Bulldog Bites: UGA ranks 3rd on SEC’s decade list
Amid all the talk about potential defensive coordinators and bowl practices and ticket sales, you might have missed a ranking of the SEC’s football programs for the past decade put together by ESPN.com’s Chris Low.
Low’s ranking is based on a number of categories, including record against SEC competition, record against nationally ranked foes, record in bowl games, and conference and national championships. Not surprisingly, the two teams that have won BCS titles occupy the top two spots: Florida and LSU.
But Georgia finished a strong third, with comparable numbers to second-place LSU in just about every category except national championships. In fact, the Dogs had nine Top 25 finishes to the Tigers’ seven and six Top 10 finishes to LSU’s five (and Florida’s four).
Behind Georgia in descending order: Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.
LAST-MINUTE GIFT IDEAS
If you’re still looking for a UGA-related gift, you might want to consider one of these Bulldogs books …
“Dooley’s Playbook: The 34 Most Memorable Plays in Georgia Football History” by Vince Dooley (Hill Street Press, $35). In addition to explaining the plays, Dooley diagrams them. And the illustrations by Steve Penley are really nice. This book was first published this time last year but was out of print for most of 2009. It’s in plentiful supply now, though.
“From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson” by Larry Munson with Tony Barnhart (Triumph Books, $24.95). The title says it all. A CD of Munson’s 10 greatest calls is included.
“Georgia Football: Yesterday & Today” by Mark Schlabach (West Side Publishing, $24.95). A solid overview of the history of the program, with lots of illustrations.
“For the Love of the Bulldogs: An A-to-Z Primer for Bulldogs Fans of All Ages” by Frederick C. Klein with illustrations by Mark Anderson (Triumph Books, $16.95). From Arch to Knowshon to Zambiasi. Despite what the title says, this large-format volume seems best suited for younger fans.
DIAMOND DOGS UPDATE
UGA baseball coach David Perno will guest on the “Bulldog Hotline” radio show tonight on the Georgia Bulldog Radio Network. Perno will join host Scott Howard live from 8 to 9 p.m.
Also, the Diamond Dogs are holding a First Pitch Diamond Gala at the Classic Center in Athens on Jan. 16. It will feature an auction, dinner and entertainment honoring the baseball program, including the 20th anniversary of the College World Series national champions as well as Georgia’s other CWS teams. For reservations, tickets or additional information, e-mail diamondgala@gmail.com or call 706-542-8186.
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Bawney Fwank
December 21st, 2009
4:49 pm
Coarch Richt is taking his time to get the Dawgs some really special defensive coarchs so the dawgs can win sum more BCS Natural Championships!
11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
4:52 pm
ACC Champion Yellow Jackets Ranked in Top Ten for 2009.
…………………………………………………………………………..
……SEC “middle of the pack” dawgies no where to be found.
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
4:54 pm
Thanks for a GREAT season,
……………………………………
— 2009 ACC Champs —
You guys are actually proud of that?
drunk dawg
December 21st, 2009
4:55 pm
Hey NERDS! Read this and Shutup!!By the way…..30-24! We Run This State!
Ranking the SEC programs, 2000-2009
Team Total W-L W-L vs SEC W-L vs Top 25 Bowl W-L Top 25 finish Top 10 finish SEC title games SEC titles Nat’l titles
Florida 99-30 64-20 35-21 4-5 9 4 4 3 2
LSU 99-30 58-26 31-20 7-2 7 5 4 3 2
Georgia 97-31 57-26 30-22 7-2 9 6 3 2 0
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
4:56 pm
Anybody hear the rumour the NCAA is looking into replacing the ACC with the Mountain West for an automatic BCS bid. With the ACC’s pathetic record in BCS games (2-9) im hearing rumblings that they should be replaced. Mountain West seems like the logical choice.
If TCU wins their bowl game look for the argument to really heat up.
11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
4:57 pm
SAY IT LOUD
7-5 and PROUD
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
4:58 pm
As someone said earlier, winning the ACC is like winning the tallest midget contest.
My analogy was being the biggest minnow in the minnow pond but yours works too. Same general idea.
Hedgecutter
December 21st, 2009
4:59 pm
WonderDawg…it was humorous….but what do you do….send the entire team onto the field to jump up and down in the endzone??
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
4:59 pm
7-5 and PROUD
Dang right. That equals at least 12-1 in the All Cupcakes Conference.
Hedgecutter
December 21st, 2009
5:01 pm
Alright Frank…pop another PBR, be proud and enjoy the buffets in Shreveport.
11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
5:01 pm
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED the 6-6 Texas Agricultural and Mechanical AGGIES
are determined to go out with a winning record.
WonderDawg
December 21st, 2009
5:05 pm
Remember nerds, Tech going to a major bowl comes around about as often as UGA going to Shreveport. Hardly ever. Enjoy.
Tucker
December 21st, 2009
5:06 pm
Oh, to be a Dawg fan and to find yet another way at the bowl season to be so elated over 10 years of mediocrity and wasted recruiting talent.
