Georgia projects well for 2013, even with flaws in win
Mark Richt gets the Gatorade bath after Georgia's Capitol Bowl win over Nebraska. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)
ORLANDO – The players wore hats reading “CHAMPIONS” in all cap letters. The fact that “Capital One Bowl” — and not SEC or BCS — also was stitched on the caps in a much smaller script might deflate that declaration a bit, but it doesn’t take away from where Georgia may be headed.
Were the Bulldogs great in their final game of the 2012 season? Hardly. The defense, purported to be loaded with NFL talent, too often played sloppy and undisciplined. The quarterback, Aaron Murray, threw two interceptions in the team’s first three possessions. It is what happens sometimes in bowl games. The Dogs didn’t save their best for last. Their best came in the next-to-last game against Alabama.
But ultimately, what came out of Georgia’s 45-31 win over Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl were signs that this program isn’t likely to take a step back next season.
There will be new players. There will be a different team personality. The schedule will be tougher. But the Bulldogs just finished a season that saw them go 12-2 and come within five yards of winning the SEC championship and going to the BCS title game. They rebounded from the crushing loss in the SEC championship game to win a significant bowl game. They showed resiliency by losing two starting wide receivers (Marlon Brown, Michael Bennett) during the season and a third in Tuesday’s game (Malcolm Mitchell). They endured several early season suspensions on defense and played without two defensive starters against Nebraska (John Jenkins, Abry Jones).
Jarvis Jones and several defensive starters now are expected to leave for the NFL. Maybe Murray comes back, but probably not. But Georgia is in a good place now, a player again on the national scene, and nobody could have seen that coming two years ago in Memphis when the team schlepped off the field a loser to Central Florida in the Liberty Bowl, dragging a 6-7 record.
“The seniors started a legacy here,” freshman running back Todd Gurley said Tuesday. “They’re passing it down to us, and we’re just going to keep moving forward and winning each year. I know a lot of teams will have the goal of going to the national championship next year, but we really believe that. We’re going to bring in a great recruiting class and we’re going to get it done next year.”
Todd Gurley, here breaking through for a 24-yard touchdown, finished with 125 yards rushing to lead the Bulldogs. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)
As flawed as the Dogs looked against Nebraska, the result and the season projected well for the future.
It starts with the two freshmen in the backfield, Gurley and Keith Marshall. There were questions about the running game going into the season following the excommunication of Isaiah Crowell, but the two quickly eased concerns. In the final game of the season, Gurley rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown and Marshall made a difficult back-shoulder, 24-yard touchdown catch to give the Dogs a 38-31 lead early in the fourth quarter.
There’s the future.
It doesn’t matter if the starting quarterback is Murray or Hutson Mason. Georgia’s offense should function well, and the team should be in the middle of things again.
When asked about Marshall’s catch, offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said, “We’ve kept things pretty simple for him and Todd because they’re freshmen. But that play there gives us a level of confidence next year that we can expand their package.”
Gurley, Bobo said, brought “a physicality to the offense that we needed. He did a great job leading us as a freshman. I told him after the game, ‘You had a great year, but now you have a chance to be great. So let’s go to work.’”
Marshall said he battled knee tendinitis before the season, affecting his workouts. “I lost some of my explosiveness,” he said. “But it’s finally feeling better. I’m looking forward to getting started on my workouts.”
And then this: “Honestly, I feel we’re the best team in the country. We can play with anybody. We were one play away this year.”
There were hiccups Tuesday. The first half took nearly two hours. The two teams combined for 47 points, five offensive touchdowns, three interceptions (including Nebraska’s pick-six against Murray), a field goal and a blocked punt for a safety. The Dogs trailed 24-23, then 31-23. But Murray, after starting 11 for 24, stopped scaring NFL scouts. He connected with Chris Conley for a 49-yard touchdown, then later scrambled away from pressure to connect with Marshall. Later, he found Conley again on a “jailbreak screen” against Nebraska’s blitz — nice call by Bobo – for an 87-yard score. Checkmate.
It ended well. There’s reason to believe it could end well next season, too.
By Jeff Schultz
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Br
January 3rd, 2013
1:45 pm
@ moist Dawg:
I’m pretty comfortable with Muschump as Florida’s HC!!!!!!!!!
Give him a 20 year extension!!!!!!!
DawginLex
January 3rd, 2013
2:48 pm
Oklahoma State 58
Purdue 14
Purdue took mighty Buckeyes to overtime.
