Congratulations for getting the Sugar Bowl invite. Your team deserves it!! I just wish USC was playing you, not Oklahoma. Any team that looses in their Conf Championship game, SHOULD not be in the National Championship game!! That's just my opion!

I also want to take this opportunity and apologize for our team's performance last night. We should have played better and be better prepared. Even if we played better, YOU STILL WOULD HAVE BEATEN US!! The score might have been closer, but your team is truely the BEST TEAM in the SEC!!

Congrats on the win and beat the crap out of the Sooners and bring the hardware home to the best conference in the Nation!!!

Thanks, Jaxdog. For what its worth I still think Georgia is one of the best 5 teams in college football - not the equal of LSU but better than USC and about even with Michigan. The Dawgs brought their A game to the SECCG. Even if it didn't look like they were at their best the reason for that is that LSU brought their AAA game to the Georgia Dome. I'm looking forward to next years game between the hedges and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if there is another rematch in the 2004 SECCG. Your young O line will be better and Chad Lavalais will be playing on Sundays instead of Saturdays. I'll be rooting for the Dawgs to beat the crap out of Purdue in the Outback Bowl.

Bengal B...UGA played jittery, and to be honest, on the surface, my initial reaction to your reply would be to say that I think you're wrong, that Georgia did NOT bring their A game...

But, I think you're right. I think that Georgia played with very little composure. They were, as I said, jittery. No poise, no leadership. A team full of followers, looking for a nonexistent leader. No enthusiasm whatsoever.

Almost a team waiting for things to do downhill...

The only thing I can liken it to is something we've been witnessing since the 1999 season...

That is Oklahoma's absolute Jedi Mind Control Tricks that it plays on Tejas and Mack "Roscoe from Dukes of Hazzard" Brown each year in Dallas at the fair in the Red River Shootout.

I think for Georgia that the initial lost to LSU in September, and seeing us on tape, it just got into their heads more than I thought it would.

Greene, their tailbacks, and their wideouts all missed passes and or receptions for no apparent reasons at times. Not necessarily totally off, just...just...jittery.

No crispness at all. Like they were worried about the next hit. Worried about the next negative play. Anticipating LSU to just do something that battered the Dawgs.

As much as there is a large talent gap between the two teams and a dearth of experience on their young offensive line, it is mental.

We have Georgia in our back pocket. We have their MINDS, and the battle was already half over when we realized that.

This isn't something new for Georgia, either. Look at last year. A clearly superior team loses to Florida and "Radio Zook" by a 20-13 score. The ONLY bump in an otherwise Autobahn type of season, finishing #3, SEC Champions, and with a 13-1 record with a Sugar Bowl BCS beatdown of FSU and Richt's former mentor, Bubba Bowden.

This year, an obviously again superior team lays an egg against Radio Zook and the Mighty, Mighty Crocodiles...

LSU wins in September, and they PUMMEL them Saturday...

The four games all have something in common...Georgia was psyched out in the rematches against both teams...

This team needs to mentally toughen up in the offseason...

TigerE, great assessment. That was fun to read.

We were way to pumped and way to ready to play for Georgia. I don't think it would have made a difference if they brought their A game. Nevertheless, good lucky in your bowl game dawgs.

I let loose late in the evening...

I'm working the graveyard shift on Forums, so I'm letting loose a little more...

I seriously see that emerging though...LSU's had it over Mississppi State for a long time, but it's always been something that we've had, through our current salad days all the way back to the days of Hudson "Curley" Hallman and "ketchup soup" that we got fed and told was an SEC football program.

This is something that developed...Like an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). They didn't start out that way, at least in the first game. But, like some kind of person that starts washing their hands 246 times before you can eat your DiGiorgno Oven-baked pizza.

One by one...Player by player...drive by drive...snap by snap...minute by minute, second by second...More and more of them simply checked out early, mentally. Just wandered off. They let their concentration wane...

It showed...and it didn't show well...

Thanks jax and I wouldnt worry too much about the dawgs, mark Richt is a good coach and i don't think he is hiring Tigereducated anytime soon. I know Saban won't be either. LOL
Thanks for the kudos and Your coach summed it up well when he said LSU was just a dominating team. UGA has had years in the spotlight, it's LSU's time now.
Take care and looking forward to a scrap next year!

TE, you pretty much answer your own questions. I believe that Georgia brought their A game into the Georgia Dome and played respectably early in the first quarter. The problem with the Dawgs A game is that it is a long way from being equal to the Tigers A game. Georgia wasn't feeling intimidated coming into the game. After all they had lost a close hard fought game in September that could have gone either way. All the talking heads were saying that the best team didn't win in September and that LSU would lose the SECCG. The Dawg players had to have come into the G Dome with a lot of confidence. They knew they were in for a brutal physical battle but what they didn't realize was just how good LSU has become since the first game. If a good team playing at a level 10 comes into a game against a great team playing at a level 15 the level 10 team's A game gets negated by their inablity to function against superior opposition. Georgia didn't go into the game feeling "Mind Controlled" but they sure did by the time the first quarter was over.

A superior team with their A game faces on will always beat a lesser team with their A game faces on. The lesser team only has a chance of winning when the better team for whatever reason dosen't play at their best. A much maligned Ole Miss defense brought their A game against an LSU offence playing a C game at best. It was hard to tell whether the Ole Miss offense brought their A game or their B game because fortunately the LSU defense had their A game faces on.

If Georgia had been playing the Girly Men of Troy last night instead of LSU and had been as prepared to give it everything they had they would have probably won. Upsets occur when for whatever reason the better team plays less than their capabilty. If OU and K State were to play 10 times OU would win 9 of them but last night was the 10th night for OU. They probably listened to all the talk about how they were so far ahead that they could lose and still be in the Sugar Bowl. Turns out that the talking heads were right for once. The OU team LSU will face in the Sugar Bowl will not be the same OU team that sucked last night. All of a sudden OU is in the same position as LSU - We don't get no respect. For the first time they will be in the position of having to proove that the deserved the respect and adulation that they have accepted as their due all season. LSU is used to having to fight for respect to prove the pundits wrong. OU will find itself in that position for the first time while LSU is used to it. That could turn out to be the edge the Tigers need.