Playoff would have given UGA several more shots at national title
Assuming the Big 10 representative to the BCS presidential oversight committee doesn’t manage to derail things, it looks like we’re headed toward a seeded four-team tournament for college football with the teams picked by a selection committee.
The committee will be charged with taking conference championships and strength of schedule into account, so there’s no guarantee that the teams that finish 1-4 in the polls will be selected, but more often than not that’s likely to be the case. In some instances, though, a team ranked #5 (or lower) might squeak in.
The real plus of such a system is that at the end of the regular season four teams have a shot at the national title instead of just two, which set my son Bill and I to wondering if such a playoff process had been in effect in the past, how often would Georgia have had a chance to play their way to a national championship?
Looking back, it turns out the Bulldogs would have made the playoff or been in contention for selection by the committee 11 times: 1942, 1946, 1959, 1966, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2002 and 2007. Note: For this exercise in alternate history, we defined a UGA team as being “in contention” if it was ranked in the Top 5 at the end of the regular season.
In looking at the hypothetical matchups, it’s interesting to note that UGA likely would have gotten to face some more legendary coaches (Woody Hayes, John McKay) and more games against Bear Bryant and Joe Pa, and would have been matched up against some famous players/teams, like the infamous SMU Mustangs of 1982.
There also might have been a rematch with Clemson in 1981. And while we wouldn’t have gotten Notre Dame in 1980, Georgia likely would have played the Fighting Irish in 1966.
Georgia probably would have had a tougher time winning out for the national championship in 1980 with a semifinal and final to play, but UGA might have won titles in other years, since they would have qualified at least a few times.
Let’s look at the years in question, using the final regular season AP or BCS poll.
We mainly concentrated on the era from Vince Dooley on, but let’s first take a brief look at the Wally Butts years:
In 1942 UGA finished the regular season #5 (they later finished #2 in AP and #1 in varying polls after a Rose Bowl victory for a share of the national title). With Frank Sinkwich and Charley Trippi in the backfield, there’s a decent chance a selection committee might have put the Dogs in a four-team playoff.
In 1946, Georgia finished the regular season ranked #3 (and wound up finishing #3 in the final poll as well), so a playoff berth would have been assured.
The 1959 Dogs finished the regular season ranked #5 but with 2 first place votes and a big-name quarterback in Francis Tarkenton, so again there’s a chance they would have been selected by the committee.
In 1966, Dooley’s Dogs won the SEC and finished the regular season #4, which using the playoff system that’s being considered now would have resulted in #4 UGA vs. #1 Notre Dame in a semifinal, with the winner of that game facing the winner of #2 Michigan State vs. #3 Alabama. The odds would have been against the Dogs, but that was a typical never-say-die Dooley team that might have pulled an upset. In reality, Georgia’s actual finish was #4 with a win over SMU in the Cotton Bowl.
Would Jake Scott have played for the 1968 national title? (University of Georgia)
In 1968, SEC champ Georgia finished the regular season #4, which would have resulted in #4 UGA vs. #1 Ohio State (coached by Woody Hayes), with the winner facing the winner of #2 USC (John McKay) and #3 Penn State (Joe Paterno). This was a very talented but temperamental Bulldog team that in reality finished #8 after losing to Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl, so how the Dogs would have fared might have depended on how much Jake Scott and company partied the night before.
In 1976, SEC champion Georgia finished the regular season #5. Had they somehow managed to get selected by the committee, we know how this one would have turned out because in reality they lost in the Sugar Bowl to #1 Pittsburgh, which is who they would have faced if they could have somehow grabbed the #4 spot in the playoff.
Now we come to the Herschel years, when Georgia won three straight SEC titles.
In 1980, as we all know, Georgia finished the regular season ranked #1, which would have resulted in a semifinal matching #1 UGA vs. #4 Oklahoma, with the winner facing the winner of #2 Florida State vs. #3 Pittsburgh. Definitely a tougher road to the title than what actually happened, which was the Dawgs winning the championship after a Sugar Bowl win over #7 Notre Dame.
Georgia would have made the playoff in each of Herschel Walker's years. (Associated Press)
Georgia finished the 1981 regular season ranked #2, which would have resulted in #2 UGA vs. #3 Alabama (Bear’s second to last team and final good team), with the winner facing the winner of #1 Clemson vs. #4 Nebraska (which was the actual Orange Bowl matchup that Clemson won). Clemson, of course, had beaten UGA earlier that year. It would have been a great game had Georgia made it to a rematch. In reality, Georgia finished #6 after a loss to Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl.
In 1982, the Dawgs finished the regular season ranked #1, which would have resulted in #1 UGA vs. #4 SMU (Craig James! Eric Dickerson! Herschel Walker! NO PASSING!!!) with the winner facing the winner of #2 Penn State vs. #3 Nebraska. In reality, Georgia sadly finished #4 in the final poll after a Sugar Bowl loss to Penn State that shouldn’t have happened.
In the Mark Richt era, Georgia would have definitely qualified for the playoff once and possibly made it another time.
In 2002, Georgia won the SEC championship and finished the regular season ranked #3 in the BCS poll, which would have resulted in #3 UGA vs. #2 Ohio State in a semifinal, with the winner facing the winner of #1 Miami vs. #4 USC. That would have been quite a challenge, but certainly would have resulted in more interesting games than what we got in reality, where the Dawgs beat #14 FSU in the Sugar Bowl and wound up #3 in the final poll.
A playoff system might have given Knowshon Moreno a chance to play for the national title. (Associated Press)
And 2007 is one of those cases where a playoff definitely would have resulted in better matchups than we got in the BCS. Georgia finished the regular season ranked #5 in the BCS poll (though #4 in the AP and coaches polls) and went on to crush #10 Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl and finish #2 in the final poll.
Many at the time thought the Dawgs would have been ranked higher had they won their division and/or conference. But by the end of the season Georgia, with Matt Stafford and Knowshon Moreno, was probably the hottest team in college football and there’s at least a strong likelihood the selection committee would have put them in the playoff.
Had that happened, likely fourth-seed UGA would have faced #1 Ohio State, with the winner facing the winner of #2 LSU vs. #3 Oklahoma. I think the Dawgs could have taken Jim Tressel’s Buckeyes, which might have resulted in … an all-SEC national title game with one of the teams not having won its own conference division. And this despite there being a playoff!
Which, no doubt, would have had folks elsewhere in the nation howling for a new system of determining college football’s national champion …
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226 comments Add your comment
Cuz
June 22nd, 2012
11:13 am
At the end of 2007 we were world beaters.