Do you really want to continue? Even Urban Tebow said this OSU team wasn’t all that great.
5150 UOAD
January 3rd, 2013
2:55 pm
DiLex……don’t start that……..Wisconson scored 70 on Nebraska but UGa could only muster 45?
Buckeye
January 3rd, 2013
4:06 pm
dawgin,
Purdue has given Ohio State fits for years. See 2002 and “Holy Buckeye”.
Buckeye
January 3rd, 2013
4:10 pm
5150,
As I said earlier, Michigan gave Spurrier all he wanted and Clowney gave us all a hit for the ages.
Nebraska had more than a few dogs nervous into the second have where the dogs basically won 14-0. Not a blowout my any means.
I’m just pissed they were both on at the same time. I felt like the NFL Red Zone going to a double box.
DawgNole
January 3rd, 2013
4:10 pm
bigdawg88
January 3rd, 2013
12:32 am
goFalcons, I feel your pain dude! I live in TN and have to watch Titans or Redskin games almost all the darn time! I may have to switch to Directv next year to get the NFL package. Dang! Almost makes me want to get some bootleg satellite!
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NFL Sunday Ticket: good package–see ALL the Sunday afternoon games every weekend. Costly, but you can call DirecTV and whine and they’ll give you discounts.
Buckeye
January 3rd, 2013
4:12 pm
5150,
P.S. BIG EAST! BIG EAST! BIG EAST!
Put FL in your SEC! SEC! pipe and smoke some of that!
Buckeye
January 3rd, 2013
4:18 pm
dog88
Agree w/ dognole. Switch. Red Zone is great. See all the games, hear all the announcers, and no commercials. I told my wife its perhaps the greatest thing ever invented.
I watch the Falcons in their entirety then go to Red Zone for the rest unless there’s a compelling match-up on.
It can be irritating at times with all the clicking back and forth or you get into a certain game then poof, the change.
Overall, it’s a must have, especially if your a Fantasy player ( which I am not)
Buckeye
January 3rd, 2013
4:23 pm
dog Countdown clock:
Lady Gym dogs in 2 days!
DawgNole
January 3rd, 2013
4:29 pm
Big Crimson 75
January 3rd, 2013
8:57 am
Not the first time the Gators have made the SEC look bad.
Last night was ugly, butt nothing compares to the ‘96 Fiesta Bowl!!
Geez!! Tommie Frazier, Laurence Phillips & Terrell Farley are still pounding the Gators some 15+ years later.
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Conversation heard after ‘96 Fiesta Bowl:
Dawg: “How many gators does it take to tackle a Cornhusker?”
gator: “Well, we don’t know.”
DawgNole
January 3rd, 2013
4:40 pm
Moist Dawg
January 2nd, 2013
10:35 pm
What a classless program at uf. They are a disgrace to the south.
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I might actually agree with you on something for once.
DawgNole
January 3rd, 2013
4:47 pm
I’m with you on that RedZone Channel, Buckeye. Seven hours of football without commercial interruption. Too good to be true, so it probably won’t last. I watch the Falcons but switch to RedZone during commercials. Once Falcons are done, it’s all RedZone for me.
The other nice thing about NFL Sunday Ticket–compared to Espn’s “Game Plan,” for example–is that ALL the games are in HD.
This Just In........
January 3rd, 2013
5:24 pm
This Defense is suited for a 4-3, if Grantham can do this, I can guarantee Georgia moves into a top five defense, but running a 3-4 while trying to stop the spread will leave gapping holes, and expose them badly. The 3-4 is based on solid blitzes and timing, and both ALABAMA and NEBRASKA burned the Dawgs, the Tide more with power, the Husker’s with finesse. We got burned in the run, and showed flashes of weakness against every team against the run. This must improve.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 3rd, 2013
5:51 pm
Nick Saban has Bama staying at the Fontainebleau for the NC game. As JR said..”if you have to ask the price then you can’t afford it anyway”.There is a lot of SEC hate out there folks. The loss by both LSU and the Gators is so great for fans outside the SEC. If Bama goes down if flames I am not sure Al Gore’s interweb will be able to handle all the comments from the SEC haters.
Nike will be send the Tide in their latest materials for the NC game. Nobody will even know the difference since Bama will not allows any major change.
http://nikeinc.com/news/crimson-tide-to-play-for-bcs-title-in-nikes-most-innovative-uniform-system#/inline/16456
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
January 3rd, 2013
6:44 pm
@ phil:
You are no REAL Dawg Fan and are a pretty low(aka Single Digit IQ) knowledge of College Football!!!!!!!!
