Red and Black Tuesday

I said it’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! While the weather outside is indeed frightful, I feel warm and fuzzy inside because the history books will show January 5th, 2010 as (Red and) Black Tuesday.(Thanks AD). While my primary focus was on the Orange Bowl and Iowa beating Georgia Tech, the Hoop Dawgs were providing the appetizer by upsetting the 20th ranked B-Ball Bees, 73-66.

Once I was able to give the football game my complete attention, it was like a trip to Fogo de Chao. So much great stuff, you don’t know where to start.  All you can eat, for one not so low price, but oh so worth it.

I truthfully did not expect Iowa to put that type of beatdown on the Yellow Jackets. I didn’t realize Iowa had the likes of DE Adrian Clayborn who could be so disruptive. In fact Iowa dominated on the line of scrimmage and held Tech more than 280 yards under their season average of total offense and scored just one touchdown. Wow!

On offense, Iowa “pounded the rock” ala the Georgia Bulldogs and kept Tech’s offense off the field in the first half especially.  Hawkeye QB Ricky Stanzi had a very solid game for someone that was coming off ankle surgery and had not played in a couple of months.

Sure, Georgia Tech had a great year, but losing the way they did last night is a bitter pill. This fact,  along with the loss to Georgia will make this off season a long one.

I wonder who Paul Johnson will be punching this week?

01/06/2010 | Categories: SPORTS | Tags: Georgia State Football, Georgia Tech Football, Iowa Hawkeyes | 6 Comments »