AUBURN, Ala. — The Gym Dogs have a lot of work to do.

After a 195.225-194.900 loss to No. 15 Auburn at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum in Auburn, Ala., Friday night, — its third straight and first loss to the Tigers — No. 8 Georgia again finds itself travelling home with more questions than answers.

The first question is, of course, what kind of team are they?

“We’re not very good,” said Georgia head coach Jay Clark. “We are not a mature team right now and we aren’t competing like it. We’re gaining a reputation for not being able to finish a meet and I told them ‘look, this shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen. You can’t complain about anything other than what you do. Control what you can control.’

“And we didn’t do that.”

The Gym Dogs (1-3, 0-2 Southeastern Conference) struggled all night, their highest rotation score was a 48.875 —on the uneven bars and vault — and did not have a single gymnast score at least a 9.9 in any event.

Their loss nearly had season crippling implications when junior Cassidy McComb hyper-extended her right knee on her floor routine and spent the final beam rotation on sidelines in her warmups and an ice bag instead of in the lineup.

“Long term, she is going to be alright,” Clark said.

The beam rotation, subsequently, was abysmal. Nearly every gymnast wobbled, and Georgia was forced to count a fall from Gina Nuccio after beam anchor Grace Taylor fell twice and received the first sub-9.0 beam score in her illustrious collegiate career.

“I don’t even understand [what happened on beam],” Taylor said. “I’m still confused, just dazed and confused. Like I’m just emotionless. I don’t have any thoughts right now.”

Losing has become an all too familiar feeling for Georgia this year, but worse still, is the empty feeling of how it competed.

“There’s no words [for how we feel right now],” said senior Courtney McCool. “We did some great gymnastics but for some reason, our team was not on the same page again. We were turning the pages, but it was just a rough day. There were some highlights but we can’t really focus on the highlights anymore. This has happened too many times this year and we’re sick of this feeling.”

Friday was the first time since 2000 that Georgia scored less than 195 points is a dual meet and only the second time overall during that same time span.

“Sometimes you have to have a really, really bad day to know that you really need to show up because this feeling is getting way too familiar and it is getting worse,” McCool said. “We are sick of it. It’s not going to happen again. It is not going t0 happen again — exclamation point.”

Added Clark: “I don’t want to go any lower. This needs to be rock bottom.”

Individual Results (Georgia competitors)

Vault: Noel Couch – 9.750; Cassidy McComb – 9.700; Hilary Mauro – 9.800; Gina Nuccio – 9.600; Kat Ding – 9.850; Marcia Newby – 9.775

Bars: Cassidy McComb – 9.750; Gina Nuccio – 9.775; Kat Ding – 9.850; Shayla Worley – 9.650; Marcia Newby – 9.750; Courtney McCool – 9.750

Beam: Hilary Mauro – 9.675; Noel Couch – 9.825; Kat Ding – 9375; Shayla Worley – 9.600; Courtney McCool – 9.850; Grace Taylor – 8.700

Floor: Noel Couch – 9.700; Cassidy McComb – 9.650; Gina Nuccio – 9.225; Hilary Mauro – 9.800; Courtney McCool – 9.875; Grace Taylor – 9.800