Nevada Dawg

Well I would sure as hell hope that if Dante declares he won't go to the Raiders. With Tom Brady as a Raiders minority owner, you can be sure that he would want to select whomever he thinks is best qualified to run a pro set offense. But I also think he is smart enough to recommend signing a decent free agent under whom a high draft choice QB could learn under for a year or two. I don't know the back-up QBs, but I do know in the event of a Dante injury Lanning will go with whomever gives the Ducks the best chance to win. That as always Kirby's rationale and the Dawgs were lucky to have a talented (but game inexperienced) QB in Gunner Stockton to plug in and rally the team, which was behind Texas, to a win in the 24 SEC Championship game. That worked because the rest of the team loved Gunner and played their butts off for him in that game in a way they didn't for Carson Beck (that's a long story). I am sure CDL knows the guy the Ducks would be most likely to rally around and that's who would get the nod. True, Gunner didn't pull off a playoff win against Notre Dame last year, but he was hardly the reason Georgia lost that game. And hey, the quarterfinals of the CFP is a tough challenge for ANYONE who is making their first start in college football. So let's hope that Dante remains healthy. Go Ducks!

Bama at Autzen I'd agree with but man, Tech is hot and are going to be a very tough out for anyone I fear.

All reports out there indicate that the parents (especially mama) were all Dawg. They love their son and will get behind him, but mama was impressed with the care Mike Bobo took in developing a #1 NFL pick (Matt Stafford) and was confident that he could do it again with Jared. Part of that development had been easing Matt into the starting role late in his first year and not immediately throwing him to the SEC wolves. Jared had better be ready because he will get baptized early without the benefit of all those senior Vandy starters that Diego enjoyed. Given all the hero ball Jared got to play against inferior high school competition (much like Arch Manning) Jared may believe he is ready to handle anything. I guess we will see how that will work out.

From my perspective the Bye is preferable. At #3, Georgia was set up for that. They gain nothing by playing Alabama in the SEC title game (without their all-SEC center no less), and should they lose after having to play this extra game, they could possibly fall far enough to be on the road in the first round of the playoffs. That would be a severe penalty for the "honor" of playing for the SEC Championship IMHO.

Don't know how likely this would be but this guy would be a real coup. He was a star offensive analyst behind the curtain for Georgia's two recent Natties (with OC Todd Monken perhaps getting more credit than he deserved, though he was good). He deserves a lot of credit for molding a mid-level talent base into a formidable offense at Georgia Tech, This is a hire I could get behind enthusiastically.

I actually thought Chip looked a little stale this year from the beginning, although in all fairness, he didn't have a tremendous stable of offensive talent to work with.

I'd most like to see Herbert or Nix myself, but that's just me.

He is a great hire to be sure. But before anointing him as the best hire ever, let's see him win something of significance first, lol.

Yeah the pass pro tonight had a lot to do with Dante's passing efficiency. I suspect Dante will have something to say about this (he sure as hell should) in the post-game interviews.

I was wowed by how well Dante slung the rock tonight. A truly awesome performance!

So sorry WK. I lost my dawg Pokey in 1994 and have never had the inclination to try to replace him. My wife didn't, but he enjoyed Dawg football with me, actually watching the game and cueing his responses to my body language. When the Georgia Redcoat band would strike up the fight song after a Georgia touchdown, he would howl and was good at it as he was a quarter wolf dog. He was a great companion who helped me to get through the stresses and emotions of the dissolution of my first marriage. I've healed now from his death (and that marriage), but I can never forget and will always celebrate that Dawg!

True, but we will get some strong clues from he B1G championship game.

Not saying OBD is invincible, but I wouldn't automatically dismiss the possibility that OBD might beat the Bucks. Everybody points to the fact that OSU has soundly beaten its opponents, but I am not high on the quality of those opponents. OSU has the softest strength of schedule among all the top five B1G teams, right at 50th nationally. The Ducks, by contrast, are at 20 if I remember what I saw on Sunday. Ohio State may yet prove to be the best in the land, but they certainly haven't convinced me of that. Time will tell. Go Ducks!!

Unfortunately I do have a 9AM game Saturday with my Dawgs. But that is fortunate in one regard--about the time that ends, I can flip over to see the matchup at Iowa. Go Dawgs!! Go Ducks!! Keep on track moving toward the CFPs.

Yep, hopefully that early media rat poison has worn off. There is no way the Ducks don't get in the playoffs at 11-1 and almost certainly at 10-2 unless the second loss is a bad one. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a spanking at home by Indiana should have been a giant eye-opener and I can't wait to see how the Ducks respond when faced with significant upcoming adversity. Knowing the head man, I suspect that they will tighten their chin straps and handle it just fine. Sometimes it helps not to be the new media darlings on the block. I think this may be one of those times. I guarantee that people who know this game best haven't forgotten who Oregon has become and are unlikely to underestimate them.