Georgia has LSU’s number, and it’s been that way for five years.This is a trend that needs to stop in a hurry.The last time LSU beat Georgia in football was in the 2003 Southeastern Conference Championship Game, and the Bulldogs have embarrassed the Tigers every time they were on the same field together since then.The 2003 SEC Championship was the second win against the Bulldogs that season, as the two teams had faced off earlier in the season and LSU came out on top, 17-10, in an epic encounter in Tiger Stadium.But since those two wins, Georgia has beaten LSU handily in each meeting the team has played.Georgia rolled to a 45-16 win in 2004 in Athens in former LSU coach Nick Saban’s only visit to Sanford Stadium.There’s a different coach at LSU nowadays, but the results against Georgia have been just about the same.Coach Les Miles has beaten a “who’s who” of great coaches in his five-plus seasons as coach at LSU and led the Tigers to victories against almost everyone in the Southeastern Conference and many other nationally prominent programs.He’s bested Saban in Tuscaloosa, showed Urban Meyer he had some super men of his own with a fourth-quarter comeback against Florida and even used a bit of trickery on the Ol’ Ball Coach in a win against South Carolina.He’s beaten “Da’ U” in the Peach Bowl, taken it to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, wrecked Georgia Tech in the Chick–fil-A Bowl and even added to The Ohio State University’s BCS futility when his team won the 2007 BCS National Championship.But with all those impressive wins on his resumé, Miles still hasn’t gotten the better of one school, and that’s Georgia.Georgia trounced LSU, 34-14, in the 2005 SEC Championship Game in Miles’ first meeting with the Bulldogs.The game took place in the Georgia Dome and ended up being basically a home game for Georgia.LSU had the home-field advantage the next time the two teams faced off.It didn’t matter, though. Georgia came into Tiger Stadium last season and used two pick sixes by then-sophomore linebacker Darryl Gamble to take a 14-point win in a high-scoring affair in Miles’ second meeting with the Bulldogs.With the third meeting between the two entities looming Saturday afternoon in Athens, nothing would make me happier than to see Miles get his first win against Georgia.It would make LSU’s matchup with Florida on Oct. 10 even more epic and meaningful than it already is. But more importantly, the game against Georgia already means something else completely to me, because I’m from Georgia, and I like that school a whole lot less than the average LSU student.I’ve grown up around the Bulldog faithful for the bulk of my life, and I want LSU to win this game more than any other one on the schedule. It’s that serious.The years of taunting by friends has gotten almost unbearable at this point. I need those bragging rights, and furthermore, I’d love to see the Bulldog fans realize their team is once again mediocre.It may be spiteful on my part, but seeing a Georgia loss is almost as exciting to me as an LSU win, and them having a loss to LSU would be all the more sweet.Not because it affects the Tigers in any way — because it usually doesn’t — but because my friends have driven me to the point where I just don’t like to see them succeed.When I’m at home and hang out with my friends, I constantly hear praise for the Bulldogs and how “this year is their year” no matter what year it is, what the schedule looks like or who they have returning to the team.I also hear trash talk about how badly they’ll beat LSU when the time comes.It gets old, but there is no comeback I can make since LSU hasn’t beaten Georgia since I was in high school — and I’m working on finishing up the five-year plan.I want Miles to get his first win against Georgia so I can get some leverage back and have more material with which to taunt my friends.Johanathan Brooks is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Powder Springs, Ga. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jbrooks.
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Babbling Brooks: Les Miles, please beat UGA for me
September 28, 2009