Bouncing back from Bama won’t be easy for Dawgs
1. Bouncing back from Bama won’t be easy for Dawgs: Physically, the Bulldogs need a break after getting beat up pretty good by Alabama. Alabama is a team that will punish everybody and Georgia certainly had the battle scars on Sunday. But I believe the more important aspect of this bye week is mental. It takes time for a good team—and Georgia is still a very good team—to get over being physically dominated the way the Bulldogs were on Saturday night. Clemson, I would suggest to you, still hasn’t gotten over its 34-10 beat down by Alabama yet. That kind of loss does something to the psyche of a team, particularly a team that had national championship aspirations. What Georgia needs to do now is pretty simple: Quit thinking about national rankings, the BCS, College Game Day and focus on the task at hand, which is beating Tennessee at home on Oct. 11. Georgia still controls its own destiny in the SEC East and if the Bulldogs take care of business, they may get another shot at Alabama in the Georgia Dome on Dec. 6.
2. Bama is back:
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9/29/08
