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00:00But we start with big news entering one of the biggest
00:05games of this first full Saturday. A top 15 tilt in
00:10Atlanta. It's the top ranked team in the country entering
00:132024 Georgia taking on 14th ranked Clemson and Lacey Guy in
00:18the last half an hour. It was expected and now confirmed
00:22Trevor Etn the transfer running back from Florida now with UGA
00:26has been suspended for this opening game of the season for
00:31Georgia. What does that do for Kirby smarts dogs offensively?
00:34Well, I think it's you know, system as usual because they
00:37are a very balanced offense. Last year they averaged 40
00:40points per game. They ran it for 191 per game and they threw
00:44with their quarterback Carson Beck a Heisman Trophy front
00:47runner for 305 passing yards per game physical offensive line.
00:51It's going to be running back by committee Kev, but I don't
00:54think it changes the offensive philosophy in any way. They're
00:57going to look to pound the rock on that front seven and then
01:00utilize Carson Beck over the top later today. It's not great
01:03when you have to start a Georgia breakdown by Googling
01:06who is suspended, but that's kind of the state of the
01:09Bulldogs right now, but they have plenty. I mean if this
01:12team was going to lose at one position, you would probably
01:15want it to be running back. I know there's a couple of other
01:17spots, but let's remember this is a Georgia Bulldogs team that
01:21is not supposed to just sit back and run the ball and rely on
01:24the defense and win games 21 to seven. This is supposed to
01:27be one of the best offenses in college football. There are
01:30going to be people out there who argue this is the best
01:33offense in college football and when the best offenses in
01:36college football take the field, that means they're live
01:38to score 49 plus in any given game. The total in this football
01:43game is 48 and a half with respect to Clemson. This total
01:48is way too low in my opinion here because Georgia if they're
01:52rocking and rolling can clear it on their own two years ago
01:56against Oregon in this building. They did just that
01:58with 49 points last year. They had multiple 50 point
02:02performances against ranked competition because nobody gets
02:06up for a big opponent like the Georgia Bulldogs. No Samford UT
02:10Martin to open it up this year. It is a neutral site game in
02:14Atlanta and there will be a lot of orange for those Tigers from
02:18Clemson, South Carolina but in the ATL in Atlanta, there's
02:22going to be a lot of red today for Georgia. You mentioned the
02:26total 48 and a half. These two teams started the 2021 college
02:32football season against one another and we drive every
02:36conversation through the odds perspective. So, let's do a
02:39little bit of math here based on the numbers kept to start
02:42that 2021 season in Charlotte. Neutral site game between the
02:46Tigers and the Bulldogs. It was a top five tilt and to really
02:50show you the trajectory of these two programs in the last
02:52three college football seasons to begin 2021. Clemson was a
02:57three-point favorite to start 2024. Georgia now listed as a
03:01twelve and a half point favorite. That is nearly three
03:04scores of movement between these two sides in just over
03:08three years. In the past three years, UGA has won two national
03:12championships. In the past three years, Clemson after
03:15entering 2021 on a six-year streak of reaching the college
03:19football playoff and winning an ACC crown has not been back to
03:22the CFP. The thing is since that game against Georgia, how
03:25many reps does Clemson have against the very best teams in
03:28college football? They haven't been able to make the CFP and
03:30the ACC has not been loaded with top top teams. The one you
03:34could mention is last year's Florida State team and Clemson
03:38certainly hung in that game. Some would argue they deserve
03:40to win it. It went to overtime and they lost that game but
03:44again, they lost that football game. We've not seen Clemson
03:47flash that they are of that level and and look, the Georgia
03:50level is completely different. I mean, we're not sure if
03:53Clemson is on the call it Alabama Ole Miss level of
03:58college football teams and II know people will hear that and
04:00it'll sound jarring but it's not what we've seen from the
04:04Tigers. I know last year they rounded into form down the
04:07backstretch guys but I didn't see enough from Cade Klubnik
04:12in those wins to give me confidence that Clemson is
04:15going to take advantage of what could be early results are in
04:19a weak ACC this year. Yeah, great point. I think when you
04:22look at Cade Klubnik last year, completed 62% of his passes,
04:26nineteen touchdowns, nine interceptions. To Kevin's point,
04:29they won five games by an average margin down the
04:31stretch of 10.6 points per game but Klubnik was
04:34inconsistent, especially against Florida State. They had
04:37an opportunity to win that game in Death Valley, holds the ball
04:40too long. You get the scoop and score. That tied it up and
04:43ultimately lost the ball game in Death Valley and that really
04:46started the season to be reeling after they lost week
04:49number one to Duke. They lost the first four games in regards
04:52to the four conference games for the first time since prior
04:55to 2014. They need to step up and they need to put pressure
05:00on Georgia's defense. Georgia as great as they are
05:02offensively still had the number one ranked third down defense
05:05in all of college football holding opposing offenses guys
05:09to 25% of third down opportunities. Clemson needs
05:12to sustain drives. We'll see if they could do it today.