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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530 comments Add your comment
Rabid Dawg
October 29th, 2010
3:17 am
With AJ back in the Dawgs lineup….Ga has one of the better offenses in the country. What does Florida have? A bunch of speedy Prima Donnas….whereby if you just bump into them they go down. No offensive toughness with Florida whatsoever. Just a bunch of track people. Thats all.
Ga is the tougher and more physical team on both sides of the ball. There is also some payback coming due to the last 2 games between these teams. Add it all up and it equates to Florida getting the living h e l l beat out of them….leaving U Myer to roll around in agony in his own p i s s and v o m i t.
Dawgs win 42-7.
Big Red
October 29th, 2010
6:41 am
Gators go down to Dawgs !!!! AGAIN
Classics Rule
October 29th, 2010
6:48 am
mcdaviddawg – You’re not missed…..so don’t bother coming back.
For the record:
Dawgs win in a walk.
Nazis play like they did against LSU except they have now learned how to count and beat the chickens.
tim
October 29th, 2010
7:09 am
as a UF season ticket holder I have witnessed this first hand. UGA fans relaxe if you do not win Sat your should leave MR in Jax because it may be a long time before you win this game again. That being said,this UF offense cannot get out of their own way and the defense with one or two exceptions have no idea how to make a tackle. The problem is not the players it’s coaching plain and simple,Myer the fire is gone am I staying or going. Adazzio to much on h’is plate,new D Cord,Austin clueless,LB coach Durkin came from Stanford nuff said,and finally WR coach Azzani do we have UGA . 37 UF 14
THE OBGYN
October 29th, 2010
7:12 am
Did Joe Tess Fish Man or what ever come back as Kral?
some things are more important than Urban Meyer
October 29th, 2010
7:24 am
The Florida Gators are awful this year.
DAWGS ……….. DOMINATE this one !
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Time to Cry Urban
October 29th, 2010
7:34 am
Dawgs D has been very good against the run. Brantley cannot throw. Dawgs win by 3. Count on it!!
From Where I Sit
October 29th, 2010
7:38 am
Face it GA fans, ya team SUCKS!
Gators with another easy win in Jax, and win the East again in 2010!
Enough Said!
To From Where I Sit
October 29th, 2010
7:39 am
Child Please. And the Gators are world beaters this year, right?
alpharettadawg
October 29th, 2010
7:54 am
I wonder if Knowshon & Tebow have a wager in Denver
Gator Mike
October 29th, 2010
8:01 am
It should be a good game this year, and I hope it is cleaner than it has been over the past few years. The Dawgs are on a roll, and the Gators have been awful, but there is a lot of talent on both teams. The Gator Nation is not happy with the offensive coordinator at UF, and I am not sure he will get his act together, but we will stick by him. Hopefully, the best team wins, and that team continues to win the rest of the season. It would be a travesty to see the winner of the game fall flat during their final games. If the Gators loose, my sense is that it is going to get very ugly in Gainesville. Go Gators!
Pete
October 29th, 2010
8:07 am
If you have ever played a down of football it goes- If you are on a losing streak the bye does not help. If like the Dawgs you are finally pulling your head out of your As* then you don’t want a bye week to stop your momentum. I see the Dawgs winning by 10.It could be a blow out if the Dawgs get a couple of turnovers and the gators keep imploding.
Old Gold Britches
October 29th, 2010
8:12 am
The mutts have a down year gator team so there is no reason the mutts let this one slip away even with richt in charge.
numbonjax
October 29th, 2010
8:38 am
If UF had their kicker they would have only lost to Bama!!! This is easy $$$,Take the Gators.
Dawg Tired
October 29th, 2010
8:48 am
I fear the ITTDBG may actually be the difference. That’s why “my morals will never get in the way of winning a game Meyer” is letting the ITTDBG play. You gotta admit life is so much easier when you have absolutely no moral conscience.
Schultzy
October 29th, 2010
8:54 am
Dogs go dowwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn… bawahahahahahahaha…… I am god!!!!!!!!
Do they teach Math at UGA???
October 29th, 2010
9:02 am
Flo-Ri-Duh!
October 29th, 2010
12:49 am
UGA by 10 … say 24-10.
