Will you follow the Dogs to a bowl outside Atlanta?
(University of Georgia)
A lot of bowl projections currently have the Dogs winding up in Atlanta’s Chick-fil-A Bowl, which certainly would please the fans since it’s the best Georgia can do bowl-wise. And it no doubt would guarantee another quick sellout for the bowl formerly known as Peach.
But there’s still a good chance the Dogs could wind up in Nashville. Or Shreveport. Or even Birmingham (which is where CBSSports.com sees Georgia playing).
A factor in determining where the Dogs end up playing will be how well the bowl officials think the Dog fan base will travel.
Mark Richt made reference to that on his TV show Sunday, pleading with the season ticket holders who can buy tickets in advance up until 5 p.m. Friday to go ahead and do so. The more tickets sold in advance, when fans still don’t know what bowl their team will get, the more impressed bowl officials are.
This is especially a concern when the team in question has underperformed, like the Dogs have this year. With half a dozen 7-5 teams in the SEC, the question in their minds is which fan base will follow their team despite not being that excited over the season.
Are you willing to follow the Dogs to Nashville or one of the other non-Atlanta bowls? Have you already put in for tickets? Or does a third- or fourth-tier bowl not interest you?
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227 comments Add your comment
kauai dawg
November 30th, 2009
6:33 pm
Chicken Sandwiches are falling from the sky….. I would love to see the Dawgs but live to far away. I support from a distance. Go DAWGS!
frank james
November 30th, 2009
6:35 pm
Jesse and I will be where ever the Dawgs are! We always enjoy the bowl games. I have never really had a bad bowl trip. It didn’t matter if it was Nashville, Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta or New Orleans. I would like to see a playoff, but the bowl games are so much fun for the players, coaches and fans. They are very important to college.
45ACP
November 30th, 2009
6:36 pm
The Dude (Andrew Sherwin) – Try this.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=408048
Thugs R Us: UGA Theme
November 30th, 2009
6:44 pm
UGA can dominate the State Prison System….roflol, loser scum.
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
6:44 pm
I would go to the Peach (sorry CFA, but it’s the Peach) or to Nashville and maybe even Memphis. I wouldn’t want to go to Shreveport, but I do have a question about that game: Does anybody know why the Indy Bowl charges $150 for club seats when no other seat costs more than $40? Free buffet? Booze? Crack?
Chuck
November 30th, 2009
6:45 pm
Say all you want about owning Tech (which we do), but I would be really hesitant to start talking about taking back the Florida series. Yes, we still own the series lead (UF must have really stunk in the past if they still trail this series after two dominant decades), but the Jax trip is now a nationally televised showcase for the disparity between these two programs. And stop with the “we’ll win again when Tebow is gone” nonsense. That kid has been there 4 years. Florida has dominated this “rivalry” since Tebow was in Pampers, not just three of the four years he has been there. They have a stable full of athletes ready to step in and continue the domination, so Tebow leaving means nothing unless we get better.
Urban Meyer isn’t going to South Bend, people. He will never have it anywhere better than he has it at Gainesville. He’s already got two rings and is the odds-on favorite to win a third in six weeks or so (I just vomited in my mouth). Notre Dame offers nothing even close to that because that is NOT the plum job it used to be.
UGA needs to RAISE the level of its program to compete with Florida, NOT hope they come back to the pack.
THWGT always! Go Dawgs!
not a UGA fan
November 30th, 2009
6:45 pm
Ga got lucky again against Tech. But they will NEVER get lucky against Florida as long as Myers is there!
luckydog
November 30th, 2009
6:48 pm
I will not go to COLD Bowls.
not a UGA fan
November 30th, 2009
6:50 pm
I’d like to see them play TCU myself! Talk about a whipping!HA!HA! Oh wait….that’s right…TCU is actually rated #4….WAY TOOOOO TOUGH A TEAM FOR UGA THIS YEAR!
TCU will be going to a good bowl not some “wanta-be” bowl like where UGA will end up!
Pete
November 30th, 2009
6:51 pm
30-24
Music City Please!
