Twitter reacts to Brent Musburger’s call of Georgia’s onside kick return

SEC Network‘s Brent Musburger provided an interesting tidbit as South Carolina lined up for an extra point trailing 21-13 with 1:40 left in the fourth quarter.

Brent: "Some folks are wide awake for this extra point."

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) October 9, 2016

Of course, Georgia entered Sunday’s game as an 8.5-point favorite, which means anyone picking South Carolina to beat the spread would have won their bet after the successful PAT.

Unfortunately for them, Georgia’s Terry Godwin returned an onside kick 43-yards for a touchdown, which propelled the Bulldogs to a 28-14 win, six points more than the spread.

Several Twitter users suggested that Musburger had the anguish of one of those bettors in his voice during his call of the kick return.

He called that onside kick return with all the despondency of a guy who had South Carolina + 8

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) October 9, 2016

Could not have been more obvious. https://t.co/6g0Xvw0BmV

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) October 9, 2016

That long pause as Brent realizes not only is SouthCarolina not gonna recover that but UGA is going to score and get the back-door cover.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) October 9, 2016

You can sort of guess how much Brent has on the game based on his reactions to blown covers.

— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) October 9, 2016

Brent definitely took South Carolina and the points, FWIW

— Barrett Sallee ?? (@BarrettSallee) October 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/SBNationCFB/status/785235190998192129

Brent is crushed

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) October 9, 2016

Never change, Brent. Never change.

Jason Hall

Jason covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.