opportunities on the outside that were just long enough to move the chains, but every time he brought the Gators in position to take the lead, a Bulldog was there to force a timely turnover.</p>
<p>So . . . the offense. Nobody's going to call that one of Georgia's better efforts, even against a team that came into the game with Florida's snarling reputation. Aaron Murray resembled the Aaron Murray of the headache-inducing fourth quarter of last year's game, pressing passes into places they shouldn't have gone and missing more than a few easy ones that he probably would've made against just about any other opponent. But give him and the rest of the offense credit for overcoming adversity to make the plays they needed to make. After struggling early, the running game came alive with a 23-yard burst from <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/158475/todd-gurley">Todd Gurley</a> — just enough to remind the Gators they couldn't load up against the pass. The offensive line kept <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78599/aaron-murray">Aaron Murray's</a> jersey clean, and when the Dawgs needed a big play from him, he shrugged off his earlier struggles and gave them one.</p>
<p>That 45-yard TD pass to Malcolm Mitchell certainly wasn't the game-changer that Lindsay Scott's 92-yard catch-and-run was on this same field in 1980, nor was it a "drought-breaker" the way Theron Sapp's touchdown run against Georgia Tech was back in 1957. But in the long run, it may possess a significance that ranks it up there with both of those plays in Georgia lore. Having notched back-to-back wins over the Gators for the first time since the 1988-89 seasons, Bulldog fans can now say with confidence that the "Gator curse" — to the extent that there every really was one anywhere except in the Georgia team's minds — has been exorcised. Georgia certainly isn't destined to win every single game in Jacksonville from here on out, but nor will they be hanging their heads and simply waiting for the Gators to issue another spirit-crushing loss.</p>
<p>And this time the Bulldogs didn't do it by taking advantage of a weakened, rebuilding Florida team, either. They took on a team the pollsters had seen fit to rank third in the country, with a fearsome defense and a running game that had left numerous teams trampled in its dust, and looked them square in the eye and beat them. The game was ugly, and it was certainly no runaway, but I don't recall anyone in Gator Country wearing any sheepish grins after they blew away South Carolina using only 183 total yards of offense, so there's no reason for Georgia fans to feel any shame about how this game was won, either.</p>
<p>The Dawgs appear to have reclaimed a lost season and are on track to win back-to-back SEC East titles for the first time since 2002-03, and they did it by winning an ugly, challenging game that would've caused past Georgia teams — hell, maybe this same Georgia team from a few weeks ago — to throw up their hands and submit. Whether their competitive fire was stoked by Shawn Williams, the coaches or a combination of the two, it was enough to prove the Dawgs could still win a big game against a hated arch-rival.</p>
<p>And Bulldog Nation gets to go forth treating this game like Uga himself: He may be ugly, but nobody else gets to say that — only <i>we</i> get to say that. And we'll love him just the same.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/29/3570376/uga-vs-florida-2012-reaction-secDoug Gillett2012-10-29T09:24:24-04:002012-10-29T09:24:24-04:00How do we put a value on Georgia's win?
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<p>Georgia got a huge win against Florida on Saturday. Let's not overreact to the latest piece of evidence in evaluating where the program is right now.</p> <p>For those of you who were either tailgating on Saturday during the noon to 3:30 time slot or had been dragged to a corm maze at an inopportune time, Texas had to pull out a skin-of-their-teeth victory in Lawrence against Kansas. Yes, a Kansas team that has not beaten a single FBS opponent and has losses to Rice and Northern Illinois on its resume was one stop away from beating a Texas team that is <a target="_blank" href="http://bravesandbirds.blogspot.com/2012/10/texas-arsenal-does-anyone-buy-t-shirt.html">more profitable than any other in college football</a> and that gets to select players, rather than having to recruit them. Against an opponent that gained 39 yards passing in the game on nine attempts, Texas still found themselves needing to convert a fourth and six from their own 34 with two minutes remaining on a <a target="_blank" href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/boxscore?gid=201210270020&page=plays">drive that ultimately led to the winning touchdown</a>.</p>
<p>The Twitter reaction to Texas narrowly averting an utter disaster was along the lines of <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Mark_Schlabach/status/262267763849064448">Mack Brown saving his job</a> with that late drive. Think about that for a moment. Brown has accumulated a 15-year record in Austin. If you view his regime as being doomed, then you are looking at his track record since 2010, since which time the Horns have gone 19-14 and look like an anachronism in a conference where teams generally do a good job of maximizing their talent. If you want Brown to stay, then you are putting value on the 2005 national title and the overall health of the program in terms of recruiting prestige and fan interest. In no way should one pass from <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/114961/case-mccoy" class="sbn-auto-link">Case McCoy</a> to <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/134587/jaxon-shipley" class="sbn-auto-link">Jaxon Shipley</a> determine whether the guy should keep his job.</p>
