iceeater1969
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The old “winners win” argument. Bennett wins because he plays on the best team in college football. If he played for TCU, or Arkansas, or Georgia Tech, or Michigan, or Utah, or South Carolina, or literally any team other than probably UGA, Alabama, or Ohio State he wouldn’t be a “winner.” If UGA and Ohio State had swapped QBs for yesterday’s game, Georgia would’ve won by 25+.
At no point did Stetson Bennett take over that game. He did what he needed to do, which was feed the ball to his stars. His biggest play of the game was throwing a touchdown pass to a guy who didn’t have a defender within 25 yards of him. When Bennett was pressured early in the game he crumbled. He made some terrible passes, multiple passes that could’ve been intercepted, and one that was. Late in the game they had a designed swing pass set up that was probably an easy touchdown, but Bennett threw it straight in the ground for a backwards lateral that cost them about 7 yards. Brock Bowers, the best TE in the country, saved their *** on that drive by fighting through contact for a first down on a critical 4th down play that probably would’ve ended the game.
Bennett and Stroud ended up with the exact same completion/attempt ratio at 23/34, but if you watched the game you would know that those incompletions weren’t created equally. Most of Bennett’s were just flat out bad decisions or bad throws. Most of Stroud’s were under duress throwing it away, and well thrown balls that weren’t caught. He definitely missed on a few throws too, but out of his 11 incompletions I’d say only 2-3 were complete misses. Where out of Bennett’s 11, probably 7-8 ms was a way better gt qb than Bennett or Stroud.
This is epic tangent.
We are small program hoping to be in a bowl.
They are going for 2 natties.
RIVALRY? NOT NOW
MAYBE SOON.