Weekend Predictions (sound check): Dogs in trouble?
I am so ready for this (and get your hands off my chips).
Because this is the final blog of the day, and I wanted something to hold you through the weekend, and I’m pretty sure my feeling that FOOTBALL CAN’T GET HERE SOON ENOUGH gives me at least one thing in common with even those of you who often throw your half-eaten sandwich at my face on your computer screen, I’ve got football stuff for you.
Actually, consider this a low-level tease (that sounded kinda dirty) for next week’s re-unveiling of Weekend Predictions. Since we’re more electric and less acoustic now here at the AJC (that’s the newspaper) and AJC.com, it follows that you’ll be able to read Weekend Predictions online on Thursday afternoons now, as well as in print the following morning. This will allow the online reader access to special web-only Thursday night game BONUS PICKS, which will be so special that I felt the need to hit the CAPS LOCKED key, which normally is reserved for those commenting on Michael Vick blogs.
Darn. I wasn’t supposed to mention him today. Oh well.
Anyway, we plan another long and profitable season at W.P. Inc. As always, W.P. Inc. accepts no responsibility if you bet on the wrong selections that were meant only to humor you.
So I went looking for the official Glantz-Culver point spreads for next week’s college games and came to realize that they’re not out yet. Instead, I’m relying on BetUS.com, which has even posted odds on the Lingerie Football League. Why, I don’t know. And I’m sure all of the WNBA fans who hate me for my previous blog now are even more thrilled that I dared to mention the Lingerie Football League.
Following are point spreads for opening week games involving Georgia, Georgia Tech and the Falcons (in two weeks), as well as some various prop bets. The official Glantz-Culver lines next week might vary from these numbers. But it will give you some clue as to what to expect.
As always, it won’t give you any idea what direction I’m going.
(Note: I converted numbers from a money line to standard odds. For example, plus-500 becomes 5-1.)
GEORGIA ODDS
♦ Game 1: The Bulldogs are 6-point underdogs at Oklahoma State. What’s interesting about this is the home team generally gets three points, which means they still consider the Cowboys a field goal better on a neutral site and the line would be even in Athens. Conclusion: Somebody doesn’t believe in the Joe Cox offense or the Willie Martinez defense. Or both.
♦ Big picture: Florida is an overwhelming favorite to win the SEC (1 to 2.5), followed by LSU (4.5 to 1). The Dogs are 9 to 1, which is tied for fifth.
GEORGIA TECH ODDS:
♦ Game 1: There are no odds because the opponent, Jacksonville State, is a 1-AA team.
♦ Big picture: It’s close odds for the ACC championship between Florida State (2.3 to 1) and Virginia Tech (2.5 to 1). The Yellow Jackets are 6 to 1, which is tied for fifth.
HEISMAN TROPHY
♦ Favorites: Tim Tebow 2 to 1, Sam Bradford 2.5 to 1, Colt McCoy 2.75 to 1. Georgia Tech’s Jonathan Dwyer is 15 to 1, which is sixth.
BCS CHAMPIONS
1.) Florida: 1.8 to 1
2.) Oklahoma: 5 to 1
3t.) Texas and USC: 6.5 to 1
5.) Ohio State: 10 to 1
6.) Alabama: 12 to 1
7.) Virginia Tech: 16.5 to 1
8.) LSU: 18 to 1
9.) Notre Dame: 20 to 1
10.) Florida State: 22 to 1
11.) Penn State: 25 to 1
12.) Miami: 26 to 1
13t.) Mississippi and Oregon: 30 to 1
15.) North Carolina: 33 to 1
16.) Nebraska: 40 to 1
17t.) Georgia, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State, California and South Florida: 50 to 1
FALCONS ODDS
♦ Game 1: 4-point favorites over Miami. Sounds right for two teams coming off surprising seasons.
♦ Big picture (NFC champions): N.Y. Giants 5 to 1, Philadelphia 5.5 to 1, Minnesota 6.5 to 1, New Orleans and Chicago 10 to 1. The Falcons are 12-1, tied for sixth).
♦ Really big picture (Super Bowl champions): New England 4.5 to 1, Pittsburgh 9 to 1, San Diego 10 to 1, N.Y. Giants and Philadelphia 12 to 1. The Falcons are 25 to 1, which is tied for 12th.
Here’s a link if you’re interested in more prop wagers (sporting, of course). For what it’s worth, they also have odds on whether an NFL team will go undefeated. You can get 2000 to 1 on the Detroit Lions.
So do these odds look about right to you, or are you surprised by the Georgia line?
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RAMBLE ON!!!
August 28th, 2009
3:21 pm
I like men
Trade School Junkie
August 28th, 2009
3:24 pm
LOL
“The Bulldogs are 6-point underdogs at Oklahoma State” ???????
Is that another “typo” ?? What it supposed to say a (66)pt underdog ??
dawgs are gonna BLASTED !!!!
Trade School Junkie
August 28th, 2009
3:27 pm
Richt’s scrimmage “trick” had dawgs starting off with a 21-0 deficit.
It will be merciful if its not OKST 21-0 to end the 1st Quarter !!!!
Paul H
August 28th, 2009
3:37 pm
The 6 point line doesn’t surprise me seeing how UGA is away at a top 10 opponent and is coming off losing Staff and Moreno. What everyone forgets is how well UGA plays in the season opener against good teams, and how well UGA plays on the road in hostile environments.
Ed-Covington
August 28th, 2009
3:39 pm
It’s 3:30 on Friday afternoon and all the cheap bars from Atlanta to Athens are full of dawg fans, so we won’t be bothered with too many of their stupid anti-Tech blogs today. THWG!
Fiddycent
August 28th, 2009
3:42 pm
Yo, yo, Tech fans. U need to shut da f up. No whut iz sayin. When LSU laid yo team out 38-3 u cant be barkin. Know what iz sayin dawg? Just bein real.
Dat option shyt dont play in da SEC. U get slapped around lik da lyttle beatches u is.
Paul H
August 28th, 2009
3:42 pm
Opening Day:
2003: UGA 30, Clemson 0
2005: UGA 45, Boise 21
2007: UGA 35, OSU 14
See a pattern people?
Jared Jones
August 28th, 2009
3:43 pm
nice job on the “8)”
LSU Fan
August 28th, 2009
3:43 pm
(((((38-3))))) hahahahaha
Kane337
August 28th, 2009
3:44 pm
The Cowboys are gonna kick the puppies
Fiddycent
August 28th, 2009
3:55 pm
I sez da dawgs gunna souprise all da naysayuzs. Das rite, u herd it here furst. Dawgs 24, cowboys 21. Da cowboys is 19 and 40 against da SEC, 15 of da wins be against da Hogs, but dey quit playin fo sho in1980.
Las year Ole Miss kic Texas Tech ass and TT laid a bad ass whippin on da cowboys dat year. Dey cant hang wid my boys, u feelin me cuz?
Tom
August 28th, 2009
3:56 pm
So I see at least one of the resident mutts finally realized how sad it looked to post the CFA Bowl score with a dawg handle. LOL!!!!
Trade School Junkie
August 28th, 2009
4:02 pm
Jackets winning the ACC this year is a STONE-COLD LOCK !!
The ONLY thing is question is whether they’ll maike it 12-0.
If GT beats UNC on Sept 26th, we’re gonna ABSOLUTELY CRUSH…EVERYONE …left on the schedule. And I do mean EVERYONE !!
JDH GT
August 28th, 2009
4:05 pm
Paul H,
Yes, I see a pattern. UGA’s margin of victory in the first game keeps decreasing.
VooDoo Child
August 28th, 2009
4:12 pm
Paul, aren’t those scores all from games played in Athens?
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 28th, 2009
4:12 pm
I still like men. My buddy JDH GT loves men. We are packers.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:14 pm
Trade School Junkie – if you spot me 66 points, I’ll bet you my 401k.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:16 pm
BTW – it was old T. Boone that predicted a 363 OSU victory. When you’re that rich though, you get to be called eccentric instead of crazy.
Paddy
August 28th, 2009
4:23 pm
dawgs win by 10.
DillonWarEagle
August 28th, 2009
4:24 pm
Trade School Junkie is retarded
DillonWarEagle
August 28th, 2009
4:26 pm
It’s also funny that Tech fans have never bothered to chime in to the smack talk until this year
I'll take that
August 28th, 2009
4:29 pm
Considering your 401k from McD’s is probably my daily salary, I’d take that bet dumb doggie.
