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The Daily Dawg Caller What time is it in Texas?

Georgia’s “10 to 9” upset victory over Texas in the 1984 Cotton Bowl remains the Bulldogs’ lone win over the Longhorns in the five-game series entering tomorrow.

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The 1983 team got me hooked on Georgia football as an eight-year-old, so I have a lot of fond memories from this game.

For one, and some of you may remember, Georgia was given very little to zero chance of upsetting Texas. “On paper, Georgia has no chance,” The Macon Telegraph declared.

“Going into the Cotton Bowl, I got sick of hearing about how bad we were going to get beat out in Dallas; we supposedly had no chance,” linebacker Know Culpepper once told me in an interview. “That was the primary reason why beating Texas was such a sweet victory.”

It was a historic victory that just as easily could have ended in defeat. Check out the stats below. Lastinger, who was named the game’s MVP, had totaled only 64 offensive yards (rushing + passing) on 28 plays prior to his game-winning, 17-yard touchdown run.

Also, the ironic thing about Texas’ fumbled punt was the fact the Longhorns actually thought the Bulldogs weren’t going to punt at all, but run a fake punt. Texas didn’t even have its normal punt returner in place—but instead Craig Curry, the team’s starting safety who had never fielded a punt in his college career.

Nevertheless, more than 40 years after the 10-9 win over Texas in Dallas, some Georgia fans still wonder aloud, “What time is it in Texas?” Only to be answered by those in the know with, “It’s 10 to 9.”

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Anyone else remember this "sweet" victory?

Biden/Harris DOJ is suing states that WON'T let non-citizens vote smh

Justify this Chat Dems lol

Just win baby. If you have to cheat to do it so be it. The Democrat Way

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Oct 15, 2020 Biden leads Trump by 10 in RCP avg of nat'l polls. Oct 15, 2024 Harris leads by 1....

And Trump leads all of the battlegrounds with the exception of Wisconsin, which he trails by 0.3 pts. The panic is for good reason. If we have learned anything since 2016, it is that not only does Trump always outperform polls using traditional methods, he also always breaks late.

His 10 point deficit on this date in 2020 went down to 7 before the election. He lost by 4 nationally, but less than 1 pt electorally.

Trump voters are naturally skeptical of cold call pollsters. And that skepticism is probably even higher given the even more super-charged divisive environment and distrust of big tech well earned the last four years.

Furthermore, so much of the anti-Trump vote is rooted in hatred for Trump. Is that a voter that breaks late? Hell no. That is a voter that would have crawled over broken glass six months ago to vote for Trump.

The biggest issue I see for Harris is that a late breaking vote is the most likely vote to simply vote on issues. A vote that gets pissed off every time they check out of the grocery store. And this voter not only isn't required to love Trump, it is also a voter that may not have even voted in the past, but now will given the fact that they are pissed.

The working class is more than ever the class of Trump. And that is the part of the electorate most likely to outperform historical turn-out, because the economy is not working for them the way it is working for the NVIDIA shareholder, who has the luxury of prioritizing J6 and abortion over inflation. The J6 / abortion voter has always been priced in, and it got a bump when Harris replaced Biden, but that already happened.

For that reason I think the turnout models for republicans likely under-count the "pissed off factor" towards the incumbent party. Maybe there was an element of that in 2016, but the low / middle class wasn't hurting nearly as badly then, plus they had the recent memory of the late Bush years and the GFC to make them feel things were better than the last time a republican was in office.

If anything, there may be reason to believe the now famous Trump under-polling factor may be even more pronounced this year. And he is 9 pts ahead of where he was last time.
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Ok, Texas celebration is over….what are your early thoughts about Florida?…..

They are clearly not the same team they were early on. Lagway makes then a much better and a more formidable opponent. Just focusing on him, he can be UGA’s worst nightmare. But I haven’t watched enough to know if the rest of the UF team talent matches his ability.

On the other hand, UGA’s defense seems to have found an identity just in the nick of time. So from those who view these games in some serious depth, is this a bad matchup for UGA? Will the talent differential make this an easier game than it seems to be right now? Were your surprised by how easily they dispatched Kentucky?

Georgia/Texas Media Takes: Ryen Russillo and Todd McShay

RR: I didn't go into this game thinking UGA could not win, but considering what we had seen from them, the offense against Bama, MSU, the Kentucky thing...but my god. For them to dominate the way they did with their edge guys, all those..no. 10, 11, 13 against that Texas OL? That's the most impressive performance I've seen from one single unit all season long. They are where we're going to start.

