Dawg Sports Report

Sophomore Rasean Dinkins got his first start at strong safety against Vanderbilt, and his second exam is Keelon Russell in Tuscaloosa on a Saturday night.

Georgia and Alabama arrive Saturday with the two highest-scoring offenses in the country, and the old idea of a nice 13-10 rock fight has been taken out back and retired.

Georgia hasn’t won at Bryant-Denny since 2007, and the Bulldogs who’ll try to end that streak on Saturday seem to find all the history a little tiresome.

With rain and wind in the Tuscaloosa forecast and Alabama favored by a point and a half, the Bulldog who matters most on Saturday may be the one who is on the field the least.

Kirby Smart opened Alabama week by praising Keelon Russell, and after what happened in Starkville on Saturday, nobody in Athens could call it idle flattery.

Georgia’s coach has found plenty wrong with a comfortable win, and now his defense has to fix it against a team he calls extremely physical.

Georgia finally draws a top-10 opponent, and it has to go to the one town where its clocks have been stuck since 2007.

Georgia lost another receiver in the 38-14 win over Vanderbilt, and Gunner Stockton played his best game anyway with whoever was still standing.

Georgia’s 257 points through five games are the second-most in school history, behind only a 1910 team that will keep its record, and the next team on the schedule scores in bunches too.