A Quarter, Two Dimes and a Nickel
August 28th, 2009
4:30 pm
The defense can redeem themselves in StillWater. ONLY if the players tune out WM!
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:30 pm
Good one. Fresh and original come back. Let me respond with don’t forget your spock ears at the star trek convention.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:32 pm
Good grief…is it just me or are these comebacks getting progressively lamer? Some originality on this blog would be a nice start to the weekend.
Tom
August 28th, 2009
4:33 pm
“When you’re that rich though, you get to be called eccentric instead of crazy.”
Ain’t it the truth, Geoff? Good one.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:34 pm
Well said Tom – how’s your day going?
Jsonic
August 28th, 2009
4:34 pm
Doesn’t matter when the truth rings home! LOL. Star trek will finish as one of the top 10 movies of the year! Sad the Bulldogs won’t be in the top 10 college football teams of the year! ROFL
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:36 pm
Darn. And me without my big book of middle school zingers.
Chucktown
August 28th, 2009
4:37 pm
VooDoo Child,
The 30 – 0 UGA victory over Clemson was at Clemson, not in Athens.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
4:40 pm
Free Tech ticket with police report stating you were mugged on campus.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:42 pm
That one’s committed to memory. It’s not my fault you walked right into it.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
4:43 pm
I think it is time to stop the incessant posting of Tech chicks are ugly. How can you tell when they are all wearing burkhas.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
4:44 pm
Look out ACC, here comes the Thundering Nerd Herd!!!!!
Jeff Schultz
August 28th, 2009
4:46 pm
Guys — raise the level of attacks just a tad. I’ve had to delete 5 posts. I’m sure you can figure out the words/connotations that weren’t going to fly.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
4:47 pm
If only Dragon Con wasn’t next weekend they might be able to sell out the stadium for their opening game. Tough luck.
Nativebird
August 28th, 2009
4:47 pm
OK State line is about right. but 9 to 1 for the SEC? That’s a little low, I’d suggest they win their STATE championship first.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
4:47 pm
I am doing my almost best Jeff.
Dan A.
August 28th, 2009
4:52 pm
The -6 line for Okie State is a trap. Dawgs will win by 10+. Stay away.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
4:53 pm
Sorry – I think you need an adults only blog called “Schultz after dark”. The level of discourse here has been decidely mediocre thus far.
eddie
August 28th, 2009
4:54 pm
I am a die hard UGA fan-but this will be a tough game. I think the score will be within a td. All of those who are saying it will be a blow out, I hope you are on here after the game to eat your words. By the way look at who GT is playing-Jacksonville St.!!!!
Jeff Schultz
August 28th, 2009
4:56 pm
GeoffDawg: Hah! Schultz After Dark. I like that. But I”m guessing that would have to be a non-AJC sanctioned blog. If you’re willing to pay my mortgage, I can probably get this project off the ground.
The Price is Right
August 28th, 2009
4:56 pm
It must be an SEC fan making the odds – if you look at the odds for Florida, it is harder to win the SEC championship than it is the win the BCS version.
Big Bob
August 28th, 2009
4:57 pm
Remember, you read it here first. Georgia will beat Oklahoma State by a score of 41-21. The Cowboys will look more like Cowgirls as the get their butts whupped.
45ACP
August 28th, 2009
4:58 pm
So I can’t bet on Jacksonville State to win.
Inside info has it as a “bet the kids college fund”
never work again.
GeoffDawg
August 28th, 2009
5:01 pm
Come on – I heard you on 790. You’ve got radio money rolling in these days.
Joe Cox
August 28th, 2009
5:02 pm
Joe Cox will throw three touchdowns, two to the Cowboys in a 28-27 loss
Trade School Junkie
August 28th, 2009
5:11 pm
“Dawgs in Trouble?” is a rhetorical question.
45ACP
August 28th, 2009
5:22 pm
What if the Tech students dressed up like Chewbacca or cute little Yoda?
C-3PO or R2-D2?
DARTH VADER or Luke with his Light Saber?
I mean who would accost them?
Problem solved. Elementary my dear Watson.
comicman
August 28th, 2009
5:25 pm
I’m thinking more along the lines of “Schultz Lately.”
BruffDawg
August 28th, 2009
5:25 pm
Jeff, You know why they are favoring OSU. They have all the right players at the positions that media types drool over (QB, WR, RB). I remember a team last year with similar star players at those positions that didn’t live up to expectations. I don’t pretend to know what is going to happen but OSU as a SLIGHT favorite seems fair. Do not be suprised though if UGA can keep up with them. Their tallest DB is listed at 6ft or so and we have several WR/TE now 6′3 or taller. If cox has time he could light them up.
Saint Simons
August 28th, 2009
5:26 pm
I like men too!!
Old Dawg
August 28th, 2009
5:27 pm
Jared Jones: UGA opened against 1-AA school Georgia Southern in 2008, so Paul H’s analogy about tough 1-A schools wouldn’t work. It’s good to try and keep things in context when countering a statement. I know that’s a difficult concept for some, but it certainly helps keep the flames of arguments at a low level. A little research works well too.
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
5:28 pm
Hey 45, you might need a laugh buddy. Courtesy of Andy Griffith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8
Bring on the season. I swear I would watch “The Fighting Amish” of East Pennsylvania State versus “The Battling Bozos” from Clown College.
Please for the love of God, give me some College Football!
comicman
August 28th, 2009
5:28 pm
But you’re not as cute.
SWAT Native
August 28th, 2009
5:28 pm
Jeff,
I would love to read your emails some Friday morning. I’ll bet you get some interesting rebuttals. You must have a very thick skin.
Dawghater
August 28th, 2009
5:28 pm
Hey, BruffDawg, you don’t have to worry how tall OSU’s DB’s are when you have someone like Joe Cox at QB. Tall WR’s and TE’s mean nothing when Stafford is in Detroit!
Cuz
August 28th, 2009
5:29 pm
Yeah, “Late Schultz” sounds like a Memorial Service.
Paul H
August 28th, 2009
5:34 pm
Opening Day:
2003: UGA 30, Clemson 0
2005: UGA 45, Boise 21
2007: UGA 35, OSU 14
The pattern, everyone, is this: UGA comes to play against tough opening day opponents, especially ones whom are either favored or are predicted by ESPN to be “upset specials.” You can bank UGA will come to play in Stillwater.
Paul H
August 28th, 2009
5:35 pm
And don’t forget Richt’s record on the road against top 25 opponents. Even Myer and Saban wish they had that record.
BruffDawg
August 28th, 2009
5:39 pm
You mean a 5th year senior who was an elite 11 prospect who won the accuracy challenge and never lost a game as a starter? I’ll take someone like that.
Fiddycent
August 28th, 2009
5:40 pm
I shur hopes Tech scor mo points den da numba o peoples been mugged around da campus dis year. Day needs to score at lease 14.
Yo – Trade School Junkie – I wantz a hit off dat crack pipe you livin in. Tech – 12 & 0? Dats gotz to be sum good prduc.
Gottsta run. Nancy Pelosi is at da doe and she be wantin some of da ole fiddy. No what I’m sayin? U no what day say…daz rite. She an ole nasty white woman, oh lord…
45ACP
August 28th, 2009
5:44 pm
Cuz, that was great! I remember my parents playing a record of that when I was just a young…. well a long time ago.
A classic for sure.
Doug
August 28th, 2009
5:54 pm
Just got back from Las Vegas and the Dawgs are now +6.5. As a Vol fan, I say this is the lock bet of the first weekend, take the Dawgs and the 6.5 points and celebrate Saturday night.
DamYankee
August 28th, 2009
5:58 pm
If this is a representative sample of the comments we can expect on this blog, I think I’ll just wait until Friday morning over breakfast at Huddle House to read Weekend Predictions. Besides, I get a perverse pleasure from blowing scrambled eggs through my nose as I read the latest “trembling chihuahuas” comments. I can’t remember what cute nickname you use for the Jello Yackets, I guess I’ll find out next week. Can’t wait!
LSUTiger
August 28th, 2009
6:03 pm
38-3. Bwahhahahahahahahah. I will laugh even harder when Jax State beats them.
Duluth Gator
August 28th, 2009
6:05 pm
Paul H, what is Richt’s record on the road against top 25?
