Weekend Predictions: Dogs go down to Gators again
According to legend, or sources close to legend, the origins of Halloween date back over 2000 years when the summer harvest ended and the weather turned cold and the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead were so narrow that SEC football coaches figured it was safe to start recruiting and NCAA executives and college presidents lounged inside their palatial suites that were paid for by network executives and texted each other, “Time To Close Our Eyes. Hey, are you going to Urban’s pool party later?”
Hello. It’s that time again.
Where are you going this year? St. Simons? Jekyll? Some dark and secluded place, perhaps near the border of the Netherworld, just in case you feel the need to slip into a neighborhood where they don’t get the Georgia-Florida game but still show Lou Holtz career highlights on an endless loop?
It’s the 30th anniversary of Buck Belue to Lindsay Scott. Now let’s advance to more recent decades. The Gators have won 17 of the last 20 meetings. The last two came by a combined score of 90-27, give or take a major organ.
I know. Georgia has the better quarterback. Georgia has the better running game. Georgia has the best player in the game (A.J. Green). Georgia even has the coach who didn’t drop-kick his conscience and morals this week. Florida coach Urban Meyer will bring back Time To Die Guy Chris Rainey. He will hand off to Time To Die Guy. He will throw to Time To Die Guy. I’m guessing he will even wear an wristband with the inspirational initials: “WWTTDGD.”
Should I pull the trigger? (Kidding! It was just a text!)
No. Just can’t do it. Meyer has had an extra week to fix the problems. He is 31-3 in his career when he has had more than a week to prepare. He is 5-0 after bye weeks at Florida.
The Dogs are better than they were three weeks ago. How much? Don’t know. They’ve won consecutive games over Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky (2-11 in SEC). How do we gauge that? They have lost to the only three teams on their schedule with overall winning records (South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi State).
Can’t do it. Seen too much. Seen Dogs fans leave Jacksonville looking like zombies too often.
“Run, Lindsay! … No wait! Come back Lindsay!”
Not seeing is not believing. Until then: Give me the 2½ points. But I won’t need them. Gators, Gators, Gators.
Will it be this (Georgia fans shopping after the game)?
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Or will it be this (30 years ago)?
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Is This Gonna Be On The Test?
Oh, geez. And Tennessee thought the Alabama game was tough.
Auburn at Old Ms.: Is this too obvious? Auburn wins a big game against LSU, vaults to the top and becomes the next No. 1 to spill the soup? Almost. I’d probably call upset here if it didn’t mean taking sides with a coach (Houston Nutt) fond of recruiting from penitentiaries for a one-year fix. Tigers win but give me the Rebs and 7.
Tennessee at South Carolina: I understand Derek Dooley is entertaining and well read but he might want to hold off on any more analogies that liken his football team to panicking Nazis when the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. Better to just mix in a Lane Kiffin joke. Gamecocks cover a big number (17½).
Kentucky at Mississippi State: The note of the year: Dan Mullen (6-2) is bowl eligible before Urban Meyer, Mark Richt, Steve Spurrier and Bobby Petrino. He doesn’t make as much money as the others but there’s that psychic income of living in Starkville. Wait a minute. Other Dogs cover 6½.
Vandy at Arkansas: Ryan Mallett’s first three games: 9 touchdowns, 2 interceptions. Last four games: 6 touchdowns, 5 interceptions. (Sorry for the research. I slipped.) Fortunately, Vanderbilt stinks. Piggies cover 20½.
Georgia St. at South Alabama: South Alabama has won seven games by an average score of 44-7. I guess Tuscaloosa will be a step down for the Panthers. This week, they go down by two TDs.
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Pros and Cons
The walking boot is just to get sympathy from his wife.
Sext-Pistols at Patriots: Brett Favre has a bad ankle and doesn’t know if he can play. Seems like a good exit strategy, and it gives him time to work on a new story to tell his wife. Patriots cover 5½.
Jaguars at Cowboys: The really cool thing about those huge video screens in the Cowboys’ $1.3 billion stadium is now you can see Jerry Jones’ head explode in high-def. Hemlock now being served in the martini bars. Dallas wins but take Jacksonville and 6½.
Steelers at Saints: Actually factually: Drew Brees has one less interception (10) than he had all of last season (11), and if he throws four against Cleveland, what’s he going to do against Pittsburgh? The party is winding down in the Quarter. Steelers win (and take the gift 1).
