And LSU scored only 16? Especially in that 13 of our 16 points came on (1) a broken-defense Jefferson run that looked like a high-school game, and (2) the post-fiasco play. Serious question. How?
I'm thinking #2 has a lot to do with it. TO's don't help, but I think maybe last week was a serious blow to the collective psyche of Tennessee. :geaux:
We piled up 400 yards of offense on Tennessee, but four turnovers and 8 penalties killed scoring drives.
Tennessee played mistake-free football for 59 minutes and 59 seconds against LSU. A +4 turnover margin is an incredible equalizer. (Actually, Georgia has a +7 turnover difference from LSU last week.) Georgia did not kill their own drives with penalties or turnovers, and they FORCED turnovers.
Coaching. Coaching. Coaching. You'd thunk that the Mad Hatter Fudd could have watched the game films from Oregon and other Tennessee melt downs and copied the game plans. Or, we might just only be a average team playing with superior talent and that reflects back to coaching.
Its called any given saturday in the SEC. Seriously, yes, UGA and Tenn are down this year, but they aren't fielding High school kids.... How do you think upsets happen? = not showing up to play and or mistakes...
THIS plus a million. We blew both of our own legs off with two mis-aimed loose cannons named "turnovers" and "penalties." That and Tennessee was very emotionally dialed in to perfect execution for 59 minutes and 55 seconds while we were clearly out to lunch (players and coaches). Contrast that to this week; Tennessee -3 in turnover ratio which lead to 17 Georgia points (and unquestionably took points off the board for the Vols) while UGA was more "dialed in" having lost four in a row and desperate for a win while the Vols obviously still had last week's craziness on their minds and clearly were not ready to play.
