Georgia Moneyball
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Four games in, the Bulldogs’ run game is stopped at the line half as often as in 2023–25. Yards per play has dropped every week, though, and Vanderbilt visits Saturday.
Georgia played eleven true freshmen for 1,039 snaps against Oklahoma, and Kirby Smart explained the whole business in two words.
Jared Curtis flipped from Georgia to Vanderbilt and comes home to Athens a starter, Georgia just flipped a cornerback away from Cal, and Kirby Smart would like everyone to remember that nobody is committed until they sign.
The Commodores have launched coaches, one very famous broadcaster and a few Georgia heartbreaks. Unbeaten Georgia would like to step over them Saturday and keep going.
With Nate Frazier’s ribs a matter for the injury report, Dwight Phillips went 54 yards against Oklahoma and made Kirby Smart’s August compliment look like plain honesty.
Kirby Smart spoke kindly Monday about Jared Curtis, the quarterback who twice said yes to Georgia, and on Saturday Curtis comes to Sanford Stadium wearing Vanderbilt’s colors.
Chris Cole picked up two Oklahoma fumbles, ran one back 85 yards, and on Monday the SEC named him its Defensive Player of the Week.
Jared Curtis, the Nashville quarterback who flipped from Georgia to Vanderbilt, brings the Commodores to Athens on Saturday to finish the conversation in person.
Gunner Stockton opened Saturday like a man who couldn’t miss, then found out in the second half what the rest of us already knew: nobody stays perfect for long.
Georgia beat Oklahoma 41–13, and by Sunday morning Kirby Smart sounded like a man who had lost.