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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ozzfest
November 30th, 2009
10:09 pm
(I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND ATTEND 8-10 GAMES EACH SEASON.)
I WILL BASE MY DECISION TO ATTEND THIS YEAR’S BOWL SOLEY ON THE QUALITY OF THE OPPONENT…OR AT LEAST THE “BRAND NAME” THE OPPONENT BRINGS.
1. OF COURSE, I WOULD GO TO THE PEACH REGARDLESS OF WHO WE PLAY.
2. I WOULD ONLY GO TO BOMBINGHAM OR NASHVILLE OR SHREVEPORT TO SEE UGA PLAY A “TEXAS A&M” OR AN “FSU”.(YOU KNOW…A TEAM WHOSE RECORD MAY SUCK BUT HAS LEGENDARY TRADITION.)
3. I WILL NOT GO TO ANY GAME AGAINST “IOWA STATE” OR “UCONN”. THOSE MATCHUPS WOULD BE YOUR PROVERBIAL NO-WIN-SITUATIONS.
I AM ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE GAME IN BOULDER NEXT OCTOBER 1. THAT WILL BE LIKE A MID-SEASON BOWL GAME IN 2010. WOOF, WOOF.
Georgia4ever
November 30th, 2009
10:10 pm
Do we play Idaho next year? Does anyone know? I need tickets and know it will be a sellout. Idaho is loaded. I cannot believe we scheduled such a powerhouse to go along with our almighty SEC schedule. I think we play Vandy = suxs, KY = Suxs, Idaho = suxs, Miss State = sux, Auburn = loss, UF = Mugging loss, Army = joke, GT = loss, TN = loss and we go 7-5 again. I still think we will win a NC next year. No doubt about it. We are UGA and we are the best football team in the Nation.
TJ Vol
November 30th, 2009
10:13 pm
Damn Kiffin and crew already has you guys in non-New Years Bowls. Ga, right back to 3rd and 4th in the SEC East where you belong……45-19 Have fun in the Liberty or Music City, where ever you guys end up…..
frank james
November 30th, 2009
10:18 pm
This is changing the subject alittle bit, but I have been following the stituation out of FSU. It looks like Coach Bowden may be announcing his retirement this week. College football will miss Coach Bowden, I just hope he’s not like Coach Bryant and miss college football more. Alot of bowls would like to have FSU if it is Coach Bowden’s last game. What a man!
Ms. Bulldawg
November 30th, 2009
10:34 pm
Yep, will travel to Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa (still hoping) but not Shreveport.
Having listened to smack for an entire year from several GT co-workers, it was wonderful walking into the office this morning to see their reactions to the UGA posters that had mysteriously materialized over the weekend in all of their offices……wonder who could have done that?!?!?!?! Life is good AGAIN!!!!
Bored To Death
November 30th, 2009
10:52 pm
BuLLDawg; Haven’t we read that somewhere before? You must have alot of free time on your hands. You’re so damn intelligent!
Right On Time
November 30th, 2009
10:55 pm
Hey TJ..
Yep, lil abner did a fine job this year.
good luck against Northwestern.
Also, check the payouts.
Tampa will be perfect for yall. Lots of retirees to “stick up”
Bobby Houseman
November 30th, 2009
10:58 pm
Dawgs in Toilet Bowl? Nah, too good for them.
Jax
November 30th, 2009
11:09 pm
Simple Simon – how appropriate is your name and how revealing are your posts. $$$$ is not the end all in the world – only your small world and your small vision. I’m talking about something larger than Fulton county – something that helps people throughout the world.
Big L
November 30th, 2009
11:11 pm
If the funds was different this year, I would go anuwhere. Wife got laid off and things is tight. Tell u wht tho, was at CFA in ‘06 and it was awesome. stRted at 9:00 in morning and left at 1:30. The best 13 hours of my life.
Valdosta Dawg
November 30th, 2009
11:15 pm
NO!!!! Alot of us have already spent alot of $$$$ following the Dawgs this year. The economy is hitting a lot of us and i really am not going to spent the $$$$ to go to a far away bowl that doesnt mean anything. Plus, after hearing the call in show tonight, i really dont think Richt is going to let Willie go. So, i really cant tell you when i will go watch the dawgs again. maybe after we get rid of MR.
