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You pick Bama to beat Georgia on the road, but Auburn to meet Alabama at home, and you look at

me and says it makes no sense for me to pick Auburn to beat Georgia at home.

Because we've beaten Alabama with teams like they have.

It's time.

When's the last time we beat Georgia with a roster like this? What's up, everybody. Thanks for joining us again on Crane & Company and making Crane and Company a daily watch or listen. Remember, without you, there is no us. And yesterday, we dropped our first season prediction for a single team with the Alabama Crimson Tide. Make sure you check that out. Today, we're going to do another big dog in the SEC, pun intended, the Georgia Bulldogs with Kirby Smart trying to get

back to title town after winning back to back and not getting there since. Got a lot of similar

problems. David Cohn, not that you have similar problems, but you were a former Michigan quarterback,

former Western State Colorado wide receiver, Blaine Crane to my right as well. Guys, this Georgia

team fits right into the narrative that we're seeing about all the big brand, not all of them, but most of the big brands around college football, where you feel like you have a new quarterback that we don't know a ton about. We know a little bit about Gunther Stockton. He came in some big moments last year, did some good things. We're going to see if he's going to continue to evolve. But the roster

around him should be really, really, really good. When you look at the way Georgia recruits,

the way Georgia develops, and then you look at the wide receiver position, the way they

handled business in the transfer portal, getting branch to come over from USC, getting Noah Thomas,

returning Kobe Young, Dylan Bell. But Cohn, when you look at this Georgia

team like we did with Alabama yesterday, give me one thing you feel really good about and one thing

you need to see or you may be quote unquote worried about a little bit. Because Georgia didn't win

the national championship, it kind of feels like they're not the defending champs in the league,

right, but they are. They won the SEC a year ago and I think that they have their sights set on getting back to the promised land on those back-to-back national championships like they did with Stets and Bennett. When I look at the roster, and we've talked about it a bunch this offseason, what I feel confident in is the defensive side of the ball. And that really is the identity of any Kirby Smart lead team. When you have names like Christian Miller and C.J. Allen and K.J. Bolden, sort of the depth of that, you know, like every single layer of the defense, you have a playmaker who can dictate terms in a game. And with Kirby Smart, you know, a defensive-minded guy, we've seen him do it on the biggest stage. I feel confident in that. One of the questions I have is the offensive line. We were talking about this a little bit. You send four out of your five starters to the NFL, but from a team that really didn't run the ball. What was the stat you had on the run game?

They had one game where they had over a hundred yards. In 2024, Georgia had one game where they rushed for over 100 yards. From an offensive line that sent four out of their five starters to the NFL and you got one returning starter now, if you go down the depth chart, you can see that all of these guys have been within a program. They're not trying to do a thing, you know, like Colorado where you got a bunch of new guys all trying to mesh together in fall camp. But still, can Georgia run the ball effectively

game in and game out, especially when you're on the road in this league? That's a question I have. And it's funny because that falls right in line with what we talked about with Alabama a little bit yesterday. With all the talent on the offensive line, they weren't able to run the ball very well last year. We talked about LSU with all the talent, including Will Campbell, one of the first offensive line. Georgia didn't protect well last. No, no, they didn't. It was just not good

overall, which is weird when you look at the amount of talent. Again, looking that went to the NFL, LSU is the same thing as I mentioned. You know, they had all this talent in the offensive line. They struggled to run the ball. Blame, when you look at Gunner Stockton at quarterback, How confident are you with what we saw last year coming in in some big moments, obviously.

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