‘This Is Going To Be Georgia’s First Real Tough Road Test’: Adam Zucker Previews #2 Georgia Vs #18 Auburn, Plus 6 Other Games

(CBS Local Sports) – College shot rolls on this week with a large slate of games crossed CBS and CBS Sports Network. CBS’ Matt Weiss spoke to CBS Sports’ Adam Zucker astir this week’s matchups including a clash of apical 25 teams with Georgia and Auburn positive the fig 1 squad successful the country, Alabama, heading to College Station to fastener horns with the Aggies.

#2 Georgia astatine #18 Auburn: Saturday, October 9, 3:30pm ET connected CBS

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“It’s Georgia-Auburn and due to the fact that it’s astatine Jordan-Hare Stadium, you ne'er cognize what mightiness happen. We enjoyed watching the supplication from a fewer years backmost connected our amusement Tuesday. My favourite changeable is erstwhile you spot Aaron Murray connected the Georgia seat aft helium had conscionable led them to a presumed triumph and he’ll really beryllium successful the booth for us, truthful I’m definite they’re going to person immoderate amusive with that.

The question is whether Bo Nix tin make the benignant of magic helium did against LSU the different nighttime erstwhile Auburn got their archetypal triumph astatine Death Valley, since 1999. He was escaping guys similar brainsick and making making touchdowns and archetypal downs retired of it wherever successful the past we utilized to spot him get swallowed up oregon instrumentality monster losses. This Georgia defense, I mean, it’s arsenic if Bo Nix is going from trying to flight a piranha to trying to flight an Orca oregon a large achromatic shark. The Georgia defence is astatine a level that nary different defence is astatine close present coming disconnected 2 consecutive outcry outs. Even if the Vanderbilt 1 doesn’t number successful immoderate people’s minds, the Arkansas, 1 has to.

They’re allowing nether 5 points per game, allowing a touchdown little than the adjacent champion team. Even if their discourtesy isn’t afloat complete, particularly with JT Daniels banged up, their defence tin triumph games connected its own. They’ve present unopen retired 2 consecutive league opponents for the archetypal clip since their rubric twelvemonth 1980.

For Auburn beyond the tricks of Nix has the 2nd champion mean successful the country, successful presumption of yards per carry. I’m not saying Tank Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter are Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown arsenic a duo but they’re starting to lb retired immoderate superior yardage. Beyond the magic of Nix the different nighttime the truly awesome shot came from those 2 cats.

They besides person a defence that’s beauteous darn coagulated considering what they had to bash to get a triumph astatine LSU, to astir triumph astatine Penn State, and immoderate of the different games that we’ve seen him truthful far. I deliberation Auburn tin bent around, particularly if they don’t marque mistakes connected their extremity of the field.

Things tin get beauteous absorbing particularly due to the fact that this is going to beryllium Georgia’s archetypal existent pugnacious roadworthy test. They had to spell to Vanderbilt, the crippled against Clemson was a neutral site, present this this is simply a roadworthy situation that they haven’t had yet.”

#1 Alabama astatine Texas A&M: Saturday, October 9, 8pm ET connected CBS

“First of all, I emotion that we’re gonna spell from watching Georgia to watching Alabama due to the fact that portion Alabama is fig 1 and the defending champs, a batch of my existent diehard movie watchers accidental that Georgia is simply a amended team. Now we get to comparison them, not against the aforesaid opponent, but we get to ticker them connected the aforesaid day, footwear backmost and bask it.

Alabama proved, erstwhile again, it’s beauteous pugnacious to fool them twice. Even though Ole Miss got them 2 years successful a enactment a fewer years ago, for Alabama to spell up 35  to thing connected Lane Kiffin wherever everyone had a feeling that Ole Miss could enactment up immoderate points and truly situation them, that crippled was retired of manus by halftime.

If I were Jimbo Fisher, I would not accidental get your popcorn acceptable due to the fact that helium already had his large infinitesimal successful the offseason erstwhile helium was recorded saying we’re going to bushed his a–, talking astir Coach Saban. To me, this crippled is astir much astir A&M than it is astir ‘bama.

We each thought A&M would beryllium that 2nd squad down Alabama and I deliberation erstwhile you person that statement it puts a people connected your back. So not lone is A&M 0-2 successful league play but their losses to Arkansas and Mississippi State are to the teams that were slated sixth and seventh and successful the part to statesman the season.

So this is an eventual gut cheque to maine for Texas A&M successful this spot due to the fact that they amended support this happening adjacent due to the fact that it’s turning into catastrophe for Jimbo Fisher. For Alabama, they’ve taken immoderate dings connected the wounded beforehand and Brian Robinson whitethorn not beryllium Najee Harris, but we saw that Alabama inactive has a feline who is going to enactment his caput down and get a batch of pugnacious yardage the mode Najee utilized to, particularly with the wounded to Jase McClellan,

The Alabama defence truly made a large connection successful that past crippled due to the fact that aft Ole Miss had a mates of those 4th down conversions and we thought it was getting interesting, they enactment a beauteous beardown halt to it. The antiaircraft enactment was particularly bully portion the DBs were making definite Matt Corral didn’t person anybody open.”

Charlotte astatine FIU: Friday, October 8, 7pm ET connected CBS Sports Network

“Charlotte is simply a beauteous absorbing squad to me, they bushed Duke successful aboriginal September, past they had a pb connected Illinois this past play and close aft missing the crippled tying tract extremity gave up an 80 gait touchdown truthful it got retired of hand. With Chris Reynolds steadfast Charlotte looks similar a squad that’s going to commencement to instrumentality astir and possibly emergence up successful the world, particularly for their location.

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What’s absorbing is they’ve ne'er defeated FIU who’s 5-0 each clip against them. FIU is successful immoderate occupation close present though they conscionable gave up implicit 700 full yards to their rival Florida Atlantic and we we past saw them with that memorable upset implicit Miami a fewer years backmost but they’ve mislaid 10 consecutive present to FBS opponents.

One feline that’ll beryllium amusive to ticker for shot fans is Max Bortenschlager, he’s the backmost for FIU who transferred determination aft Taulia Tagovailoa came to Maryland, but we ever bask saying his name. I don’t deliberation we’ll beryllium saying his sanction for a batch of bully reasons, but helium has enactment up a mates touchdowns successful each crippled truthful far. I bash deliberation that Charlotte would person the borderline successful that game.”

Northern Illinois astatine Toledo: Saturday, October 9, 12pm ET connected CBS Sports Network

“This is simply a pugnacious call. Northern Illinois had a bully triumph implicit Georgia Tech to commencement the play and that’s a Georgia Tech squad that has had its ups and downs but showed retired successful the nonaccomplishment to Clemson and truly dominated North Carolina. Then connected the different manus Toledo, I thought exposed Notre Dame earlier a batch of different teams did.

They played Notre Dame pugnacious it was a game, not seen connected nationalist television, the mode we’re utilized to it. They’re present coming location from 2 consecutive roadworthy games. I deliberation this is simply a immense crippled erstwhile it comes to the MAC. Toledo with homefield possibly has an borderline there, and could assertion that they’re much conflict tested but I deliberation that one’s going to spell down to the wire.”

#24 SMU astatine Navy: Saturday, October 9, 3:30pm ET connected CBS Sports Network

“I springiness Navy a changeable successful this 1 due to the fact that of what they were capable to bash against UCF. It’s a radical of guys who person had their backs to the partition and a coaching unit has already had immoderate turmoil with the mode Ivin Jasper was fired and past brought backmost aft the nonaccomplishment to Air Force, which I deliberation was an affectional infinitesimal astatine the academy, obviously.

There’s an utmost opposition betwixt these 2 teams, SMU is seventh successful the state scoring 42 points a game, you person a backmost successful Tanner Mordecai who has thrown 24 touchdowns which is 5 much than Kenny Pickett for astir successful the country. Tanner Mordecai is really adjacent a small spot little than these different guys successful presumption of yards per crippled and attempts per crippled but he’s thrown a touchdown each 7 and a fractional attempts. He’s astatine similar Barry Bonds oregon Babe Ruth location tally proportions here.

It’s a full opposition truthful I interest due to the fact that Navy is extracurricular the apical 100 successful scoring defense, it’s going to beryllium truly cardinal for them to beryllium capable to tally the shot the mode they do. SMU is mediate of the battalion arsenic a unreserved defence but Navy isn’t having a navy benignant of twelvemonth moving the shot conscionable yet. Navy could ever marque it absorbing though due to the fact that of however hard it is to spell up against their offense.”

Wyoming astatine Air Force: Saturday, October 9, 7pm ET connected CBS Sports Network

“I deliberation that Air Force volition triumph based connected what I’ve seen from some teams. I emotion the Air Force rushing onslaught close present starring the federation successful yards per crippled and rushing touchdowns due to the fact that of the discourtesy that they run. Haaziq Daniels, their quarterback, is astir six yards a carry. Micah Davis is besides going for 9 yards a carry.

Wyoming has been gritty and is undefeated for a crushed though and this is their league opener and they’re astir apt truly blessed to buckle their seatbelts into Mountain West play aft a roadworthy flight astatine UConn and immoderate chaotic finishes that they’ve already had. Now they’ve had a week disconnected pursuing that, I deliberation they get to deed reset and descend into league play.”

New Mexico State astatine Nevada: Saturday, October 9, 10:30pm connected CBS Sports Network

“This should beryllium an casual crippled for Nevada and I don’t mean to instrumentality distant from New Mexico State’s effort  and kids connected the squad trying to marque shot happen. Nevada’s lone nonaccomplishment was successful a sojourn to a pugnacious Kansas State squad who astir bushed Oklahoma, who did bushed a Stanford squad that’s wholly turned the PAC-12 upside down.

They conscionable got a triumph astatine Boise State which utilized to beryllium intolerable and I emotion their violative equilibrium due to the fact that of Carson beardown and present Toa Taua coming disconnected his champion crippled of the play going for 124 yards astatine Boise. I deliberation that Nevada should look astatine this arsenic a mode to get immoderate different players connected the tract and debar mistakes and dainty it similar a unrecorded tune up for the games they person coming up against Jake Haener and Fresno State connected the roadworthy and a Hawaii squad that conscionable showed what they tin bash by beating Fresno State and causing six turnovers successful that one.

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The Mountain West, betwixt Nevada and those teams I conscionable mentioned, but besides Wyoming and Air Force person shown the Mountain West is going to beryllium truly entertaining to ticker arsenic we caput into the fall.”