Georgia’s new reality: From on the brink to BCS possibility
If Mark Richt and the Bulldogs win two more games they'll play for BCS title. (Brandt Sanderlin/AJC)
This is why we love sports. This is why it’s the greatest reality show we have going – unscripted and unexpected, with fluctuating emotions of fan bases from game to game.
Who foresees this? Who looks at a 0-2 Georgia team last season, with coach Mark Richt under assault by fans and media, with the program a non-factor in the SEC for more than two years, boat-raced in the conference by Alabama, Florida and LSU, and thinks: By the end of next season, those Bulldogs may have a chance to play for the BCS championship?
After some early hiccups in Athens Saturday, Georgia buried Georgia Southern 45-14. That’s one development that surprised nobody. What changed the landscape of college football’s national race is what occurred later that evening.
Kansas State, the BCS’s No. 1 team, got body-slammed 52-24 by Baylor (the same Baylor that was 1-5 in the Big 12 before kickoff). Oregon, the BCS’s No. 2 team, was upset at home by Stanford in overtime 17-14 (the same Oregon team whose point totals had ranged from 42 to 70 in its first 10 games).
These developments made happy people of everybody in the SEC office and a significant portion of the population in Georgia and Alabama. The losses by Kansas State and Oregon opened the door to the winner of the SEC championship game getting a pass into the BCS title game. When the new BCS rankings came out Sunday night, the top five teams were as expected: 1) Notre Dame; 2) Alabama; 3) Georgia; 4) Florida; 5) Oregon. Kansas State dropped all the way to sixth.
For the Bulldogs, it comes down to this: Win two games and they’re in. Yes, really.
Beat rival Georgia Tech at home next week (they will be favored) and Alabama in two weeks at the Georgia Dome (they will be underdogs) and the Dogs will play for their first BCS title.
Suddenly, residents of this state – at least those not associated with the teams on North Ave. – bark in unison.
Richt will have a difficult job trying to keep his players focused on a football game this week. That’s not the norm. Getting players to think about a game against their state rival shouldn’t be a chore. But the circumstances are extraordinary. Georgia’s last national championship came in 1980, and even if the Dogs need three more victories to win another one, nobody imagined they would get this close – not this year.
Just consider the reaction by some Georgia players on Twitter immediately following Oregon’s loss to Stanford:
• Quarterback Aaron Murray (@aaronmurray11): “Yesssssssssssss!!!!!! The Murray household just went crazyyyyy!!!!!!”
• Running back Keith Marshall (@truthh4): “Can’t lie. I’m excited right now.” But he followed that with: “Gotta focus on GT first.”
• Wide receiver Tavarres King (@TKUnoDos): “ALL SMILES!!!!!!!!”
• Cornerback Sanders Commings: “Thank you Baylor, thank you Stanford.” And Sunday morning: “And I wake up pinching myself. Yea it’s real. We control our own destiny.”
• Safety Marc Deas (@DatBoiDeas): “Show me the BCS!!!!”
Richt will try to ground them all this week. But one thing Georgia has done well is respond to adversity, whether it’s a loss (like getting pounded by South Carolina) or struggling early in against an inferior opponent (like Saturday against Georgia Southern). Maybe that grounding effect can work in high times, too.
“The one thing that’s different about this team is our composure,” wide receiver Chris Conley said following Saturday’s win. “We haven’t had guys freaking out on the sideline when something’s not going right.”
It follows that now they can’t freak out when everything is going right.
By Jeff Schultz
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Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
6:46 am
Morning dogs and tom brown,
Read Mandel…..si.com
“Mid-November Cupcakes”
SEC! SEC!
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
6:48 am
tom brown,
You are a legend in your own mind.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
6:51 am
FREE SHADE TREE from tom brown!
JWing
November 19th, 2012
6:54 am
UGA does not deservet the #3 spot. Oregon should be ahead of them. UGA doesn’t stand a chance against Bama.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
6:55 am
tom brown,
The SEC! SEC! is a scheduling fraud.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
6:56 am
JWing,
WORD
clem
November 19th, 2012
7:00 am
if GA is number 3, then the Falcons will win the superbowl. both teams highly overrated but steady to date. theydo have not top tier talent, notch or two below. if uga wins bowl game this year then a good to very good season (assuming no blowout in sec champ). ryan has shown just how far he is from top tier, but has 3 very good receivers when healthy. prediction alabama 31, uga 7.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:00 am
tom brown,
It’s Monday. Is today your take a bath day?
