Dawg Sports Report
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Georgia 20, Alabama 17. Our hurricane-party supplies are now victory-party supplies.
Kirby Smart says beating Alabama doesn’t measure his happiness, but Georgia won in Tuscaloosa for the first time since 2007 anyway, and No. 1 may be next.
Both sidelines spent the week calling the other one tough, which is how you know somebody is fixing to find out the hard way.
Kirby Smart is 120-14 against the rest of college football and 2-7 against Alabama, and tonight in Tuscaloosa is his next chance to make that second number less embarrassing.
Kirby Smart spent the week praising Alabama’s quarterback like a man who’d watched rather a lot of film, and the Georgia defense now has to catch the fellow he described.
Camille, Michael, Katrina—and a football forecast that calls for cold beer, dry socks and a little Georgia optimism.
Kirby Smart called the trip to Tuscaloosa a brand game, and by Friday the betting line had quietly changed sides.
Updated game-day morning: Isaias came ashore Friday night and is fading over Alabama. Tuscaloosa gets a wet, gusty kickoff; Albany still has a Flood Watch. Plus who’s out, and the line moved overnight.
Chauncey Bowens, Georgia’s goal-line hammer, is out for Tuscaloosa, and the last yard on Saturday night now belongs to somebody else.
Five games in, the Bulldogs’ run game has been stopped at or behind the line on 12 of 147 designed runs. The margin over opponents, though, has narrowed every week. Next up: Tuscaloosa.