Land O' Lakes Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
11:15 am
We should have played USC in Rose Bowl the year we played Hawaii in Sugar. Definitely would have been in playoffs that year.
ARdawg
June 22nd, 2012
11:15 am
**YAWN**
ARdawg
June 22nd, 2012
11:17 am
My GAWD man at the speculation of the playoff talk. It runs rampant
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
11:21 am
This may be a start to something better than the current system but, there are still 119 or 120 FBS schools and while not everyone would qualify, wherever the cutoff line is for playoffs, some people are not going to be happy with the selections.
jokurone
June 22nd, 2012
11:24 am
Dawgs in the hunt this year! Go Dawgs!!
Brian
June 22nd, 2012
11:25 am
Go Dawgs!!!! Nerds stay off the UGA blogs. Do not hate, appreciate. Its not worth a whole article on the one time tech would have made it. Waste of time. Wait, has tech ever finished top 4? hahahaha
Rduck
June 22nd, 2012
11:29 am
Brian- yeah we have finished top 4… as in 4 Nat’l Championships. How many do you guys have and were you even born to see the last one?
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June 22nd, 2012
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GTBob
June 22nd, 2012
11:51 am
so there’s no guarantee that the teams that finish 1-4 in the polls will be selected, but more often than not that’s likely to be the case.
Well this sounds like a nice hopeful assumption based on no evidence at all.
Chi Town
June 22nd, 2012
11:54 am
When is the next blackout?
ARdawg
June 22nd, 2012
11:56 am
I look at it this way, if a team can’t make a compelling case to being #1 or #2, they have no dog in the fight for not being chosen #3 or #4
This is reality dreamers
June 22nd, 2012
11:58 am
And if a frog had wings……………………….
This is reality dreamers
June 22nd, 2012
11:59 am
Bill do you really get paid for this crap?
Jacket99
June 22nd, 2012
12:01 pm
Best playoff plan. What’s wrong with the filters today?
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/the-doc-sat-playoff-plan-2011-bracket-engaged?urn=ncaaf,wp11266
GeoffDawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:04 pm
Bob, why not take your obvious abundance of free time and volunteer at a nursing home? They enjoy incessant and often mindless droning.
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
12:06 pm
2002 UGA team was the best team in the country that did not cheat
Auburn goes undefeated and wins anything at all only by cheating yet the 2002 UGA team had to play #14 FSU in the Sugar Bowl
The new 4 team deal won’t stop the complaints either
What happens when there are 4 teams undefeated and a 1 loss SEC champion?
Wilson Pickett
June 22nd, 2012
12:09 pm
If the housing bubble hadn’t burst my home in Destin would still be worth 2.8 million! Give it a break Billy and it’s still 1980 for the leg humpers. Consider yourself lucky you didn’t have to play Bama in 80 otherwise you have nothing but arrest.
bhumpdawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:18 pm
Put the least teams in FCA 2 and have no crappy games all year…..Go Dawgs!!!
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
12:19 pm
Pickett,
If you’re sacared of a play-off, just say so…
good grief
June 22nd, 2012
12:21 pm
Some people just need to lighten up. It’s Friday, and as usual the haters line up on the ajc. If you dont like the Dawgs, then why read the Junkyard Blawg? makes no sense.
good grief
June 22nd, 2012
12:23 pm
So what if passionate fans like to think about what couldve been? So what if on the JUNKYARD BLAWG Dawg fans discuss the near misses, and the new proposals, and how that effect OUR team? Why do you even care? Why be offended by that? Get a life!
Dawg Haus
June 22nd, 2012
12:23 pm
Interesting post, Bill, but I’m afraid it’s perfect troll food.
truedawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:24 pm
I think we will see with in the next 10 years a few games played with SEC teams as the final game.
2007…Dawgs would have crushed LSU..Dawgs snaped after the UF game and drank “super sauce” lol I think they would have made it to the second round that year in the NFL playoff..well it all goes down to the basic rule of football..win them all and you will be in the game..unless your Aurburn
GATA!! win em all! GO DAWGS!!!
good grief
June 22nd, 2012
12:26 pm
2002 was a near miss but I dont think they were the best team that year. 2007 we didnt have the best season but we were def one of the best teams by the end of that year. Rocky Top sure got us that year.
Tom
June 22nd, 2012
12:27 pm
Blah Blah Blah wait till next year
good grief
June 22nd, 2012
12:28 pm
good insight tom
TDone
June 22nd, 2012
12:29 pm
YGBSM!!!
Mark
June 22nd, 2012
12:31 pm
It still depends on the “beauty contest” to settle it. Put the conference champs of the big conferences against each other and it doesn’t matter how any person votes it is settled on the field!
UGA Fan
June 22nd, 2012
12:33 pm
I don’t think we would deserve to play in the playoffs that many times.
Dawg 2006
June 22nd, 2012
12:40 pm
Great, I just dont like to see our team playing playoff games. Just more opportunities to watch ourselves get destroyed.
Forever UGA
June 22nd, 2012
12:41 pm
I’d rather there not be a playoff. I like being ranked high because of our easy schedule.
gbal
June 22nd, 2012
12:44 pm
Help me here…. I have not seen any indication ther there will even be polls when this plan takes shape? Has anyone else? If so, what type of poll are we talking about? A BCS formula type?
I personally feel like the committee is the wrong way to go on this. I support the best 4 teams should be in a playoff regardless….. AND I feel like a BCS formula which averages polls… includes computers and strength of schedule would be the best way to go VS a committee. There is less chance for bias.
Buckeye
June 22nd, 2012
12:44 pm
The old “coulda wouda shouda”. The dogs mantra.
59bulldawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:46 pm
My only complaint is that I would prefer an 8 team playoff which means 3 playoff games for the 2 teams that make it to the championship game. I think that by limiting it to 4 teams, they’re limiting the possibility of upsets . . . which is part of what makes the 64 team basketball tourney so exciting and HS football playoffs so compelling. If time and number of games were not a consideration I’d be in favor of a 16 team system but the presidents and ADs and probably a number of coaches would never go for a system that demands 5 additional games for the eventual champ and runner-up. The larger the pool of participants (within reason) the closer college football comes to a true playoff. I’m happy with the changes being made . . . just think they still need to make a few more to get the sport to the quality championship game it deserves.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:46 pm
11:21pm….. Really Cap’t obvious?
Any other material copied from the pages of “The book of Generic Football Comments for those Pretending to have an Opinion” to share with us today?
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
12:48 pm
buckeye
thank God there was no playoff or your sorry program would have never made its way to the title game 3 times since 2002.