<p>And yet this is exactly how the college football cognoscenti were acting on Saturday afternoon. The universal focus was on the outcome, with very little attention paid to a process that involved Texas trailing for most of the game to a hopelessly over-matched opponent. No one is saying that Texas deserves credit for their performance in Lawrence, but the volume and quality of the reaction is <i>way</i> different based on the outcome of one play,</p>
<p>And that brings us to Mark Richt. Going into the 2012 Cocktail Party, Georgia fans were down on Richt. The general sense that I got was that the fan base had lost confidence in him, that his teams play flat and soft, and that he does not get the most out of the talent at his disposal. One eight-point win over <a target="_blank" href="http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/26/3553646/four-principles-on-georgia-florida">an overvalued Florida team</a> later and the tune has changed dramatically. The Dawgs just need to avoid a major upset in the next two games and they will win the SEC East again. Assuming that they don't trip up against Georgia Southern or Georgia Tech, the Dawgs will go into a likely match-up against Alabama at the Georgia Dome knowing that an upset victory will propel them into serious consideration for the BCS Championship Game. (I wonder if Gary Danielson would do any politicking for a 12-1 Georgia team over unbeaten Kansas State, Oregon, or Notre Dame? With Gary's intense commitment to intellectual honesty, I totally unsure as to how he would come out on that question.)</p>
<p>Georgia beat Florida despite throwing three interceptions, gaining only 273 yards (a smidge fewer than the Gators were allowing coming into the game, although I'm willing to acknowledge that the windy conditions aided the defenses), and committing a whopping 14 penalties for 132 yards. In the fourth quarter, I couldn't shake Hannibal Lecter's line about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/quotes?qt=qt0334799">tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seat of a car</a>. On an emotional level, no Georgia fan should care about style points in a rivalry game of this magnitude. On a rational level, with some distance from the game, no Georgia fan should let one afternoon in Jacksonville radically alter the way he or she views the current status of the program.</p>
<p>In fact, do we think that Saturday's result was a lot more complicated than "Jarvis Jones was healthy and motivated?" For whatever reason (most likely a pair of nagging injuries that have been bothering him over the course of the year), Jones had been quiet since destroying Missouri in the second game of the season. Against the Gators, Jarvis put forward an effort that deserves its own DVD: 13 tackles, 4.5 tackles for a loss, 3 sacks, 2 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries. In a game full of future NFL players on both sides, Jones stood out. So if your average Georgia fan thought before the game "I'm done with Mark Richt because I can't get the taste of the South Carolina and Kentucky games out of my mouth" and after the game "I knew that Richt had it in him; I'm proud that that guy represents my program," isn't the difference between the two really just the health of Jarvis Jones's groin?</p>
<p>I am reading <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/0316091049?tag=sbnation-20" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"><i>Ike's Bluff</i></a> and a particular passage struck me last night as being relevant for the mistakes that we all make in evaluating coaches. In a chapter on President Eisenhower's opposition to the idea of limited war put forward by General Maxwell Taylor and Secretary of State Foster Dulles, Evan Thomas writes the following about Ike adopting a "deeper meaning" from Clausewitz's <i>On War</i>:</p>
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<p>Politicians and policy makers may think that they can control war by rational planning, but Clausewitz saw larger, irrational forces at work. The bias of war, Clausewitz wrote, is always toward violence; even the most well-meaning men will use whatever weapons they can find, including the sacrifice of citizens.</p>
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<p>Football is constantly described as a metaphor for warfare, so why not get a little lesson the famous Prussian theorist? We grade coaches on what happens on the field, which depends on the illusion that they control the events that unfold before our eyes. We credit <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/115256/mack-brown" class="sbn-auto-link">Mack Brown</a> for saving his job as if a back-up quarterback completed a pass on fourth down because of something the head coach did. We revise our assessments of Mark Richt because his team won a really big game for the first time in years when in reality, the win was more about healing tissue in the body of a star player than it was about anything else. It's trite to say that we give too much credit to coaches for victories and too much blame for defeats, but this weekend provided a fine illustration of that cliche.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/10/29/3570370/georgia-florida-mark-richt-jarvis-jonesMichael Bird2012-10-28T20:22:41-04:002012-10-28T20:22:41-04:00Jarvis Jones 'played like a man'
