No
No, I have to see it to believe it, there's been way too many times Georgia has laid an egg in this stadium being huge favorites, and with all the death threats Jim MAC and all the Florida players have received, it doesn't make things any easier for us. Remember the 2014 game? Yeah, that's what I thought. Here's all the curses Georgia is gonna have to break coming into Jacksonville this season.
Jake Fromm will have to become the first Georgia QB to defeat Florida since 1989, all of the previous freshman QB's lost their first game against Florida (including Aaron Murray in OT).
Georgia is looking forward to starting 8-0 for the first time since 2002, but also get past Florida undefeated for the first time since 1982. The previous 2 Georgia teams (2002, 2005) went into Jacksonville undefeated and lost to inferior Florida teams, which knocked us out of the BCS title race.
Since 1992, there's been 7 times when Georgia has gone into Jacksonville and was the higher ranked team than Florida whether Florida was ranked or not. Florida has won 5 out of 7 of those meetings, which were 1992, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2014. Those losses either cost Georgia a chance to get in the BCS title game or knocked us out of the east race. The only 2 times Georgia survived were 2004 and 2011.
Since 2006, the losers in Jacksonville don't win the SEC East, or the winner prevented the loser from winning the East.
Every 5 years since 1992 (which includes 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012), the lower ranked or unranked team has upset the higher ranked team in Jacksonville. Georgia better be very careful with all the crazy upsets that's already happened in the football world (college and NFL) so far this season.
Since 1980, Georgia has started undefeated going into Florida 4 times. In 1980, Georgia needed a miracle pass to Lindsay Scott to escape with a 26-21 victory, and ended up winning the national championship. In 1982, Georgia dominated Florida, made it to the national championship but lost to Penn State. In 2002, Georgia lost to Florida and it prevented us from going to the national championship. In 2005, DJ Shockley's injury doomed us against the Gators in Jacksonville. 2017 will be the 5th time this has happened in that span. History tells me this will be a nail biter.
Fact is, Steve Spurrier has created an environment in the UF Football Program that the Georgia game is bigger than any other, that beating Georgia is the
#1 objective every year, and that every Gator player should hate Georgia when it comes to football. It is a hex, a voodoo curse from a South American Hispanic woman in Miami, a curse from who knows where. It is a serious problem that we cannot seem to solve.
Each of you can expect Florida to play like the
#1 team in the nation this Saturday, and we will be lucky not to be behind two touchdowns by the start of the 4th quarter. Throw the **** stats in the garbage, they are worthless. I say this because I expect it like I expect the sun to come up in the East. Why should I expect anything different 35 years later? These guys own us, and until I see a result that changes things, I have to expect another loss. Mark Richt could not motivate his teams to win this game...inexplicably (unless we were a major underdog with a solid team on a rare occasion). I will believe Kirby can do it when I see it, and not until then.