Also thank the NCAA for being inept and not shutting down OSU in 2002 for cheating with Clarett
7576DAWG
June 22nd, 2012
12:49 pm
If a selection committee picks the four teams we will never have two SEC teams in the final four. Everybody in America outside the SEC is envious , jealous and hates to give the SEC credit for being the best and will do anything to keep an SEC team out of the playoff.
If I was McGarity I would start with the 2014 schedule playing some of the hard games earlier like Auburn should be played between the 3rd game and 6th game.Leaving the Florida game the 9TH game of the year will be enough to keep us high in the polls and playing Georgia Tech the last game will keep the end of the schedule respectable. If you play too many hard games at the end it will be a lot harder to win all and one lost game in the last 4 weeks would give the selection committee an excuse to exclude that team.
gbal
June 22nd, 2012
12:49 pm
Just to show of prove the accuracy of the BCS poll…. 78% of the bowl games last year were won by the higher ranked teams. Of the misses, (a lower ranked beat a higher rank) two of the wins were separated by only one point in the ranking…. i.e. #2 bama beat #1 LSU… I think this says a lot about the formula… now we can always question did it pick 1 and 2 correctly or should 3 or 4 been in the 2 slot and faced LSU…. nothing is perfect and at least we are better off with 4 teams in moving forward… But a Committee to choose the 4??? I see bigger problems with this.
ARdawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:54 pm
Ah geesh. Another GT fan with a camper trailer 8 blocks off the beach and he values it in the millions. Need we say more about the GT trolls?
TossSweep
June 22nd, 2012
12:56 pm
I’m a Dawg fan but I just don’t see the point in bringing past seasons and put them in the mix of the upcoming change just to justify how close we could have been playing for an NC. I just don’t see the point. I guess if it makes certain Dawg fans feel good because it’s been over 32 years since we last won the NC, so be it. So when we look back 32 years from now and see this playoff system as not really helping UGA, we’ll see this same article saying how just leaving the current BCS process whould have helped UGA. Bill Jr will be writing that article.
ARdawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:56 pm
gbal
I foresee problems with a committee pick too. The BCS formula worked to a point. Why throw out what part of it is working?
Hucklberry Hound
June 22nd, 2012
12:58 pm
That Buck Belue talks just like me!
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
12:59 pm
AltamahaDawg -
And your insightful wisdom is . . .
We are waiting on the edge of our seat, oh wise one.
RawDawg
June 22nd, 2012
12:59 pm
This playoff system is going to be interesting… I like it because it should mean more interesting games at the end of the year, and more teams will have a shot at the prize.
But is it going to be more ‘fair’? No, I don’t think so. If they use a selection committee it will lead to even more controversy than we have now. Whether they went with a system cased on rank or conference champions, at least teams would know what they had to do to get in. As soon as a committee bumps a school ranked in the top 4 for somebody else, people are going to be up in arms. Seems to me that since conferences can’t agree on rank or conference champs, this is just a bad compromise.
I think this is all a stepping stone to an 8 team playoff. 5 Conference champs + 3 at large bids, perhaps top 3 non-conference champs by rank. Now that would be a fair system, and fun as hell to watch!
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:00 pm
would be a better system to play the bowls with the conference tie-ins then pick the 4 teams. could eliminate a team or two with the bowls
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:02 pm
SSI
I thought Bill King told you to only read the blog topic, not the comments?
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:04 pm
Why do sports fans speculate what might have happened to historical teams in modern day situations? Are you kidding? New to the world of sports banter, or what? Because thats what they do. It’s fun. It’s interesting. And having a thin skin about it is so, not.
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
1:06 pm
No Nancy. It was Joey he told that to. Comments do not bother me, unlike others that post and then whine.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:12 pm
Appearntly they do.
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:13 pm
Nancy?
Ok Elvira if you want to continue acting like a 5 year old, have at it.
TossSweep
June 22nd, 2012
1:13 pm
…and it makes you feel good to think of the ‘what if’s’ especially when each year, there’s always talk of being in the hunt then get disappointed. That’s what losers do. Alas, another night for Propofol.
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
1:15 pm
Appearntly???
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:24 pm
Well good. You clearly differentiate yourself from all the losers in sports fandom by refusing to engage in such a hypothetical exersize.
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:27 pm
toss sweep
Only an idiot thought we were in the hunt every year under richt.
He got hire in 2001 and had never been a coach
do you actually think that reasonable UGA fans thought we would go undefeated that year?
What he did in 2002 was amazing.
Overall, he has overachieved more than under but it is time to win big.
He was allowed to stink the place up and keep his job. now he has a DC to get it done and his 2 main rivals in the East rebuilding.
The time is now with no more excuses
now if that makes me delusional then we will agree to disagree but your inane baseless bashing makes you look silly
Wilson Pickett
June 22nd, 2012
1:31 pm
The committe deal is a big (Joe Biden) deal and the obnoxious and overbearing yanks will run that show and ruin the playoff just like they have our country. Just wait unitl Notre(big hat and no cattle) Dame, Mitchegin, and Tattoo U has a decent football team and then the committee will stick it to everyone else!
It must really suck to know the best and biggest game your program won was Hawaii…That must be one hell of a trophy on display…
Pilfer Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:36 pm
DawginLex- Yes there are some delusional Dawg fans but YOU are not, nor am I. They just like to heckle because they don’t like UGA. Remember my man- they are the fans of the other teams, not UGA. And they are more obsessed with UGA than we might be, and we love the Dawgs
WishingDawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:39 pm
If we did this. If we did that. If we……blah! blah! blah!
Go If ’s!
Pilfer Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
1:40 pm
Wilson- You do know your’e on a UGA blog right? Just wanted you to know because you don’t belong here skippy
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:40 pm
Wilson pickett
Was your son one of the bullies on the bus with Karen Klein?
@DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:46 pm
You are fighting a losing battle if you are using logic to deal with some of these posters, many of whom are jealous/envious of our wonderful university.
Talk about living in the past- just about all the posts referencing Herschel come from anti-Dog fans. These same people that talk about the past are the ones bringing up Jan Kemp, which happened about 30 years ago.
They never get around to the part where UGA reacted (some say overreacted) by installing stricter academic standards that put UGA at a disadvantage for several years, and cost us some top talent that we had to play against in the SEC/ACC.
My guess is that very few actual UGA posters (as opposed to some fakes with ‘Dawg’ in their handle) are predicting undefeated seasons. The great majority of UGA fans are knowledgeable enough to know that with our tradition and Richt’s past success (6 top ten finishes, etc.) it is not at all unreasonable to expect us to make a run at the SEC. Much of the media concur, if you go by preseason ratings.
