Georgia Moneyball

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.

The Commodores hit Georgia square in the mouth on the opening drive, and then the Bulldogs scored 31 straight points and spent the afternoon making the case Kirby Smart made afterward.

Jared Curtis, who committed to Georgia twice and then signed with Vanderbilt, may come back to Sanford Stadium for homecoming, and Kirby Smart has already explained his view of the matter.

Vanderbilt’s coach calls a trip to Athens exactly why you take the job, and the 55-0 scoreboard from his last visit isn’t changing his mind.

Jared Curtis twice promised himself to Georgia, signed with Vanderbilt instead, and may yet limp into Athens for homecoming.