Big L
November 30th, 2009
11:20 pm
CFA baby, conveniant tailgating at ga dome
GWJ
November 30th, 2009
11:36 pm
I’ve been to all 12 games this year. I will go to ANY bowl the Dogs play in OTHER than Shreveport. Been there once and NOT doing that one again.
hhh
November 30th, 2009
11:38 pm
5 in a row vs the NERDS at Grunt Field!
MississippiDawg
November 30th, 2009
11:51 pm
Live near Memphis so Nashvegas and Birm-ham are close but COLD…..ATL (DOME) would be better!!
On another note, Bowden is about to retire…FSU had one of the greatest spans of excellence from 1987-2000 when they won at least 10 games in each of those seasons – Then the futility began…Remind me, what year did CMR leave FSU???? Hmmm….
lutdawg
November 30th, 2009
11:51 pm
Atlanta, Nashville,or, Memphis
john
December 1st, 2009
12:15 am
Pro stadiums not on college campuses like the Falcon’s Ga Dome and Titan’s LP Field allow alcohol to be served. Conference championships like SEC at GA Dome do not serve beer because the Conference has the ultimate say so. Bowl Games will definetly serve some booze.
IF nerds beats clemson then UGA vs Clemson in ChikFilA Bowl.
IF nerds lose to clemson then UGA vs UNC/BC in Music City Bowl.
Atlanta Sports Council will not pick VT for ChickFilA. That would put their fans in ATL 3 times in 4 months. vs Bama in kickoff classic, @ nerds and in Chickfila bowl. IT will not happen. Plus ChickFilA bowl automatically gets the #2 ACC team. So the only other possibility it could be with a nerds win vs clemson would be a UGA v Miami ChickFilA Bowl.
I put in for Nashville, Atlanta and Tampa with my season ticket package.
Paul Johnson aint Vince
December 1st, 2009
12:25 am
Who Cares….they beat tech…save your money
Joe Lawson
December 1st, 2009
12:41 am
Thank you to the Tech baseball players for collecting donations for Chance Veazey! Classy as it gets!!
An Observation
December 1st, 2009
12:57 am
Wow…another UGA football player arrested, what a surprise???? NOT!!! UGA got lucky…anyone with any football knowledge knows that the GA Tech football team (this year) is better than the UGA team and I’m not a fan of either school’s football program. That is just the facts no matter how you want to portray the truth.
PHIL
December 1st, 2009
1:43 am
You people crack me up saying this or that isn’t acceptable? To who? WHO are YOU? You’re NOBODY.
An Observation. I agree completely, all these guys are just thugs and street criminals. Can you believe a college kid would actually drive a scooter??? on the street even! What is this world coming to?…..Idiot
And also I’d like to ad what BuLLDawg said
Shereveport?
December 1st, 2009
2:38 am
I wouldn’t go to Shreveport to see anything, including the dawgs. The town is a dump and I have no desire to freeze my rear end off at some motel 6.
Whos your daddy
December 1st, 2009
2:52 am
41-17. Gators win the National Championship. Enjoy the Chickfila bowl. Beating GT can’t cover up the fact that UGA is a second-rate program and shows no signs of improvement.
BadgerDawg
December 1st, 2009
4:54 am
Jax, your studying excuse is lame at best. As for the alums, your crap school inflicted Jimmy Carter on us. Any good the rest of your alums have done combined cannot offset this disaster. Anyway, most of the good done by your grads is in SE Asia anyway.
BuLLdawg
December 1st, 2009
4:56 am
Tech fans, having guaranteed a win over UGA at Bobby Dodd Stadium (named for college DROP-OUT of University of TN at Knoxville), have all had to change their login AFTER the game. 2 new posters showed up to say that the refs cost them the game and would’ve should have could have, or Tech is the better team playing in the stinking ACC with 3 more wins than UGA who faced Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, South Carolina, Arkansas, and LSU.
So, now they post as if they are a Florida fan.
Yeah, hide behind your keyboard Tech fans.
Nerds.