GTkenz
August 28th, 2009
6:18 pm
50 cent – ever hear of not caring about a meaningless bowl game. Do you really think CPJ prepared the kids for a Peach Bowl the way he did for Ugag? C’mon bro! Auburn, Vandy, Miss St., Tech has a better record against the SEC than the ACC in recent years. Oh btw, CPJ’s only been at Tech for one year, so that Chan and Reggie were spanking Auburn, one of your SEC elites. Schnizal my nizal bro!
TXDawg (from Decatur to Mansfield, TX)
August 28th, 2009
6:20 pm
Will be in Stillwater at the game alone in my Red & Black to witness the worst Cowboy Massacre since the Alamo! LOL….actually, I expect a better game, but I think GA’s Defensive will control the line of scrimmage and OU’s running game. If the DB’s can deflect/intercept some passes it will disrupt OSU’s rhythm. On the flip side, GA still has offensive weapons despite the big names. Remember Knowshon wasn’t a big name before the last OSU game but his star rose shortly thereafter. GA does, has had, and will always have talent. With AJ Green likely demanding double coverage (heaven help OSU if they don’t), someone else will step up. It’s just a matter of time and snaps for everyone to see.
Who is the next offensive star??
> Richard Samuel
> Caleb King
> Carlton Thomas
> Orson Charles
> Rantavious Wooten
> Marlon Brown
> another player
BruffDawg
August 28th, 2009
6:20 pm
PJ will never get GT to the next level if he considers bowl games in his own city “meaningless.”
jim
August 28th, 2009
6:21 pm
the line isn’t a prediction…it is a number the books use to try & make $$.
Jeff Schultz
August 28th, 2009
6:23 pm
GeoffDawg – yes, I have MAJOR tax problems, or would if I actually paid them. (Kidding Mr. IRS, just kidding).
Comicman – Schultz Lately. Hmmm. As in, ‘What have you done for me . . .’
BruffDawg – a good analogy.
SWAT—Yeah, I got some good ones. Truth is though I don’t get nearly as much email as I used to since we started the open commenting. People now realize they can call me almost anything in total anonymity. In fact, they can do it under multiple phony “names” which leaves the impression that, say, 10 people in a row are ripping me, when in fact its one kid in his dorm room or a team’s PR guy in his office. But hey, just trying to keep the conversation lively.
Cuz – Good point. Some would like to see that.
Jeff Schultz
August 28th, 2009
6:25 pm
Duluth Gator: Georgia says Richt is 30-4 in an opponent’s stadium, including 10-2 against ranked teams. But it should be noted those record do not include the Florida games, because it’s considered a neutral site.
Jeff Schultz
August 28th, 2009
6:29 pm
Jim — absolutely true. But a line is based on perceptions — that is, what team do most people think will win (and bet) Lines are created to balance that out and get an even amount of money bet on both sides.
Sandyspringsjacket
August 28th, 2009
6:32 pm
Shultz, I wouldn’t waste a half eaten sandwich on you or any the Athens Journal so called sports writers.
Dawgs are one of the most overated team in the America, however Okie State is even more overated. The leg humpers will win, their fans will become dillusional again until they get a beat down by ARK or SC (pick one), LSU, Gators, Tenn and GT. Jackets will be in the ACC race all season and Humper fans will continue to focus on our stadium size as we roll over them by 20 in late November at HISTORIC GRANT FIELD at BOBBY DODD STADIUM.
Duluth Gator
August 28th, 2009
6:37 pm
Jeff, thanks, yea I’m sure Urban would take that.
jerry
August 28th, 2009
6:38 pm
Take the 6 if you can get it. It won’t be that much at game time. OKSU is getting a lot of press because of their offense. They are a middle of the pack Big 12 team vs.a pretty damn good SEC team. Just my opinion.
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 28th, 2009
6:42 pm
I don’t care what Saint Simons says. I am g@yer than he is. We both like men.
UGA Fan
August 28th, 2009
6:50 pm
I like little boys.
BruffDawg
August 28th, 2009
6:58 pm
I never understood why people will read an article/ post and take so much offense. Until toe meets leather it’s just words, words, words. Nobody knows whats going to happen. But it is fun to speculate.
Fiddycent
August 28th, 2009
7:03 pm
Yo, yo, yo – gTkenz – whad up bro? Whut u mean da wasunt up fo da bowl? What wus up was da Tiger dat put a asswhuppin on dem bees – fashizzill my drizzil. No way da bees win da ACC. All da opposin team dun saw PJs option play and will be defendin it fo show. LSU dun showd dem how. 38-3 baby…..just be real, you feel me?
TXDawg (from Decatur to Mansfield, TX)
August 28th, 2009
7:04 pm
Someone asked Richt’s record on the road versus ranked opponents…..well here is the breakdown:
Date Opponent Opp. Rank GA Rank Score W/L
10/6/2001 Tennessee #5 NR 26 – 24 W
11/24/2001 GA Tech #21 #23 31 – 17 W
10/5/2002 Alabama #22 #6 27 – 25 W
11/16/2002 Auburn #24 #7 24 – 21 W
12/7/2002 Arkansas #22 #4 30 – 3 W
1/1/2003 Florida St #16 #4 26 – 13 W
9/13/2003 South Carolina #25 #8 31 – 7 W
9/20/2003 LSU #11 #7 10 – 17 L
10/11/2003 Tennessee #13 #8 41 – 14 W
12/6/2003 LSU #3 #5 13 – 34 L
1/1/2004 Purdue #12 #11 34 – 27 W
11/13/2004 Auburn #3 #5 6 – 24 L
1/1/2005 Wisconsin #16 #7 24 – 21 W
10/8/2005 Tennessee #7 #5 27 – 14 W
11/26/2005 GA Tech #24 #13 14 – 7 W
12/3/2005 LSU #3 #12 34 – 14 W
1/2/2006 West Virginia #11 #8 35 – 38 L
10/7/2006 Tennessee #14 #9 33 – 51 L
11/11/2006 Auburn #5 NR 37 – 15 W
12/30/2006 Virginia Tech #14 NR 31 – 24 W
9/22/2007 Alabama #20 #21 26 – 23 W
1/1/2008 Hawaii #10 #4 41 – 10 W
10/25/2008 LSU #11 #9 52 – 38 W
1/1/2009 Michigan State #18 #17 24 – 12 W
19 – 5
Going for #20 on 9/5 in Stillwater!!
TXDawg (from Decatur to Mansfield, TX)
August 28th, 2009
7:06 pm
….oh yeah….a few of these games against ranked opponents include bowl and SEC championship games.
ComeON
August 28th, 2009
7:17 pm
Oklahoma State are a bunch of pansies. Georgia Southern would roll over that team. It’s men playing boys.
SwimTrunkDawg
August 28th, 2009
7:20 pm
My peckers itching. Any advice?
UGAho
August 28th, 2009
7:22 pm
Scratch it SwimTrunkDawg.
Fiddycent
August 28th, 2009
7:23 pm
TXDawg (from Decatur to Mansfield, TX) – yo, bro. Needs ta chec you facts. That asswhippin UT laid on da dawgs on 10/7/2006 wus in Athens. Keepin it real – Fiddy fo sho
SwimTrunkDawg
August 28th, 2009
7:29 pm
Why thank you UGAho, that seems to have done the trick.
BIG BEE
August 28th, 2009
7:32 pm
FIDDYCENT, load up your assault weapon and get back on the street. Your language is close to rap gang members and is not funny at all. Just keep it up and remain stupid fot the rest of your worthless life.
George O'Leary
August 28th, 2009
7:43 pm
Here’s a toast to Teddy ,just more scotch for me!!!
GradyGrad96
August 28th, 2009
7:46 pm
TXDawg – The 2006 game against Tenn was in Athens correct? You have a game listed against Tenn for 2005 and 2006. We alternate home and away every year.
WildBill
August 28th, 2009
7:50 pm
I congratulate the AJC staff for stirring up the dawg nation in its upcoming contest with the Cowpokes. After last years display of relative ineffectiveness against clearly superior teams, the bulldawg nation has waked up and back to its old form, arguing about mundane things like statistics and opinions, and then more opinions. We all have our feelings about the first game, and the season at good ole UGA. I have not reconciled the fact, because I have no way of knowing, if the dawg coaches and players have adequately addressed and corrected last years failings. These failings are well documented, verbally and in the stats book. Having said ALL THAT, it appears to be a HUGE task to expect those shortcomings will be corrected, especially in the first game. So, I stick with my educated guess with the Pokes winning, 31-17, remember, you saw it here first.