I am thrilled sh _ _less that UGA and Dawg Nation are experiencing two consecutive really good years in football and am thrilled even more that an uneducated, know-it-all troll/clown like you can’t stand the way things are. Most sartisfying of all is that you and your ilk have no more influence on anything UGA than a popcorn fart in a tornado!!!!!!
Just STFU!!!!!!!
MattMD
January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Grantham is a joke. He let two RB’s from Bama put up 300 yards on some allegedly “NFL Defense”.
What NFL defense would let that happen? Let me guess, likely one coached from a Grantham.
MattMD
January 3rd, 2013
7:04 pm
Meant to say “alleged”.
MattMD
January 3rd, 2013
7:22 pm
Did any UGA fans here pull for UF during rivalry week as a part of “conference homerism”?
Just curious.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
January 3rd, 2013
7:40 pm
@ MattMD:
CTG pays more in taxes annually than you gross!!!!
CMR gives MORE to his assistants than you gross!!!!
You need to change profession if you have one other than BITCHING about a Top 5 team. You are one sick MUTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe since you are such a genius you should get into football coaching!!!!!!!!!!
doug
January 3rd, 2013
7:52 pm
Murrays not leaving. He can crush every QB record at UGA. The scouts are terrified by what they see now. To mechanical. Most of his intangibles have been coached out of him. He lacks a QB personality and lacks the quiet swagger that great QBs have. He needs another year.Probably wont put up the same #s next year because they need to control the clock more with the run in 2013 but should still re-write a ton of records. We still need one more really good back. Gurley or Marshall will get hurt next year.
phil
January 3rd, 2013
9:03 pm
Jason
January 1st, 2013
10:21 pm
“We start next season with Clemson and we’re ready to play them now.”
This is why I love Todd Gurley. He’s only a sophomore next season and that’s scary for everyone else. He’s humble but also confident. He now knows what it takes to get ready for SEC play. He had a great year and like Bobo said, “Now it’s time to BE great.” There’s a difference. I think Gurley becomes that great UGA back next season. Can’t wait to play Clemsuck.
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and what if, God forbid, he blows a knee? Like Lattimore?
Better lose that cocky attitude, boy.
phil
January 3rd, 2013
9:05 pm
MattMD
January 3rd, 2013
7:22 pm
Did any UGA fans here pull for UF during rivalry week as a part of “conference homerism”?
Just curious.
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never.
phil
January 3rd, 2013
9:06 pm
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
January 3rd, 2013
6:44 pm
@ phil:
You are no REAL Dawg Fan and are a pretty low(aka Single Digit IQ) knowledge of College Football!!!!!!!!
I am thrilled sh _ _less that UGA and Dawg Nation are experiencing two consecutive really good years in football and am thrilled even more that an uneducated, know-it-all troll/clown like you can’t stand the way things are. Most sartisfying of all is that you and your ilk have no more influence on anything UGA than a popcorn fart in a tornado!!!!!!
Just STFU!!!!!!!
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what a sad, pitiful little boy you are….
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
5:07 am
Jeff Schultz 33
TomBrown 35
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
5:45 am
I pulled for Florida against 1-team this season, Louisville, and I have no idea why I did. I was not impressed with Florida at all 2012, although I gave them way too much credit for beating all those top teams they beat to have a year no one expected of them at 11-2 to our 12-2. In no way were they ever better than Georgia 2012 season, although the only couple of days they were ranked ahead of us was after we played Alabama while they sat at home. My Florida neighbor felt pretty good about his season, but ending as it did against us, is salt in the wound to him. I thought coming into the season that they had no offense. They certainly proved that all season. I never expected their Florida defense to be # 5 in the nation Scoring Defense to our # 19 in the nation Scoring Defense and Florida State with their soft schedule of # 6 in the nation Scoring Defense FSU. These are approximations because the NCAA has not re-calculated their rankings after 12/29 yet. So, did I root for my Bitter Rival ? Not against South Carolina, no way. Did I root for them in their bowl game, always : This is The SEC. I was extremely happy to have them be a complete no-show and poorly coached against a team who lost to a 7-Loss team just 2 games prior and lose in such a convincing double-digit fashion, never in the football game. You cannot have a Bitter Rival and root for them, hope for them, want them to do well, speak of them as if they’re great, or even really truly acknowledge their greatness, other than to point out that they would have won their 4th NC in 16 seasons, had we not beat them, remaining convinced as I reluctantly near the end of the season admitted, that Florida did beat the # 7 # 8 # 9 and # 10 teams in the Final AP Poll Top 25, while we BEAT THEM.