Dawgbreath
October 29th, 2010
9:02 am
USCe will curb stomp the Vols. Not Spurrier’s favorite team and they manhandled the Gamecocks last year. Now Spurrier has weapons. Uh-oh.
GT
October 29th, 2010
9:02 am
We celebrate Georgia beating the same weak teams Florida beat and since Georgia had them scheduled on the back end of their calendar, in a row, we conclude Georgia have greatly improved. There is absolutely no way to figure this game, except Florida having a good record with the bye week. I also hate to add Rainey is coming back, but that will help Florida.
Auburn is the first team at number one that doesn’t have a monster game the first week they are place there. The over hyped SEC has weak sisters just like the rest of the world and Mississippi is the designated sister this year.
Anybody watch that FSU, NSU game last night. If the ACC can improve that much during the season so can Georgia, but maybe the ACC wasn’t that bad to start with. Any maybe Georgia is just not that good.
Dawgbreath
October 29th, 2010
9:03 am
Spurrier will curb stomp the Vols.
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
9:07 am
UGA is the Chicago Cubs of SEC football. NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!! WE’LL WIN IT ALL NEXT YEAR!!!!!!
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
9:08 am
“Auburn is the first team at number one that doesn’t have a monster game the first week they are place there. ”
Can you see the future, bomb maker? By the way, I just read where another Al Quaida member was killed in Pakistan. He was a former Tech grad.
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
9:09 am
“Anybody watch that FSU, NSU game last night.”
Why would anyone want to watch two high school teams play?
jasont13
October 29th, 2010
9:09 am
War Eagles babyyyyy-Do you know what happened last time UGA brought a freshamn QB down on the plains???? Let me remind you, it has stared this 4 game losing streak to UGA, Auburn has endured.
BirdDog
October 29th, 2010
9:13 am
Jeff, thank you for picking the gaytors! Thank you! Thank you! thank you!
johnny reb
October 29th, 2010
9:14 am
Nice shot at Houston Nutt. Do you know the facts on Masoli? And name one coach that has the Osmonds playing for him (except for BYU)? I guess Richt, Meyer, Saban, etc… should all resign based on your moral code…I guess we can cancel UGA vs FL.
Jack
October 29th, 2010
9:31 am
jeff –
Nope. Can’t kill you for siding with reality. Now had UGA won 17 of the last 20 and you went with UF then that might be a different story, but unfortunately my Dawgs have done this to themselves. So until they give me, and any other rational fan, a real reason to fill the slightest bit confident going into this game we have to continue to expect the worst. A win tomorrow and another next year would start to bring even the most pessimistic of us back around. But with all that said….GO DAWGS!!!
cam
October 29th, 2010
9:33 am
GT,
The ACC is that bad, even worse. UGA is a Jekyll and Hyde.
hilarious!!!
October 29th, 2010
9:35 am
Are yech and ACC fans really taking shots at the SEC? Seriously? That’s like Roseanne Barr trying to trash Angelina Jolie as being ugly!!! LOL!!!!
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
9:41 am
When nationally ranked, Auburn is 13-0 all-time against Ole Miss.
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
9:42 am
It’s been a while since Bo was this excited
Bo knows a special player when he sees one, and the most iconic football player in Auburn history has been enthralled by what he’s seen out of Cam Newton this season and the No. 1 Tigers.
Manny Rubio/US PresswireAuburn’s Bo Jackson won the Heisman Trophy in 1985.
“I haven’t seen one like him, not at quarterback,” Bo Jackson said earlier this week, fresh off a hunting trip.
Obviously, Jackson is royalty at Auburn. For that matter, he’s royalty in the SEC.
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/16106/its-been-a-while-since-bo-was-this-excited
gdawginkalamazoo
October 29th, 2010
9:44 am
I don’t know on the Auburn-Ole Miss game. Has anyone predicted which QB will steal this game in the end?