GM
August 28th, 2009
7:51 pm
I can understand why Schultz reads this stuff, he gets paid. The rest of you have serious issues. I can’t handle more than 1 or 2 of these mindless entries. Bring on the season so maybe we actually have something to talk about.
Andrew
August 28th, 2009
7:56 pm
Jeff,
If home field is worth three points wouldn’t OSU be a three point favorite on a neutral field and the line would be even in Athens?
kool$kat
August 28th, 2009
8:01 pm
THWG!
JaggedJacket
August 28th, 2009
8:02 pm
I second that, THWG!
suckeggdawg
August 28th, 2009
8:03 pm
Yes yes THWG!
Tebow4Pres2012
August 28th, 2009
8:05 pm
I think we can alllll agree!!! Whats the good word??
THWG!!!
Amnesiac
August 28th, 2009
8:37 pm
Hallelujah Holy Crap! WP is back to save me from the weak sports coverage in East Tennessee.
Are the Dream still eligible for the playoffs? They can do a double feature and have a flannel parade over to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
Isn’t lingerie football is dangerous stuff when mixed with marriage to reality TV stars who have experience with pliers and saws?
DawgPoo
August 28th, 2009
8:39 pm
Cowboys will win big!
CatsFly
August 28th, 2009
8:48 pm
“If you got the ball, we gonna get you. If yo mamma got the ball, we gonna get her” – Marvin Austin, UNC: Marvin Austin, UNC Stud Tackle
Ted Striker
August 28th, 2009
9:01 pm
I tried to get past the phrase “low level tease” but I couldn’t. Like I told my ex-wife, “it’s not you, it’s me.”
GT-EE-'93
August 28th, 2009
9:12 pm
Schultz,
You’re one funny dude.
I don’t like your “Anti-GT-ism”.
But to this day, I still laugh about your “The Sonny Side of Things…” article 2 years ago.
Priceless caption!
Pit Bull
August 28th, 2009
9:30 pm
Please don’t let the Cowboys bitch slap my beloved DAWGS! Mark Richt said he will give Wee Willie ANOTHER raise if he only gives away no more than 5 games!
pokesfan
August 28th, 2009
9:32 pm
Man you puppy fans, I love how u think your going to go on the road with a rookie QB, no proven RB, and u act like OSU is a high school team that has no players because they dont play in the SEC. So who is over hyped, OSU cause the media likes them? Or a bunch of puppy players who U puppy fans hype? Give me aa break, 42-21 OSU, and if this game was in puppy land the score would be reverse, HOME FIELD does count for something, OSU plays good at home, except last year against zero u, and we still scored 41 against them
pokesfan
August 28th, 2009
10:22 pm
42-21
Dawgon
August 28th, 2009
10:22 pm
I think Georgia’s speed and depth on defense is going to be the difference in the game. I think the defense has recomitted itself and will not give up over 17 points and that will not be enought to beat the dawgs. I think the dawgs win by a touch down.
Tom Brown
August 28th, 2009
10:39 pm
GOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!! Sic ‘em! I’m pretty sure that the dogs will out class OSU. Well pretty positive. Can’t wait to see all the naysayers eat crow! Enjoy the bird! ,,|,,
Sonny Clusters
August 28th, 2009
10:40 pm
We was almost college football players at Clemson. We went on a recruiting trip and they let us run out of the dressing room and run down the path and we rubbed that rock and spit some tobacco and we was pretending we was heading out to the field for a real game. It wasn’t though. It was just fantasy and that’s why they had the girls there scantily dressed up like cheerleaders for us when we run up. We was getting ready to sign right there on the spot when the Braves called on our cell phone We was wanting to study to be lawn care professionals but the chance to play baseball was just too much.
Gen Neyland
August 28th, 2009
11:00 pm
Odds on Best Looking Wife of a SEC head coach : Layla Kiffin at 1 to 1…
Boo Boo
August 29th, 2009
12:19 am
Did Vince Dooley die or something? I thought it was against UGA policy for the hounds to go barking on the road [EVER] against a non-SEC opponent. Maybe in a bowl game, but not during the season. How will they get 8 home games this year? I guess they scheduled OSU in the last millennium, when they were patsies.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
August 29th, 2009
12:20 am
Cowboys don’t play football they ride bulls – dawgs by 14.
focused
August 29th, 2009
3:42 am
Last year OSU was supposed to give us trouble as was Arizona St. Neither posed much of a challenge. When will people realize that the SEC plays real football unlike the Big 12 or Almost Collegiate Conference (ACC). I mean come on…most of these schools have cup-cake schedules and rack up wins against mediocre teams. If you look at the top 30 toughest schedules you will find 12 SEC teams (UGA at 23). No ACC teams and just 2 Big 12 teams in the top 30 toughest schedule list. So…..all you techies go ahead and get excited because the ACC is the equivalent of the lingerie football league…..a bunch of soft hitting pansies acting like football players. Talk smack that UGA will lost to OSU because you know UGA won’t lose. You also know that UGA is coming after you this year to start another long winning streak. Don’t worry though….Coach PJ is a good coach I will give you that…..but even PJ is looking into the future…..He will be coaching at South Carolina in the SEC before you can get your pocket protector in your pocket…..
Santana Moss
August 29th, 2009
6:27 am
Trade School Junkie’s IQ can’t be above room temperature if that. But the junkie part is probably right on. Do you play baseball at Tech “Junkie”?
GWB
August 29th, 2009
6:47 am
Sandyspringsjacket, I see where the same oddsmakers have Tech not even sniffing the title in what is no better than the 5th best conference in the country. You’re Tech. You always fall flat on your faces when you think you’re good. You tech “fans” will kill yourselves jumping off the bandwagon before mid season. You’re Tech. You suck. And you will reassume your place in the back of the line in 09.
takedowndawg
August 29th, 2009
6:52 am
I think the team that plays 4 quarters of sound ball will win. Period. Our Dawgs have not had many of those in the last two years. This concerns me. Inconsistency kills teams. I’m hoping that we Dawgs take the lead on long sustained drives and don’ look back for a change. Are we more disciplined? We will soon find out!.
Sonny Clusters
August 29th, 2009
7:02 am
We was always playing four quarters, too. Coach insisted on it. We was disciplined and in good shape. When we was wanting to, we could wear out the other team just on our conditioning. Plus, our substitutes could come in and make em wish they wasn’t on the field. Stinky Wintes was one of those.
DamYankee
August 29th, 2009
7:03 am
BIG BEE: Check e-bay or craigslist, you might be able to get a sense of humor cheap.
Rock Hardon
August 29th, 2009
7:38 am
OK State will blast the little Doggies. All you UGA rednecks posting on here like you are “Jimmy the Greek” just crack me up. Most of you never set foot on a college campus as a student. So get on down to WalMart and buy your “G” hat along with some cheap beer / pork skins and get ready for a losing season.
takedowndawg
August 29th, 2009
7:41 am
I just read my last post again and I sound like a certified genius. What do you all think about this jewel of mine? “I think the team that plays 4 quarters of sound ball will win”. Man..my nipples get hard when I read that quote. Maybe ESPN will hire me as an analyst.
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
7:45 am
2009-10 predictions
BCS Champions
113.) Georgia: 250 to 1
Music City Bowl runner up
1.) Georgia: 2 to 1
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
7:46 am
“Dogs in trouble?”
bank on it!
Little 12 conference
August 29th, 2009
8:25 am
Georgia has a great record in road games, Okie State has a horrible defense.
Best time of year for Dog fans!!!
August 29th, 2009
8:31 am
THWG!!!!
Live it up leg humpers……. You are only going down in the rankings from kickoff to the end of the season. Good luck trying to beat a team that can not win a recruiting battle with Georgia Tech.
Schultz,
Can you do a little more research?
What are the odds:
Leg humpers reach Thanksgiving unranked?
Tech puts up 600 yards on the ground against the pupps on the flats?
Miami of Fl and Clemson are looking for new HC’s at the end of the season?
What is the under over on Ritch complaining about traveling? September?
Thanks,
Pupps better enjoy the next week!!!!