By the way, we beat Florida more when Tim Tebow was there than we did, when he was NOT there.
Famous UGA alumni ? How about me. I’ve made 2 million dollars in the last dozen years, a lot more than you Tech nerds posting here will see.
Famous UGA alumni : Founder of Gold Kist, Chairman and CEO of Georgia-Pacific, Prime Minister of Yemen, CEO of AFLAC, Country Singer Bill Anderson, Chairman and CEO of Synovus, Tom Cousins Chairman and CEO of Cousins Properties, 5 UGA Football players who were the MVP of the NFL Championship Game including Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis, Teresa Edwards, M. Douglas Ivester Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Co., Chairman of CNN, President of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas Texas, The Senator from Texas Phil Gramm, Senior Editor of Reader’s Digest, the President of PBS, multiple Presidents of Universities across this great Nation a total of 15 University of Georgia graduates are now President of another University today including Colorado State, Bainbridge, California State University, Gardner-Webb, Young Harris, Wesleyan University and the University of Southern Miss, 25 Governors of this Sovereign State since 1851 nearly every single one obviously, President of Churchs Chicken, ABC Sports Reporters, ESPN Sports Reporters, Coaches all across America on the very best football teams in America credited mostly to just them as coaches, President of Bankers Trust of New York, Billy Payne, Herschel Walker the greatest college football player to ever play the game according to ESPN and everyone else, Zell Miller, Cathy Cox, Peabody Awards namesake, Dominique Wilkins, the 4th most NFL players of any college in the world, Deborah Norville, Bill Goldberg, 21 Rhodes Scholars, Outstanding Business College, Outstanding Vet School, Outstanding Law School, the most famous Journalism School in the Nation, 1st Phi Beta Kappa I am and you are not in the State of Georgia, The UGA Redcoat Band, UGA the most famous Mascot in the entire World, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Crawford Long Doctor, Count Emilio Pucci Fashion Designer, Herman Eugene Talmadge, John Barrow, the head of NASA, Sonny Perdue was a Quarterback for Vince Dooley, both of the current U.S. Senators from this State, 3 of the U.S. House of Representatives, 9 Pulitzer Prize Winners 9, founder of Build-A -Bear, National Geographic Senior Writer, Lewis Grizzard, Time Inc Editor in Chief, Chief Executive Breast Cancer Foundation, Ernie Johnson, Chad Smith Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation, and Hines Ward.
Did you think that I would not know this when UGA is the foundation of public higher education and Number 58 in the U.S. News and World Report Rankings with nearly a half million now graduates of UGA ? Are you that stupid ?
30-24.
BuLLdawg
December 1st, 2009
5:21 am
UGA is a “Tier 1 University” according to the U.S. News and World Report and we have a far greater impact in society than the itty bitty tiny teeny weenie Georgia Institute of Technology does with 25,000 UGA undergraduates to Tech only 12,000, of which are men and mostly from Asia. All day long, all I deal with are UGA grads. Everyone. Nearly half a million of us, and a third of a million of us here in this readership you spout your mouth off to with 29,700 of you, if you are a graduate of Tech, like I am of UGA. We are Number 58 University in the U.S. News and World Report Rankings, Tech is Number 35.
Yeah, we are Number 35.
Number 35.
No one brags they are Number 35 at anything.
And, you have Lost to us 60 times in football and your football players don’t go on the NFL, don’t graduate, and have zero impact on anything anywhere which is your point. Further, your football players’ APR is far worse than UGA’s football players’ APR.
Melanie
December 1st, 2009
6:35 am
I love this…all you Ga fans a few weeks ago wanting to hang the entire coaching staff, but when you won against Gt, you seem to have forgotten the hatred for the team & the coaching staff!!! I hope the team goes to the toilet bowl…that is where they belonged all year!!! But as usual, they will probably go to a bowl close to home so all you Georgia fans will be able to go; they know you will rather spend $$ on this rag tag team than pay your bills!!!
Damon Evans
December 1st, 2009
7:28 am
Do I have to go? I hope it is to Atlanta and they pick a weak team from the ACC that we can beat. I do not want anything from any team in Florida. It has become embarrassing how Florida drills us since Mark set up that weak running on the field stuff in Jacksonville, followed by the silly changing uniforms prior to the game, when we should have been using the time to coach defense.