Finally, am hearing some very good things about Tunsil and Seymour, on the recruiting front. This appears the year Richt gets a top three recruiting class, which is necessary to combat Mr. February, Nick Saban, who can flat recruit.
DawginLex
June 22nd, 2012
1:52 pm
Great post
I wonder all the time why we are supposed to fear a program that we have beaten 3 out of the last 4 times, who backed into the national title game last year and is most likely going to get shut down very soon for all the booster payments going on????
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
June 22nd, 2012
1:53 pm
@ DawgIn Lex:
Willie Pickett has not reproduced thank heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7576DAWG
June 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
Notre Dame should be warned right now that with them not having to play a Conference Championship that they will have to play at least 5 top 20 teams with two or three ending in the top 10 for them to ever get one of the four places. This type system could guarantee Notre Dame one of the four spots every year because there are so many Catholics in the North East and kill the credibility of the four play off system if they don’t have enough hard games.
As a few have stated the only fair system will be an 8 team playoff. Yes you will get a few teams that are not worthy and don’t deserve one of the playoff spots but with eight teams you will be able to include a team from one of the weaker Conferences every once in a while , which will satisfy them and it will just about guarantee the SEC will have at least two representatives and a team like the 2004 Auburn Tigers won’t get slighted . It will nearly Guarantee the the Big -10 and Pacific-12 will have at least one representative , which will satisfy them .
This is too easy and would be acceptable to most all College fans. I can’t come up with even one legitimate argument against an 8 team playoff if we want the real National Champion in College Football.
"The Georgia Way"
June 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
As long as Richt is head coach, UGA will not play for a national championship.
Frank Lane
June 22nd, 2012
2:00 pm
Bill,
This is a great article. Gets me fired up for the upcoming system.
TossSweep
June 22nd, 2012
2:01 pm
….woulda coulda shoulda makes a nice conversation around a campfire with beer on one hand and pork ribs on another…and most of which are Monday morning quarterbacks. Loser’s mentality.
bham dawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:04 pm
@DawginLex… that’s pretty funny. I tell you what though i don’t feel that sorry for her. Hell i would ride a bus and let kids make fun of me all day if i could rake in a half million that quick.
UGA Friend
June 22nd, 2012
2:13 pm
Could someone explain who Nancy or Elvira is? I have not seen Nancy`s name on this blog. Is she someone like Samantha?
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:18 pm
The monday morning Q-Bing reference doesn’t even fit the point you are making. It’s almost the exact opposite, actually.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:22 pm
I don’t think you even understand what that term means, or more to the point- the context in which it is used.
Abnerish
June 22nd, 2012
2:25 pm
“so there’s no guarantee that the teams that finish 1-4 in the polls will be selected, but more often than not that’s likely to be the case.”
I really hope that is not the case. The whole point of the selection committee is to find the 4 best teams, not rubber stamp the AP polls or the BCS rankings (will they still publish those?). The best analogy for me is selecting the #1 seeds in the basketball tourney. How often are those the teams ranked 1 thru 4 in the AP rankings? I personally love how insignificant the rankings are in basketball, but rather how important the RPI is. I think Barnhart said it earlier this week that he wanted to see a football version of the RPI that the committee can use to help them rank the teams.
We Run the East
June 22nd, 2012
2:29 pm
pickett was on target with the first part of his post. Notre Dame is totally irreleveant as a footballpower but will get all kinds of support for playoff, same with Michigan, OSU, Nebraska, OKlahoma, etc… I am so happy to see SEC dominate these former powers (SC whipped Nebraska in bowl game). my they never return to prominience, just get dominated by SEC!
godawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:33 pm
Sure an eight team format would be better, but how are you going to do that and not add a sixteenth game? The schools will never go for a 16 game season.
Or…would you like to see maybe a 9-game SEC schedule plus Tech an SEC Championship game and then a 8 or 16 team playoff?
Never happen….
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:35 pm
UGA friend. It depends on which one you are talking about. The “Nancy” that was considered a clever insult way back in 1983, or the “Nancy” that is used by folks who don’t have the capacity to come up with anything more original today?
Dirty Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:39 pm
Come on folks…sure we’d like to ‘win it all’, but a lot of these comments are beginning to remind me of just about the only ‘positive’ feeling I ever get when I buy a lottery ticket – namely, the ‘thinking’ about how I would feel and act if I actually won. Yeah, I think we can win every game on the schedule, and if we can do that we can win the SEC, and if we can win the SEC…well, you get it. But now’s not the time for anything much beyond ‘cautious optimism’. Then we can ‘big dog’ the hell out of em all.
Ted Striker
June 22nd, 2012
2:41 pm
EXCELLENT column. Excellent. Fantastic research. Thanks for your due diligence.
mgdawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:47 pm
In 2007 at the end of the regular season UGA was ranked 4th in the BCS. Then during conference championship week 2 of the top 4 lost. Usually when this happens teams just move up, teams don’t get leap frogged, UGA did and stayed at 4. No analyst even entertained the question should UGA be ranked number 2 and play in the national championship. Of course, this year when the same thing happened with alabama, the media darling, it all made sense that they should be in the NC.
Rationale
June 22nd, 2012
2:48 pm
Would someone please go ahead and tell Kirk Herbstreet to shut up.
godawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:49 pm
Hilarious that there’s an ad on this page for Florida season and single game tickets. There’s a loyal fanbase for you…:-)
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:52 pm
No offence there Dirty Dawg, but a lot of what comments? I read every one and didn’t see a single one talking about winning it all. In fact I hardly saw any that even talked about Georgia in any sort of a feel good way.
What comments are you talking about.
godawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:53 pm
…not to mention a waste of advertising money. Good use of donor funds UF!
Dawg Haus
June 22nd, 2012
2:54 pm
It is pretty funny, godawg. I didn’t know there were Gator fans till SOS showed up.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
2:58 pm
Got pictures of the dueling Williams up there.
Hit a Single
June 22nd, 2012
2:59 pm
Greed and ESPN are going to kill college football. The money is so good right now, but it won’t last and the whole outfit will be in the same shape that our education system is and that is broke. They better enjoy it now. There is way too much emphasis put on the National Championship Game. Way too many teams in the country that will never have a chance to get there.
Hmmmmmm!