ROLL TIDE
August 29th, 2009
8:41 am
Trade School Junkie you meed to lay off the xanex dude because you are in a wild dream or you are just a complete idiot.There is NO WAY IN HELL Tech will go 12-o.Dawgs beat over-rated OKS with tough SEC smash style football.Tech lucky ti win 8 games with gimmick offense,cannot throw football with high school QB.You are stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!
doug
August 29th, 2009
8:56 am
This one of those classic examples of who really know their stuff.
Georgia will win in Stillwater. They are bigger, quicker, deeper and more talented and have more experience and depth along the line of scrimmage. A timing oriented offense like OSU will take 3 games to get their legs under them. Defenses rule early in the season. Martinez is not a good DC and will never be one but he will be ready for this one. Remember Hawaii. No, OSU is better but this is the type of game that he does excel in. Don’t worry about Dez Bryant. If we can stop Kendell Hunter, its over. We will. If we are able to moderate pressure on Robinson they have no chance and flush him out of the pocket its over. That will happen. There has not a better DT combo in years in the Big 12 that can match the guys we have. The OSU O is going to be disrupted by these two for four quarters. The Pokes simple don’t have the Horses. Learn again and again. Dawgs 31 Pokes 16. Stop buying the media driven hype.
Mike
August 29th, 2009
9:12 am
Paul h those games were all in athens you dope. and none of them were ranked anywhere near where osu is. what a moron you are.
Mike
August 29th, 2009
9:17 am
Focused. another idiot poster. you didn’t play osu last year. man you ga fans sure do know your football. and osu has a different team than when you played them TWO years ago. reality will set in in approx one week. that you just aren’t that good. it will be fun to watch a half empty sanford stadium this year cause your pooches stink it up.
Mike
August 29th, 2009
9:20 am
Dawgon
Man you retards just keep em coming. UGA’s speed on defense will win it for ya? The same speed that allowed 38 or more points 5 times last year? Man there is a lot of kool aid being poured in N Ga these days. It’s the red color stuff too.
mike on lake hartwell
August 29th, 2009
9:21 am
jeff schultz is awesome. always love reading his work.
rock on jeff!
Sonny Clusters
August 29th, 2009
9:23 am
We was recruited by Georgia and by Georgia Tech but we was wanting to get a real good education. When Clemson started talking they let us know we could get financed for a real nice truck with a landscape body already on it. That sounded pretty good and we was close to signing. Lawn care professionals make some big money and we was set to make a career of it until the Braves started warming up to us. They say that Frank Howard could spit and hit a quarter on the ground from 12 feet away. Danny Ford could go almost 9 feet without missing. Clemson was almost it.
to be honest
August 29th, 2009
9:25 am
most of the articles found in here are a joke and from time to time we might run across an article that is interesting. But, the sad fact is when the AJC.com sports writers write an article or blog they simply copy cat or manipulate the texting to make it sound like its their own thing. This has truly become a sad thing to watch. While the problem is not just here at the AJC.com website it seems to me that AJC.com is leading the way to this cheap version of something that could be so much better. I know a good writer gets people talking about the things they write about but when did good writers subrscribe to something and present its content as its own. Now while I sign off on this soap box I am standing on at the moment think about this one thing. If I had to buy this @%$# would it be worth reading another version of this or just watch the original on sportsnite or espn.
clyde
August 29th, 2009
9:32 am
Here’s a prediction you can take to the bank.I won’t be wasting my time watching football this weekend.
DawgFan1
August 29th, 2009
9:50 am
HAHAHA! The same naysayers about our opening at OKST are probably the same people who thought Hawaii was going to run all over us!!! I laugh in their face.
Not sure what GA team will show out for the first game but they better be prepared. Our schedule is not favorable, but when has it ever been favorable and we STILL seem to have seasons that MOST teams would LOVED to have. Go Dawgs!!!
Rebel
August 29th, 2009
10:11 am
Nah dawgfan most knew uga would kill hawaii. vegas did too. vegas believes osu beats uga by a td. i’ll go with the smart money.
wreckmaniac
August 29th, 2009
11:06 am
Fiddycent is chairman of the Language Dept at UGA. His dad contributed
$ 10 million for the indoor practice facility. “Fiddy” usually arrives
in Jax 5 days before the cocktail party and has never really been conscious at kickoff.
Denver Dog
August 29th, 2009
11:13 am
Dogs are a good team, we need to see how they improve as the season goes on. My guess is 14-0 BCS bowl but not in the championship.
Saint Simons
August 29th, 2009
11:14 am
I’m a backdoor man and I am stuck on m if you know what I mean.
SECHomer
August 29th, 2009
11:28 am
People remember it’s the big 12 vs the SEC – Oklahoma State is getting blasted in this game 31 – 14. Big 12 teams don’t face SEC defenses that often and when they do they go in shock!
how2fish
August 29th, 2009
11:38 am
Hey all you Nerds that think Okie St is the real deal here’s your big chance take you MONEY…not your mouth to the nearest betting site…give the 6…6 little ole points and rack up big as the Pokes KILL the dawgs by a margin you have not been able to in what 8 years..you can all retire to Nerd Heaven = Dragon Con…just ante up if you have the BALLS to but put your money where your mouth is..Jeff great job! Bugs Nov 28th be there and bring the rest of the other 14,999 bugs with you…
GT4Ever
August 29th, 2009
11:50 am
BruffDawg
August 28th, 2009
5:39 pm
You mean a 5th year senior who was an elite 11 prospect who won the accuracy challenge and never lost a game as a starter? I’ll take someone like that.
That’s all in the past my friend. What has he done besides sit the bench for the past 4 years? Until he proves he can do it on the field it’s all hype!!!! If he goes out and kicks butt then I’ll say he good but until then it’s pointless to dwell on his past accomplishments. Eveyone of the elite plays great in high school. look at the talent level. One out of say 100 high school players make it to the next level. If he does well then I’ll give him props but until then he’s just another back up QB!!!!
GM
August 29th, 2009
11:51 am
Nerd is one of those words that actually insults no one. If you are a nerd, then you know it, and so what. If you aren’t a nerd, then who cares. Keep calling us nerds Dawgs fans. We really don’t care.
lowcountrydawg
August 29th, 2009
11:54 am
Good…I like us being the Underdawg…let’s just keep under the radar, sneak up, and surprise some folks this year…GO DAWGS!!!
GT4Ever
August 29th, 2009
11:55 am
Doug, If UGA’s so great then why is OSU ranked so much higher than UGA? They must have quite a good team to be ranked in the top ten.
Bad News
August 29th, 2009
12:05 pm
While watching the New England vs Washington game yesterday, it just reminded me of what I have told you delusional Falcon fans about your predictions in the game this season vs the Redskins.
I told you guys that you must be out of your minds thinking you can beat the Redskins with that powerful defense. I told you people that in 2008 they had the 5th toughest defense in the NFL and now they added the toughest man to play 1-on-1, that being Albert Haynesworth and they drafted the biggest impact rookie Okakpo, but you guys are still dreaming.
Did you see the MONSTER hit Haynesworth laid on Brady yesterday? Sent the whole New England fan base into a coma. If that great offensive line in New England can’t protect Brady, just imagine how Haynesworth and company will feast on string bean Matt Ryan.
The Redskins are just one of the teams the Ryan should be worried about. It’s going to be a very long season and 2007 will reappear in 2009.
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
12:09 pm
OK St is ranked 9th UGA 13th
How is that sooooooo much higher?
DawgForLife
August 29th, 2009
12:10 pm
PaulV…your pattern is for opening games with teams that were not even ranked? OSU in 07 was a far cry from their current team. Same with Boise!!! Clemson never performed under Bowden and truly haven’t been an elite team since the early 80’s.
A better example would be how we have performed against ranked teams recently…Alabama, Florida, and Georgia Tech. As a Dawg fan I am more worried about the state of our coaching. I believe we have lost the edge. We have the talent…but we seem to be missing the intangibles and I also believe Saban, Meyer, and Johnson are better at getting the most from their players. What has our current coach achieved? Beat Hawaii and Michigan State? WOW! Surely I am not the only Dawg to have reservations about our current situation?
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
12:13 pm
Yes Dawg you are. Ive heard this sky is falling crap before.