Florida’s Total Offense 2012 season was NOT in the Top 100, and this because their quarterback(s) were in no fashion capable of the forward pass against anyone finishing the season
NOT TOP 100 PASSING OFFENSE
NOT TOP 100 BEING SACKED
AP Poll for 2012 Season :
# 1 Alabama 13-1
# 4 Georgia 12-2
# 8 Texas A and M 11-2
# 9 South Carolina 11-2
# 10 Florida 11-2
# 11 LSU 10-3
# 25 Vanderbilt 9-4
7 SEC teams AP Poll Top 25, 4 in The SEC East, only 3 SEC West.
7 Consecutive SEC Championships with UGA 2012, right there for a change because of our win over Florida, my hated Bitter refuse to give them credit Rival.
Will Muschamp has been bragging how he would beat Georgia, and has FAILED every time. I see no resolution to that 2013, if little Aaron Murray returns and why wouldn’t he.
Alec Ogletree ended the season as our leading tackler with 111, despite missing the 1st four games.
Todd Gurley had 1,745 yards 2012.
Malcolm Mitchell 1,006 yards 2012 with his 13-yard kick-off return vs Nebraska.
Nebraska QB states he did and Nebraska did whatever the hell they wanted to against Georgia’s Defense, and that The SEC Defenses are not as tough as the Big Ten Defenses. Taylor Martinez was sacked 5 times, threw 2 interceptions, ran the football 20 times for a grand total of 46 yards, while our QB had 4 rushes for 3 yards, was sacked only twice, threw 2 interceptions, and threw 5 TD Passes to Taylor Martinez throwing only 2 TD Passes.
I pretty much would say the difference in the game was that our QB was pretty much head-and-shoulders better than their Nebraska QB Taylor Martinez – the poor loser trying to make excuses for his performance compared to our QB’s performance, who pretty much did whatever the hell he wanted to against the typical Big 10 defense with the
Big 10 Bowl Record now complete for 2012 at 2-5
Taylor Martinez, sir, your Big 10 Defenses were
OUT-SCORED 5 of the 7 Bowl Games and you think that’s good Defense ?
Time and Tide
January 4th, 2013
7:25 am
A few universal truths for Dawg Nation to chew on:
The team with intelligence, class, and heart won, which is as it should be.
Kool-Aid doesn’t win the big games, no matter how much of it you swill.
Drunks, potheads, and woman-beaters are not winners in anything.
And, just a reminder that real coaches like Saban win the big games, while overpaid pretenders like Richt do not.
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
7:49 am
Seems like we gave you ALL you could handle ?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
7:51 am
By the way, that handle has NEVER-EVER posted on these blogs, NOT EVER, and pretender Mark Richt is
Richt 3-2 vs Alabama
Piney Woods Pete
January 4th, 2013
7:54 am
“… but they have nothing to be ashamed of.”
What about the 53 arrests in the past four years?
What about the Fulmer Cup?
What about Isaiah Crowell?
What about Caleb King and Washaun Ealey?
What about AJ Green making one of the lowest Wunderlic scores ever recorded?
What about the Jan Kemp trial?
What about Jim Harrick?
What about the #1 Party School title for having the most drunks on campus?
What about Damon Evans?
What about all the dawgs who are busted for illegal drug use every time they have a surprise test?
What about the joke phony majors that Richt sticks most of his dummies in?
What about a team full of morons whose IQs barely exceed the intelligence of vegetables?
And on and on it goes, with no end to the embarrassment and shame that Mark Richt brings to UGA?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
8:00 am
phil,
1. What is your team’s name sir ?
2. It is totally inappropriate for any fan of any opposing team to actually totally root for and pull for a knee injury to our 1,785 yard Todd Gurley 2012 season, sir. That is exactly all you did at 9:03pm.
3. No Fan of ANY team has EVER done that, that I have EVER READ, except YOU at 9:03 pm last night, sir.
4. We have a stable of running backs, and Todd Gurley DID NOT EVEN START the last game, Keith Marshall did, and Todd Gurley did not start the 1st game, either. Ken Boo Malcome did.
