Will Tennessee snap an eight-game losing streak to Georgia or will the Bulldogs continue to dominate this rivalry?

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I am a host of Lockdown Falls, Eric Kane. That is Clint Shamblin, one of the hosts of Lockdown Bulldogs. It is Tennessee and Georgia coming up this Saturday, 3.30 Eastern Time ABC at Neeland Stadium. College Game Day is going to be in town. All eyes in the college football world is going to be on Knoxville this weekend. And we're going to sit here, preview it, break down some of the biggest storylines over the next 30 minutes. This episode is brought you and brought by our friends over to Fandul Sportsbook, where football season, it's here right now. Visit Fandall Sportsbook or check out the app today and start planning your future bets right now. Storylines to date, season to date, what we know, the quarterbacks, the defense, the picks, all that have more come up right now. Clint, it's interesting, man, before we get into our big topics, the winner of this game, first of all, the loser of this game, certainly season's not over, right? Long season ahead, the expansion of the college football playoffs, but the winner of this game is going to have a signature win in their back pocket, really putting you in the driver's seat to Atlanta and, of course, a spot in the college football playoffs. Absolutely. I think what's really wild to me about this is we're going to get into who these teams are. But as of right now, Tennessee looks to be ascending after a quarterback switch that many of us thought was actually a wild improvement because last year couldn't have been worse. That was the whole storyline. People were like, well, new quarterback. And we said, well, hold on.

It actually might be better for them.

Turns out it might be the case.

But this is going to be a signature win. For Tennessee, you're going to say we get Georgia come in our place. And the knock's going to be, well, it was kneeling. It was early on. And you got a new quarterback. that shouldn't be the knock if Tennessee wins.

And conversely, George is going to be like, well, you know, first year quarterback,

they lost all that talent running back and the defense. That shouldn't be it as well. These are going to be good wins, either side of the ball. And something that you're right, setting up for the rest of the season is going to be something to hang your hat on completely agree. Yeah, I mean, as I said in the cold open, I mean, Georgia's absolutely dominated this series, you know, won eight straight, last win in this series came between the hedges. Joshua Dobbs, Hill Mary to Juan Jennings back in 2016. Josh Heppel has tackled everybody in the SEC. He's beaten Alabama twice. He's beaten Florida twice. He's being LSU. He's being that team, this team.

He has not beaten Kirby Smart in Georgia. I think Kirby Smart has adjusted to Tennessee's tempo and Tennessee's offense better than anybody in the Southeastern Conference.

Will this year, I mean, last year it was 3117 in the final. That was the closest this game has been under Josh Heiple. Can Tennessee breakthrough? We'll find out. My question for you is, what do you know about Georgia? Because I sit here and I see a 45-7 win or whatever it is against Marshall and I see a 29-6 win over Austin P, a kickoff that got moved up an hour and then had a two-hour delay. I mean, what a wasted afternoon, right? Yes. I think that really plays into the mindset and the psyche of that football game where you're just trying to get out there, get healthy, and move on. I see the low score. I say low scoring. I mean, Tennessee beat ETSU 72 to 17, right? Like, I see this as low scoring, but I don't think Georgia's run hardly anything defensively. just because Gunner Stockton has not pushed the ball downfield doesn't mean he can't push the ball downfield. My thing is, I don't know. I have all these stats and I've talked to people about what do you know about Georgia? Because it's early in the season. I don't think we know who Georgia is right now. And the same can be set for Tennessee. Yeah, I'm excited to hear that back to us on our side as dog fans are listening to this because I think right now there's question marks about Tennessee. And so I'm

excited to hear you come back because I want to caution dog fans that I don't think this is Josh

hypo typical team. As weird as that is to say, and we'll get to your take on that in a second.

But I think the fact that Kirby Smart does have Josh's MO and tendencies.

I said this last year, I had so much respect for what Lane was able to do at Old Miss

because he stopped being the typical Lane Kiffin when he played Georgia.

He wasn't going forward on fourth down as much.

He wasn't gambling.

He wasn't doing the consistent play call that Kirby Smart was so accustomed to doing. Now, can Josh progress? I think as a play or as a,

as an offensive schematic guy, man, he's really good. As a head ball coach, knowing the art of how to

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