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If you’re Georgia coach Mark Richt, which of the following situations from the 41-17 beatdown by arch-nemesis Florida kept you from sleeping Saturday night?
A. That you now have to wait another year to stew over how the Gators (8-0, 6-0 SEC) just won for the 17th time in 20 meetings against your Bulldogs (4-4, 3-3). Look at the bright side: Florida coach Urban Meyer spared you some misery by not calling two timeouts in the final 44 seconds to prolong the agony as he did in last year’s 38-point win.B. That your motivational ploys didn’t work again. Such as those never-before-worn, spiffy-looking black helmets you surprised the team with minutes before kickoff. The wardrobe change worked out as well as last year’s black-jersey affair while playing Alabama at home. The Crimson Tide led 31-0 at the half in a 41-30 victory.Those pictures of Meyer signaling timeout in the last seconds of 2008 that were placed around your facility in Athens, Ga., did little good, either. The same can be said for that team-wide celebration following quarterback Joe Cox’s 26-yard TD pass that cut Florida’s lead to 14-10 in the second quarter — similar to what the Bulldogs did in 2007 when the entire team celebrated a Knowshon Moreno score by storming the end zone. C. The fact that Tim Tebow’s 23-yard TD run with 1:32 left in the first half moved him past Georgia great Herschel Walker as the SEC’s career rushing touchdowns leader with 50. He would add another one later. Talk about pouring salt on an open wound. D. That trick-or-treaters kept ringing your doorbell into the early morning hours dressed up in No. 15 Florida gear. You obliged and upon dropping candy into their baskets were greeted with a "scoreboard" chant.E. All of the aboveCorrect answer: Take a wild guess.AbracadabraWhy did the chicken cross the road, you ask? Because it wanted to see Iowa pull another rabbit out of a hat, that’s why. If the still-undefeated Hawkeyes are playing football, there’s an awfully good chance that smoke screens and half-bodied women are involved in their offensive game plan. Exhibit Z: A 42-24 come-from-behind victory at home over Indiana, which improved Iowa to 9-0 overall and 5-0 in the Big Ten after its eighth rally for a win this season. Down 21-7 midway through the third quarter, Hawkeyes linebacker Tyler Sash intercepted a pass that bounced off more objects (five body parts) than a Bob Barker Plinko machine and returned it 86 yards for a TD.That’s about the time Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi wove his magic wand and shook off a career-high five interceptions to throw TD passes of 92 and 66 yards in a fourth quarter in which he completed all three of his passes for 177 yards. The win keeps the Hawkeyes in the middle of the BCS picture, as two of their last three games are at home, starting with Northwestern this week. A trip to Ohio State looms in two weeks. Can you imagine what’s in store when these "Luckeyes" visit a place called the "Horseshoe?" Here’s to guessing it has something to do with a peg-legged donkey in a sweater vest.
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