November 30th, 2009
6:51 pm
I want to go somewhere else! I look forward to the bowl game as a way to travel and go hang out in another city. The Chick-fil-A (Peach) Bowl is great but I would rather get in the car with a group of friends and go hang out in Nashville for a few days.
Dave from GT
November 30th, 2009
7:04 pm
Let me get this straight, if GT goes to Orange, then the Chick disses UGA and they end up in Nashville?
It’s not as good as a win, but would sure kinda make up for the dawg that tried to put Nesbitt out for the rest of the year!
45ACP
November 30th, 2009
7:09 pm
It’s Urban Meyer.
Where do these fools come from?
agdawg
November 30th, 2009
7:10 pm
I would love to suggest to the bowl reps to explore the possibility of swapping the teams that are given the opportunity to play. Our family loves to travel for regular season as well as the bowl season but we are tired of Tampa, Orlando and Atlanta. Give us a new destination!
Just not Boise!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BuLLdawg
November 30th, 2009
7:17 pm
No one said it meant nothing to us Bulldogs to beat you.
You are a nothing of a football program with 7 years you have gone losing every single solitary game.
You play in a dump of football stadium, down there in the slums of a city of 6 million people, where all the drugs are and where all the crime is.
And, you know it.
You have NEVER ever won a single 1 Final AP Poll National Championship in Football.
Your football players nowadays have a WORSE Academic Progress Rate in FOOTBALL than we do at The University of This State, UGA.
You named your football stadium for Bobby Dodd, and he is a college drop-out of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
You have Lost to UGA in Football 60 times.
60.
Only 4 schools in all of America have ever lost more games in 1-A football to any one team than the Georgia Institute of Technology has Lost to UGA.
You play in a sorry conference.
Your entire conference does not have 1 single solitary team in the Top 10 of either the USA Today Coaches’ Poll nor in the AP Poll Top 10.
Again.
You never do.
You play an ACC chumpionship game wherever you can find a place to play it who will have you. This year it is in Tampa, and it consists of 1 team who isn’t even ranked in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll.
Not at all.
You have the lowest ratings in college football.
You have the fewest attendance in college football.
You travel the worst.
You can’t even get people to come down there giving away 4 cokes, 2 hotdogs, 2 bags of boiled peanuts, and a parking pass to just buy any ticket.
You blew up half your stadium to make it look like it is full.
You still can’t fill it up.
NCAA states that Georgia Tech played the Number 48 Strength of Schedule in the nation this year.
Congratulations.
You live for only 1 goal, even if Paul Johnson doesn’t understand, and that is to only beat UGA.
It is all you care about.
You accomplish that 38.7 percent of the time.
37-60-5.
.387 winning percentage Georgia Tech against UGA.
Your fans are the stinkiest in the nation.
You have to appeal to the fans of Georgia Tech (both of them) to not throw trash on the field.
You have spent the time pregame going to all WebPages you can find to say how badly you are going to utterly destroy UGA.
Your 1 wide receiver who did not quit the team when your coach brought his all run no pass scheme, dropped the ball on 4th down thrown right to him standing there all alone wide open with no one anywhere near him but himself.
Your coach who says he runs the ball only threw passes on the last 4 downs to end your chances again this year.
It is your obsession with beating UGA in football that you brought on yourself that finds you now whining that Oh, BuLLdawg sir, all you UGA fans said that it didn’t mean anything to us UGA fans to beat Tech. All you do is whine, when you lose to UGA. Whine waah waah waah. Look nerds, we own you in football and always have and always will. I absolutely hate to lose to Georgia Tech in football. It means nothing to me to lose to Georgia Tech in football ? B.S. It means a lot more to you to beat us, than it does to us to beat you, coming from my side of the street. I would far prefer to beat Auburn than to beat Georgia Tech. That means something. They don’t cheat, kick and whine. They play football on the Plains. On the flats, you don’t play football and no body cares about Georgia Tech football, least of all, you Georgia Tech fans (both of you.) But, by God, you want to beat UGA at football more than anything in your life.
You Lost again.
60th time.