June 22nd, 2012
3:01 pm
So what you are saying then is that UGA would have actually had to have earned that 1980 championship? Wow! Then that would have left them with none.
reebok
June 22nd, 2012
3:03 pm
Good research, and a fun ‘thought experiment…’ I am looking forward to the 4-team playoff. 2 great semifinal games followed by a winner take all matchup will be analogous to the NFC/AFC Championship games weekend followed by the Super Bowl.
Bulldog59
June 22nd, 2012
3:06 pm
Speaking to the point of the article (1) more often than not, the consensus top 4 teams will at least win/lose the Championship ON THE FIELD. (2) An 8 team playoff would be best, but most likely, adding up to 3 games for any team (actually only the 2 teams in the final play 3 games) was probably a big part of the decision to limit the playoff to only 4 teams.
evillurks
June 22nd, 2012
3:16 pm
Boy this one is taking the usual mutt “if this and if that” talk to a WHOLE different level!!
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
3:20 pm
Could a #8, or a #16 seed team win it, I suppose. But the reality is that there really are only 2-4, teams in the country that could be considered as the “best” by the end of the year. Then there is considerable fall off.
The point is not how much difference is there between # 5 and #4. The point is how much difference is there between #5 and #1.
Adding more teams would certainly make it harder- some might say more admirable- for the best team to win the NC. But it would not nessesarily make it more accurate.
Richard Cranium
June 22nd, 2012
3:22 pm
Bill do you really get paid for this crap? Seriously.
Joey
June 22nd, 2012
3:28 pm
UGA Friend, it’s simple. Certain fans of UF, AU, and especially Tech come on any item about UGA, and hurl insults, which is fine. All’s fair . . .
But if you counter the insults, you get called a girl name, or crybaby, or coolaid drinker, or a lot worse. They couldn’t care less about the topic at hand – and probably, truth be known, couldn’t put up a credible argument about the game of football.
So good luck wading through the garbage, but don’t complain – Bill may give you the advise he gave me – “read the Blawg and skip the comments.”
UGADawg83
June 22nd, 2012
3:37 pm
Either scrap the bowls entirely and go with a complete playoff or scrap the system we have now and go back to the bowl system with the big 4 bowls on New Years Day. Most all of those games were relevant in the national championship game.
UGADawg83
June 22nd, 2012
3:38 pm
Should have said picture and not game.
clint
June 22nd, 2012
3:40 pm
I like the idea of a committee. If you look at this past year where Stanford was ranked #4 and Oregon #5 in the final BCS standings. Oregon was the Pac 12 champion and had also beaten Stanford handily on Stanford’s home field. However Oregon had 2 losses (one of which to LSU) while Stanford only had 1 loss. I think Oregon deserved to be in a playoff before Stanford and a selection committee probably would have put them in instead of Stanford.
ozzfest
June 22nd, 2012
3:50 pm
GREG McGARRITY IS GOING TO HAVE TO PULL ***BOTH*** FEET OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
KING WIMP HAS SCHEDULED A CUPCAKE AFTER CUPCAKE ON OUR HOME SCHEDULE FOR YEARS TO COME….AND NOW WE FIND OUT THAT “STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE” WILL BE A FACTOR IN THE PLAYOFF CALCULATION.
FELLOW BULLDOGS…McGARRITY SHOULD BE FIRED…OR WORSE…FOR THE 2012 HOME SCHEDULE.
HE TOLD ME HE DID THIS TO GET US QUOTE “TO ATLANTA”…MEANING THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP. DUDE, THEIR IS A BIGGER PRIZE NOW…YOU NEED CANCEL THE GARBAGE GAMES FOR FUTURE SEASONS…IMMEDIATELY!
KING WIMP….ALL ABOUT $$$ FOR UGAA ….NO HEART, NO GUTS….AND NO SOUL.
ENJOY YOUR LUXURY BOX FOR THOSE 10,000+ EMPTY SEATS LABOR DAY WEEKEND.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
3:52 pm
If polls are still involved, and obviously they would be….it has always seemed to me that ANY playoff, even a 4 team would allow the voters to be more honest. Takes away the tendency to “arrange” the game. Just vote for who they actually thought was the best teams in order, and let it work out for itself. Then layer in a selection committe, voter would be further immune from( Oh, lets call it espn-esque influences).
A good example would be the 2007 season. Let me say for the record that I had no issue with LSU. I thought our SEC conference champ was (one of) the best teams at the time. But what I didn’t think was honest or customary was the manipulation it took of several teams and spots to work that all out.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
4:00 pm
It seems to me that we are more likely to get better matchups in the big bowls as a result of this (4 team BCS playoff) and DOES make then relevent again.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2012
4:03 pm
Or will these 4 team not play in a bowl game? I guess not.
Bill King
June 22nd, 2012
4:10 pm
The plan apparently is for the semifinals to be rotated among the current BCS bowls (though that list may change). And then the national championship game will be a week later.
Whiskey Breath
June 22nd, 2012
4:27 pm
Gee Bill, I get lost in all those perfect scenarios. Ga has always been good at that.
How in the world has Alabama won all those championships and Ga has won one?
I guess it is all about what coulda, shoulda happened. Did any of you guys buy those scenarios?
Joey
June 22nd, 2012
4:35 pm
To get bias out of the playoff, they better get a few Buddhist monks look at the stats and vote.
I know if I were a voter, I couldn’t be unbiased.
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
4:37 pm
For gosh sakes fellas….How bout those Dawgs!
Joey
June 22nd, 2012
4:41 pm
Whiskey, Bama is the best football program ever. They were blessed to have the best coach ever for 40 years, now they’ve got the next, “best ever coach.”
Who wouldn’t agree?
So why bring something up like that? Did Bill say anything derogatory about Bama? Did anybody?
You are just a drive-by-poster who likes to insult. Congrats.
By the way, are you a Bama fan?
@Junkyard Hawg
June 22nd, 2012
4:54 pm
Good God Man. Really? Woulda’ Shoulda’ Coulda’? Is that all you got? Whose to say they ALSO wouldn’t have fallen flat in each of those years?
Really that’s all you’ve come up with?
Geeze o Peeks Amigo….
As my wrestling coach used to say: ” If if’s and buts were candy and nuts…. We’d all have a Merry Christmas.
Put it on the field and not from behind a keyboard.
Just Damn.
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
4:58 pm
Just my opinion, but I think there will still be plenty of belly-aching with just a 4 team playoff. I think they ought to try an 8 team playoff. This way conference champions get in and a few “at-large” teams. Then there will be little room for argument. Under a 4 team playoff the chances of the ACC going to that playoff will be tough unless that champ only loses 1 game. Clemson would not have gone last year. Just saying.
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
5:01 pm
Even with a 4 team play-off, many teams will cry rivers…
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
5:04 pm
I agree kingdaddy.
