Jeff Schultz: If you take out wins over FCS (Tennessee Tech, Idaho State) and Sun Belt (Louisiana-Lafayette) schools, Richt is 11-14 overall since 2009. He’s 6-10 in the last 16 SEC games and 2-10 against ranked teams. To go 9-1 overall and 6-1 in the SEC the rest of the way is possible. But it would be a stark contrast to what we’ve been witnessing.

Richt said the South Carolina game “could’ve gone either way. Did we improve tremendously? There’s no doubt about that. I left the field sick about losing but encouraged about the team.”

Improvement is good. But winning saves jobs. Richt has left himself no room for error.

You can't really put a number on wins Richt needs to save his job. But with the schedule Georgia has ahead of them, probably being favored in all but 1 or 2, I think its pretty safe to say 8 wins is a minimum with 9 giving him a good chance of getting him to 2012. Its always important who the wins and losses come against but I don't see 7-5 with wins against Florida and Tech saving him. Just as I don't see 8-4 with a loss to Florida giving him a good chance.

I see Georgia finishing 8-4. I don't know who or where the 2 losses come. Georgia should have won Saturday but they lost because right now thats what we do, find ways to lose. This team is good enough to turn the tide and be good. We can win every game left but the lack of depth is too glaring to win 10 in a row. So having said all that, with so many variables, so much left to unfold, I believe a lot will be determined on the banks of the St. John's, just as it has been so many times before for the Georgia football program.