30-24 at your Grant Field in the slums where all the drugs are and where the crime is.
I would NEVER name my field Grant Field in downtown Atlanta after what the Commander in Chief of the Union Army in the War of Northern Aggression did burning down the Proud City of Atlanta. Why don’t you just sell the land downtown and move to Gwinnett where the AJ-C moved to, closer to UGA than to Tech anyway nowadays. Maybe you could engineer a sports complex there, because you sure as hell don’t have any venue for sports any one would want to come to where you are now. The AJ-C states that there are 29,700 Georgia Tech alumni in its readership and that there are over a third of a million UGA graduates in the AJ-C readership.
You spend your days and nights in here at the AJ-C telling the AJ-C that Georgia Tech is great at football and that you did NOT play the Number 48 NCAA Strength of Schedule this season. You sure as hell did.
You beat 1 team ranked Number 11 in the AP Poll and Number 11 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, Virginia Tech and now they are ranked AHEAD of you. There is not 1 other game all season long that Georgia Tech has won against ANY Ranked Team in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll Top 25. Not 1.
And, we don’t care about beating that kind of B.S. for a football program ?
You’re a nonentity of a football program in a nonentity of a conference of little itty bitty teeny weenie schools, and you went out of conference besides us to play the only 2 SEC schools of the 12 SEC schools who are not going to a bowl game. 10 of the 12 SEC teams are bowl eligible. You chose the other 2. And, don’t give me this crap that you didn’t know that before you scheduled them along with Jacksonville State and your sorry lot of football programs in the ACC. All cupcake conference.
30-24.
The entire ACC are insignificant in the discussion of college football, and have been. You have no team in the Top 10 of the AP Poll and no team in the Top 10 of the USA Today Coaches’ Poll.
Your conference chumpionship game against Not Top 25 USA Today Coaches’ Poll Climpsum Farmers, none of you will go to. None of you will watch. No one else will go. No one else will watch. You will not even sell the tickets given to you.
And, we are not supposed to care about Losing to you ? B.S. Have you seen Paul Johnson’s wife ? Listened to her that she doesn’t even care about football. I take it for granted that we are going to beat you. With a 38.7 winning percentage against us, I can see how you would be so obsessed with beating us. But, don’t bring that weak B.S. around here Wes and the rest of you nerds that UGA fans said we don’t care about Losing to you. We just take it for granted that we are going to beat you. I guaranteed it. And, I have read the posts, and all you sorry fans of Georgia Tech who bragged before the game what you guaranteed, have every single one of you failed to show up and take your medicine, for which I have no respect for you fans of Georgia Tech, and that includes especially the AJ-C, Tony Barnhart, Jeff Schultz, and you fat slob Wes Durham.
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
7:30 pm
So BuLLdawg,
Tell us how you REALLY feel.
(30-24)
JB
November 30th, 2009
7:37 pm
Was this Bulldawg’s thesis?
Yeah…what HE said!
22 wins in a row
November 30th, 2009
7:54 pm
Florida vs. Alabama – SEC Championship Game – December 5, 2009
Everybody else……..blah
blazerdawg
November 30th, 2009
7:59 pm
Atlanta/Peach; definately will go (tailgating downtown is better than most people think)
Nashville; probably would go
Birmingham; probably would go just for Golden Rule on the way in, and Johnny Rays on the way out
Shreveport; probably would not go, unless it is an interesting match-up.
Would love to see the Dawgs play Clemson, FSU or Miami.
Mikey
November 30th, 2009
8:02 pm
Hey m- did you die?
If you didnt try reading BullDawgs post.
Jax
November 30th, 2009
8:10 pm
I wouldn’t follow them across the street for a million dollars. No amount of wins will ever buy them any class. They remain ugly and obnoxious and always will. Maybe Tech students stay home and watch on TV because they are busy studying classes that will result in actually adding something of value to the world. I can’t think of one thing any UGA dawg has ever added to the world that bettered it or was even of any good. All their alumni I have ever met are so full of venom and hate that there is no way I would want any child of mine to be a student there. Stay strong Tech – its what makes you the best.