8 team playoff gives all the contenders a chance. That’s just the way I see it.
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
5:04 pm
DIT
What if 2 SEC teams make it in again???
Dawg Haus
June 22nd, 2012
5:05 pm
Seriously, kingdaddy. There will always be a #5 team. So long as the Dawgs make the cut from time to time, it’s all good with me.
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
5:07 pm
2 sec, 2 Big 10…… 2 ACC(OK, let’s not get carried away..) If they are ranked in the top 8 then absolutely. Best 8 teams regardless!
The Truth Detector
June 22nd, 2012
5:07 pm
I think Bill is mostly correct. This being a dawg blawg I will say I agree that UGA would have probably done better than those phonies from the Big 10 who year after year fail to take their game to next level.
Dawg Haus
June 22nd, 2012
5:09 pm
I agree, DIT. There would be so much less room for complaining with an 8-team playoff, but I guess we just have to take what we can get for now. At least something in college football seems to be changing for the better these days.
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
5:11 pm
8 is great…
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
5:11 pm
Very true Dawg Haus. At least there is an effort going on. In the past there was room for a #5 and maybe even #6 team to have a legitimate complain. You never hear of a #9 or #10 getting in the argument.
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
5:12 pm
meant to type “complaint”
DIT
June 22nd, 2012
5:14 pm
Imagine if an 8 team playoff went into effect this past year. We would of had LSU, Bama, Arky and possibly South Carolina. Wow, the whiny would have been very loud. Then again they were in the top 8, no room for arguing.
Old Dog
June 22nd, 2012
5:25 pm
We might have made it TO the playoffs, but would we have WON? We made it TO the SEC playoff, but we lost. We made it to a bowl game, but we lost.
Vince Doodley
June 22nd, 2012
5:43 pm
Georgia still sucks.
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
5:59 pm
Can you guys feel it…the glorious tradition which is Georgia Bulldawg football is right around the corner!
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
June 22nd, 2012
6:00 pm
We did have LSWho on the ropes the first half. It would be great to just win a bowl game.
TossSweep
June 22nd, 2012
6:03 pm
Altamaha,
Please try not to make people think you know a lot. Those who think they know it all make a lot of assumptions…because they think they know it all. Don’t assume that just because I mentioned Monday Morning Quarterback, I was referring to BK’s article. I am referring to people who post on forums after a Georgia loss who think they know every single thing about being a college head coach and they seem to know how to right the ship and get Georgia back to contending for the NC…and then talk about the woulda, coulda, shoulda. I guess if you don’t have a life and all you do is think about the “what if’s” then you’d defend yourself for doing so when every coach and player have moved on to the next game. So get off your high horse because you’re not as smart as you think. Don’t fool yourself. The forum is all yours buddy.
Buzz2011
June 22nd, 2012
6:14 pm
Brilliant, if Aunt Clara had a mustache she would be Uncle Fred..
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 22nd, 2012
6:20 pm
Geez. You guys are the biggest dreamers in college football.
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 22nd, 2012
6:24 pm
DawginLex,
Do you have a source of a player not qualifying at UGA, but able to qualify at Bama/LSU or another top-tier program?
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
6:28 pm
Altamaha, I tried but the filter got me.
BTW, TOSS WEEP, you’re on aDawg blog. Take your opinion about Altamaha’s opinion back to your mom’s basement. “Dingle-berry Whine”…
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
6:30 pm
Believe the Dawgs finished 6th and 7th in 03 and 04…..knockin on the door those years too!
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
6:34 pm
Obammy
Nothing good ever came out of your mouth, liar, thief and loser…
RHall55
June 22nd, 2012
7:00 pm
Main reasons for downfall for UGA this season and possibly years to come (will not call these guys Coaches until they prove me wrong)! 1) Play calling by Mike Bobo; needs no explanation 2) Recruiting gaffs by Rodney Garner; he has already blown the chance for Nkemdiche!! 3) Depth on OL by Gomer Friend; only (3) LOI’s last year and no in-state linemen recrutited!! Until these three improve or are replaced by more competent Coaches, UGA will not win a NC!! Remember the past DC, he is a position Coach @ AU; will always be a position Coach and that what he is qualified for!! CMR, c’mon Man, open your eyes and see what UGA could do with the right people in place; that is your job as CEO of UGA Football !!!!!
Across the wide Missouri
June 22nd, 2012
7:06 pm
Missouri 37, Georgia 10
All Saints
June 22nd, 2012
7:11 pm
As we head into the weekend, in tribute to our beloved martyred Saint Jan Kemp, let’s all bow our heads for a few moments of silent prayer. Thirty years ago, this courageous young lady risked everything to expose the corruption and academic fraud instigated by Vince Dooley, sleazy practices that continue to this day under Mark Richt.
And now, let us all pray for Saint Jan…
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Thank you, you can now resume your normal activities.
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
7:15 pm
While we’re praying, please say a prayer for G.T.s football program.. May it rest in pieces…
kingdaddy
June 22nd, 2012
7:20 pm
Trolls love to tell us what we’re doing wrong, so we can keep beating their mushy brains out, lol. Don’t trust a troll. They only want what’s worst for us…
evil empire
June 22nd, 2012
7:22 pm
guess it’s ok to talk about the past when its all you got…wilson pickett said it right earlier…if uga had played bama (or Lsu, or missy state) in 1980, all yall would have is herschel’s trans am photo’s and memories of a bluebonnet bowl loss to brag about…
evil empire
June 22nd, 2012
7:23 pm
since we are playin’ “might have been”..
gimmeabreak
June 22nd, 2012
7:27 pm
When ugh starts playing football teams and win they may could compete for a national title. Look at their schedule this year. Give me a break.
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
7:32 pm
I agree kingdaddy…love watching the Dawgs beat the stew out of all these folks teams….make Ole Big Dawg chuckle.
Deacon Blues
June 22nd, 2012
8:02 pm
Slightly above average coach, but always mediocre results. The beat goes on!!
bucket
June 22nd, 2012
8:04 pm
Good Lord guys – give it a rest! If you are going to get so riled up over the Junkyard Blawg then we kindly invite you not to ever read it again! Trust me – you won’t be missed. The FACT of the matter is that IF the current proposed playoff system had been in place for several decades, THEN UGA would have either qualified for the playoff or been in serious contention several times. That is the facts, if you don’t like the facts then you have “UGA Obsession Disorder” and shouldn’t be reading about UGA matters anyway. With the changes going to a vote this week it was an entirely appropriate exercise for the writer of the Junkyard Blawg to take a look backwards and see how the new rules would have impacted past seasons for UGA.
evil empire
June 22nd, 2012
8:09 pm
yeah, yeah, whatever…
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
8:12 pm
Bucket….ditto that statement…UGA has long and storied football program and success…..that will never end. Not in our great state. Think UGA is the 10th winningest program of all time.