I just found Tennessee’s schedule for next year:
Sept 3rd v. Autria (away)
Sept 10th v. Poland (away)
Sept 17th v. Belgium (away)
Sept. 24th v. France (away)
Oct 1st v. Tunisia
Oct 8th v. Romania (away)
Oct 15th v. Yugoslovia (away)
Oct 22nd v. Netherlands (away)
Oct. 29th v. Luxembourg(away)
Nov. 5th v. Great Britain(home)*
Nov. 12th v. United States (home)
Nov. 22nd v. Soviet Union (home)
*Homecoming
Coach Dooley says:
“Looks easy enough even for all the away games to start the season. The travel and mvoing all that equipment is a logistical nightmare. Tough, tough home stand to finish off the season, might not survive that one. We expect to win the game against France, if Coach Vichy is still in place, but the United States and Soviet Union look to be daunting.”
Hershel
October 29th, 2010
9:51 am
As ususal Schultz you are a jackwagon
Cobb Dawg
October 29th, 2010
9:54 am
Georgia SHOULD win this game. This year’s WLOCP will tell a lot about coaching, IMHO!
MS. Bully
October 29th, 2010
9:55 am
I was hoping you would pick Reftucky over MS. State. I’ve seen you’re earlier predictions always picking against State and then State comes home with a win. Please change your choice and pick Reftucky.
ray
October 29th, 2010
9:55 am
the week off for Fl is BS
RED GATOR
October 29th, 2010
9:57 am
Any fan that can openly say “How bout dem Dawgs” are retarded. Uga is gonna get their s**t handed to them and sent back to their trailer parks in hillbilly ga.
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
10:03 am
RED GATOR
Thanks for sending Cam our way!
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
10:03 am
“Has anyone predicted which QB will steal this game in the end?’
Not sure how a QB “steals” a game.
Paul in RDU
October 29th, 2010
10:08 am
gdawginkalamazoo – Excellent post. What happened to the early season game against Czechoslovakia?
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
10:09 am
“Child Please. And the Gators are world beaters this year, right?”
Doubt it. Denver got destroyed by Oakland so I’m sure the coaches have everyone in Denver doing 5 a days.
Watcher-in-the-Wood
October 29th, 2010
10:17 am
Thanks for the look back at the Buck Belue to Lindsay Scott breakup of the 1980 game, and most of all for Larry Munson’s entertaining description of the event. There will never, ever, ever be another Larry Munson.
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Watcher-in-the-Wood
October 29th, 2010
10:22 am
But to the game at hand tomorrow. I, as many other Georgia fans, have agonized over Georgia’s performance the last 20 years against Florida. We seem to always find a way to implode at critical junctures of the game–like between the opening kickoff and the final gun. However, hope springs eternal, or some such platitude like that and we hope this year will be (somewhat) different. Let’s just hope it’s at least entertaining. Georgia seems to have this “mo-jo” attitude about the Gators these days; when the Gators show up, we seem to go into lockup mode and can’t block, tackle or catch passes.
Russ555
October 29th, 2010
10:39 am
I remember 1980 With three games left, a friend who went to another SEC school, rather not say which one, don’t want to start a fight, say the Dogs were done, no way they could been, Florida, Auburn and Tech. Then after the season, he said they ahd just been lucky. Sounded like sour grapes. Anyway, it was a good season.
Back to the present, I think Georgia will win, unless Florida does. Is it too early to get started drinking yet.
laz
October 29th, 2010
10:40 am
@ RED GATOR,
How proud of Meyer are you that he is going to play a future felon tomorrow? I mean, he only threatened to kill his gf along with the police that were in the room with her. Gotta love those classy GAYtors!!!!
laz
October 29th, 2010
10:41 am
Drink away Russ, drink away!!!
Tebro
October 29th, 2010
10:42 am
“How proud of Meyer are you that he is going to play a future felon tomorrow?’
UGA has 11 jail birds currently on it’s roster.
Tator
October 29th, 2010
10:42 am
I’ve seen too many better UGA teams lose to weaker UF teams. No way am I going to get excited about this one.
Urban Cryer
October 29th, 2010
10:54 am
WAR EAGLE BABYYYY – When is the last time Auburn beat Georgia? Ya’ll lose with just as many thugs as the Dawgs.
TECH NERDS – UGA gives ya’ll one every 8 years or so to keep your spirits up.
Gaytor Nation – cut those jorts extra short and pull on those tank tops – time to get busy in Jax.
Gert Boyle
October 29th, 2010
11:01 am
The only winners when these two teams meat are bail bondsmen.