TM: It was 17-0 when I was able to start watching. Ewers was benched at that time. Carson Beck was still in the game. Then I watched the tape yesterday. And I'm looking at Beck and wondering why isn't he the guy that's benched. I thought Ewers looked more confident than Beck, but he just ran into a freaking buzzsaw. But as it went on, I started to understand. He was feeling it. Ghosts in the pocket. He wasn't getting settled. Sark just benched him to calm him down. He was doing everything right the first three series but the series or two before he was benched, you could see the pressure was affecting him. That's when the bad decisions, hurried throws were happening. And in the second half he started to settle down and the offense started moving it a little bit.
But at the end of the day, you play that well on defense? As angry as they were, as disciplined as they were....that's the secret sauce for Kirby. It's the disrespect card to get through to every single player on that defense. It's not to get them in a lather at the start of the game, but during the week in practice telling them "No one believes in you", what you're gonna get is a great level of focus. All of the plays they made were by great players, but also because the scheme was dialed up really well and the players were exactly in the spots they needed to be. And the result is Jalon Walker, one of the most versatile defenders in the entire country, having all the plays he made. That resulted in M. Williams with two sacks. And another dude, no one is talking about him. But I got to study this dude. Number 6 for Georgia. My god did he jump off the tape. Sack, INT, fumble recovery...he was all over the field.

RR: Going into that game, you're like Texas checks all the boxes. And we think we have the three or four separated teams at the beginning of the year and then Georgia doesn't look like that. Beck's not playing well. I mean Beck wasn't getting benched because it's Stockton vs. Manning.

TM: Yeah, and just so we're clear, I'm not saying Beck should have been benched. Just watching on tape what I had missed earlier in the game, if one of these QBs was gonna be benched based on that, it was Beck with 3 picks.

RR: Yeah, I don't think it's as easy as saying Texas is a fraud because they haven't beaten anyone. I still think they are in this. But I also wonder if Sark thinks he has to change up his game planning a little bit with how the Oline looked. But I just came off of a week thinking Texas is this incredible team that no one can beat and now it's back to Georgia again and I just wonder if we aren't doing the same mistake again. And maybe this just varies week to week. I think Texas would gameplan a rematch completely differently considering the edge guys for Georgia.

TM: Let's learn our lesson. Georgia's second half vs. Bama was more eye-popping than what we saw from Texas in the second half. But there's some similarities. Texas' performance wasn't to that level, but it was certainly better than the first half. The other thing is, Georgia may never play that good of a game again on defense, or maybe they will and this is the new standard. Take a step back and be reasonable. Texas ran into a buzzsaw. GameDay is there. All the hype. This was the Texas show. It'll be different if there's a second time around. Let's see how Texas recovers from this. My guess is we'll see these two play again. I was overwhelmed by Oregon and how they played last week against OSU, but to me Texas is still a better football team than Oregon. I'd take Texas over PSU every time. I would give a slight lean to Texas over Ohio St. And I hope there is a rematch because I do think it will be different.

SIAP...On Bobo

Not sure if this was already discussed, but as much crap as Bobo gets, and often deservedly so, he deserves massive kudos on the timing of the flea flicker. Just one play earlier, Texas thought they were going to get off the field on that play. We get the first down, punching them in the gut for a second, and he uses that moment to whack them over the head while they were staggering. Brilliant timing. After that play, moving all those yards in 2 plays, the air went out of that defense.

I know we like to give Aggies a hard time, deservedly so, but I got this email early this morning from an Aggie

that was Mike Mosley and Gary Kubiak's center at A&M. Not a bad message and spot on.

And just like that was one game a lot of people learned a lot of lessons.

Texas Football learned - WELCOME TO THE SEC! This is big boy Football. You played a truly terrible Oklahoma team that would lose to Fred’s middle school, and Mississippi State, and you thought you were ready for the SEC. Nope.

The entire world learned how obnoxious the Texas fan base is. Throwing bottles and trash and debris on the field after a contested passing interference call??? That happens 10 times in every game. But magically, Texas fans thought that since they are still, after all, THE University, University of Texas, they can affect the outcome of a game by throwing stuff on the field. That was obnoxious as hell I hope they get fined $1 billion.

Sadly, the SEC administration learned that no matter how hard they try to rig this game and this season with that ridiculous schedule, in favor of the university of Texas, the Georgia Bulldogs are just better. I hope UGA broke them and we beat them 100-0.
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