Beast from the East
June 22nd, 2012
8:15 pm
Not sure how the SEC would have fared in the playoffs until the last 6 years or so. We certainly had some good teams in the 90’s, but FSU and Nebraska were pretty stout back then. That 95 Husker team was the best I’ve ever seen. In the early 2000’s, UT, UF and Bama were not very good. SC was still thought of like UK. LSU was on the rise with Saban and Richt was still cutting his teeth, despite a great year in 2002. Miami, Texas, USC and OSU were still probably the best teams the years they won it all.
Hobo Joe
June 22nd, 2012
8:31 pm
It took these clowns 6 months to come up with the so-called playoff? What a joke.
Here’s the 5 second fix. 16 team playoff from average of end of year polls. Done.
bucket
June 22nd, 2012
8:33 pm
@ Beast – I think you provided a fair assessment. UF, LSU, Bama, and AU have certainly taken turns dominating recently, but prior to this stretch there were some really good teams to the North and West. My personal opinion is that a playoff wouldn’t have changed the eventual champion recently because the BCS has generally produced the #1 and #2 teams (although I would have loved for UGA to have had a shot at LSU in 2007), but prior to this recent run by the SEC there were some years when a playoff would have been really fun when the conferences were tied to bowls and the “Championship Game” wasn’t always between the #1 and #2 teams.
Chiefdawg
June 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
O you can bet your life ESPN will find a way to screw UGA.
01HAWK
June 22nd, 2012
8:41 pm
SLOW DAY at the AJC………………..Couldn’t find……………………..ALL THINGS BAMA to talk about.
Ole Big Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
8:43 pm
I agree…slow week in recruiting…..hoping to ser the Dawgs collar a few of these boys in the coming weeks!
evil empire
June 22nd, 2012
8:54 pm
O you can bet your life ESPN will find a way to screw UGA.
don’t think uga needs any help in that area…they have choking down to an art form…
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
8:55 pm
TossSweep -
June 22nd, 2012
6:03 pm
Altamaha, Please try not to make people think you know a lot.
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You think his comments reflect that he has such a high of an opinion of himself now? Brother, you better strap yourself in once the college football season gets underway. As the saying goes – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
SSIgator
June 22nd, 2012
9:06 pm
TossSweep -
Also, when Nancy and Joey are on at the same time, the blog comments counter goes crazy. If Bill King is being compensated on a per-click rate, he starts making plans for that second home he always wanted at the beach.
Beast from the East
June 22nd, 2012
9:30 pm
bucket,
I agree that the BCS has generally gotten the best 2 tems matched up. There were a number of years where some other teams had an argument and that’s why they have finally agreed to a 4 team playoff. I think we’ll see this moved to 8 teams as soon as the current agreement expires. That’s the most I think we’ll ever get to and frankly I think 8 teams is the perfect number. I really think a 16 team playoff would GREATLY diminish the importance of the regular season. You could go 9-3 and have a shot at the NC. Not for me.
fan
June 22nd, 2012
9:33 pm
Georgia would have probably won the national championship 2 or 3 times in the 10 years or certainly played for it.
Mobile Dawg
June 22nd, 2012
9:40 pm
With four teams the possibility of a legitimate contender being omitted is high. Why not go with eight, use four of the major bowls to choose the top four and go from there. With eight teams the possibility of overlooking a legitimate contender for a politically correct on is “almost” nonexistent.
BigDawg
June 22nd, 2012
9:57 pm
you forgot about 2005 Sec Champs
mgdawg
June 22nd, 2012
10:07 pm
Mobile dawg, if you are a legitimate contender you should be in the top 4. The only thing I don’t like about it, and I haven’t really heard what they are talking about, is that they aren’t taking the top 4. I don’t know exactly what that means. Does that mean a team ranked 10th but won their conference will go ahead of a team ranked 4th and didn’t win their conference?
evil empire
June 22nd, 2012
10:18 pm
Georgia would have probably won the national championship 2 or 3 times in the 10 years or certainly played for it.
WOW…REALLY..work on not embarrasing the sec in a meaningless bowl game before you win all the mythical national championships…
Dawg Whisperer
June 22nd, 2012
10:53 pm
Bill, there is really no excuse for failing to monitor and screen out Ugag’s constant stream of adolecent and profane language. How can you expect bloggers to return to your blog or any other AJC Sports blog when you fail to address those that persistently abuse what should be a privilege to post. Don’t you think your advertizers may have an interest in the content if it effects your patronage? It’s time you and your columnists gag Ugag and those like him.
Dawg Whisperer
June 22nd, 2012
10:58 pm
My apologies Bill. I must have seen Ugag’s comments on another AJC sports blog. It was pathetic.
Paul in NH
June 22nd, 2012
11:28 pm
In reality, Georgia sadly finished #4 in the final poll after a Sugar Bowl loss to Penn State that shouldn’t have happened.
Paul in NH
June 22nd, 2012
11:35 pm
UGA never led in the 1983 Sugar Bowl. HW was held to 107 yards on 28 carries. Vince Dooley wouldn’t agree with Bill King
“They are one of the three best teams I’ve seen in 19 years of coaching,” said Dooley, the others being Nebraska of 1969 and Pittsburgh of 1976.
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 23rd, 2012
12:05 am
Georgia would have probably won the national championship 2 or 3 times in the 10 years or certainly played for it.
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inhale….
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kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
2:38 am
Tide is lolling and nobody can help it,lol…
UGA BEAT YOU 3 OF THE LAST 4 TIMES WE PLAYED YOU FOOL. THAT IS A FACT. MICHIGAN WILL ROLL YOU AND NO ONE CAN STOP THEM…HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA MICHIGANIS JUST THE BEGINNING OF YOUR BEAT-DOWN THIS YEAR! GOOD THING LOUISIANA, MONORE DOESN’T HAVE ANOTHER SHOT AT YOU THIS YEAR. BETTER WATCH OUT FOR FLORIDA ATLANTIC…HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA…
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
2:44 am
Tide is rolling, see how stupid you sound? I hated texting that because it was stupid, but thats what you sound like, a numb-nut.
BTW, WE DID BEAT BAMA 3 OF THE LAST 4 THIS CENTURY…
Reality Dawg
June 23rd, 2012
4:29 am
You should spend more time in reality.
