Cox roasts the Hogs

Another typical Matt Stafford weekend we just experienced: 3 INTS, 1 TD and a loss. Only this time, UGA wasn't the team he screwed over. Nope that would be the Lions. Joe Cox meanwhile threw for 375 yards on 18-25 passes and 5TDs, with 1 int. Cox tied the school record for TD passes (Greene, Shockley and Stafford also threw for 5TDs. Interesting that no Georgia QB until 2004 had ever thrown for 5 scores. WOW) and did it on the road when he needed to.
I said this on my radio show yesterday and I'll say it again. GA OC Mike Bobo trusts Cox more than he ever trusted Stafford and you can see that he does by the plays he calls. Stafford has 10X the arm Cox does, but Bobo called for deep ball after deep ball because Cox can COMPLETE it whereas Stafford would have thrown it over the receiver's head or into double coverage. There is a reason that Stafford seemed to only run about 8 plays whereas Cox can seemingly run the entire playbook.
Cox might not make it to the Sugar Bowl this season (Bama/Fla loser likely will get the Sugar Bowl with the winner going to play for BCS title) but he could still go 10-2 and then 11-2 with a CapitalOne Bowl win. Cox has shown he is far closer to Shockley than JoeT3 and the Georgia fans should embrace him finally. Aaron Murray can wait a year and learn and be READY for 2010. This is Cox's team and that is exciting if he can keep playing this well. Two straight games, two pretty daggone solid performances. He should get No.3 this week against Arizona State.
Speaking of Arizona State, the Sun Devils should give some confidence to this pass rush. The guys got after Mallet in the 4th, but the DBs gave up too many big plays early in the game. HEY WILLIE MARTINEZ, AFTER A TURNOVER, BOBBY PETRINO WILL GO DEEP ON THE FIRST PLAY. ALWAYS. Yet just like the week before with the screen, CWM couldn't pick up on it. Oh well. Mark Richt gave a veiled shot at Martinez during the postgame. This season could be CWM's last at Georgia.
Finally, Richard Samuel needs to learn to HOLD ON TO THE BALL! Either that, or switch to LB like Petey in Remember the Titans. He can play LB because he owned it in High School. Caleb didn't look so terrible. Perhaps he's ready to take over as RB. I like Dick Samuel, but enough with the fumbles. PLEASE!

In other CFB, Tennessee played like a bunch of p*ssies in terms of not giving themselves a chance to win. They KNEW they were going to lose and they played gutless keepaway so Florida wouldn't run up the score. I wouldn't be PROUD of my team if I was a Vol because it was ONLY a ten point loss. I'd yell at my coach for seemingly throwing in the towel.

And USC lost to Washington. WOW. Well I said last week, if you were going to "get" USC, this was the year. Pete clearly has been passed by both Urban AND Saban because of games like last Saturday.

uva...COME ON! Just fire Groh RIGHT NOW!

And Thank you to Oregon and FSU for knocking out Utah and BYU from the BCS discussion. Now if someone would just beat Boise State and TCU (hey Clemson, you've got a shot to take down TCU this Saturday. Do IT!), we could have a REAL BCS slate...except that Ohio State and Notre Dame might both sneak it. CRUD!