Radical Georgia Moderate

November 23, 2007

Post-holiday circus maximus

by Rusty

If you’re in town and looking for something to do tonight, two of Amber’s photos will be featured in the Atlanta Photography Exhibit, which is part of theCastleberry Hill 4th Friday Art Stroll this time around. It starts at 6 p.m. at The Granite Room.
The 23rd Georgia Carnival is up over at Facing the Sharks.
Georgia Tech won’t do anything special to announce the Kentucky score tomorrow.

“The Tennessee-Kentucky game will be part of our regular rotation [of score updates],” said Tech spokesman Dean Buchan. “We are not going to do anything beyond the ordinary.”

Translation: Tech is not going to rub it in with multiple announcements if Tennessee is blowing out Kentucky and it is not going to have updates every 30 minutes if Kentucky is winning.

This is exactly how I would handle this, because if Kentucky beats Tennessee and sends the Bulldogs to the SEC Championship game, then this gives them cover to not treat it specially. And if Tennessee wins, I would have the Tech band play the everliving shit out of Rocky Top. And maybe have the Tech cheerleaders lead a “thir-ty-five-four-teen” chant.

Of course, that would require Tennessee to beat Kentucky first, an event whose outcome I have no way to prognosticate. On one hand, Kentucky has been trending down as the year has wound out and Tennessee is playing for a spot in the conference championship. On the other, there is Tennessee’s 22-game win streak over UK, which has to irk the Kentucky players more than a little. And Tennessee’s 1-3 road record this year.

Both teams should (should, Tennessee) be motivated to win, so Tennessee can win if it protects the ball better than it has in other road games this year. The Vols have a 1.57 turnover margin at home compared to -1.25 on the road so far.

Filed at 12:01 pm

2 Responses to “Post-holiday circus maximus”

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Saturday, 11.24.2007 at 6:12 am
Shark Girl wrote:

Thank you for a link back to the carnival!

Sunday, 11.25.2007 at 2:23 am

imetxe wrote:

Can you help??
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Saturday, 11.24.2007 at 6:12 am