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Playoff? Georgia football has much to clean up after Florida win and Ole Miss looming
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Kirby Smart settled into his seat for his postgame press conference in EverBank Stadium Saturday night and sounded a little bit like his No. 2 Georgia football team just lost.
“Ooh, that was a tough one guys,” Smart said. “We didn’t play our best game.”
Georgia had just put away Florida 34-20 with a pair of touchdowns in the final 4:01 to go to 7-1.
And lookie, now. Georgia is tied for first place in the SEC with Texas AM at 5-1 after South Carolina’s 44-20 takedown of the Aggies Saturday night. Tennessee at 4-1 and LSU and Texas at 3-1 follow. The top two teams in the now division-less SEC will play in the conference championship game with the winner getting a first-round playoff bye.
Georgia has enough on its plate what with cleaning up from its win over the Gators—first and foremost the turnovers after three more Carson Beck interceptions—and a big test Saturday at No. 18 Ole Miss.
All that College Football Playoff talk this week with the first rankings coming out Tuesday night will be viewed as just outside noise inside the program.
Playoffs? Playoffs?!
Smart didn’t quite turn into Jim Mora Sr. when the subject came up on his radio show before the Florida game.
It offered a window into his public stance on all the talk about the 12-team playoff.
“Everybody wants to talk about it,” Smart said. “Everybody wants to say this and that. You got to do this, you got to do that? Look, man, you’ve got to take care of business that week.”
Smart should write a thank you card to quarterback Jaxson Dart.
Ole Miss’s offense came to life Saturday after mostly underwhelming during SEC play. Dart threw for 515 yards and 6 touchdowns on 25 of 31 passing in a 63-31 rout of Arkansas.
The Rebels will go up against a Georgia team coming off a second straight game with Beck throwing three interceptions. It was a comedown type of game for the Bulldogs after the win at No. 1 Texas two weeks earlier, but Georgia is still in good shape to make the playoff.
“We really didn’t get stopped unless I, you know, turned the ball over,” Beck said. “It’s a good thing for our offense and a bad thing for me.”
Georgia did have 5 pass plays of 21 or more yards including 25 and 34 yards to Arian Smith.
Smart said Georgia needs to prevent the interceptions, but also won the game because it can wing it.
“I mean, we’re not going to not throw it,” Smart said. “Like, he throws the ball well. We think that we’ve got a really good pass game, we got a great pass pro, we got good wideouts, and we got a really good quarterback. “
Georgia’s defense held Florida to 228 yards, the lowest by an SEC team against the Bulldogs since Vanderbilt’s 219 on Oct. 14, 2023.
Granted, the Gators were down to a third-string quarterback after DJ Lagway left the game with a hamstring injury in the second quarter.
Georgia was down not only two starters in the secondary in the first half for targeting but JaCorey Thomas, forced into the starting lineup, left the game for a span injured during the first half and Georgia turned to Kyren Jones.
In addition, return man Anthony Evans was out with a hamstring injury. Malaki Starks handled punt returns and Cash Jones kickoff returns.
Georgia could use all the healthy bodies it can get.
It will play its fourth game this season against a top 20 opponent in Oxford with a fifth the week after with Tennessee.
“We’ve got another big game next week and then another big game after that and another big after that,” Beck said. “That’s why you come to Georgia.”
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Storm activity is expected to fire up around midday, starting inland from the Gulf sea breeze. From there, storms will track eastward at 20-25 mph, and that faster movement is actually good news for flooding concerns.
Some minor, temporary flooding is possible through tonight, especially in low-lying areas and spots that typically flood during heavy rain events.
The best chances for stronger storms and heavier rainfall will be north and near I-10 during the afternoon and evening hours.
The Weather Prediction Center has placed roughly the northern two-thirds of the area under a marginal risk of excessive rainfall.
What to expect through the night
Rain chances will stay elevated into the evening but should taper off after midnight. However, inland Northeast Florida could see a late round of showers or storms develop due to enhanced west coast sea breeze.
Gusty winds and frequent lightning can’t be ruled out. Always have your indoor plan ready to go for shelter access.
Cooler temperatures, patchy fog round out the forecast
High temperatures will run below average, topping out in the mid-to-upper 80s. Overnight lows will range from the upper 60s to near 70 degrees across inland Southeast Georgia, with mid-70s expected closer to the Atlantic coast.
Patchy fog is expected early this morning and again Sunday morning. Brief periods of dense fog are possible, so drivers should use caution on the roads during those early morning hours.
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Georgia baseball will resume its NCAA Athens Regional game with Long Island at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 29, after persistent rain—heavy at times—forced the suspension of the game.
The Bulldogs have a commanding 15-1 lead with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth.
The teams and some fans waited out a delay that started 7:14 p.m.
The game was suspended officially at 9:06 p.m. Long Island players were already grabbing their equipment in the dugout to depart for the team hotel before then.
The winner of Georgia-LIU will play No. 3 seed Liberty Saturday in the double-elimination tournament in a game scheduled for 5 p.m.
The loser will play No. 2 seed Boston College at noon.
The No. 3 national seed Bulldogs hit six homers before the game was delayed due to heavy rain.
There was a 53 percent chance of rain at 9 a.m. Saturday, according to weather.com, decreasing to 17 percent at 11 a.m., but there’s a threat of storms in the afternoon.
The Georgia Public Service Commission this week approved a plan expected to reduce utility bills for Georgia Power customers by a few dollars a month.
The commission said the change will generate about $285 million in total annual savings for Georgia Power customers, or roughly $50 per year — about $4.04 per month — for the average residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month.
The Georgia PSC voted Thursday to lower overall rates as part of the approved plan.
Georgia Power Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Tyler Cook said the decision will provide “real savings for Georgia families and businesses as the heat of summer begins and energy use increases.”
“At Georgia Power, our teams work every day to run our business efficiently and keep reliable and affordable energy flowing to our customers,” Cook said.
Cook said the outcome followed months of work between Georgia Power and PSC staff, including reviews, public hearings and input from residents and intervenors.
The approved plan is tied to a stipulated agreement reached earlier this month involving two cases filed with the PSC in February, the Fuel Cost Recovery case and the Storm Cost Recovery case. Those cases addressed recovering fuel costs used to generate electricity and expenses tied to restoring power after storms.
Georgia Power said its rates remain, on average, about 15% below the national average and that it is still on track to provide additional annual savings of about $102 per year for typical residential customers beginning in 2029.
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