Things With the Word "Southeast" in it.

In an attempt to increase readership (from zero readers to one), I think I'm going to start advertising the blog on my Facebook page. This means two things:

1. I must update more often in order to satisfy the masses.
2. I must prepare to battle the scrutiny of my peers.

Here's to the effort accomplish both.

As of now, it's been eons since I've updated this thing. Long enough for TWO Georgia games to pass. Oh boy, I have a lot to say, so lock your safety restraint and keep your arms and legs inside the train as it leaves the station and approaches the lift hill.

So Georgia started the season ranked No. 13 with a goliath of a Week 1 opponent in Oklahoma State awaiting them. Poised to be the typical "team from the better conference" and force an upset, the Bulldogs instead headed to Stillwater and played shaky football, losing 24-10. The result was a plummet to No. 21, while the Cowboys jumped up to No. 5.

We were upset for, like, five minutes. Then we realized that Oklahoma State was "the new Texas Tech" in the Big 12, and could very much be a conference contender. After that, we got drunk.

Then Week 2 came around. And Oklahoma State lost.

To Houston. No, not the Texans. The Conference USA team. Yeah, those guys.

We all knew what it was going to take to for Georgia not to look like a lost cause--a beatdown of South Carolina. A non-ranked SEC team coming to Sanford. That could definitely happen, right?

Um, we came one play shy of losing.

And oh yeah, we dropped again. To No. 23. Oklahoma State is No. 16. And we look like crap.

Meanwhile, FOUR SEC cracked the Top 10. We went from being a possible contender to Oscar the Grouch of the SEC Sesame Street. In two weeks.

So where does Georgia go from here? 1-1, one embarassing loss and one embarrasing win. One week we get one touchdown, the next we pile up 41, while allowing a crapload of points and yards. We've become an NFL team. The playing field appears to be even no matter what, so we may or may not win every week. There's no guarantee.

This week, the Bulldogs visit Arkansas, an SEC outlier that has one win under its belt this year--a 48-10 over Missouri State. I can barely count that as a football game.

Georgia could possibly get a boost by walloping the Razorbacks. They haven't played anyone yet, and I'm sure Mark Richt has enough fire enough right now to strike fear in his players should they not improve this week.

But, as emphasized in the aforementioned statement, who knows that to expect? I honestly can't predict this team right now. We can gather around the big screen with our chips and salsa and assume that we're going to annihilate an non-ranked opponent since we have a rank. But we can't really do that anymore. We have to be on our toes.

So here's the scenarios we can expect Saturday:

1. We win big, and preserve at least a little intimidation. If we hold Arkansas to single digits, while breaking, say, 30, we stay in the rankings. We might even move up a bit.
2. We win by a squeaker, like last week. The offense sucks. the defense cracks again. Arkansas is better than we think. Any combination of those. We likely drop again, and face falling out of the Top 25 for the first time in ages.
3. We lose. We automatically drop out. We question our team's status. We consider calling this a "rebuilding year."

If this season is a snowman, this week's game is where we start seeing the shape of body. We know where things are going, but the carrot nose and stick arms aren't on yet.

Out,

Mitch