We're No. 9!

 

Clap your hands if you're glad to see Georgia move up in the polls!

With their 20-10 win over unranked Auburn on Saturday, the Georgia Bulldogs move up in the latest poll from No. 10 to No. 9. Thank you, No. 6 Chokelahoma for losing to unranked Texas, 23-6, and falling out of the top ten to No. 14 and making room for Georgia to move up. Also, fuck you, Chokelahoma, because their win over you allowed Texas to weasel their way back back into the Top 25, coming in at No. 21. 

Ohio State (6-0) is still No. 1, and No. 2 Miami (5-0), current holder of the lineal championship belt and Georgia's two championship rings, was idle on another bye week. Really, Miami? You needed bye weeks both before and after your game against Florida State?  Everything okay down there? 

The big winner of the week was No. 7 Indiana (6-0), who knocked off No. 3 Oregon, 30-20, and moved up into the Duck's No. 3 spot. Oregon fell to No. 8, one place above Georgia. For the record, LSU is now No. 10, one place below Georgia.

No. 4 Ole Miss and No. 5 Texas A&M both won their games, but switched rankings in this week's poll for some reason. Alabama and Texas Tech were the biggest beneficiaries of Chokelahoma and Oregon's  losses and moved up two spots to Nos. 6 and 7, respectively.

All of this sets the stage for this weekend's big SEC showdown in Athens. Now No. 5, Ole Miss (6-0 overall, 3-0 in the SEC) will play the ninth-ranked Bulldogs (5-1, 3-1) in a game with obvious implications for both the conference and national title races. 

As painful as it is to remember, Georgia lost, 28-10, to Ole Miss in Oxford last year, one of two regular-season losses for the Bulldogs that year. Alabama, last year's other regular-season loss, already beat the Bulldogs this season, so if we want to avoid repeating last season, we need to beat Ole Miss. Last year, we were largely undone by Rebels QB Jaxson Dart's 199 yards passing and 50 yards rushing. Jaxson is with the NY Giants now, but Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss' current QB, has 1,286 yards rushing and a 65.4 completion percentage, comparable to Gunner Stockton's 1,264 and 68.0%. 

One thing's for certain: if we're going to beat Ole Miss this year, we're going to have to play better that we did at Auburn last weekend, especially in the first half.