Bucs at Cardinals: Raheem Morris is a good guy but when you say stuff like, “We’re the best team in the NFC. Yeah, I said it,” dude, just go ahead and start chugging the embalming fluid. Arizona covers 3.
Packers at Jets: Rex Ryan said, “It’s hard to say we’re not the best team in the NFL.” When did NFL coaches turn into Ali? Jets cover 6.
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Toteboard
Last week: 8-3 straight up, 7-4 against the line.
Bottom dollars: 65-21 straight up, 46-39-1 against the line.
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“Sack Schultz” Update
Went 11-4 last week. Was outdone again. Jack Terrill of St. Johns, Mich., went 15-0. Jack, you using a Ouija board? Overall leader is “Tuckys” (Ohio) at 96-24. “Dgoehner” is top Georgia contender at 95-25. Click here for more info.
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Want to catch up on previous Weekend Predictions? Click here.
Want to catch up on Georgia-Florida week posts? Click below
♦ Urban Meyer slammed again for Chris Rainey decision
♦ This is the week Georgia’s defense needs to step up
♦ Dogs’ key to beating Gators: QB, defense or something else?
♦ Early Georgia-Florida primer (and why Meyer is catching heat)
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Urbans Conscious
October 28th, 2010
9:21 pm
Big L, here is what’s going to happen. UGA will lead the whole game until the final minute and Chris Rainey will score the winning TD and the humpers will whine all the way home.
get off the wagon!
October 28th, 2010
9:26 pm
I think Richt will tighten up and find a way to lose the game, as well. I am still, and will remain, a Dog fan, and a Richt fan as long as he’s the coach. He didn’t forget how to coach, either. All of those ‘not returning until CMR is gone’ and things of that nature are fair weather fans and we real fans/grads enjoy the extra room on the wagon where you have jumped off.
JSS
October 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
@ BassinDawg…
Don’t read the earlier posts much huh?
Check out Pg. 1 @ 4:13P, Pg. 2 @ 4:54P and @ 5:04P…
We got that elephant up on the table doing the stroll…
Nice work
October 28th, 2010
9:37 pm
Threatening to kill women is awesome, obviously.
Jeff, you’re a douchebag. Any Dawg fan who’d wanna pile on the Chris Rainey jokes can gladly jump off the bangwagon, as far as I’m concerned
JSS
October 28th, 2010
9:39 pm
It’s: “Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-LQH8N6Ug
gtforever
October 28th, 2010
9:40 pm
UGA Sux, UF sux…… sounds like the making of a good SEC game…..
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
Cuz I will take that action with Florida and 14, and I will give you the push. Put your money where your mouth is.
gtforever
October 28th, 2010
9:52 pm
If the dawgs can’t find a way to beat this UF team, then it may NEVER happen…. This should be UF’s fourth straight loss. They are horrible, I mean GT just might beat them……
Cuz
October 28th, 2010
9:55 pm
Booboo, I would cept of course it is illegal and unemployment and lawsuits are taking a big chunk out of the Ponderosa. Have you ever heard of smack talk? I am trying to up the ante cause it is kinda quiet for a UGA-UF weekend, or have you not noticed?
dawg1!
October 28th, 2010
9:56 pm
georgia will kill florida. if i was richt i would make it a tradition to rush the field the first td we scored
go dawgs!
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October 28th, 2010
9:58 pm
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JSS
October 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
Not college football related, but this is clever marketing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNNkRG4LPY&feature=related
Blame Terry Funk!
Cuz
October 28th, 2010
10:01 pm
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Cuz
October 28th, 2010
10:02 pm
I hate it when I hit the wrong button. The mime is now making the sad face.
Blog comments are retarded
October 28th, 2010
10:05 pm
Schultz, Jacksonville never covers and loses. Either they win, or lose by 20. They’ve been too inconsistant for me to even touch ‘em.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
It’s the Donnan of a new era.
JSS
October 28th, 2010
10:13 pm
Here’s something for your Halloween… Sorry Mrs. Cowher (Rest in peace)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq7OzDmN6Ao&feature=related
Why don’t ya’ll do this for Luckovich?
Big L
October 28th, 2010
10:19 pm
@Urbans Conscience. And after Reiny wins the game , he sends a text to Coach Richt that it is also his time to die, bitch. Then finishes Spikes’ job with a prison shank to Washauns other eye.
Stew
October 28th, 2010
10:25 pm
Good job picking Jets again. Thank goodness I set you strait!
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
10:49 pm
Is that a picture of Mark c(R)hrist laying hands on the mutt nation trying to save their souls?
