Score Predictions
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Our TE Efficiency
- Pick/market: We had 25 completions in the first game, and only 6 went to TE's, and as you pointed out, great results.
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Saturday Weather
- Pick/market: TLDR: Scattered thunderstorms are expected Saturday which may impact the game.
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Watching this 30/30 on Lane Kiffin
- Pick/market: ChatGPT pyschiatric evaluation: " Highly extraverted, achievement-oriented and sensation-seeking individual with pronounced narcissistic and competitive personality traits, characterized by high self-confidence, strong status motivation, interpersonal assertiveness, low tolerance for constraint, and an unusually high...
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Prediction for this year's team
- Pick/market: If the win both the SECC and CFP, they'll be #1, having accomplished just as much and beaten more top 10 teams than any other Kirby team.
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TN vs Tech
- Pick/market: 2-0 tech with a botched snap over the QBs head out of the back of the end zone for the 2.
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Georgia remains No. 1 in Week 2 247Sports SEC poll
- Pick/market: The weight for SEC football ended last week with all 16 teams returning to action.
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Game Breakdown
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Freshman Report: Breaking down the play of Georgia newcomers against Tennessee State
- Georgia freshman Zykie Helton started at right guard and played 31 snaps against Tennessee State, confirming an actual opening-game starting role rather than only a projected place on the offensive line.
- Georgia freshman Craig Dandridge caught two passes for 36 yards in 13 snaps against Tennessee State, adding receiving production while the Bulldogs used 27 freshmen in the 63-3 opener.
- Georgia freshman Elijah Littlejohn recorded three tackles, one sack and one tackle for loss in 14 snaps against Tennessee State, producing a backfield stop within a limited opening-game workload.
- Georgia freshman Jordan Smith logged one tackle and two pass breakups in 17 snaps against Tennessee State, supplying specific pass-defense production during the opener's broad personnel rotation.
- Georgia freshman Harran Zureikat handled two kickoffs totaling 130 yards against Tennessee State and produced a touchback on both attempts, with no larger sample of his kickoff performance supplied in the report.
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Injuries
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- Intel: 3Q, 9:40: James Clemens 28, Gadsden City 15 MJ Gideon takes it to the house from 45 yards out for James Clemens.
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***Jordan’s Friday Q&A
- Pick/market: Kirby wouldn't say it, but that first game absence was a suspension.
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Saturday Predictions
- Injury: Finding a good balance of living reps for the 1s and 2s while not risking injury is a delicate act.
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Georgia safety Kyron Jones back and better than ever
- Georgia safety Kyron Jones started the 2026 opener beside KJ Bolden and finished the Tennessee State game with three tackles. That is game evidence of his return after a foot injury ended his 2025 starting stint, rather than only a preseason projection that he might reclaim the strong-safety role.
- Jones' recovery included a setback that prevented a late-2025 return, missed spring practice and a pitch count at the start of Georgia's 2026 fall camp. The report says he showed starting ability by the first scrimmage and subsequently started the opener; it does not announce a current snap restriction or establish that the old camp limit still applies.
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Battle of the Trash Can
- Injury: It’s true that the same version of a team does not show up every week.
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Rise and Grind: Where's the Rush?
- Injury: Welcome to Rise and Grind, a daily series where I start every morning by sharing what's on my mind about Georgia football.
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Former UK running back Dante Dowdell shares recovery update
- Georgia transfer running back Dante Dowdell's participation in 2026 remains uncertain after serious injuries in a summer ATV accident, with his recovery update describing right-arm nerve damage and broken collarbones among the injuries.
- After a two-and-a-half-month hospitalization, Dowdell shared footage of assisted walking and physical therapy, but the report established no timetable for a return to football.
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Quarterbacks
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Stetson…
- QB: stetson is a better overall talent than Murray and his last year here was as good of QB play as I've seen at Georgia, but Murray would've absolutely won it all with those 21...
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It’s Cooper Rush time…
- QB: Yes with regards to Penix, but I've gotta believe especially at the QB position that Matt Ryan know a little bit about choosing the right fit.
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Michael Penix Jr
- QB: I actually like the new group in place, but they inherited this QB mess.
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What is everyone’s bold/ hot takes after week one?
- Pick/market: Love a good post week one hot take.
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- QB: I don’t think any professional football franchise has ever been so bad at managing its quarterback situation on a year in, year out basis.
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Coaching / Pressers
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Never Forget….
