This just in: Georgia’s No. 8 is pretty good
Five things we learned over the weekend:
1. Georgia’s No. 8 is pretty good: There are very few freshmen at this level of college football who really live up to the recruiting hype. Fortunately for Georgia, A.J. Green is one of them. It was clear going into Saturday night’s game with Arizona State that Georgia OC Mike Bobo wanted to work really hard to get the ball to Green and it paid off with eight catches for 159 yards. I’ve seen a lot of really good receivers at Georgia from Lindsay Scott, to Andre Hastings, Brice Hunter, Reggie Brown, and Gibson. It is a long list of All-SEC players.
But consider this: Georgia has never had a consensus All-America player at the wide receiver position. Green has a chance to become the first before he leaves Georgia if he stays healthy and listens to Bobo and Mark Richt.
The passing game should be open all season because opposing defenses will decide they are not going to let RB Knowshon Moreno and the Georgia running attack beat them. If Matt Stafford and the receivers keep playing like this, the Bulldogs are going to be hard to beat.
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9/22/08
