BATON ROUGE, La. – “Dang.”

It was a succinct statement from Georgia linebacker Rennie Curran after his team’s impressive 52-38 win over LSU in Death Valley – but it wasn’t about the Bulldogs’ performance.

It was about Florida’s 63-5 trouncing of Kentucky, in which the Gators put up 28 points in the first quarter on the way to racking up 446 yards of total offense.

That, combined with the Bulldogs’ offensive explosion in Baton Rouge, may mean a Big-12 style shootout come Saturday in Jacksonville.

“We already know what they can do on offense,” defensive back Asher Allen said. “We played them last year we know what they can do. The kind of team that they are, they’re very explosive and you’ve just got to try and contain them.”

The Bulldogs surrendered 497 yards to the Tigers Saturday but made plays when they needed to, on both sides of the ball. Darryl Gamble had a pair of interception returns for touchdowns (tying an NCAA record for a linebacker), Reshad Jones had a timely pick, A.J. Green caught a 49-yard touchdown, and Knowshon Moreno had two runs that accounted for 115 of his 162 yards.

Head coach Mark Richt said last week that his Bulldogs didn’t need a stylish, large-margin “statement” game, that “winning to me is pretty stylish,” but he may have gotten one anyway. The Bulldogs tallied the second most points that LSU has ever given up at Tiger Stadium.

“We go into every game trying to score every time we get the ball,” quarterback Matthew Stafford said. “That’s our thought process and what we work towards, and we were able to move the ball well on them. We got some big plays when we needed them today.”

Georgia and Florida’s games were similar in terms of points scored – but there’s a big difference between a game where LSU refused to go away, pressuring and threatening Georgia for all 60 minutes, and one where Kentucky rolled over and died.

“This game absolutely took a lot of heart and fight and soul and energy . We’re tired. We spent a lot of energy on this game,” Richt said. “They had a game it sounds like that didn’t have as much emotion involved and not as much physical wear and tear on their bodies.”

But Curran said that the Gators were watching. And he thinks they’ll be impressed.

“They’ve got to take notice,” Curran said. “They’ve played [LSU] before and they had an impressive game against them. I know that they were watching this game or they’re going to be watching this film. I feel like we gave them a good statement.”