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:01 am
tom brown,
Remember…be pithy.
Tennis Rodman
November 19th, 2012
7:01 am
SEC East Champions next National Champions – the World belongs to us. WE RUN THIS WORLD.
Dog!
November 19th, 2012
7:20 am
Ga blows out tech, beats bama by 10 in the SEC title game, then upsets Notre Dame!! Dogs—bCs champions!!!
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:26 am
From USATODAY
For potential pandemonium, try this zany scenario:
– USC beats Notre Dame.
– Georgia Tech beats Georgia, which beats Alabama.
– Florida State beats Florida.
– Oregon State beats Oregon.
Who goes to Miami then?
And to complete the fun, Ohio State — remember the unbeaten Buckeyes? — beats Michigan.
Here we go again..
November 19th, 2012
7:26 am
Can we stop using the stupid term “boat-raced”? What does that even mean?
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:28 am
dog!
Nice spelling. You must not be from ’round here.
Here we go again..
November 19th, 2012
7:31 am
This is exactly why the BCS blows. Georgia is 1-1 against decent teams this year. I’m not picking on Georgia because you could say that about any of the top teams. Until all teams quit playing these cupcakes, there is never gonna be true National Champion.
Mike
November 19th, 2012
7:39 am
And Murray has played excellent against ranked teams! Big money QB!
14 Titles
November 19th, 2012
7:43 am
Alabama’s gonna beat georgia like a rented mule in atlanta—mark that down! Nick has this Bama team on a mission for title #15, 3 in 4 years! Ga can’t match up with Bama’s size and speed on D. Bama 27 ga 13!
BIG MIKE
November 19th, 2012
7:44 am
The so-called NC GAME has pretty much, always been a debate in November. Why should this year be any different. You can’t hang your hat on a program for having won it any more than you can dispose of a program for not winning it. It’s not necessarily something in a coach’s control.
That being said. I found it interesting that this is only the 20th “10 WIN” season in UGA’s history and CMR has 8 of them. And this is the coach you want to fire????
Bobo’s offense has broken a touchdown/season mark. And you want to fire him?????
Either, the poster’s calling for these guys heads over the last couple of years don’t know a thing about football or they are not DAWG fans and are just trying to stir the pot.
I told all of you a couple of years ago that UGA hasn’t had a team this complete since the late ’70’s-early ’80’s and to just be patient and let Richt do his thing. We are about to witness a special time in UGA history. They may or may not win the NC. It is far more important to win the SEC TITLE. Go DAWGS!!!!!!!
Honey boy
November 19th, 2012
7:46 am
More bloviating from the great, Tom Brown… He who knows all, sees all, hears all and spews his own brand of inimitable self aggrandizing factoids. Hey brownie, why don’t you write for someone in the true media? Answer…no one would hire someone who has an onion thin skin!
Now that the weekend is over, go back to your job packing bags at Kroger and wait till the next weekend when you can amuse us all again….
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
7:49 am
UGA beats Georgie tek 50-9
UGA beats Alabama about 27-24.
What if Notre Dame gets beat by 4-Loss unranked any poll, Southern California ?
That is all it takes.
UGA then gets re-match UGA vs Florida, this time not at the stadium where the Gator Bowl is played every year, but at the Georgia Dome where at least half the games should be played anyway.
# 4 Florida would move up to # 2
# 3 UGA would move up to # 1
UGA would win the re-match since we have BOTH an OFFENSE and a Defense.
Neither Notre Dame, nor Alabama, nor Florida have anything close to an Aaron Murray.
Neither Notre Dame, nor Alabama, nor Florida have anything close to a Jarvis Jones.
Neither Notre Dame, nor Alabama, nor Florida have anything close to an Alec Ogletree.
Neither Notre Dame, nor Alabama, nor Florida have anything close to a Todd Gurley.
Our talent is NOT inferior; it is CLEARLY succinctly, better.
These are the ONLY 4 teams involved.
Notre Dame
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Well, Southern California unranked with 4-Losses, could beat Notre Dame; but, if they don’t
# 4 Florida
# 3 UGA
# 2 Alabama
Are ALL licking our chops to have the chance to play them.
