So this is what Georgia football has come to. Beat an SEC East Division – and recruiting – rival by nearly four touchdowns in the first meaningful home game of the season, and then have to apologize for the occasional sloppy play that allowed the game to be that close.
Welcome to the Bulldogs’ new reality.
In years past, beating Tennessee by any comfortable margin, let alone 38-12 as the Bulldogs did Saturday, would have been met with joy, followed of course by smack talk across the digital world. Instead, the general sentiment seemed to be, “Well, that was kind of ugly.