5. Does THAT answer your disgusting question ?
6. Did you see my answer to your utterly preposterous question about rooting for Florida ?
7. Remind us all again who is your team
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PHIL ?
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child, hiding behind his keyboard. Be a man. Ask us all these questions which I have no answered in complete detail for you, sir – WHERE are your answers little child ? Afraid to man-up and answer phil ?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
8:09 am
AJ Green is one of 5 Pro-Bowl Starters for UGA, and there is no college team in the nation who has more. The vols have 5 starters too.
You have a problem with being ranked as a TOP PARTY SCHOOL nationally every single year ? College are the most fun times for all our students. Since you fail in your handle Whiney Woods Wete to name your school : Why is that ? Who is your school ? Ashamed to list it ?
You ask a lot of questions, so we presume you will man-up and answer our questions in reply, right Whiney Woods Wete ?
Mark Richt is a fine man, whom the kids ADORE. He has the 2nd best recruiting rankings 2001 through today, and has the 2nd most NFL Draft Selections to prove his recruiting rankings along with 6 seasons of being ranked in the Top 10 for those 7 seasons including # 2 for 2007, # 2 for 2002, and # 4 for 2012 and 20 Wins over Teams who made the AP Poll Top 25, including his 2012 wins over # 25 Vanderbilt and # 10 Florida.
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
8:13 am
Mark Richt :
7 seasons Top 10 including :
# 2 for 2007
# 3 for 2002
# 4 for 2012
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
8:26 am
Aaron Murray has to Win the NC undefeated 2013 for him to TIE David Greene’s UGA Record of 42 wins, when David Greene’s 1st and Last Seasons’ were BOTH only 13-game potential seasons, while all 4 of Aaron Murray’s will be 14-game seasons.
doug 7:52 pm last night
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 4th, 2013
8:42 am
With 3 different starting QB’s Bama is 60-7 in the past 5 years. Murray stats mean not so much. Just saying. Team is what you need regardless to the QB stats vs Little Sisters of the Poor.
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
9:17 am
DawgNole January 3rd, 2013 4:29 pm
“Conversation heard after ‘96 Fiesta Bowl:
Dawg: “How many gators does it take to tackle a Cornhusker?”
gator: “Well, we don’t know.” ”
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I am not sure how The University of Georgia Bulldogs, my alma mater, and my team I root for against all others forever my whole entire lifetime, bar none, got into this discussion about
FLORIDA VS NEBRASKA
But, Florida has NEVER beat Nebraska LOSING EVERY TIME including January 1996. We on the other hand, handily beat Nebraska by 2 TD here in our bowl game just completed when our QB out-played their Nebraska QB so completely and thoroughly that the Nebraska’s QB’s comments are completely and utterly B.S.
Florida did the 1996 season however completely and fully Won the National Championship, as they did in 2008 and 2009 seasons, and would have 2012, had it not been for us beating them, as they would destroy Notre Dame as will Alabama, and as would’ve Georgia, Florida, Texas A & M, LSU even maybe and South Carolina for sure, along with Florida.
Florida also has beat Florida State (FSU) all-time :
34-22-2 Florida over FSU including 2012
49-40-2 UGA over Florida gators all-time including 2012 scoring 2 TD to their -0-
and in fact 2-0 UGA over Will Muschamp – despite his guarantees otherwise
6-4-1 UGA over Florida State (FSU) including the last BCS Bowl Game doubling your FSU score 26-13. Whom did you root for in that game, sir ?
” Dawg: “How many gators does it take to tackle a Cornhusker?” ” I presume this is a typo DawgNole ? And, no I don’t know, or I wouldn’t ask, now would I ?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
9:25 am
All Wet Willie, sir :
Our little QB’s stats against Alabama were ALL YOU COULD HANDLE, sir
Right ?
I remain confused about Alabama fans posting on the UGA blog 3 days’ before you play for your 3rd NC in the current 4 years, about how UGA was
NO MATCH
when again, not to be duplicitous, but we did give you all you could handle
Right ?
and, are to this point, your best win 2012 season, us at # 4 AP Poll today and LSU # 11 not even in the Top 10.
Right ?
All Wet Willie, sir ?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
9:56 am
5150 UOAD January 3rd, 2013 2:55 pm
“DiLex……don’t start that……..Wisconson scored 70 on Nebraska but UGa could only muster 45?”