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<p>Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones had a big game in the Dawgs' win against Florida on Saturday. Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said the junior "played like a man."</p> <p>There's no sound of Georgia safety Shawn Williams calling his defensive teammates soft these days. The Bulldogs are still celebrating the biggest win of the season after they defeated the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/florida-gators" class="sbn-auto-link">Florida Gators</a> on Saturday.</p>
<p>Dawgs defensive coordinator Todd Grantham <a href="http://www.macon.com/2012/10/27/2228851/from-the-locker-room.html#storylink=cpy">raved about Jarvis Jones' performance</a>. The junior finished with 13 tackles, three sacks and two forced fumbles.</p>
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<p>"This is a man's game, and he played like a man. We moved Jarvis around a little bit more this game and played him with Jordan to get him closer to the ball so he could make plays. And he made plays. He was aggressive, and we wanted to get him where the ball was going to be, and he was just unbelievable."</p>
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<p>Georgia's defense held Florida running back <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78461/mike-gillislee" class="sbn-auto-link">Mike Gillislee</a> to just 77 yards on 22 carries. <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/131897/jeff-driskel" class="sbn-auto-link">Jeff Driskel</a> threw a pair of interceptions (of course Georgia's own quarterback <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78599/aaron-murray" class="sbn-auto-link">Aaron Murray</a> thew three of his own). But the Georgia defense was alive in a way that it wasn't getting credit for after the win against Kentucky the week before.</p>
<p>Grantham said that Williams' comments weren't far off from the type of things that are sometimes said internally with this team. It's up to teammates and coaches to challenge each other to be held accountable, even if the words come out of frustration.</p>
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<p>They were big because you guys heard them. Trust me, there's been other things said in meetings that were on the line of those things, by players, coaches and everybody. You guys just heard it."</p>
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https://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-ncaaf/2012/10/28/3568788/todd-grantham-comments-uga-floridaBrandon Scott2012-10-28T20:04:12-04:002012-10-28T20:04:12-04:00Jenkins impresses at linebacker against Florida
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<p>Georgia freshman linebacker Jordan Jenkins impressed his coaching staff and teammates with his effort against the Florida Gators.</p> <p>Freshman linebacker Jordan Jenkins started his third game of the season for the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/georgia-bulldogs" class="sbn-auto-link">Georgia Bulldogs</a> in their 17-9 win over the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/florida-gators" class="sbn-auto-link">Florida Gators</a>. He has yet to show that he does not belong, and played well opposite Jarvis Jones. Jenkins had two tackles, a half tackle for a loss, and a quarterback hurry for the Dawgs' defense, which responded with a strong effort after senior safety Shawn Williams called the defense out for being soft. <a target="_blank" href="http://dogbytesonline.com/Football-Notebook-Qb-Murray-Gets-First-Win-Over-A-Top-10-Opponent-2-63723/">Jenkins referenced those comments while speaking after the game</a>:</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 9px;">"We know what we’re doing, and we’re not soft," Jenkins said. "I feel like across the board everyone had that same mindset. That’s what brought us together."</span></p>
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<p>Jenkins was able to see more time after <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/78626/abry-jones" class="sbn-auto-link">Abry Jones</a> was lost to injury, which made <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/36176/cornelius-washington" class="sbn-auto-link">Cornelius Washington</a> shift from linebacker up to defensive end. With Jones out for the rest of the season, Jenkins could see a lot of playing time ahead. He's played in all eight games this year, and has recorded 19 tackles, six tackles for a loss, three sacks, one forced fumble and eight quarterback hurries.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-ncaaf/2012/10/28/3568690/uga-football-jordan-jenkins-floridaPeter Berkes2012-10-28T19:45:29-04:002012-10-28T19:45:29-04:00Mike Bobo says Dawgs showed 'will to win'