Then we go out and win 10 + games again
go tech
August 29th, 2009
12:20 pm
I know this sounds like heresy, Tech fans, but maybe we should be rooting for Dawgs to beat OSU. Big 12 looks strong and voters want to give them BCS spot and Heisman etc.
If UGA beats OSU, and then we beat UGA, we may have a better shot at higher ranking. Is this valid? Or is it heresy?
Brian
August 29th, 2009
12:21 pm
I like how the list of Mark Richt’s road wins includes neutral site bowl games, but excludes all of the whippings done by the gators.
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
12:28 pm
Thats because its a home game for Florida in the GATOR BOWL for petes sake
Lets play in the GEORGIA DOME a few times
St Simons
August 29th, 2009
12:37 pm
Man love- RULEZ!
Reality Check
August 29th, 2009
12:50 pm
Schultz – If we went by preseason rankings and predictions UGA would have been national champions in 2008. I find it funny how the same fans and press were against last years predicitions when they werent in their teams favor and for the predictions this year when they are in their teams favor. Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma are really the only teams in my mind that have any room to talk. Unless the injury bug really hits these three teams like UGA last year, they will be great. Other than that, I think haveing any substantial evidence on who will be good and who will not be is all assumptions.
satchelbuzz
August 29th, 2009
12:52 pm
All of that talent–speed and athleticism–really served Georgia well on defense last season. Now I guess they’ve just been coached up, or so Buck Belue would have us to believe. Cowboys roll in the opener–38-24.
THWG!!!
Jeff Schultz
August 29th, 2009
1:01 pm
GT-EE-93 – I’ll take the half compliment, thank you. But for what it’s worth I’m really not anti-Jackets.
Gen Neyland – No argument. Haven’t seen all the conference wives but I’d think she’s at least in SEC title game.
Best time..: I’m gonna let you set the odds while I stand on the sidelines.
Mike – thanks for the tres kind words. Enjoy the lake.
To be honest – And to think, I was feeling so good today after reading Mike on Lake Hartwell.
Reality check: “Schultz – If we went by preseason rankings and predictions UGA would have been national champions in 2008.” Right you are. Odds mean nothing. They’re just fun to look at and debate. But in the end, we don’t know. That said, I don’t think Georgia’s going to be bad at all, but I’d venture to say they’re no better than third best in SEC (florida, lsu). Not sure yet about Alabama. But it’s such a great conference that there are going to be three or four games this season (for all SEC teams combined) that shock everybody.
Ivan
August 29th, 2009
1:16 pm
“….I felt the need to hit the CAPS LOCKED key, which normally is reserved for those commenting on Michael Vick blogs.”
Jeff, I have to admit, I LOL’d when I read that.
jay
August 29th, 2009
1:31 pm
Perhaps you could emulate the other famous Schultz
and call your blog “I know nothing…NOTHING”
gcs
August 29th, 2009
1:37 pm
How is it that LSU is the second favorite after Florida to win the SEC yet Alabama is a higher odds of winning the Natl Championship than LSU?
heeldawg
August 29th, 2009
1:44 pm
Trade School Junkie: Your posts are always entertaining for their idiocy. Amazing that so many delusions can be contained in such a tiny skull.
Gen Neyland: no argument. What I can’t figure out is why she married the guy.
Richt is 10-2 against ranked teams on the true road (opponent’s home stadium). Doesn’t include bowl games, conference championships or the Ga-Fla game because that is considered a “neutral site.” Including Bowl games and conference title games, he’s 19-5. Including Ga-Fla, he’s 21-10 (note that one Fla team that beat Georgia in Jax was unranked).
Enough odds. Let’s play some football!
Ed
August 29th, 2009
1:48 pm
Notre Dame 20-1 odds of winning it all? I think those would be the odds of them cracking the final Top 25. They’ve been awful in recent years. That can’t be right.
KJ
August 29th, 2009
2:12 pm
LOL @ the idea that Schultz is “anti-Jackets”. If he were, 80% of the posts here would be deleted, Well, maybe not, as leaving those up makes you gnats look even more idiotic with your “predictions”. What’s next, OSU by 83? 700 yards rushing by Dwyer? The sky’s the limit, right?
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
2:15 pm
I know all you georgia fans are chomping at the bit to get started, but believe me, YOU are not ready for what your beloved are about to encounter! When you go 0-3 out of the gate, the topics here will shift to deer hunting, gymnastics and high school football recruiting (lol). MARK MY WORDS! I predict an 0-3 out of the gate and another beat down (”pound the hound”) in the flats to end your pathetic season. I’ll remind you that I told you so in August!
Sonny Clusters
August 29th, 2009
2:17 pm
We was being recruited pretty heavy by some teams and we was really flattered. One time a coach from one of those schools come up to visit us and we was in the living room talking for quite awhile before that coach said he had to go. He left after hugging Mama and shaking hands with Earl. That’s when we noticed that brand new Rolex in a box sitting right there next to the sofa where that coach had been sitting. We was guessing he forgot it but when we talked to him later he said we was special and he wanted us to be able to know the time wherever we was. We pawned that sucker within the hour and Earl got him a gun and Mama got some new rollers for her hair and we ended up with a pretty new flexi-racer. That coach was crazy leaving us a watch when we was the most athletic and would enjoy a flexi-racer so much more.
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
2:23 pm
I also predict another “pound the hound” when I receive my next copy of Anime Digest.
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
2:26 pm
0 and 3 LOL
Ill take that bet
Jeff Schultz
August 29th, 2009
2:32 pm
Ivan — Thanks. Guess you’re as familiar with that tendency as I am.
Jay — Original.
GCS — Can’t answer that. But again, it has to do with wagering expectations. So maybe not as many people are expected to bet Alabama to win the SEC as they will bet Alabama to win the national champ., if that makes sense.
Ed — I agree. Odds on Notre Dame are ridiculous. But N.D. has so many national fans that get deluded every year into thinking team will be great (even worse than SEC fans) that they’re not going to post high odds.
Sonny — wuz you wondering how to plug the Rolex into the wall?
Cuz
August 29th, 2009
2:41 pm
go tech it is not heresy to pull for the other in-state team. If it was I would have already been visited by the Spanish Inquisition. Of course nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Gotta run someone is banging on my door. Three funny looking guys in red robes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A
gratefuldawghead
August 29th, 2009
2:43 pm
Take the points and the DAWGS! I am more worried about South Carolina!
GO DAWGS!
Jeff Schultz
August 29th, 2009
2:56 pm
The Spanish Inquisition?
(Sounds funnier with Python-esque English accent)
Tuck Feck
August 29th, 2009
3:13 pm
Go Jacksonville State! I hear they may have more fans at the game than Tech. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
AJ
August 29th, 2009
3:17 pm
It’s very obvious that uga fans do not respect OSU at all. I could understand if they had a returning qb back. Cox is going to struggle in this game. It’s obvious to everyone except dawg fans. Don;t you see how similar ga is to fsu. When you have a rookie qb starting, you are going to have some bad games. And you aren’t going to have 10 win seasons. 8 wins is about right and there’s a chance of 7. you barely squeaked by kentucky last year and really should have lost that game. but it’s all going to be turned around with cox cause he won in high school 4 years ago. yes that is logical. no more moreno on 3rd and 6 to save you. richt will start getting desperate and the turnovers will be plenty for ga this year. that is where you will lose your games. ints and fumbles by your new backs. reminds me a lot of fsu with ponder last year. ups and downs but turnovers will kill you. to think the defense will be so much better is a joke too. you can’t instill fundamentals when the coaching staff doesn’t teach it. osu wins by 11 35-24
Sonny Clusters
August 29th, 2009
3:25 pm
We was talking with Julia and Mike this morning and we was able to get you a nicer office, Jeff. We was thinking window but didn’t get that. Instead, you will be within an easy walk of the water cooler and men’s room plus there’s a real door on the office. None of that cubicle stuff for my buddy. We was never going to wear that Rolex but it was nice of that coach to leave it. And we never even tried to plug it in.
wreckmaniac
August 29th, 2009
3:34 pm
The year always begins with the Dawgs ranked #1 and last years national
champs. After the first loss they pull out the old ” you can always win the nat champ with one loss in the SEC” song. After the second loss, they pull out the old “this years recruitin’ is going to be awesome. Look at all the 5 stars signing up for UGA”. This is as
repetitous and predictable as taxes.
