Nobody Dies

. . . other than the University of Georgia Bulldogs' football championship ambitions.

Yesterday, the Dogs faced their first real test of the season and traveled to Baton Rouge to play LSU in Death Valley, the Tiger's home stadium.  It didn't go well.

For a brief period there in the Second Half, it looked like Georgia still might have been able to engineer a comeback, but the effort fell short and LSU capitalized on Georgia fumbles and miscues and ran the final score up to 36-16.

Last year, Georgia dropped a game to Auburn, 40-17, but were able to avenge that loss and beat Auburn later in the season in the SEC Championship Game and eventually went on to play in the National Championship Game.  There's still a chance that history might repeat itself if LSU manages to win the SEC West and faces Georgia in this year's SEC Championship. In that situation, provided the Dogs don't lose again, Georgia could avenge its loss to LSU, still emerge as the SEC champion, and potentially qualify for the National Championship playoffs.  But a lot of things still have to happen that are outside of Georgia's control. 

So with Georgia's loss, only Alabama (three hours southwest of here) and Clemson (two hours northeast of here) are the only remaining undefeated teams within the Three Hour Drive (3HD).  Auburn and Tennessee are having disappointing seasons (Tennessee beat Auburn yesterday) and Georgia Tech and Georgia State are . . .  fine academic institutions, we're sure.

Which brings us to baseball (if you haven't guessed by now, this is the Sports Desk posting). The Red Sox pitched horribly in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series and lost to the Houston Astros, 7-2.  There's potentially six more games still to be played and Boston has come back from far, far worse that a one-game deficit to win series in the past, but combined with the Georgia game, it was not a particularly rewarding day to spend watching sports, and one we're not likely to want to revisit often.

Nobody dies, but sometimes it just feels that way.

But at least we beat the damned Yankees this year.