UGA Will Explode on Offense in 2020: Here's Why...

ATHENS - Just how vanilla was Georgia in 2019 on offense?

Apparently so much so that an unidentified coach had this to say about the Dawgs last fall:

“The problem wasn't the talent, it was the predictability.”

More than a few message board posters agreed with that statement. Kirby Smart very well might have, too. Weeks after the season Kirby did all he could do to get rid of the predictability and keep the talent. The 5th-year head coach removed his offensive coordinator, and then didn’t get in the way of him leaving to the tight ends coach at Texas A&M. 

But letting someone go is only step one in a two-step process. Kirby replaced the old offensive coordinator with someone who was in charge of some of the highest-producing offenses last decade in college football. 

Todd Monken. 

Five seasons last decade Monken oversaw an offense or a team. Needless to say the results speak for themselves. At Southern Miss, Monken yanked the Eagles from being one of the bottom 13 scoring offenses in the country before he got there to the No. 13 scoring offense the season he left. 

But what he did as an offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State is extraordinary. There were 1,263 offenses that put up statistics in major college football last decade. Todd Monken’s offenses in Stillwater were No. 6 and No. 16 overall… 

For. The. Decade. 

Consider that two years after Monken left Stillwater, the Cowboys finished No. 77 in overall scoring offense… not for the decade - for the year. If what Monken did on offense at Oklahoma State and Southern Miss are any indication it won’t take long for UGA to be a top ten offense - even with the defenses in the SEC. 

That’s not to suggest that UGA must have a top-ten offense to win the national title. It might not have to, but it sure would help. 

The numbers don’t lie. Kirby hired one of the top offensive coordinators in college football from last decade. UGA’s new offense should nicely complement the Dawgs’ No. 1 overall defense from last year to form a heck of a team in 2020. 

The focus of pundits so far has been figuring out how to replace Jake Fromm, D’Andre Swift, Andrew Thomas and Isaiah Wilson. But one has to wonder if the unidentified coach said it correctly in Athlon: “The problem wasn't the talent, it was the predictability.”

I’ve got a prediction. 

Points. Not many for the opposition, and a heck of a lot more for the Dawgs.