Saturday, August 31, 2024

First Day of Quest

 

The Sports Desk is all excited today because the No. 1 University of Georgia Bulldogs won their season opening football game today against the No. 14 Clemson Tigers, 34-3. Clemson hasn't scored a TD on Georgia since 2014, while the Bulldogs now have 40 straight regular season wins (the NCAA record is 45) and are 43-2 overall in the last three seasons. 

Georgia opened their 2021 season with a 10-3 win over Clemson and went on to win back-to-back National Championships. Let's see what they do with this season's opening ass-whupping of Clemson.

Georgia QB and Heisman candidate Carson Beck went 23 for 33 (69.7%) for 278 yards and 2 TDs, but the big news today was freshman running back Nate Frazier, who got 83 yards and one TD on 11 carries. Junior back Cash Jones got a 15-yard TD on his only carry and kicker Peyton Woodring made two field goals, one a career long of 55 yards.

Schadenfreude: the top-ranked team in the Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 10 Florida State, lost last weekend to unranked Georgia Tech, 24-21. No. 14 Clemson lost to Georgia today, and unranked Virginia Tech lost to Vanderbilt in OT, 34-27. At this point, No. 19  Miami is the pride and joy of the ACC, as they're leading unranked Florida, 24-10, at the Half as I write.   



No comments: