Avoid Those Noon Games

If you're UGA, maybe you should avoid those noon kickoffs. Here's a table of the regular season organized by time of day, with of course noon games coming first, followed by 2:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Clearly we didn't do all that well on noon games, squeaking by powerhouse Nicholls State and getting clubbed to death by Ole Miss, losing to Vandy (Vandy?), and (sigh) Georgia Tech.

Start Time	Opponent	Score (Ga 1st)	Comments
Noon	Nicholls State	26-24	Really?
Noon	Ole Miss	14-45	Clubbed
Noon	South Carolina	Not Played	Played next day
Noon	Vanderbilt	16-17	To Vandy?
Noon	La-Lafayette	35-21	OK
Noon	Georgia Tech	27-28	Not OK
2:30 p.m.	South Carolina	28-14	Makeup game
3:30 p.m.	Tennessee	31-34	Bad one
3:30 p.m.	Florida	10-24	Worse one
3:30 p.m.	Auburn	13-7	Good game
5:30 p.m.	UNC	33-24	Good one
7:30 p.m.	Kentucky	27-24	Whew
7:30 p.m.	Missouri	28-27	Good game

So at noon, we boasted a 2-4 record. Ouch. Hey, but at least we were undefeated at 2:30 p.m. with a 1-0 record (just one game, that makeup with South Carolina on a Sunday). For the record, we were also undefeated on Sundays this season.

At 3:30, UGA was 1-2, improved and was undefeated at 5:30. And those 7:30 games? Won both of 'em.  Barely, yeah, but victories nonetheless.

The lesson? UGA needs to play late games, not early ones. And avoid 3:30.