This week’s 3-2-1 is brought to you by fall finally hitting Georgia and quarter zip season arriving for all us pasty, mediocre white dudes. This is our time to shine, fellas. Let’s get after it.
3 fax
1. Texas helped build our dynasty. It’s New Years 2019. I’m in NoLa stuffed on etouffe and Hurricanes from Pat O’s. The wife is mad because maybe I came on a little too strong with the waitress at Jacque Imo’s. We’ve come off a national championship game the year before and we’ve gone 11-2 and are in the Sugar Bowl. Several guys opt out but make the trip and, reportedly, some were a distraction (particularly one DB making it rain at Harrah’s supposedly). Fast forward to the game, and we just flat weren’t competitive in a closer-than-the-score-looked 28-21 loss. The next year, we’re in a similar situation and Kirby makes a choice: if you ain’t playin’; you’re stayin’. The team comes out and punches Baylor in the mouth and probably plays the most complete game we played in the 2019 season. That set us up for a run where we’ve lost one (1) game to a team not named Bama since 2020 began. The lessons learned against Texas helped make us who we are now. (Also, despite reports at the time, Texas was not “back”).
2. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. Let’s face it: Texas has looked the part this year of #1. They’re undefeated and they’ve handled business. There’s just one problem: their schedule is easier than a girl who tells you “I don’t usually do this sort of thing.” It’s Charmin soft. Their best wins are against a Michigan team that doesn’t even throw the ball and an Oklahoma team that wishes it could but doesn’t have any healthy receivers. Saturday night is by far their biggest test. The Dawgs showed in Tuscaloosa they can take a punch and get off the mat. Can Texas take a punch from the Dawgs?
3. Don’t mess with Texas!
2 questions
1. Who are the real 2024 Dawgs? Is it the team that showed up for the second half of the Clemson and Bama games? Or is it the team that showed up in the second half last week and screwed around with State? On the other hand…
2. Is one bad half clouding our perception of this team? What if we don’t spot Bama 28? What if we pick off that last pass to the 17 year old instead of him scoring? How do we feel about this team then? We’d be a unanimous #1 and everyone would brush off the Kentucky game as road jitters and the second half of State as practice the way LSU 2022 was in the second half. Let’s face it - our win against Clemson looks better every week. Auburn should have rolled into Athens undefeated and they got dominated on a day the stadium was so dead it made Kirby mad. The State game was never in doubt. Maybe a bad half - or really a bad quarter - of football has soured us all on a team that is the 1st or 2nd most talented in the country and has the tools to make it 3 out of 4 natties.
1 prediction
It’s a Time to Kill and The sad eyes of Texas will be upon the Longhorns on Saturday as the Dawgs daze and confuse the home team by lighting up the scoreboard as the Million Dollar Man John Anthony watches the point spread go up in a smoke. HORNS DOWN
3 fax
1. Texas helped build our dynasty. It’s New Years 2019. I’m in NoLa stuffed on etouffe and Hurricanes from Pat O’s. The wife is mad because maybe I came on a little too strong with the waitress at Jacque Imo’s. We’ve come off a national championship game the year before and we’ve gone 11-2 and are in the Sugar Bowl. Several guys opt out but make the trip and, reportedly, some were a distraction (particularly one DB making it rain at Harrah’s supposedly). Fast forward to the game, and we just flat weren’t competitive in a closer-than-the-score-looked 28-21 loss. The next year, we’re in a similar situation and Kirby makes a choice: if you ain’t playin’; you’re stayin’. The team comes out and punches Baylor in the mouth and probably plays the most complete game we played in the 2019 season. That set us up for a run where we’ve lost one (1) game to a team not named Bama since 2020 began. The lessons learned against Texas helped make us who we are now. (Also, despite reports at the time, Texas was not “back”).
2. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. Let’s face it: Texas has looked the part this year of #1. They’re undefeated and they’ve handled business. There’s just one problem: their schedule is easier than a girl who tells you “I don’t usually do this sort of thing.” It’s Charmin soft. Their best wins are against a Michigan team that doesn’t even throw the ball and an Oklahoma team that wishes it could but doesn’t have any healthy receivers. Saturday night is by far their biggest test. The Dawgs showed in Tuscaloosa they can take a punch and get off the mat. Can Texas take a punch from the Dawgs?
3. Don’t mess with Texas!
2 questions
1. Who are the real 2024 Dawgs? Is it the team that showed up for the second half of the Clemson and Bama games? Or is it the team that showed up in the second half last week and screwed around with State? On the other hand…
2. Is one bad half clouding our perception of this team? What if we don’t spot Bama 28? What if we pick off that last pass to the 17 year old instead of him scoring? How do we feel about this team then? We’d be a unanimous #1 and everyone would brush off the Kentucky game as road jitters and the second half of State as practice the way LSU 2022 was in the second half. Let’s face it - our win against Clemson looks better every week. Auburn should have rolled into Athens undefeated and they got dominated on a day the stadium was so dead it made Kirby mad. The State game was never in doubt. Maybe a bad half - or really a bad quarter - of football has soured us all on a team that is the 1st or 2nd most talented in the country and has the tools to make it 3 out of 4 natties.
1 prediction
It’s a Time to Kill and The sad eyes of Texas will be upon the Longhorns on Saturday as the Dawgs daze and confuse the home team by lighting up the scoreboard as the Million Dollar Man John Anthony watches the point spread go up in a smoke. HORNS DOWN
