The defining image from Saturday's SEC Championship wasn't LSU players standing around while Georgia's Chris Smith turned a blocked field goal into a Bulldogs touchdown. It wasn't the triple-doink interception that bounced off a yellow helmet and into Georgia's waiting arms. It wasn't any of half a dozen Stetson-Bennett-to-Brock-Bowers passes, each demoralizing in their relentless precision.
For all the trophies and accolades of the last two seasons for the Georgia Bulldogs – winners of 27 of their last 28, fleets of players sent to the NFL, national championship – one task had eluded Kirby Smart’s current squad, one goal left to be reached.
Even so, the game had the feel of a September Saturday in Athens, a game where little was at stake and the Georgia faithful were showing up with expectation rather than anxiety. Mercedes-Benz Stadium was so full of red and black it may as well have been a Georgia spring game. After the game, Smart could afford to be a little loose – he joked that he holds a Georgia quarterbacking record Bennett will never match, a 1.000 completion percentage, one for one, and he even ladled a bit of Heisman praise on Bennett, a departure from his usual team-above-all mentality.
Smart seemed to concede that the Bulldogs may have let up on the gas a bit in the second half, up 35-10 going into the locker room. For LSU, Garrett Nussmeier replaced the injured Daniels in the second half, and Nussmeier threw for 294 yards and two touchdowns as LSU outscored Georgia in the half.
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