Camden Mark
August 29th, 2009
3:35 pm
It’s a shame when Notre Dame could have such good odds based on a weak schedual.If UGA or GT had such a weak slate at least 11 wins would be won.So Cal is the only strong team they play.
We need a playoff system so the media darling weenies like this would be weeded out.
Little 12 conference
August 29th, 2009
3:43 pm
GEORGIA is 3-0 against over-rated Stillwater Cow College!
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
3:48 pm
GEORGIA dominated Tech too but both reigns have ended. You and all your azzhole friends will soon see. GEORGIA ain’t what it was
HOTDAWG
August 29th, 2009
4:22 pm
42-17 I am a true dog but this game will hand my boys an shamful start.
We wind up season 4 and 8
we loose to okla state,arkansas,lsu,tennessee,vanderbilt,florida,auburn,kentucky.
we winn georgia tech because they stayed home that day.
bad year for us
Roy in Anniston
August 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
GeoffDawg,
Why would anyone be interested in your sub-par 401-k? I understand that you initiated it tgis year afer being terminated from your custodial duties at the Post Office on Main St.
Roy in Anniston (Jennifer, that is)
HOTDAWG
August 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
GO DAWGS
Roy in Anniston
August 29th, 2009
4:32 pm
HOTDAWG,
That was quite original. Please give us more!
Roy in Anniston
Roy in Hilton
August 29th, 2009
5:09 pm
Nothing’s more original than jokes about UGA grads and custodial jobs, AMIRITE?
Roy in Hilton (Perez, that is)
dan
August 29th, 2009
5:47 pm
Jeff,
Being a 6 point underdog on the road is a good thing. You almost always take the underdog with that spread! The way I look at it the Cowboys are the ones with something to prove not UGA. The Cowboys are the ones that have to prove that they belong among the elite in their conference( Oklahoma and Texas). Zac Robinson has to prove that he’s the real deal and that their offense can put up huge numbers against an SEC team. UGA’s defense might have sucked last year, but nationally the perception is that a lousy SEC defense is still better than a mediocre Big 10 defense. Locally, Dawg fans expect their team to win. But Nationally, I think everyone kind of sees this as an opportunity for the Cowboys to have a coming out party. That’s why I think the Dawgs can win this game, maybe even in a blowout.
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
5:47 pm
The trade school wins one game a decade with a gimmick offense and you cant shut em up
Pretty Pathetic
Tech Ticket Manager
August 29th, 2009
5:48 pm
Anyone need tickets to the Jax State game?
We have a “No , not that Gamecock ” special going now..10 tickets for $10..includes $10 hotodgs..and you can lead the marching band at halftimne instead of flag boy. Call 800-PTHETIC.
Yellow Fuzz
August 29th, 2009
5:58 pm
Franky,
LOL. Talk about gimmick offenses. What did you call all the Balew to Hershal toss sweeps? LOL. NFL offense? LOL. And that was 90% of your plays azzhole! LOL.
Call it anything you want because your defense can only slow it down. They can’t stop it. And your offense can’t score 30 points against a D-1 opponent. You can only hope that your wide outs can out rebound the cornerbacks. Talk about gimmicks. LOL
satchelbuzz
August 29th, 2009
6:19 pm
Jeff,…you’re way off base. No way is ugag the 3rd best team in the SEC this year. Florida, LSU, Alabama and Ole Miss. Ugag maybe no. 5.
THWG!
Jeff Schultz
August 29th, 2009
6:20 pm
Dan — no question there is more focus on Oklahoma St. this game, with star QB and WR and also the fact it’s school’s highest ever pre-season ranking. There probably is a little more pressure on them than Georgia.But there’s a fair bit of pressure on Joe Cox too.
Jeff Schultz
August 29th, 2009
6:25 pm
Satchel…
You could be right, but my opinion:
Alabama: great defense. not sure about the offense.
Ole Miss: good but I think overrated. a lot of folks jumping on that bandwagon early.
David Granger
August 29th, 2009
6:40 pm
I do hope UGA has more sense than to go up there hopped up on that “We’ll win because we’re the SEC team, and that’s the best conference!”
We let West Virginia catch us all doped up on that silly crap in a bowl game a couple of years ago…and lost to a team we should have beaten.
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
7:06 pm
Tech = Gimmick Offense
YAWN!!
Doyle Hargraves
August 29th, 2009
7:06 pm
I prognostigate that Stafford and Marino are gonna turn it up SHOCK THE WORLD and beat the gators once again! I’m callin the boys – Linda go get me my gitar!
ochrebugman
August 29th, 2009
7:08 pm
It is entirely possible that the University of Georgia Bulldog football team could win every game they play this season including a national championship bowl game. It is also entirely possible that the very same University of Georgia Bulldog football team could lose every game they play and have to wash their faces in the toilet bowl at seasons end. Neither of these is likely. University of Georgia football fans, like all football fans would be wise to forgo any forcasting until they play at least one game to see if they have much of a football team at all. After they have played OSU on Sept. 5th, then it might be wise to take a huge risk and prognosticate what their season might be. One game can’t possibly predict future success or failure, but it can give one a general idea of their skills……enough to be just as brash as Lou Holtz in predicting a BCS championship game involving Notre Dame without the benefit of having played a single game. It seems that the desire to want to root for a top football team brings out the most irrational ideas in people. Some of the most objective sports enthusiasts fare better at prognosticating than those who are less so. The most rational fans don’t waste their time prognosticating at all. Truly devoted fans support their team regardless of the outcomes of the games. Seasonal games are singular events with results predicated upon the fate of how the ball bounces on that given day. Different days produce different results. The fortunes of an entire season can rest upon the smallest event within the context of a game and such an event or events may not be at all equated with the mental and physical skills of either team. Yet the results produced can necessarily decide an outcome that would be entirely different if such an event occurred differently. Two different timekeepers start and stop the play clock and game clock with distinctly different reaction times. Over the course of the game the reaction times between slow reflex and quick reflex time keepers can be significant enough to account for several plays which can certainly decide the fate of a close game. One team wins the game with the slow reflex timekeeper while the other teams wins with a quick reflex time keeper. This also applies to the placement of ball spots. An inch or two could and does make all the difference in the world. These events have little to do with the players. Fans would do well to significantly reduce the importance of outcomes and remember that a team that wins the NC may not be the best football team, but indeed, the most fortunate. So if you deem it necessary to prognosticate, you would do well to factor these unpredictable events into your scheme…..which is impossible to do. However at season’s end you may well have the right to say, ” Our team was at least as good as all the others, except we were more fortunate! Perhaps the Bowl Championship series should be retitled “Bowl Fortunate Series”. It is, indeed a more accurate title.
TheItalianDawg
August 29th, 2009
7:09 pm
Georgia should have their defense back to have any chance against anybody this season, if Georgia’s defense cannot improve from last year Georgia will be lucky to go 7-5, WM needs to step up! enough said.
GT Master:
August 29th, 2009
7:13 pm
GeoffDawg: If you are a UGAG grad, you probably don’t have much of a 401k if any! THWG! Your school suxs azz!
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
7:23 pm
The only thing longer than this blog?
The crime blotter on the tech campus
GT Master:
August 29th, 2009
7:25 pm
To All UGA Fans: If UGA goes undefeated, I will wear UGA clothes and a UGA football jersey the entire year and I HATE your school, fan base, team and city. I HATE all of your BS about how good your overated team is and how great the SEC is. It’s old. You couldn’t even beat GT last year with 16 pt lead at half time with Knowshow and Stafford. Settle down rednecks and let’s see what happens. Even if you beat OSU, which you won’t, you will get pounded by UF, as usual, LSU, GT and probably another team like say……………..VANDY or SC. Your team suxs and always will. the Herschel Walker days are over and your crappy program is sinking. You lose at least 4 games this year. Also, your mascot suxs azz. Sit his nuts on a bag of ice and sit your fat azz redneck fans on a bag of ice coz you will need it when the first 5-6 games are over. THWG!
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
7:28 pm
I am an avid UGA fan, but let’s admit it fellow redneck fans. We suck azz this year. Joe Phallic ain’t taken us to the promise land and I can still see Roddy Jones running in my dreams. Man, GT is great and we are the 2nd tier team in this state. We suck azz.
yellow fuzz
August 29th, 2009
7:34 pm
Franky
That “Gimmick Offense” had two backs rush for over 100 yards and the team to amase over 400 (ON THE FREAKING GROUND) in last year’s Georgia Bowl!
