Florence's rains still haven't reached Atlanta yet.  In fact, it now looks like they won't get here at all - the forecast for this evening calls for only a "slight chance" of showers, although just two hours east of here, Clemson, South Carolina is experiencing an 80% chance of Florence rainfall, proving that even God hates the Clemson Tigers.  

So if you haven't guessed already, this isn't a weather post, this is the Sports Desk talking.  Yesterday, the No. 3-ranked Georgia Bulldogs improved to 3-0 on Week 3 of the college football season.  3, 3, 3 - there has to be some significance in there somewhere.

In our opinion, the Dogs should be ranked at least No. 2.  While they handily defeated a ranked opponent last week, beating then-No. 24 South Carolina 41-17, and then beat unranked Middle Tennessee State 49 -7 this week, the No. 2-ranked Clemson Tigers barely squeaked by Texas A&M last week, needing a missed Aggies two-point conversion to prevent OT, and this week beat unranked Georgia Southern by "only" 38-7.  Georgia has played better and scored more points against better teams, but the AP Poll still keeps Clemson at No. 2 and Georgia at No. 3.

The Sports Desk thinks Hurricane Florence is just God's way of flushing the entire state of South Carolina - the overranked Clemson Tigers, the overrated South Carolina Gamecocks, Lindsey Graham, their ridiculous mustard-based barbeque, and everything - back into the ocean and the primordial ooze from which they crawled.

Of course, the big news down here is that Auburn lost a heartbreaker to LSU, 22-21, on a last-second field goal.  We're disappointed to see a team in the Three-Hour Drive lose to a team from outside the radius, and are concerned because Georgia has both LSU (at Death Valley) and Auburn (between the hedges) on it's schedule later this season.  Both games should be challenges, as well as a showcase for Georgia to make their case for a No. 1 ranking. 

Tennessee (also on Georgia's schedule later this season) won their game, as did Alabama (we'll probably be seeing them in the SEC Championship game), although both Georgia Tech and Georgia State lost theirs.  The Tech and State losses give those two teams losing records so far on the season, and as they're both here in Atlanta and in the very center of the Three-Hour Drive, it makes the Sports Desk wonder if the geometry of the 3HD isn't actually a simple circle but more like a donut with a hole in the middle.  

Next week, the Bulldogs travel to Missouri, where they historically have had their troubles.  Clemson comes to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech, Alabama hosts A&M, and Auburn hosts Arkansas.  All should be good games.

Anyway, you know the schedules and you know the scores - there's no big reveal here - you have the internet, you've watched the games, and you know what happened.  It's just that the Sports Desk believes that this is going to be Georgia's year (we thought that last year, too, but oh well) and is stoked over the quality of their play this year and the quality of the competition, and we are going to keep posting about our Dogs until they bring the CFB Championship back to Athens where it belongs.  

Meanwhile, we're looking forward to watching former Bulldogs running back Sony Michel's NFL debut with the New England Patriots later this afternoon.  You better play him, Belichick, and not keep him on the sidelines and exclusively run Rex Burkhead . . .

Finally, we're pleased to see that Michel's former Bulldog teammate, Nick Chubb, has carried twice so far today for 14 yards for the Cleveland Browns.  Last week, he carried three times for 21 yards, so 7-yards-per-carry seems to be Chubb's M.O.  We just wish he were on a better team with more potential (a Burkhead-for-Chubb trade, Belichick?).