Chubb suffered a season-ending left knee injury on the first play of last week’s 38-31 loss at Tennessee. Based exclusively off of his performance over the past 8 seasons, I honestly don’t even think Vanderbilt would hire him.
And the Vols were much better because of it. Offensive coordinator Mike DeBord called for more rollout passes and designed quarterback runs a week removed from inexplicably trying to transform Dobbs into a dropback passer against an Arkansas team that had struggled against mobile signal-callers. 13WMAZ’s Wes Blankenship asked Tony Barnhart about the state of Georgia football, and head coach Mark Richt. After questionable coaching and conservative play calling doomed the Vols in three very winnable games, Tennessee hit another gear – and kept its foot on the pedal – against Georgia. 118-yards rushing and 312 yards passing. “Those are the fun games to play”. The Missouri offense is averaging 18.3 points and 311.5 yards per game and they have turned the ball over eight times.
The shake-ups in this week’s SEC Power Rankings were not as much, particularly at the top, but they still existed. “He wanted to be able to finish out this game”.
Also, when sophomore guard Jashon Robertson went down with an injury, Jones played freshmen Chance Hall and Jack Jones along the offensive front, and both responded with exceptional games.
Truthfully, they were lucky to have that lead at all.
“I’ve enjoyed the last couple years having the opportunity to compete against a legend”, said Jones of the nine-time SEC coach of the year victor. Blame it on the youth, coaching, but our secondary had a few noticeable holes, and teams will continue to attack the air the rest of the season after seeing how Alabama and now Tennessee have dissected them. You won’t find him throwing his own players under the bus after a grueling loss. Under Richt, Matthew Stafford, Knowshon Moreno, AJ Green, Orson Charles, Jarvis Jones, Justin Houston, Alec Ogletree, Bacarri Rambo, Todd Gurley and now Nick Chubb are all stars in the making or have made their bones on the next level. Greyson Lambert was 15-for-32 for 279 yards and two touchdowns. There’s no magic formula that you can go to that all of the sudden you’re going to get a great pass rush. “But we also have Sony [Michel]”.
Keepers of the “Fire Richt” banner point to the tremendous recruiting job that Richt does, followed by less than expected results.
General Robert Reese Neyland built a dynasty in college football at The University of Tennessee.
Anyhow, congrats Alabama, you deserved your win and I hope this article was true and we see you in Atlanta!
SEEKING RECORD STREAK: If Georgia beats Tennessee for a sixth straight time, it would mark the Bulldogs’ longest winning streak in this series. Until then, we don’t really know how good they are.
Georgia needs a quarterback, and they’ll likely be getting a future great one next season in the nation’s No. 1 recruit, Jacob Eason. But the Vols still have reason to believe this game could come down to the wire. With only 10 teams in the conference, it wasn’t uncommon for the best two teams in the league to avoid playing each other. I liked their approach.