Cuz
November 30th, 2009
8:21 pm
Dave from GT, if the Dawgs had wanted to put Nesbitt out for the season, they would have gone for his legs on every down like your O linemen. Don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.
Starring Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Over
November 30th, 2009
8:26 pm
buLLdawg: You are FLORIDA’S B!@$# before TEBOW, DURING TEBOW & AFTER TEBOW HAS GONE. I guess you feel good running down Tech, but guess what pantywaist? Urban Meyer will NOT leave FLORIDA & MARK RICHT will be Urban’s B!&$% for years to come. As much as you own Tech, WE OWN YOU & DON’T EVER FORGET IT. Enjoy your 2nd tier bowl while we are in Pasadena.
kauai dawg
November 30th, 2009
8:28 pm
Dave from GT … the Dawgs didn’t go after Nesbit to hurt him. Did you watch the play???? He was rolled up with several huge GA linemen who staying in the tech backfiled all night. Running him every down kind of makes him vulnerable to injury…. don’t you think???
By the way…. are you saint simons in hiding?
Go DAWGS! 30-24
Never Ever
November 30th, 2009
8:45 pm
Ramblin’ On Thoughts on the Morning After
9:00 am November 29, 2009, by Chris Boggs
•Like I mentioned earlier…Nesbitt had his ankle wrenched early in the game. We could have very well lost him for the two remaining games of the schedule. I guess if you can’t stop someone, you hurt them…
Rushing
Name ATT YDS
J Nesbitt 19 41
R Jones 5 37
J Dwyer 14 33
A Allen 4 29
S Hill 1 26
M Wright 5 21
E Peeples 2 18
J Shaw 1 0
Yeah, if you can’t stop them you got to hurt them?
What an idiot.
Simple Simon
November 30th, 2009
8:52 pm
I just got home from Mars. I heard that tech’s Heisman running back and their all world ( best ever coach ) Paul Johnson got pistol whipped. If true, um, how many yards did Dwyer end up with vs UGA’s D led by CWM? 225? Say what!!!!! 33 !!! naaaaaaah, no way vs the WORST SEC D in years.
30-24 …………………it hurts so good and 1-8 for Tech hahahahahaha
Paul Johnson ought to coach passing for sure. HAHAHAHAHAHA What happened to his vaunted wishBONE???? Triple tackles they now call it. HAHAHAH Nesbit got 44 yards. HAhahahahaha
Cox is STILL UNDEFEATED vs high schools after Saturday night. HAHAHAHAHAHA
UGA,class of 71 & 73
Simple Simon
November 30th, 2009
9:00 pm
Hey Jax: To your sad inquiry …..
What has a UGA ALUM EVER ADDED TO THE WORLD THAT WAS WORTH SOMETHING?
I added jobs with salaries, benefits and commission checks out to sale people that earned well over $100,000 per year ( in the 80s, 90s, 2K ) and provided for their families and they played golf and they tipped well at nice metro Atlanta golf clubs and flew Delta to exotic vacation destiantions is what I ADDED here in Atlanta since 1971, my FIRST GRAD year …………..you 15 year old idiot!!! Perimeter College is in your future, I suspect.
By the way, if you do attend tech as a studnet, grab a gun cause you will get robbed or pistol whipped, which is what we did Saturday night to that middle school team. HAHAHHAHAHAHA
UGA, class of 71 & 73
45ACP
November 30th, 2009
9:09 pm
Dang. That’s all I got to say about that.
Stinger
November 30th, 2009
9:10 pm
Are you kidding. I wouldn’t pay $2.00 to see the Papa Johns Pizza Bowl.
45ACP
November 30th, 2009
9:19 pm
Starring Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Over – College football is cyclic.
The worm will turn. Always has always will.
o-me
November 30th, 2009
9:20 pm
After UK game, fans walking out on dawgs, calling for coaches heads and all the bs on blog. Now UGA is the greatest Football Team in the world and fans will go anywhere do anything= Your still the same team, You’re a “one game season” so thank GT for having a bad day. Go Bama!
