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9 UGA won a huge game this afternoon over 6 LSU in Athens, 44 – 41. It was one of those “last man standing” will win the game type of situations. UGA was the last man standing, as Mettenberger threw an interception with just over one minute left in the 4th quarter to end LSU’s hopes of scoring and either tying the game up and/or winning. It was a great college football game and the drama started way before kickoff. Zach Mettenberger starting QB for LSU, at one time was the projected starting QB at UGA. He got into a little trouble off the field and ended up transferring to a junior college and then finally found his way to Baton Rouge. Also, Mettenberger’s mother works in the athletic offices at UGA and Mark Richt kindly gave her the week off to avoid the emotional trauma of UGA-LSU week. She was in the stands, wearing purple and gold in support of her son. The game may have been costly for the dawgs however as running back extraordinaire Todd Gurley left in the second quarter with an ankle injury. Dawg QB Aaron Murray was superb, as was Mettenberger. Murray threw for 298 yards and Mettenberger threw for 372 yards. Murray led Georgia to the game winning TD late in the fourth quarter after falling behind 41 – 37. Mettenberger was not able to accomplish the challenge of answering for the Tigers with just over a minute left in the game. The Dawgs are now 2-1 against top ten teams this year, defeating LSU and South Carolina (ranked in the top ten at the time they played). That loss to Clemson in the season opener is looking really good for 3 Clemson…who managed to roll over Wake Forest today, 56 – 7. The Gamecocks from South Carolina, now ranked #12 had a tussle in Orlando with Central Florida, just as I expected they would. They won the game, 28 – 25 but lost starting QB Connor Shaw with a shoulder injury and RB Wilds with an undisclosed injury. Back up QB Dylan Thompson got the job done but George O’Leary’s team from Central Florida is for real.
Elsewhere, 8 FSU had more of a struggle at Boston College than was anticipated, winning 48 – 34. Boston College did not go down without a fight. Pittsburgh (new member of the ACC) took care of Virginia 14 – 3 and Eastern Carolina embarrassed North Carolina, 55 – 31, bad loss for the ACC. 15 Miami rolled over South Florida, 49 – 21 and will next face Georgia Tech at home. (Hoping GT looks much better in that game next Saturday than they did against VT at home on Thursday night!) West Virginia returned to the land of the winning and upset 11 Oklahoma State, 30 – 21. They suffered an embarrassing loss last week against Maryland, 37 – 0. I think that upcoming FSU – Maryland game is going to be a good one! 14 Oklahoma is starting to come on strong and took care of 22 Notre Dame in South Bend, 35 – 21.
Currently, 1 Alabama is leading 21 Ole Miss 16 – 0 and 4 Ohio State leads 23 Wisconsin, 14 – 7. (LeBron James in the house!!)
Later tonight, a couple of intriguing Pac 12 games. 5 Stanford travels to take on Washington State in Seattle (the only Pac 12 loss the Cardinals suffered last year was to Washington State) and 2 Oregon will host California in Eugene (Quack Attack should run wild!)
Until later…enjoy!