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We scored
42-10 over you 11 of 12 Richt seasons and you’re in here talking about what, exactly ?
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
10:15 am
The Hammer January 3rd, 2013 12:43 pm
“Should Florida even be ranked after last night?
If so, why?
If not, then UGA had exactly one win over a ranked team, assuming Nebraska is even ranked after Monday night (which isn’t a guarantee).
So, it is possible that UGA did not have a single win over a single ranked team at the end of the season. Unless, for whatever reason, either or both Florida and Georgia Tech are ranked at the end of the season (which neither should be).”
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THE HAMMER
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Since no one else is answering any questions, like wimps, when they – like you are asking us questions – let me ask you this ?
1. Who is your team The Hammer ?
2. Vanderbilt is # 25 AP Poll at 9-4
3. Nebraska is likely to make the Coaches’ Poll Top 25, since they’re # 21
4. We also beat Top 10 Florida # 10 AP Poll 2012 season at 11-2 to our 12-2 rank # 4
5. Who is your conference and what does it look like compared to 7-row SEC BCS NC ?
AP Poll for 2012 Season :
# 1 Alabama 13-1
# 4 Georgia 12-2
# 8 Texas A and M 11-2
# 9 South Carolina 11-2
# 10 Florida 11-2
# 11 LSU 10-3
# 25 Vanderbilt 9-4
7 SEC teams AP Poll Top 25, 4 in The SEC East, only 3 SEC West.
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
10:30 am
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Big Crimson 75 January 3rd, 2013 8:57 am
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“What’s Florida’s options at QB next year?
The Gators were the luckiest Team in college football this year.
Frauds, if you want the truth.
They caught A&M at the right time. Johnny Football & his gang of mis-fits would destroy the Gators right now.
So they beat LSU & SC in the Swamp. Big deal. Aubie almost beat LSU at home this year & Aubie fielded their worst team in half a century.
Fla won’t finish better than 8 & 4 next year.
UGA got completely hosed by the BCS.
Saban fought for y’all dog fans — he knew UGA belonged in the Sugar Bowl.
What an embarrassment to the Conference last night!!
Not the first time the Gators have made the SEC look bad.
Last night was ugly, butt nothing compares to the ‘96 Fiesta Bowl!!
Geez!! Tommie Frazier, Laurence Phillips & Terrell Farley are still pounding the Gators some 15+ years later.”
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Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 4th, 2013
10:33 am
@Thomaz…your problem is you worry about stats instead of team and that is so very clear. At Alabama we don’t give a rats azz about who is on 1st base and how many do’s or done’s for Wins is the story at BAMA! Not many fans can tell you how many TD passes John Parker Wilson had but they can tell you we lost 2 games in 2008 and that is all that matters same can be said for Greg McElroy and the 3 games he lost in 2010! You keep positing your all so important stats for you folks from 1980 and we will keep enlarging the trophy case in T-town! Deal?
GTBob
January 4th, 2013
11:03 am
2. Vanderbilt is # 25 AP Poll at 9-4
Do you have a link to this new AP poll? I was under the impression that the new poll wouldn’t come out until after the bowl games and ESPN, CBSSports, and CNNSI dont seem to have it. I would also love to hear the rational for Alabama jumping over Notre Dame even though neither has played a game.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
January 4th, 2013
11:11 am
I Think Thom is just listing his personal top 10. I am not so sure the Tide will beat the Fighting Priest but I can only hope that is the case.
After further review
January 4th, 2013
11:13 am
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
5:07 am
Jeff Schultz 33
TomBrown 35
Congratulations, that puts you only one point behind me.
After further review
January 4th, 2013
11:27 am
To the Hammer: Yes, Florida should definitely be ranked in the final polls despite the loss to Louisville, given the schedule they faced this year. The collective W-L of Florida’s opponents from the year was probalby the best in the country. In my opinion, having the success they did against that schedule shoould be rewarded in the polls.
BTW – in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Thomas Brown apparently does not feel that you are qualified to talk about big time college football if you don’t root for the correct team. He’s asked abbout my credentials, as well, although I can’t for the life of me figure out the correlatoon between what school you attended (or root for), and you knowledge of the sport
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
11:33 am
All Wet Willie, sir :
Why when the other Alabama posters to this blog REMIND YOU that Nick Saban states that UGA deserved to be playing in the Sugar Bowl and NOT Florida, do you persist with your nastiness to us here on this blog that somehow UGA is no match for Alabama when 3 times now, I’ve asked you :
We did give you all you could handle,
Right ?
