a huge chance to knock them and their crowd senseless.

imo A TD there makes them crap and rethink everything.

Instead, kelly wilted....and we gave them a moral victory...

PS Eichenberg had a rough night...

And our defense was on the field too long.

dimensional on offense, and UGa had a very balanced offense and made few mistakes. That's the difference between winning and losing in close games.

Tony Jones would be 4th string on Georgia's RB depth chart.

Georgia lost both starting CBs briefly and didn't miss a beat.

They've landed a top 3 recruiting class the last 3 years.

The talent difference at every skill position was drastic.

And I am not big on Troy Pride, but Bracy and Crawford played well. I harp on it constantly but we can't lose guys like Love for them to go in the 3rd or 4th round. If that's Love on Cager it's not a TD.

RB we have had very talented players like Adams and Dexter but tbis year ND is a really bad year at RB. Tyree changes that immediately next year. And all the others return.

Kmet to me was the most skilled player on the field and Tremble is also a very special talent. Claypool is probably as good as anyone on their roster.

We don't have depth but it would have been mice to have Young out there.

Boykin was clearly NFL ready but if he had returned and Young was healthy we probably were superior to UGA at WR. NDs limitations in recruiting cannot afford early entries like the top programs can. It also can't afford stupid playcqlling.

The talent gap on the first string is almost nonexistent. Among depth it is probably large but most of those guys don't play.

And they turned it up when they needed to. Swift did not break any long run's but they did enough to offset the game after we went for multiple three and out's to start the second half.

Georgia is a good team. However, I feel they were over-hyped both in the media and on this board. I just did not see a glaring difference in talent between the two.

The game was close because both coaches are equally dumb.

Did we play to our potential? No doubt.
Did we play with confidence and didn't get intimidated? Sure.

That aside, except for TE and P, about every offensive and defensive unit in that game favored UGA. The type of key plays they made, alone, indicates a talent level difference.

playing to your potential. The D may have been on task, but the O underperformed.

The offensive skill positions were the biggest difference from what I saw. Finke wouldn’t even be on scholarship there let alone starting.

the game would have unfolded much differently.

Hell, we had to use all four downs to score after receiving that gift.

I am worried that people are thinking because we had a shot at the end that we didn't get thoroughly beaten.

Just imagine if UGA had gone for the 4th and 1 and gotten it (I'd call it at least a probability). They could have taken a few more minutes off the clock, maybe scored a TD and come away with a 2-score victory in a lopsided second half.

ND needed a lot to go perfectly to have that shot in the end.

We can what if this all day long.

fumble or being stopped. Kirby has an automatic kicker and believed his more talented team would not give up a 13 point lead in the 4th quarter to lose the game. He was right.

The UGA fans around me were pretty terrified by the prospect of Smart being on the hook to manage the game well in order to survive with a win. I think it's PTSD related to their last two losses to Bama.

They were competitive compared to past big game debacles, but they were on the short end on talent.

Smart played it too conservatively, but he likely realized with better talent that his defense could stop them from scoring a late td if they had to.

went toe-to-toe with UGA’s offense and largely shut it down, ND should have won.

Get rid of 4 of the 6 false starts, get Avery Davis three designed runs, and have either Book or Finke see the UGA safety sprinting over from midfield on that INT. None of those things would have been other-worldly achievements.

One more TD is all we needed. ND should have been able to do that.

and ND would’ve had 3 points in 55 minutes.

Any of those what if examples with respect to the final score. These are only allowed for ND.

(on offense) off the field are acceptable conditions that should continue, then I don’t know how to talk to you.

The way Georgia played is the constant. Nothing ND could do about how UGA played.

The dumba$$ shite BK let happen are the variables. Take the dumba$$ shite away, ND would have won that game.

UGA wasn’t head and shoulders above us, but they were clearly better, and we caught some breaks and poor strategy by them (starting with their decision to kick the FG on 4th-and-1 and continuing the rest of the game). Ultimately, it wasn’t embarrassing, but I didn’t feel we were on the same level.

I mentioned it below, but I didn’t feel that same way after FSU 2014, when I felt it was a game that was about even and we were on FSU’s level. Ironically, we were clearly NOT on FSU’s level, based on how the rest of the season played out. But it at least felt like it on that night.

And post this on the Georgia board and no one would flinch.

His return man set up the early TD by duffing that catch. He schemed the defense to not give up the big play force ND to nickle and dime, protect the young CBs by having them keep play in front of them. Force Book to be perfect. At halftime, he turned the defense loose a bit more and started cheating routes to try to force turnovers or 3 and outs. Brian Kelly was slow to adjust to that. It got Georgia back into the game.

I think both teams played D like they were really afraid of giving up a big play and both play O like they didn't want to try for a big play.