Big L
October 28th, 2010
10:56 pm
Real classy POAD. U probably really dig boy touching catholic jokes too. You just keep being a brave boy and talk crap from that computer in your moms basement.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
10:57 pm
Terry that is waht the NET is for. You acn watch the Gym Dawgs on your comouter and nobody is the wiser. LOL. I know where to buy Dawg football players jerseys on-line, but where do I bid for the Gym Dawg Championship Leotard? HAHAHAHAH. Dawgs be safe and enjoy your to JAX if you go.
NCSU is playing FSU damn tuff right now on ESPN.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
NCSU passes for the TYD with 2:40 left in the 4th qtr. NCSU 28 v FSU 24. maybe NCSU beating TECH was not so bad. they may win the ACC Atlantic. TECH better show-up thursday night in Lane.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
11:01 pm
Big L
You must be a Catholic boy that spent too many hours studying the rosery with Father Big Bad Bruce.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
11:04 pm
Big L did Rainey do something worse than OJ? OJ was INNOCENT. Rainey made a harassing phone call. Hell go to a UGA game as a visiting fan and you will hear the same thing from UGA fans. Can we have them all arrested for being drunk, stupid and making Terroristic threats?
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
11:05 pm
FSU is driving with 1:33 left. FSU has to have a TD
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
11:11 pm
That photo is of Richt doing the Voodoo on the Panties trying to make them drop with no player having to touch them red panties
Photo quote
Richt says ” Brothers I say I say Brothers and Sisters I will lead these Dawgs to the promised land I say the PROMISED LAND, but damint the Promised Land is not in Jax. The Promise LAND is Athens Clarke County Jail.
FSU fumbles and NCSU takes over with 48 sec left. I guess Tech didn’t lose to a bad team form the Atlantic after all.
Eric
October 28th, 2010
11:16 pm
Schultz has perfected stupidity as a comic form. I agree with his Auburn pick, but I think he flipped a coin but lost it in his couch. What a freakin MEATHEAD.
5150 P.O.A.D
October 28th, 2010
11:22 pm
Eric
what is your pic and points =/-. Talk MEATHEADLESS
Fishy Business
October 28th, 2010
11:29 pm
Jeff, your chalkboard is hilarous.
As a Dawg fan, I want this game bad !!!!!!!!
It will be determined by a turnover near the end of the game. I don’t have a clue which team will turn it over !!!
Hope it’s the Lizards !!
SECWasteManagement
October 28th, 2010
11:31 pm
Christian Ponder with another melt down. What a stooge.
Heck Dave...
October 28th, 2010
11:32 pm
These are Georgia fans “tea Partiers” on an average day. See IBM, BP KB Homes put somin’ in the water!
Gawd will make the dawgs win!!!!
Go Johnnybeedawgggggg! Waaaaahooo…
SECWasteManagement
October 28th, 2010
11:34 pm
All I got to say is that I’m allowed to leave work early tomorrow if I wear gator clothing, 5 hours early to be exact. Swallowing the pride and putting on the jorts and my roomates Harvin jersey…*sigh*…But o well, my 5 hour head start on drinking gives the dawgs a competitive advantage when I get inside EverBank. Go dawgs!
GDawg
October 28th, 2010
11:35 pm
Enough of the talking… UGA is going to play FL in the greatest football game (every year). UGA owned FL forever and now FL has owned UGA for the past 20 years. Enough excuses! Enough trash talk.
Time to open the gates in Jacksonville and let them play. Urban is going to allow a THUG to play. Richt doesn’t compromise his rules for the win. Say anything you want but our coach is true to his beliefs and Urban is true to his. “Time to die”… only a loser in life would let this pathetic person play!
akitadawg
October 28th, 2010
11:45 pm
Buckle up fans, this is going to be a wild one this weekend. Urban Meyer will use every trick play, reverse, fake punt, early in this game. He undoubtedly believes if he can jump on the Dawgs in 1st quarter, the mental block will set in and pups will fold their tents and head home with their tail between their hocks. Don’t think Coach Richt doesn’t know this. He has built up 3 weeks of good will with victories and he understands that if he loses to the Gators, he won’t be able to protect his job or the jobs of his assistants. Expect Grantham to Blitz every defender from anywhere on the field at any time. I see Bobo calling for a half back pass or a throw back pass to Murray (ala Tereshinski in 2005). Both teams have a lot to lose this game. The question is which coach will flinch when the game is in the line, Richt (the man with internal peace) or Meyer ( the man with internal anxiety)?
