Georgia football: Three former Dawgs fans wished stayed another year

Jarvis Jones

The more you think about the 2013 Georgia football season, the weirder and more frustrating the season gets. Injuries decimated the team. So much that they could have been an easy and justifiable excuse for why the team finished the year 8-5.

But the offense averaged 38.16 points despite the injuries. The defense, who didn’t deal with many injuries at all, allowed an average of 30.3 points per game. And yet, Jarvis Jones could have changed that, just enough to turn 2013 from disappointment to almost great.

The Dawgs ended that year with 32.5 sacks. A pretty good amount. Five players had at least four sacks on the season. Leonard Floyd led the team with 6.5. But in 2012, Jones broke David Pollack’s school record for sacks in a season with 14.5.

Him joining a group of pass rushers who terrorized quarterbacks in 2013 would have likely reversed the results in all three of Georgia’s close games. The defensive backfield which looked pitiful, would have had an easier time with Jones assaulting the backfield.

And who knows, with Georgia allowing less points, maybe Todd Gurley, Keith Marshall, Justin Scott-Wesley and Michael Bennett all keep from getting injured.