We have added pass plays that work off of every run we showed last year and though you have more 5 star athletes we will kick your azz again because this time you won’t have Stafford when you play catch up.
You might want to start learning the words to our fight song dude because it’s going to be a few years of payback.
Yawn all you want MF! I will be hear to say I told you so. Bank on it!
KJ
August 29th, 2009
7:41 pm
“If UGA goes undefeated, I will wear UGA clothes and a UGA football jersey the entire year”
Wow, a promise made over the internet by a pathetic NATS troll. Doesn’t get any more iron-clad than THAT!
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
9:41 pm
We have added pass plays that work off of every run we showed last year
That should be funny to watch
Frank Wren
August 29th, 2009
9:44 pm
BTW
What does Bank on it mean?
Are you the same moron that uses that saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over on the Braves blog?
Not Disappointed
August 29th, 2009
11:20 pm
If Joe Cox is up for the game the dogs can hit quick and stay on top. It’s Cox is having a bad day. Expect the pups to follow suit. A Long afternoon.
Go Jackets!
ochrebugman
August 30th, 2009
1:30 am
A genuine Georgia Tech fan would never agree to wear a Georgia Bulldog outfit under any circumstances particularly if the later was to be so fortunate to win all its games. UGA colors are to be loathed regardless of outcomes. If UGA won all its games, one would have to figure that the fortunes of luck played the most significant part in such a preposterous scenario. It would be best to simply tip your hat to only the fate of luck and leave the red and black drag costumes to Georgia fans.
David Marett
August 30th, 2009
8:27 am
watching the G-DAY game was like watching a goat die slowly Cox is not going to save that sad offense . the secondary is sad good luck puppies in the music city bowl .
Leonard Post Toasties
August 30th, 2009
8:54 am
The red clay hounds take to the road “Sadey” to take on an angry bunch of cowboys at the Stillwater corral.The outlaws will have plenty of wepons ready for the canine invasion but look for the puppies to show up with juuuust a little more defense than the cow punchers is used to.Leonard’s loser (in an upset) Ok State….(get me outta here Percy)
TommyGator
August 30th, 2009
9:48 am
Dogs win. Straight up.
Bull Yellow Dawg Jacket
August 30th, 2009
10:47 am
How do you get a UGA graduate off your porch?
Pay him for the pizza.
Frank
August 30th, 2009
11:31 am
It is funny to me how the gtu fans have replaced scu fans as the most delusional in college football. I must admit that scu has had more success against UGA during the last 18 years (with out cheating as per the NCAA) than has gtu. I really don’t hate tech, it goes much deeper than that.
THWGT
Yellow Fuzz
August 30th, 2009
11:38 am
Franky,
I feel the exact same way about you and the bulldog nation
Sonny Clusters
August 30th, 2009
12:33 pm
We was thinking Jeff needs to post something pretty soon. Jeff may be busy packing for the big move. We was downscaled once at the plant. They shut down two of the machines and we had to work the big machine 23 hours a day with 1 hour off for oiling and cleaning the brushes and sharpening the blades. Then, we’d start it up again and go another 23 hours. We was probably the best at that of all the shifts that come in. We was sure to check in every now and then just to make sure everything was alright and we was pretty sure Jeff would do that too on this blog. Jeff don’t know it but we was almost in the press box together the other night. We was going to deliver some nice shrimp trays from somebody we know for the sportswriters and we was on the way up the ramp when security got hold of us and wouldn’t let us go no farther carrying the shrimp. We was not sure why they stopped us but we took that shrimp back down to general admission and we shucked and ate and had a pretty good time with some folks there from the Methodist Church. They was sucking down that shrimp like it was they’s. We was disappointed that shrimp didn’t get where it was supposed to but we sure enjoyed getting to eat it and watch the game with all those Methodists.
Jeff Schultz
August 30th, 2009
1:04 pm
Sonny — I’m writing a college football column now that should be posted within a couple of hours. In the meantime, maybe you can entertain the troops with memories of Frenchy’s Parkview days as a football hero.
Mr.
August 30th, 2009
1:50 pm
Hey Jeff, I see you allowed SWAT Native to use the word “rebuttal.” Good, ’cause that’s what is going to happen to the Dawgs when Tech plays them again this year. Uh, Dawgie style?? (That’s OK…go ahead and hit DELETE
Kendawg
August 30th, 2009
2:14 pm
It should be an interesting game, just happy that it’s only six days away. If UGA wins, will we hear again that the opponent was “overrated?”
Dawg Tired
August 30th, 2009
2:14 pm
Wreckmaniac – The one thing that actually is predictable (every day not just every year) is some Tech fan making asinine statements like “Every year starts out with Georgia ranked number one.” How many times has that really happened? When you start out with something so obviously inaccurate (AKA asinine) you immediately have zero credibility. Wouldn’t it make more sense to blog on the articles about Tech where no one else would read your asinine statements?
Heath
August 30th, 2009
3:07 pm
It’s always entertaining to read dozens of posts from intelligent NATS full of incorrect grammar and atrocious spelling telling Georgia fans how stupid they are.
Hey Jeff, Kennesaw State students are voting in October on football. Do you think the Owls will ever have a team? If so, I’ll have seats on the fifty yard line if you supply the beer.
Call it Like It Is
August 30th, 2009
6:44 pm
Simple,
Gators go through their season with no losses, the SEC, NC, and another Heisman.
Enough Said!
satchelbuzz
August 30th, 2009
7:27 pm
Jeff,…agreed that Ole Miss is over-rated,…but so is UGA. Living on memories is about to catch up with ‘em.
THWG!
Frank Wren
August 30th, 2009
10:33 pm
Personally I think Tech is way overrated
They beat their in state rivals once this decade and had a decent record in the worst BCS conference and then got killed in the bowl game
I mean am I missing something here?
Not Disappointed
August 31st, 2009
4:56 am
Ramblin Wreck!
Joey Harrington
August 31st, 2009
2:03 pm
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Perhaps the most interesting jersey sales list of all time has hit our desk at CNBC. It’s the NFLShop.com’s best selling jersey list from April 1-August 28.
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[DKS 22.21 -0.60 (-2.63%) ], Michael Vick’s Philadelphia Eagles jerseys sold well enough to make their debut at No. 4.
Also of interest is the fact that Michael Crabtree jerseys are in the top 20 even though the Texas Tech wide receiver is still holding out.
Here’s the entire list from sales on NFLShop.com from the NFL’s first four months of the fiscal year.
1. Brett Favre, Vikings
2. Jay Cutler, Bears
3. Troy Polamalu, Steelers
4. Michael Vick, Eagles
5. Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers
6. Tony Romo, Cowboys
7. Mark Sanchez, Jets
8. Tom Brady, Patriots
9. Adrian Peterson, Vikings
10. Eli Manning, Giants
11. Terrell Owens, Bills
12. Peyton Manning, Colts
13. Hines Ward, Steelers
14. LaDainian Tomlinson, Chargers
15. Jason Witten, Cowboys
16. Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals
17. Joe Flacco, Ravens
18. Matt Ryan, Falcons
19. Aaron Rodgers, Packers
20. Michael Crabtree, 49ers
Hmmmmm………Vick is ahead of:
Mannings
Brady
Romo
Roethlinberger….
Matty Ice way down at #18 – that sucks
AceDawg
August 31st, 2009
2:52 pm
I see a lot of energy coming to a head on Saturday btwn OSU and UGA. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one team win easily as the other team implodes. Let’s face it – If the UGA defense shows up early and forces punts or turnovers, I think the Dawgs will show why depth through sustained recruiting can beat a decent team with a few offensive stars who hopes those few stars elevate everyone to “great.”
I give OSU a realistic chance to win (I’m scared to death in fact), but I think UGA will have success on offense and win the turnover battle because of their greater athleticism and commitment to forcing turnovers this offseason (4 and 5 star recruits ought to be able to force some turnovers, right?)
Impatient
August 31st, 2009
6:58 pm
Saturday can’t get here soon enough. I want to see how the UGA coaching staff, and team, have addressed the many shortcomings of last year’s team. We all know what they were, no need of repetition here…. The dawg nation will be taking notes, and if the dawg express gets railroaded, there will be no mercy back in Athens. It will either be “Welcome home winners”, or, “Walk the Plank you sorry Dogs.”