Bobby Houseman
November 30th, 2009
9:24 pm
I won’t follow the mangy mongrels anywhere. I’m still mad at the coaching staff for such a rotten season. Until the coaching problem is fixed, the Dawgs won’t return to football prominence.
jostens
November 30th, 2009
9:33 pm
new bowl- ACC vs SEC; all 12 (??) ACC teams combine and stand on one side to play vs UGA at an ACC Stadium w ACC refs. UGA favored by 6. Chan Gailey honorary coach for ACC
Justafan
November 30th, 2009
9:39 pm
All you UGA fans lost one of your best fans Thankgiving day. ART DAVIS, Douglas Ga. died. He was a die hard Ga. Fan. Everything he had had Bulldogs on it. Thats all he loved to talk about was UGA football and Trojan HS football. Our prayers go out to family and fans who loved him. RIP
Finchdawg55
November 30th, 2009
9:40 pm
I’ll go to anywhere but Memphis or Shreveport. Just a bit too far. Bowl tickets at these kinds of bowls are easier to come by than those in Athens anyway sometimes.
Gators:
November 30th, 2009
9:41 pm
UGA brags about dominating GT. However, take a look at your sorry teams record against the almighty Gators. UF has won 17 out of 20. Stop bragging about beating GT when you can’t win more than 3 times in 20 tries against UF. GATORS RULE UGAG!
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
9:44 pm
Hey “Gators”,
I have NEVER heard actual Florida fans refer to “UGAG”. They don’t have to; their team beats us regularly. Thus, you are either “Saint Simons,” “M,” or some other kindred Techmite. Don’t worry: since you still have the tags on your brand-new team gear, you can probably return it.
Ben A Dawg
November 30th, 2009
9:47 pm
Sure, I follow the dawgs, right to Nahunta, Ga to the Preparation H/ Tampax Tampon bowl!
Bo Williams
November 30th, 2009
9:51 pm
Is the SEC a two-team football league and a one-team basketball league?
Music City Bowl:
November 30th, 2009
9:53 pm
Are we playing in the awesome Music chitty bowl, or the Humanitarian Bowl. Either way, we had a great year. 7-5 is worth bragging about. LMFAO!
CatsFly
November 30th, 2009
9:54 pm
I want to play UGa because they are good, and because I think my team is good and would have a chance to beat them. While UGa is good all-the-way-round, but not great anywhere. UNC has a top-ten defense.
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
9:55 pm
Looks like “Gators” has now developed multiple personalities.
Bride of Chucky Knapp
November 30th, 2009
9:55 pm
Eat mor peechez!
Diggity Do da day:
November 30th, 2009
9:58 pm
Hey Diggity Dawg: Just admit it, your team suxs! It’s really that simple.
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
9:58 pm
wow.
Right On Time
November 30th, 2009
10:01 pm
Heck yeah I’m going.
If the Dawgs are playing…I’m there.
BTW…to those that would rather be in the Outback, I submit to you:
Money is better in the Peach/CFA
Opponent is better (Northwestern!?!?!)
And its not at the crack of dawn.
Nashville would be fun too.
Favors:
November 30th, 2009
10:03 pm
Can’t wait to dunk all over your sorry basketball teams azzes. Your awesome team lost to UAB and Wofford. I say you win it all in BB this year. Your loaded with BS!
Diggity Dawg
November 30th, 2009
10:05 pm
Welcome to the UGA basketball blog, “Gators.”
DAWGFAN
November 30th, 2009
10:05 pm
I want to play in Nashville. Man, now that’s a great place to play. It brings back all the wonderful memories of Vandy. I mean we lost homecoming to Vandy several years ago. Let’s go to Nashville and play NC. Can’t wait to tailgate in good ole TN.
Right On Time
November 30th, 2009
10:07 pm
Hey Jax…here is one thing…
UGA assisted with slowing the global warming problem by shutting some of those pie holes that you little yechies have been running for a year. You do know what type of gas comes out of a yechies pie hole, don’t you? It burns the nostrils and eats the ozone.
You are welcome world.
Now gow engineer another tricycle.