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<p>Georgia offensive coordinator discussed the team's win against Florida on Saturday. </p> <p>Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray made it clear that he was more content with the Bulldogs' win against the Florida Gators than concerned with his own stats or individual performance. Murray wasn't great for a significant part of the game, and finished with three interceptions.</p>
<p>Still, because of the way he finished, Saturday turned out to be one of the quarterback's finest moments at UGA. <a href="http://www.macon.com/2012/10/27/2228851/from-the-locker-room.html#storylink=cpy">Here's what Bulldogs offensive coordinator Mike Bobo had to say</a> about Murray's game:</p>
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<p>"Obviously a little off early - for about three quarters. But to finish the game in the fourth quarter the way he did, and throw with a little authority, was good to see. That was the main emphasis at halftime: Hey it's 7-6, we're winning the ballgame, and we're basically killing ourselves with penalties and throwing interceptions. I thought we protected awesome. I thought we had protection. I just didn't think we were committed to ripping it in there on some passes. But that happens. You're playing a great defense. They made plays. I like the way our guys finished the game and made plays when we needed it."</p>
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<p>Murray connected with Malcolm Mitchell for a 45-yard touchdown pass, which ultimately propelled the Dawgs to victory. He'd been so miserable earlier. Murray 4-of-8 passes for 34 yards and all of those interceptions came in the first half. Bobo said the team showed a will to win against Florida.</p>
<p>Here another line from Bobo:</p>
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<p>"I thought you saw a will tonight. A will to win. And a lot of times that gets overlooked here at Georgia, on certain weeks. Some of those other teams, they talk about how they exerted their will. At Georgia they talk about how we almost lost the game. The bottom line is we went out and got it on both sides of the ball and special teams."</p>
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<p>The Bulldogs moved up in both national polls after the win. Georgia is now ranked No. 7 in the AP Poll and No. 6 in the Coaches Poll.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-ncaaf/2012/10/28/3568610/mike-bobo-comments-uga-floridaBrandon Scott2012-10-28T19:27:24-04:002012-10-28T19:27:24-04:00Team Speed Kills on Dawgs' return to SEC East lead
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<p>The Georgia Bulldogs are, improbably, in control of their own fate within the SEC East. SB Nation SEC blog Team Speed Kills reflects on the Dawgs' road back to the SEC title game.</p> <p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/georgia-bulldogs">Georgia Bulldogs</a> held off their arch-rivals, the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/florida-gators">Florida Gators</a>, 17-9 on Saturday in Jacksonville. The win gives the Bulldogs control over their own destiny in the race for the SEC East title, a position that few saw coming after an embarrassing 35-7 loss to South Carolina a few weeks earlier. However, the Bulldogs were able to pull out the win, even though few will point to the game and say it was good football.</p>
<p>SB Nation's SEC blog, <a href="http://www.teamspeedkills.com/2012/10/27/3564678/georgia-17-florida-9-final-score-sec-east" target="_blank">Team Speed Kills</a>, has some thoughts on the game:</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 9px;">This game isn't likely to go down in the annals of great football games. There were a total of nine turnovers -- yes, nine. The teams combined for 526 yards. The winning team went 1-for-11 on third down, and its quarterback completed fewer than half his passes while throwing three interceptions against one touchdown.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 9px;">But the style points don't count in the division standings, and this game was all about the division standings. It turned out that all those concerns about Georgia's offense lining up against the Florida defense didn't matter, because Florida's offense wasn't able to move the ball enough to make the Bulldogs pay. And Florida matched Georgia's three turnovers with a half-dozen of its own.</span></p>
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<p>On Georgia's odd, and unlikely, path back to Atlanta for their second straight SEC title game.</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 9px;">And so begins one of the more unlikely runs to the SEC East title since -- well, since Georgia won the SEC East title last year. Despite a 28-point loss to South Carolina and an uninspiring showing against Kentucky, the Dawgs are firmly entrenched in the division driver's seat. If Georgia simply wins out against a relatively weak schedule, they will get the ticket to take on Alabama or LSU or anyone else who emerges from the SEC West.</span></p>
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<p>The relatively weak schedule referenced in the quote for Georgia is Ole Miss at home, and Auburn on the road. Georgia ends the year with two out of conference games against Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech, so they will know their fate in the conference within the next two weeks.</p>
https://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-ncaaf/2012/10/28/3568334/georgia-vs-florida-reaction-2012Peter Berkes