I think a Pizza Bowl probably best fits where our program is today.
munsondawg
December 1st, 2009
7:35 am
To Melanie:
STFU………….
And to answer the question, yes, I will travel wherever the DAWGS play. Season ticket holder. Win, lose or draw……………..30-24………………SUCK ON THAT BEES!!!!!!
HardTruthSoldier...
December 1st, 2009
7:56 am
Has anybody seen SAINT SIMON? SAINT SIMON, you were first on the blog everyday, where are you now? Come root for us in Atlanta in the Chick Fil-A bowl SAINT SIMON, at least you’ll be warm and not in the JOKE by COKE getting SMOKED. Gotta go now you Tech losers, CSS is showing the replay!
HardTruthSoldier...
December 1st, 2009
8:00 am
Melanie, Your Tech team is in the toilet right now, exactly where you should be with cramps and a bottle of MIDOL. Get off of this blog and go bake biscuits, or go shopping Butch!
dawghouse1011 -Athens
December 1st, 2009
8:19 am
Love the Dawgs !!! Will Travel!!
Vol Fan #16520980
December 1st, 2009
8:23 am
So BuLLdawg is nowhere to be seen virtually all year until Georgia wins a meaningful game. Had to wait all year, didn’t you, BuLLdawg ? Then, after Bill K. and L-Dawg assure everyone that Georgia doesn’t obsess over Tech, BuLLdawg spends several thousand words-worth of his vitriol obsessing about Tech. This is why Georgia fans are widely regarded as some of the most obnoxious in the country. BuLLdawg, I think your mommie’s calling you.
Retire lon Buckler's Number
December 1st, 2009
8:37 am
Yes, we will Travel with the Dogs!
Still looking for Saint Simmons Comments. He was so talkative before Saturday.
Urban Meyer
December 1st, 2009
8:39 am
Carlos Dunlap charged with DUI
http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20091201/ARTICLES/912019950?Title=UF-football-player-charged-with-DUI#
Bwahahahahahahahahahaa!!!
Class of 68
December 1st, 2009
8:41 am
$70 for a nosebleed seat in the Peach Bowl. I’ll watch from my Lazy Boy.
larry lawson
December 1st, 2009
9:27 am
going to the toilet bowl, who cares, sorry season, middle of the pack team in the SEC now
BadgerDawg
December 1st, 2009
9:51 am
The funny thing is that as usual a middle of the pack SEC team is still better than a “top” ACC team. Chick Fil A Bowl proves it every year. The ACC has no business being entitled to a BCS bowl and taking it away from a deserving team like Boise St or TCU.
GT
December 1st, 2009
10:13 am
….12-2…. ORANGE BOWL CHAMPS
GT..(avoids shreveport)
December 1st, 2009
10:14 am
……..12-2
not you !
Gratefuldawghead
December 1st, 2009
10:14 am
Unlike Tech, that has problems selling thier home games out, Georgia will Sell good at any bowl!
UGA
December 1st, 2009
10:15 am
… but Tech is still SECOND in the STATE OF GEORGIA
Gratefuldawghead
December 1st, 2009
10:15 am
BACK TO NORMAL
30-24
ACC = All Coast Clear
UGA
December 1st, 2009
10:16 am
King and Ealey still running wild on the Jackets.
GT..(avoids 7-5 record)
December 1st, 2009
10:21 am
#10 BCS
another ptc dawg
December 1st, 2009
10:32 am
I’ll go anywhere they give you 4 hot dogs,4 cokes and 4 tix.
Sam
December 1st, 2009
11:36 am
I’d go to Nashville.
BadgerDawg
December 1st, 2009
11:44 am
I thought ACC was Always Chump Competition.
TechCrybaby
December 1st, 2009
11:52 am
Razor-thin, last Saturday. Dawgs played well, but escaped a game that should have been 31-30, Tech.
Where do you go from there?
Tebow
December 1st, 2009
11:57 am
Dogs in the chicken bowl sounds about right.