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Wow!!!!! It’s Georgia-Florida Week!!!!

And Colquitt County-Lowndes Week!!!!!!!

And Georgia Tech-Clemson Week!!!!!!!

And … Florida State playing on a Friday night Week!!

And … the Atlanta Falcons reconsidering any plans for using a fog machine at the next Mercedes-Benz Stadium home game (until someone can get that roof to open) while staying in the northeast to figure out the New York Jets, who might still be trying to figure out how it won three games (as many as Atlanta) already Week!!

And Georgia Southern’s coaching search begins Week!

And Red Ribbon Week … no joking matter, for real life is drug free!

For now, we will stick with the game in Jacksonville, where the Bulldogs can sign, seal and deliver a spot in the SEC Championship game with a victory. Georgia is getting a ton of help from the Western Division right now, for Mississippi State just destroyed Kentucky to create a three-way tie for second place in the Eastern half. The Bulldogs lead Florida, Kentucky and South Carolina all by two games on the loss side, and all three Kirby Smart’s troops have yet to face.

It’s a better position that Alabama is as Western leader, the Tide only one game up on the loss side over three teams, two of which they still need to play. That would be LSU and Auburn.

The Bulldogs, then, have one game to give to still be safe on top of the East, but that one game cannot be against any of those three. The fourth game still to play in conference is with those Auburn Tigers.

Speaking of Tigers, the scene in Athens on the evening prior to Homecoming vs. Missouri was reportedly one of jubilation. It’s because the then No. 2 Clemson Tigers lost to Syracuse. We saw that loss as an open door into the top 4 rankings. Me, on Oct. 14 I was more pumped when Texas A&M defeated the Gators, giving them losses in both their Western Division crossovers.

People will be quick to counter that this was not a great thing, for when Florida loses like that, or when that Kentucky loss happens, or when the Tennessee ship keeps sinking and sinking, it doesn’t do Georgia’s playoff resume any good. On the other hand, it’s Notre Dame-NC State week, and another win for the Fighting Irish against a quality foe (I only see two so far) will do wonders for our CFP ranking.

You could make a case that UGA only has two quality wins so far (MSU and ND).

Got to feel something for Florida, though. Four of its games so far (two wins, two losses) were decided by a combined margin of 10 points. But I emphasize with them in another way. It’s one thing to lose any college football game as a player when you are in a program that’s built a foundation of winning over three decades. To lose while wearing somebody’s hazy idea of an alternative uniform … could you imagine leaving the home field after a two-point setback, look down and see scales all up and down your arms and legs?

“Hey, I think the Florida Gator football players would look cool dressed like real reptiles.”

We at Georgia went through the same thing ourselves. I’m not talking about the Black-Outs, the last one yielding horrendous results against Alabama in 2008. That was self-imposed foolishness. Think back to the start of the 2011 season and the opener at the Georgia Dome vs. Boise State. I tune in late, but I don’t see the Georgia Bulldogs on the field. Instead, it’s the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with our players’ numbers and names.

Yes, we lost the game, but got plenty of sponsor money for it. We are the ones who freaked when Jim Donnan added a black stripe to the helmet in 1996.

Just promise me one thing, guys, wear red, white, black and silver on Saturday and every other Saturday in the fall. And no Thursday or Friday games either.

The Georgia and Florida programs traded three-game winning streaks over the past six years. Beating Florida three times in a row (2011-13) was something the Bulldogs hadn’t accomplished since the late 1980s, just prior to the arrival as Steve Spurrier as head coach. It’s been said that for most Florida fans, that’s when Gator’s football history really started.

(If that’s the case, how do you explain the invention of Gatorade and Spurrier’s Heisman Trophy winning career?)

This three-game skid for my side is not so hard to explain. We went into the 2014 game deflated because we thought Todd Gurley would be available after the Mark Richt-imposed suspension for selling autographs. The NCAA decided, however, that the superstar running back needed to sit out one more time just as we are arriving in Jacksonville.

Under Jim McIlwain, the Gators still had a Will Muschamp-stamped defense, one you cannot face with offensive uncertainty. We had that in abundance in 2015, when Faton Bauta made his debut at quarterback. Three times we can’t convert 3rd-and-1 in the first half, and on 4th-and-1 Sony Michel is hit for lost yards inside the Gator 40. Four chances to move the chains and keep their offensive off the field, but instead it’s 20-0 them at the half.

Not only is it three losses in a row, but only one touchdown in the last two years. We’re down by four at the half in 2016 and get a mere 47 yards in the third and fourth quarters.

But we believe Jake Fromm, the true freshman, will rectify all of that with help from a healthy backfield attack. And it’s our defense that is going to put on the clamps.

Georgia may have the best backup quarterback in the country, but we really don’t know what the state of Jacob Eason’s game is because he hasn’t had meaningful snaps since the injury. Smart makes those decisions with his offensive coaches, and they haven’t seen reason to give Eason any. Fromm threw a pick that led to a short Missouri touchdown drive early, but he was back out there and had no real big mistakes the rest of the way.

I’ll leave you with this weird prediction (not mine): Alabama wins the SEC Championship over Georgia at Mercedes-Benz. Then, about a month later, Alabama is paired with the same Georgia team – also at Mercedes-Benz – for the Sugar Bowl a.k.a. CFP semifinal.