If Notre Dame LOSES to lowly unranked previously # 1 Southern California with 4-Losses already, then the winner of The SEC Championship Game gets 1-slot and Florida at # 4 would move up past the loser of The SEC Championship Game and above then a 1-loss Notre Dame who has beat no team in the top 10 with their 3 great wins this season over # 7 LSU # 8 Texas A and M and # 12 today South Carolina who will BEAT Clempsum Farmers who have beat no one in any top 25 poll all season long.
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GA TOOK BALL AWAY FROM FL 8 TIMES, BEATING THEM TO 6 OF 8
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And, Florida still has NO Aaron Murray – neither does AL FL & most especially Notre Dame.
4 teams : NC either (1) Notre Dame (2) AL (3) UGA (4) FL
There is NO OTHER SCENARIO.
UGA could beat Florida 2 times for the NC 2012.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:52 am
tom brown,
Phone is for you. Mark May on the line.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:54 am
tom brown,
Neither Alabama, Notre Dame or Florida fan bases have anything close to tom brown
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:56 am
tom brown,
I’m sure you’ve seen Barkley is out against ND and USC has to start a Freshman QB. Kinda throws your odds out of whack, Then again, you are out of whack,
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
7:57 am
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BIG MIKE, DID YOU WRITE THIS A MONTH AGO, SIR ?
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BIG MIKE October 6th, 2012 11:28 pm
“What lost the game?????
Inexperienced and underdeveloped youth in the offensive line. Can’t run or pass without it. Period. They were playing against the best defensive front in the country and it showed.
Defense had a piss poor game plan. Nobody had containment and Jarvis Jones was taking shallow angles toward the running back while no one accounted for QB. Defensive line played well. Not much yardage given up in the power running game and fair penetration throughout the night, which forced shaw out of the pocket and eventually down the field cause nobody was accounting for him on the edges.
Why didn’t the coaching staff see this coming and plan for it? Why run #3 and #4 up the middle with 6 of the best D-LINE in the country waiting for him and no push at all from the O-LINE.
I defended CMR and Staff for years for a very good reason, but what happened tonite is inexcusable. The coaching staff was caught with their pants down. As far as I’m concerned, if CMR and company don’t win the SEC this year or at least look competitive in the game…then it’s time to clean house. They’ve got NFL grade talent on both sides of the ball. Other teams win with a lesser O-LINE than UGA has by gameplanning and not relying heavily on the line (i.e., quick release passes, sprint outs, QB running plays, sweeps, etc.). I saw very little of that tonite. When we did see it, it was relatively successful.
NO GAME PLAN!!!!!!!!!!”
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Just asking BIG MIKE in view of this post, just now by you ?
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:57 am
tom brown,
Face it, you just ain’t gonna get there.
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
7:59 am
tom brown,
Tell us, who did put a bee ( Ha! No pun intended – pinky swear) in your bonnet?
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
8:00 am
tom brown,
Why are you eating your own?
Buckeye
November 19th, 2012
8:04 am
tom brown,
Who is going to help Murray not be Murray in big games Murray?
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
8:31 am
“Bobo’s offense has broken a touchdown/season mark. And you want to fire him????? Either, the poster’s calling for these guys heads over the last couple of years don’t know a thing about football or they are not DAWG fans and are just trying to stir the pot. I told all of you a couple of years ago that UGA hasn’t had a team this complete since the late ’70’s-early ’80’s and to just be patient and let Richt do his thing.”
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“Why didn’t the coaching staff see this coming and plan for it? I defended CMR and Staff for years for a very good reason, but what happened tonite is inexcusable. The coaching staff was caught with their pants down. As far as I’m concerned, if CMR and company don’t win the SEC this year or at least look competitive in the game…then it’s time to clean house.”
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It certainly sounds to me like you are writing a post to yourself, aren’t you BIG MIKE, sir ? I happen to believe that you were correct in trying to motivate our team like we did against Florida to start this great run 2012 for Mark Richt’s great recruits remaining, all 64 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in. Were you WRONG last month BIG MIKE and Shawn Williams, wrong too ? Or, are you right this month that how many TD in a 14-game season or how many wins in a 14-game season should be compared with 11-game seasons ending in 1979, and 12-game seasons which ran from 1980 through 2001 for us, or even go all the way back to 1942 and try to compare that one 12-game season 1942 with 2012 ?