Ron Hyatt
October 28th, 2010
11:48 pm
Morons vs. Idiots. Who cares.
gcs
October 28th, 2010
11:55 pm
We all now know what a liar and egotist Brett Favre is. If he plays on Sunday than I am suspicious whether he was really injured after all or if it is yet another ruse to elicit sympathy. When I was watching the end of the Green Bay-Minnesota game all I could think of was Favre thinking to himself “Look at me! I am a warrior! Everybody will forget what a creep I am when they see this!”
This just in: the Saints’ Super Bowl win was a fluke. In an alternate reality, the Colts and Saints played a best of three and the Colts won the next two. Just for assurance, they played a fourth game and the Colts won again 44-10. Film at eleven.
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War Eagles babyyyyy
October 29th, 2010
12:19 am
LOL all the ugay read panty girls crying about Fla. open date before they play.LOL too funny..Dont yall have an open date before you play the techies every year…LOL bunch of ugay wimps..I say UF wins by 2 touchdowns over red panty U.then ugay gets the tatter farmers ,then Ohhhh yes THEN the PAIN comes..Gonna make that little freshman QB yall have wish he was still in Highschool.Thats if HE isnt arrested before the game…LOL…i also saw where the nit wit “JB “uses aliens as a reason for a ugay win…LOL UFs last 3 vs ugays last 3..WOW what a fan stocked with football savy..LMAO…Better check UFs last 3s records and ugays last 3s records Idiot..not that THAT makes any diffrence but makes ALOT more sense than your reasoning..GOOD LORD where do these people come from????I guess for the WORST and RUDEST fans in college football ugay deserves them…WAR EAGLE!!!!!!
Hit A Single
October 29th, 2010
12:20 am
Rainey is allowed to play. Just another good example how the integrity of the NCAA is going down just like our society is going down.
Hit A Single
October 29th, 2010
12:21 am
War Eagles Babyyy – My computer is missing, have you or Cam got it?
War Eagles babyyyyy
October 29th, 2010
12:23 am
Coach REEK dosent compromise his rules for a game..LMAO..are you freaking KIDDING ME!!!…YES Lord where do these people come from?????
War Eagles babyyyyy
October 29th, 2010
12:26 am
Uhmm let me check…Nope not me..Better check uga QB orthe RB, maybe O lineman or D lineman,or LB,CB…LOL I know its one of them…guess whos going to be arrested next???
Hit A Single
October 29th, 2010
12:26 am
War Eagles babyyyyy – I found it. Cam thru it out the window.
Hit A Single
October 29th, 2010
12:28 am
War Eagles babyyyy – He didn’t know it was stolen. Bull!! You know what, we all have thugs and it is time the NCAA comes down on them, because Coaches and AD’s won’t.
Hit A Single
October 29th, 2010
12:32 am
War Eagles babyyy – I got to go because my blood pressure gets up when I get on the subject. I am just sick and tired of a few thugs ruining it for all the other good players out there. Hey I hope you’ll are undefeated when the Dawgs come to see you. Should be a heck of a game if we can get by the Gators this weekend.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
October 29th, 2010
12:45 am
It’s UGA’s struggling defense against Florida’s struggling offense. Give Florida an advantage for a bye week to get ready and home field advantage. Give UGA a point for special teams as Florida’s kicker won’t play. This will be a low scoring game because Florida does have a defense and UGA doesn’t on 3rd down. Expect a lot of penalties, a couple of turnovers for each team and a field position advantage for UGA. Georgia is playing better and Florida is going the other way. UGA by 10. Say 24 -14.
War Eagles babyyyyy
October 29th, 2010
12:49 am
We will be….get ya some rest and take blood preasure meds (especially Sat)..I agree boot the thugs..NO second chances..at 18 ,19 years old If you dont know right from wrong you dont need to be in College you need to be in jail or working at a quick mart( like most uga grads) LOL
Flo-Ri-Duh!
October 29th, 2010
12:49 am
UGA by 10 … say 24-10. UGA is playing better and Florida is going the other way. Expect a lot of penalties, a couple of turnovers by each side and an advantage in the special teams for UGA. Give Florida points for the extra week off and home field advantage ( it’s played in Florida folks). This will be Urban’s coup de gras. He is looking for the exit ramp as we speak.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
October 29th, 2010
12:50 am
We need for Ole Miss to upset S.C. this week. It can happen.