Hedgecutter
December 21st, 2009
5:07 pm
Wonderdawg….thanks…we will. Don’t eat too much mullet in Shreveport.
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:10 pm
Example of how dumb UGA fans are:
My brother has 4 National Titles and was known as the greatest player in the nation in those years but I have a good one-on-one record against him 60-39….So I’m good too.
You dawgies are the biggest idiots
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:11 pm
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED the 6-6 Texas Agricultural and Mechanical AGGIES
are determined to go out with a winning record.
This also in while Iowa sold out its tickets to the Orange Bowl in record time Tech still has thousands of tickets left for the game. Even the old tried and true 4 hot dogs 4 cokes 4 programs method hasnt worked.
Iowa fans eagerly await snapping up Techs unsold allotment of tickets
BIG TIME PROGRAM ????? NOT !!!!!
dano
December 21st, 2009
5:11 pm
Iowa 35
Tech 03
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:11 pm
Funny with all those teams having SEC Titles you look next to that section and you see a couple of national titles…………..Georgia SEC titles-2…………National Titles…0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys will never win the big one……………..hahahahahahahahaha
hotbobby
December 21st, 2009
5:13 pm
Try this again. Why care about the last ten years, when this program is going straight to heck in a handbasket, today. I hear Techies bragging about their four or five NC’s all the time. What is the difference? There may be good reason no one is calling back about this DC job. There is good reason for it, and it ain’t the talent. ANOTHER great recruiting class is coming in, so what is going to happen to it? No one wants to board a sinking ship! Seven wins next year is a whole lot more likely than ten. This train is going over the edge and we ain’t seen the bottom, yet!
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:14 pm
My brother has 4 National Titles and was known as the greatest player in the nation in those years but I have a good one-on-one record against him 60-39….So I’m good too.
UGA has 5 national titles. 1 more than Tech. That is if we counted them like you do.
National championships
Years in which the Bulldogs finished with a number-one ranking in at least 3 of the final national polls recognized by the College Football Hall of Fame and included in the official NCAA Football Record Book:[10][29]
1980 – The Bulldogs beat Notre Dame 17–10 in the Sugar Bowl to finish 12-0 and claim the National Championship. Notable contributors during the season included Herschel Walker, Buck Belue and Lindsay Scott (Georgia was listed first by AP, Berryman, FACT, FB News, FW, Helms, National Championship Foundation, NFF, Poling, Sporting News & UPI).
Other years in which the Bulldogs finished with a number-one ranking in at least one of the final national polls and included in the official NCAA Football Record Book:[10][29]
1927 – With a 9-1-0 record, the Bulldogs were called the “dream and wonder team” and were ranked No. 1 in the nation with one regular season game remaining, but were upset by Georgia Tech by a score of 12-0 at Grant Field in Atlanta, Georgia.[30] Nevertheless, at the end of the season, Georgia was ranked number 1 in two polls recognized by the NCAA.[31] The Bulldogs were also listed as number 1 in two other polls of the 1927 season, but most recognize Illinois as the 1927 National Champion.[32]
See also: 1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team
1942 – 11–1 Georgia was chosen as champion by at least half of the recognized polls. Georgia was led by All-Americans Frank Sinkwich and end George Poschner, along with a young back named Charley Trippi. The Bulldogs knocked off 9 consecutive opponents and ranked No. 1 in the nation. Georgia earned a Rose Bowl bid after it blanked Georgia Tech 34–0 in Athens to end the regular season. Georgia then edged UCLA 9-0 in the Rose Bowl
1946 Georgia went 11-0 and beat North Carolina 20-10 and was proclaimed national champions by half the national polls.
1968 Georgia was chosen by one national poll when they went 9-1-2 losing to Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. Overtime was not allowed in the NCAA yet so Georgia tied with Tennessee and Houston.
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:14 pm
For Train Wreck……………Call 1-800-Chan-Gailey……..He specializes in this field.
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:15 pm
Oh, to be a Dawg fan and to find yet another way at the bowl season to be so elated over 10 years of mediocrity and wasted recruiting talent.
If being third in the toughest conference in the country for a decade is mediocre then Ill take being mediocre thank you.
Hedgecutter
December 21st, 2009
5:17 pm
Wow Frank….you are pretty passionate about those 7-5 Shreveport-bound puppies.
WonderDawg
December 21st, 2009
5:17 pm
Okay, okay Coach Richt has no national titles, yet. But dang if he can’t beat the crap out of the “bridesmate” of the state of Georgia!!!! 9-1!!!
Hey 11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
5:17 pm
…and the rest of the Tech losers, here’s a math formula for you…
(7-5 > 11-2) = 30-24
And please enough already with “the UGA game wasn’t that important”
We all know that’s a bunch of crap. GT was only a couple of upsets away from being in serious discussion to play in the NC game, as you were the highest 1 loss team. Besides that UGA is your in state rival, don’t tell me winning that game doesn’t mean anything when you had freakin rings made for a 3pt victory!