It’s a little confusing comparing 14-game seasons with 11-game or 12-game seasons, especially with bowl records removed from those old records as well; but yes Mark Richt whom you called for being fired just last month, has won 10-game seasons 8 times in 12-seasons to-date with more to come if he will stay here because of his great recruiting.
But, your post makes it sound like you are trying to say this morning that last month, you were wrong.
I think you were right last month. Or, was Shawn Williams wrong, too BIG MIKE ?
ShadeTree
November 19th, 2012
8:43 am
Thomas,
I have posted here before and my post is not a joke. I responded to YOUR previous post exactly the way you presented it. Now, you have to go back and talk about how many years in coaching…etc. Go back and read your own post…you said “Mark has sent more to the NFL than any coach”…again, I answered it the way YOU wrote it.
As far as picking on you, not even close, just some friendly sports banter showing how easy it is to present one side and make it sound sensational. Like this talking heads at ESPN, wasn’t it just last week how great KSU and Oregon was?
You said how Notre Dame hasn’t played anybody…okay, so Notre Dame beating a now 9-2 Stanford team that beat the Oregon Ducks on their home turf isn’t impressive…so how about beating Oklahoma on the road 30-13 isn’t impressive either? A place where Bob Stoops was 79-4? So what if the Irish don’t win 40-14 every time. A win is a win and they have held 5 of their 11 opponents without a touchdown. Impressive no matter who you play.
You keep suggesting Florida as Georgia’s huge win, but even they needed a blocked punt to beat Louisiana-Lafayette. Thats the beauty of college football…you never know and you won’t until you play the game.
Your posts are thought provoking, PLEASE, JUST BE FAIR…regardless how much you love your Dawgs. I never once said anything negative about the Dawgs and I did not say their defense was bad, as you suggest in your last post. They are actually playing great football right now and not a moment too soon as Alabama awaits.
I’m a fan of college football Thomas
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
8:56 am
ShadeTree, you can answer it how ever you prefer, but you’re left with comparing coaches 14 years long or 18 years longer in total than what Mark Richt has done while he’s been our coach, sir. During the time, Steve Spurrier, Mark Richt and Mack Brown have coached together, they have all consistently done WORSE than Mark Richt.
Haven’t they ?
You can be a fan of college football, and so can we all.
There is a team you root for, isn’t there ?
What’s the mystery ShadeTree ?
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
9:09 am
Take NASCAR last night for example ShadeTree ? There were 2 possible guys who could win the $5,662,800 for winning NASCAR Sprint Cup 2012. Do you watch NASCAR ? Did you root for Brad Keselowski or for Jimmy Johnson, who came in 3rd behind also Clint Bower ?
You’re purposely dodging the question, as you obscure the facts that what Mark Richt has done has not been matched by any other coach because the KIDS TODAY LOVE MARK RICHT and have all 12 years.
It is not a hyperpole to say that Mark Richt has recruited better and sent more to the NFL than anyone.
I like a good college football banter as well as anyone ShadeTree; only I do insist that those whom I carry on such banter on the Internet have posted before, answer direct questions, and address this point.
My posts are thought-provoking because I research what I post before I post. And, because I hit on the issue of the moment in my hobby, college football.
I have other hobbies and interests, too. One hones the skills for the others.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
9:11 am
Bowyer
ShadeTree
November 19th, 2012
9:13 am
No mystery, it’s pointless thats all. You attack and then write 11 paragraph defending your school.
Guess its true what others have said about you on this board, but I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Do yourself a favor and pull your head out of UGA’s a** long enough to breath sir.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
9:23 am
Yes, you’re right, of course : It’s no mystery; you prefer to hide whom it is you root for while you try to make it stick that I am biased in favor of UGA because I have seasons’ tickets, have been to 17 Florida Georgia games in JAX, go to the bowl games, go to every game at the Georgia Dome, and actually know what the hell I am talking about.
I am not biased, and you are. Only you steadfastly refuse to admit who you root for
for obvious reasons.
Your team does NOT have a coach whom the kids like more, and therefore your team you do root for has worse recruiting than Mark Richt and does not send as many in the NFL Draft as Mark Richt.