- OL/DB: If you want a UGA specific connection to today, Greg Trevor, UGA's Public Safety Communications and Outreach Coordinator a 9/11 survivor.
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Georgia Football: Head Coach Kirby Smart Pre-Western Kentucky Press Conference
- Georgia outside linebacker Chase Linton remains week-to-week, according to Kirby Smart before Western Kentucky. Smart said the younger outside linebackers have been taking additional reps and developing while injured veterans help in meetings; he gave no return date or clearance for Linton.
- Georgia's Kamari Brooks played extensively in the opener but is only recently back from an injury that cost him fall-camp time. Smart says his readiness is still being tested and the staff is accelerating his learning so he can contribute; opener playing time should not be read as proof he is fully developed or unrestricted going forward.
- Smart cautions against overrating Georgia's offensive-line performance or pass rush from the opener: the opponent was overmatched in size and speed, and the quarterback released the ball quickly. Nobody played more than roughly 30-40 snaps. Rotating linemen beside different teammates was routine from practice, not a reported communication problem.
- Georgia linebacker Chris Cole gives the defense speed, length and sideline-to-sideline range, with Smart highlighting his edge ability. Smart says Cole has less density than the larger versatile linebackers used as comparisons and less inside-linebacker experience than Quay; his edge strengths do not establish an identical all-purpose role.
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Offensive Updates
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Rise and Grind: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
- LB: Welcome to Rise and Grind, a daily series where I start every morning by sharing what's on my mind about Georgia football.
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Bama down their only returning OL for ky
- OL/LB: They will likely win, but the difference between DeBoer and Kirby is not in the big time opponents, but DeBoer 's inability to get Bama ready to go every week against the weak sisters.
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Rise and Grind: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
- Georgia used 15 different pass catchers against Tennessee State, but Isiah Canion had only two receptions for 22 yards and London Humphreys went without a catch in 17 snaps, making their quiet opener a usage observation rather than evidence of an injury.
- Georgia's beat writer expects the wide-receiver rotation to narrow by SEC play while Canion and Humphreys retain important roles, with Kirby Smart praising Canion's physicality and matchup value rather than announcing a reduced role after the opener.
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Talyn Taylor
- Offense: He made 2 on Saturday.
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Defensive Updates
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Rise and Grind: Where's the Rush?
- Georgia's outside-linebacker options remain reduced by Amaris Williams' spring knee injury and Chase Linton's lower-leg injury, with Linton described as week-to-week rather than assigned a confirmed return date.
- Newcomer PJ Dean recorded 1.5 sacks, 1.5 tackles for loss and two tackles against Tennessee State, while Khamari Brooks added three tackles as Georgia tested younger pass-rush options in the opener.
- Defensive end Gabe Harris generated multiple pressures despite recording only two tackles, contributing to a Georgia pass rush that finished with three sacks against Tennessee State, matching its highest single-game sack total from last season.
- Kirby Smart highlighted inside linebacker Chris Cole's speed, length and ability to work on the edge, while Cole's opener included half a sack, a tackle for loss, three tackles and a pass breakup.
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- LB: Highest Graded Linebacker from Week 1: 🐶 Chris Cole, Georgia: 92.0 @GeorgiaFootball
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Everything
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ND: Border War video
- LB: it's one reason we will see the CFP-24… these are two fanbases that would be far more engaged knowing they could get into the CFP, regardless of how far they go after that.
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Talyn Taylor TD Celebration
- Intel: there have been a dozen posts over the last couple days (some going multiple pages) criticizing TT.
Georgia games
- Intel: Here is the link to the Sirius XM website with the games listed and stations for home and away teams.
Nostalgia time, “Leonard’s Losers”
- LB: Memories of riding to or from youth league football games with my Dad and listening to Leonard's Losers will be with me as long as I'm on the green side of the grass.
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After week one…
- Intel: College football- the new high maintenance floozy version.
Paywalling highlights
- Practice: I have experience in the political world, and there are all sorts of things that if you ask people, they hate.
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Kirby Smart/Isiah Wilson
- LB: highly doubt we will ever hear all of the behind the scenes stuff the staff had to do to keep him focused on football… what a nutcase
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Good Morning Dawg Nation
- LB: morning dawgs, Well, I survived a two-day shopping scavenger hunt for reclaimed or antique building materials.
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Y’all remember
- Intel: They are far worse than broke (definition being having no money or bankrupt).
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