Need more proof…ask Chan Gailey and Jim Donnan how important winning that game is!
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:20 pm
UGA……………..hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry your pathetic excuse for a football program makes me laugh
Alphare
December 21st, 2009
5:21 pm
Come on people, Dawgs don’t own this state. Alabama does, they played 4 games in this state in the past 2 years, and won 3 out of 4.
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:22 pm
The Jackets have won four Division I-A college football national championships and 15 conference titles. Their success led to Street and Smith to call them the 16th greatest football program of all time, which, to the delight of Tech fans, put them 2 spots ahead of hated rival University of Georgia.
hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alabama Jack
December 21st, 2009
5:22 pm
So irrelevant……
even in Shreveport
Go Aggies !!!!!
Opinions are like a$$holes
December 21st, 2009
5:22 pm
That “pathetic excuse” – 30
Ga Tech – 24
Hey 11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
5:24 pm
BTW, the formula works the other way as well:
30-24 = 7-5 > 11-2.
Being the ACC champion and representing that conference in a BCS bowl game is like going to the prom with your sister…Yeah you get to go, and yeah you have a date, but….
I’m sure this is a scenario that you techies can all relate to!
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:24 pm
I’l repeat…………………..
The Jackets have won four Division I-A college football national championships and 15 conference titles. Their success led to Street and Smith to call them the 16th greatest football program of all time, which, to the delight of Tech fans, put them 2 spots ahead of hated rival University of Georgia.
hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robert
December 21st, 2009
5:25 pm
11-2 with big wins over 3 loss Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and Virginia. And let us not forget that brutal non-conference slate of Jack State, Miss St., Vandy, and the worst Georgia squad in over a decade. Then they have to face the second best team in South Carolina for the All Chump Conference championship. What a puzzy team in a puzzy little league.
30-24 punks. No wonder your soft players were dropping like flies when Georgia popped them in the mouth. That is the sissiest schedule I have ever seen. Georgia Tech football is a total joke. Georgia beats you and then fired 3 coaches. That should tell you something right there.
Alphare
December 21st, 2009
5:25 pm
Actually, Bama played 5 games, won 4 out of 5 in the past 2 years.
Opinion are like
December 21st, 2009
5:28 pm
Enter your comments here
TUCK FECH
December 21st, 2009
5:28 pm
ACC Champ 24 DAWGS 30
BACK TO NORMAL
ACC= All Coast Clear!
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:28 pm
Okay so lets try UGA math………………
GT beat Mississippi State by 11, and Florida only beat them by 10 so therefore that would make us better than florida and florida beat UGA by 41-17 so therefore We are Better than UGA…………..sounds like your math works to our benefit………….dawgies
Hey 11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 21st, 2009
5:28 pm
oops my mistake, left out a couple of key components to the formula:
30-24 = (7-5 SEC) > (11-2 ACC)
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:29 pm
Come on people, Dawgs don’t own this state. Alabama does, they played 4 games in this state in the past 2 years, and won 3 out of 4.
Actually Mark Richt is 3-1 vs Alabama and 6-3 vs Auburn so Id say Mark Richt owns the state of Alabama
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:30 pm
Still no remarks on the truth below……….
The Jackets have won four Division I-A college football national championships and 15 conference titles. Their success led to Street and Smith to call them the 16th greatest football program of all time, which, to the delight of Tech fans, put them 2 spots ahead of hated rival University of Georgia.
hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
WonderDawg
December 21st, 2009
5:31 pm
So Alphare, does that mean that the Dawgs own the state of Alabama this decade. Check our record vs Bama and Auburn….
TUCK FECH
December 21st, 2009
5:31 pm
DAWGS > tech
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:31 pm
Whens the last time UGA has won anything……….1980???—-CPJ
WonderDawg
December 21st, 2009
5:32 pm
Beat me to it Frank. Atta boy!!!
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:34 pm
To all those that deny our greatness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txX4d-51wk
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:35 pm
Whens the last time UGA has won anything……….1980???—-CPJ
when is the last time Tech won anything? And dont give me that half a title didnt play anbody all year won the citrus bowl 1990 crap. Colorado was AP champs that year period. They won the title. You guys won the UPI ( by one vote ) which went out of business in shame shortly thereafter.
Frank Wren
December 21st, 2009
5:37 pm
Their success led to Street and Smith to call them the 16th greatest football program of all time, which, to the delight of Tech fans, put them 2 spots ahead of hated rival University of Georgia.
you keep your Street and Smiths whatever that is
ill keep 60-39
BitDawgBarking
December 21st, 2009
5:38 pm
Just the fact that GT fans have the gall to even post on this topic proves they’re dumber than a box of rocks.
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:39 pm
1990 Undefeated Teams:
Only one: Georgia Tech (National Champion)
Then one loss teams: colorado (Extra fifth down in one game that they woulda lost)
Opinion
December 21st, 2009
5:40 pm
People who recognize colorado as the undisputed champion of 1990 have never watched any of the games in that season………….so you get no opinion