Just don’t be watching the NFL Draft after this 2012 season, because there will be NO COLLEGE in the world with more NFL Draft Selections since 2001 when he became our coach.
All your BS to the contrary unable to address except that I need to pull my head out of MY alma mater’s behind long enough to breathe when you are wholly unable to make your point that anyone has done better than Mark Richt in recruiting rankings or NFL Draft Picks except Southern Cal who has recruited higher ranked recruiting classes starting 2001 than he has, but will have NOT had more NFL draft picks AFTER the 2012 season’s players are drafted, unless Southern California can come up with 10 NFL Draft Selections from this year’s team.
And, YOU didn’t even point that out.
That, again, sir, was I.
Flo-Ri-Duh
November 19th, 2012
9:55 am
Saban knows the SEC champ game is for the National Championship. Notre Dame will be a cup cake in comparison to UGA. He also knows Bummer is vulnerable to the passing game. UGA needs to find some way to ignore the media this week and concentrate on TECH. UGA by 14.
Flo-Ri-Duh
November 19th, 2012
10:02 am
And who has Oregon beat? 4 time loser Sou Cal almost beat Oregon and Stanford got robbed when they played Notre Dame. 4 time loser Pitt outplayed and should have beat Notre Dame. There aren’t ANY dominant teams in college ball this year. That is why you keep saying “Who has so and so beat. And who has Bama beat?
SPURRIER IS IN GA'S HEAD
November 19th, 2012
10:22 am
dawgs lose to bama. notre dame loses to usc. gators upset fsu. gators vs bama for natl title.
not a likely scenario, but a reality.
other unlikely, but possible scenario. all above the same, except ga upsets bama, and plays a rematch against gators in natl title game. Talk about a sellout of mammoth proportions!!
gators might even bring SPURRIER down on the sidelines to instill a little FEAR in thos puppies
LawDawg
November 19th, 2012
10:23 am
The Tech fans (or whoever) on here proclaiming UGA has no chance against Bama – do any of you actually watch football or are you going purely on reputation?
Bama’s defense is well-coached and disciplined, but the talent is simply not there. They lost their best 5 players and they do not have real playmaking ability. On offense, The O-Line is great. No question. But they have not played a team with the kind of ability to get into the backfield of UGA. LSU took a huge step back on that front, and as good as TAM is, it is not comparable. McCarron is basically David Greene – he rarely makes mistakes, he is a capable, accurate passer with occassional flashes of brilliance, but the pure physical skills are not there.
Ed Lacy is a very good, very strong RB, but he is no Trent Richardson.
Will Bama be the favorite? Yes. Should they be? Yes. Are they an unstoppable force? Heck no.
SPURRIER IS IN GA'S HEAD
November 19th, 2012
10:28 am
sweetest revenge for all gator fans is to see disingenuous urban “got health issues” myer with an undefeated ohio state team sitting at home watching tv. Maybe you and lame kiffin can catch up over the holidays and watch it together. Couldn’t think of two better chums that ought to be together
Georgiavol
November 19th, 2012
10:28 am
Oh, good grief! Now we have to listen to the UGA crazies crow for two weeks about how UGA will win the national championship. Then, after they lose to Bama, listen for two months about how CMR should be fired.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
10:38 am
Bama beat # 7 LSU
Dogs beat # 4 Florida
No one else in consideration has a win as good as either, already – other than Florida who has beat already # 7 LSU, # 8 Texas A and M and # 12 South Carolina.
Pitt is 4-6 and Notre Dame called itself a team of Destiny because it beat them in triple OT.
Georgia, Florida and Alabama are all 3 dominant teams, but only 1 has an Aaron Murray, a Jarvis Jones, a Todd Gurley and an Alec Ogletree. Alabama has all these freshmen at key positions 2012. Florida has they say Jeff Driskel for Florida State, but on his best day, he is no Aaron Murray, either.
4 teams in the discussion and no one has beat a better team than # 3 UGA beating # 4 Florida. # 2 Alabama beat # 7 LSU. # 1 Notre Dame beat # 8 Stanford but Stanford also lost to 4-Loss Washington or they would be 5-Loss Washington. Florida beat # 7 LSU too, and # 9 Texas A and M and # 12 South Carolina, but lost to # 3 Georgia.