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
January 4th, 2013
11:48 am
@ Thomas Brown:
Give’m hell my man but I don’t understand why you keep referring to some of the Single Digit IQ posters as “sir” unless, of course, you subscribe to the socially accepted theory that “A$$HOLES Should have handles”.
You are doing a fantastic job of putting most of them in their place and had UGA won the SEC Championship(WE were very, very close) you would not have heard a peep out of the Bama Trolls (kinda like after the Bama/Texas A&M game, only it would have lasted until summer rather than the few weeks they were silent after A&M) On the other hand Bama’s classy fans(There are many) continued to post because they realize how juvenile the trolls sound EXCEPT following the rare Bama loss.
I certainly hope Bama beats ND but if (God forbid) ND wins you will notice the scarcity of Bama Trolls and other trolls(aka GT, USCe,Auburn, etc posing as Bama fans/trolls)
Go back and check for posts by the Bama trolls and imitation Bama trolls for the period following the Texas A&M game and tell me how many posts were made by Wet Willie, Whiskey Breath and their ilk.
You are doing a great job but don’t exert yourself trying to educate those type creatures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROLL DAwgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
11:55 am
After Further Review,
That is great. Congratulations. What is your handle their so I can see and compare ? I’ve done this bowl challenge for 20 years now. I really enjoy it. Again congratulations on being ahead of Jeff Schultz.
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After further review November 26th, 2012 2:22 pm
“My own alma mater plays in D3, so I don’t get to follow them much on the local sports pages. They, unfortunately, lost their second round playoff game, to finish 9-3 after winning their, admittedly fairly weak, conference for the third straight year and fifth out of the last six.”
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Now, you offer-up this morning :
“He’s asked abbout my credentials, as well, although I can’t for the life of me figure out the correlatoon between what school you attended (or root for)”
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Which is it Upon Further Review, sir ?
1. You haven’t posted on this blog that you attended and root for a team other than Georgia?
2. You have posted on this blog that you attended and root for a team other than Georgia?
Obviously, if you are a fan pulling against Georgia, most folks are very up-front about the fact that their loyalties are against Georgia, and therefore skewed against Georgia. You wish that you had hidden the fact that you did brag to us all here on this blog that your own alma mater plays in D III and they lost their second round playoff game, to finish 9-3 after winning their, admittedly fairly weak, conference for the third straight year and fifth out of the last six.
Georgia went 12-2 beating # 25 AP Poll 2012 Vanderbilt, # 10 Florida AP Poll 2012, # 21 soon to drop some Nebraska Coaches’ Poll 2012 and losing to 2 quality teams # 1 Alabama 2012 AP Poll at 13-1 and # 9 AP Poll 2012 South Carolina at 11-2 to our 12-2.
Yes, sir, Upon Further Review, the handles of these posters like yourself who put up BS about Georgia and don’t wish to disclose who their team is, lose credibility on the Internet because obviously their
STINKING 9-3 alma mater D III team does not BEGIN to measure up to UGA 2012
sir.
So, sit there whining about UGA this and UGA that and PRETEND you haven’t come in here bragging about your alma mater and Div III 9-3 record and winning your conference championship 3 years running.
You DAMN sure did.
Wow, compared to UGA – that means SO MUCH.
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
11:55 am
there
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
January 4th, 2013
12:02 pm
@ After Further review(11:27 am post)
Failed spelling and grammar didn’t you???
Perhaps you never attended any school(judging your posts and their contents!!
RECOMMENDATION: How about “further reviewing” some of your crap before exposing your self as the leader in 2013 Dumba$$ of The Year contest or maybe try some remedial courses on most ANY subject.
Just remeber, I love your uneducated a$$ anyway!!!!!
Thomas Brown = DGD
Thomas Brown
January 4th, 2013
12:05 pm
Well, I am not going to educate them – just have them do what Upon Further Review was m a n enough to do, and give us his school, his alma mater and whom it is he roots for with a handle Upon Further Review which sounds as if it could’ve even been a Bulldogs’ Football Fan. I am certain he wishes he hadn’t.
I have yet to see a single Notre Dame post. Not 1, although they have been taken to the cle an ers in here.
# 4 AP Poll Georgia 12-2 for 2012 season
# 3 AP Poll Georgia 2002 season
# 2 AP Poll Georgia 2007 season
YEAH