I love The SEC; it’s always fun looking at the details of The SEC compared to podunk nothings of a football team every year running onto this blog and bragging how great their team is that year and how badly The SEC has done this year compared to their own pitiful records.
There is a reason why The SEC is # 2 # 3 and # 4 in the polls.
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IT IS SO THAT 1, IF NOT 2, SEC TEAMS PLAY TITLE GAME
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Of course, the only way I can think of 2 SEC teams again in the Title Game, would be for UGA to beat Alabama like 27-24 and previously # 1 now unranked in any poll, 4-Loss Southern California beating Notre Dame, which would then result in :
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Florida vs UGA 2012 BCS NC TITLE GAME
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Florida WITH Jeff Driskel and WITHOUT Aaron Murray.
Aaron Murray is the difference in UGA and Alabama, UGA and Florida, and in UGA – and Notre Dame probably most glaringly of all.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
10:42 am
Hey vols’ fan,
You’ve not even come in here and posted at all for ever. Why is that ?
You don’t even have a coach.
Jealous, you’re not in the discussion since Mark Richt got here ?
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
10:44 am
Spurrier is # 12, nowhere as good a recruiter or NFL Draft producer either as Mark Richt, who is # 3, playing for the national championship play-in game. What would Spurrier be doing in our heads ? Good Lord.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
10:46 am
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“dawgs lose to bama. notre dame loses to usc. gators upset fsu. gators vs bama for natl title”
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But even that, how does that put Spurrier in our heads ? Did I miss something here ?
joe jenkins
November 19th, 2012
11:59 am
hey thomas brown….do you see big john jenkins having a good game vs the pathetic nerds
UGA This time
November 19th, 2012
12:02 pm
I normally root for Tech in this game but I am looking at the big picture and would like to see GA have a shot at the NC. With the game here in Atlanta, they will have a home field advantage and I think Alabama can be beat; the aura is gone after the TAMU loss.
Either team should be Notre Dame in a BCS championship, in fact I believe every team in the top ten can beat ND, they are shaky. However, they deserve to be number one because they are undefeated and beat the Stanford team that beat Oregon who I thought was the best team in the country. I knew Oregon was in trouble when they did not score in the 1st quarter, the players were already feeling nervous.
BIG MIKE
November 19th, 2012
12:12 pm
@THOMAS BROWN
I did indeed wrote it and stand by it. UGA got caught with their pants down. It happens, otherwise we would have 60 undefeated teams in 1A FBS. As it stands there is only one and not sure they will stay that way.
It doesn’t mean I would fire the lot of them. They responded the way I would expect a first class coaching staff to respond. That being said….I was right all along.
Thomas Brown
November 19th, 2012
12:15 pm
Georgia’s Opponents 2012, not including unknown bowl opponent. are 56-55 a winning record. This was achieved over this past weekend. Another even 10-2 bowl opponent, would move us to # 39 Official NCAA Strength of Schedule for 2012.
Most importantly about # 39 SoS is that we have ALREADY beat # 4 Florida.
Business at hand is beating 10-1 Alabama, not 6-5 Georgie tek fixing to end 6-8.
I certainly do hope that we’ve been concentrating our coaching staff on how to prepare us for winning our 3rd SEC Championship in 2012, a year that definitely is NOT a down year for The SEC with 3 teams of the top 4 vying for a spot in the BCS NC Title Game.
We don’t need to deflect the conversation from the important Alabama game. Yes, something comes with that. That, today, is a Notre Dame team without any Aaron Murray. Anyone who has watched Notre Dame, knows that they most certainly do NOT have an Aaron Murray.
BEAT BAMA. And, to those who not know, in 63 games, Alabama has only beat us 36 times – for the best record against Alabama of any of their opponents all-time. And, we have every opportunity having known all this since we beat # 4 Florida at the stadium where they play the Gator Bowl by converting on that 3rd Down to put away Florida, unlike 2002 when we went 0-11 on 3rd Downs against Florida and did NOT get to play in the BCS NC Title Game that year because of it. All we needed to win that day in 2002 vs Florida was 1 of 11 on 3rd Down Conversions on the last play of the game.
BIG MIKE
November 19th, 2012
12:16 pm
BTW THOMAS BROWN
They still have 3 games remaining and hold the record at the 11 game mark. No UGA team within reach has played less games