Gordon
June 23rd, 2012
6:30 am
On the other hand, the years UGA did win it, additional teams would have had a shot at UGA.
gbal
June 23rd, 2012
7:39 am
8 teams is the right number… 4 is obviously better than 2… I wish we wpu;d gp straight to 8 now though and get it right…. The talk is that wherever they go with this now will be a 10-12 year deal
gbal
June 23rd, 2012
7:44 am
And 1 committee….. is like going to one poll….. A mix of several polls and the computers is much less biased…. Stick to the BCS formula
Wilson Pickett
June 23rd, 2012
8:12 am
1980…it’s documented for UGA but by all means continue your dream team,missing man team, ring team, and other BS teams. The fact is you suck on the field but you do great in the ink.
Joe
June 23rd, 2012
9:11 am
I had forgotten Dooley played the NO. 7 team in the nation that GT tied for the National Championship.
bucket
June 23rd, 2012
9:30 am
@ Wilson – what team do you cheer for?
Andy
June 23rd, 2012
9:33 am
Kdaddy Don’t let UCF get you in another bowl game or LSU embrass you in the SECCG 42 -10. The same team Bama beat 21-0 and they only had 5 1st downs and 92 total yards of offense and didn’t get pass midfield untill there was less than 9 minutes left in the game..
Dawg Uno
June 23rd, 2012
9:43 am
Hades will have ice skating rinks before UGA makes it into the playoffs. Mark Richt is – at best – a 3rd rate coach, and all the Kool-Aid in the world won’t change that.
UgaMuthaFuga
June 23rd, 2012
9:45 am
With Alabama logic that makes 11 National Championships for UGA!!!
Joey
June 23rd, 2012
9:47 am
Andy, one or two seasons ago dictate how a team will play this year? Didn’t Bama lose to Louisiana-Monroe in ‘07, then play in the SECCG in ‘08?
Just saying – things can change in a few months . . .
Ringling Brothers
June 23rd, 2012
9:51 am
Perhaps UGA could do the halftime show at the championship game. The players could run around in their Nike clown costumes while the stupid mutt nips at their heels. Then the stupid mutt could poop on Mark Richt’s shoes for a big finish. It would be a laughter-filled evening while two real teams play for the national championship.
bucket
June 23rd, 2012
9:53 am
@ Joey – there’s no hope or no known cure for those with “UGA Obsession Disorder”. They hate UGA, yet live on the Junkyard Blawg! How pathetic is that?
We Run the East
June 23rd, 2012
10:02 am
Kingdaddy is the most obnoxius poster on these blogs. Sure, Michigan will clean Alabama’s clock, NOT. Some UGA fans like to live in the distant past (UGA beats AL 3 out of 4), but lost the last one in embarassing fashion. UGA dominates all time series with SC, but UGA may not beat SC in the next 10 years. I will be right here laughing at KIngdaddy just like I was here last September. 45-42 We Run the East! Kingdaddy is no king and probably not a daddy!
bucket
June 23rd, 2012
10:19 am
@ We Run – Hello pot, meet kettle!
Beast from the East
June 23rd, 2012
10:21 am
MSU vs UGA Outback Bowl is on the Big Ten Network right now.
Joey
June 23rd, 2012
10:22 am
Man, I’m not into insulting other schools unless somebody insults mine.
Consider a program that has:
No SEC Titles in 20 seasons, even with 2 Hall of Fame coaches
1 SEC East title – yeah, 1, in 20 seasons
16-46-2 alltime vs UGA, 3-7 in last decade
1 silly poster who calls himself (of all things) “we run the east.?.?”
Beast from the East
June 23rd, 2012
10:25 am
Joey,
When you’ve never been there, you don’t know how to act.
Joey
June 23rd, 2012
10:54 am
True, Beast, and I hate to see their career record vs UF.
By the way, that Outback Bowl game was definitely a case study in coaching malpractice by Mark Richt.
Our head coach has gone from a fearless, go-for-it coaching style in his first 5 years, to a predictable, coach-to-not-lose, style.
A sign of this style (to me) is UGA has attempted more FGs than any other college team under his watch, and if there is such a stat, we must lead the football world in offensive 3-and-outs.
And I don’t expect Spurrier’s UF, “Fun and Gun.”
But as evidenced by Saban coming out throwing the ball in the BCSCG, which shocked LSU, a little unpredictability goes a long way.
jc_dawgs
June 23rd, 2012
10:54 am
Not so sure about the 2002 team but make no mistake about it….that 07 team was by far the best team in the country. Hope we get the 4 team playoff. I guess that it will be mandatory that at least 2 of the 4 teams be conf champs? If a major conf champ does not get a major bowl…that team and that conf will be very upset. Would have worked out great last year….3 of the 4 top 4 teams were conf champs. All the major BCS conf champs would have been in a major bowl.
rabid dawg
June 23rd, 2012
11:25 am
8 teams would be best but there is a problem. If you take those 8 teams and they go to the 4 major bowl games is that 9-4 conf champ(or that conf) going to wine and complain because they did not get a major bowl? At 9-4…that conf champ is most likely not top 8. With a 4 team playoff you can set a mandatory minimum of the 2 best conf champs to make up the 4 playoff teams. Then…that 9-4 conf champ can still go to a major bowl.
I guess you could completely separate the playoff games from the bowls. But…I would think the bowls would not want that. They would then get the lesser quality teams in there bowl games.
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
11:36 am
Did I do something wrong again??? Lol…
joe taxpayer
June 23rd, 2012
11:41 am
When was the last time UGA beat a top 10 team? Bama, LSU, Fla., Auburn or Ark.(if they hire a good coach) will be playing in that new system before UGA!! No faith in CMR!!
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
11:43 am
@We Ruin The East,lol…
You really should invest in some Midol and while you’re at the Dollar Store, pick up some pampers, emfimeal, a binky and some baby wipes with aloe, lol…
Andy
June 23rd, 2012
1:25 pm
jOEY yOUR ARE CORRECT lA OFMONROE BEAT bAMA IN 2007 AND THEN bAMA CAME BACK AND PLAYED IN THE SECCG THEN WONTHE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2009 AND 2011.. I WONDER IF THE DAWGS WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT.. IF THE DAWGS WERE THE BEST TEAM IN THE NATIONIN 2007 WHY DIDN’T THEY WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Joey
June 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
Andy, I didn’t say the Dawgs were the best in ‘07, but talent-wise, they were at least the equal of LSU and USC. They didn’t get a shot at the Big Game in ‘07 because they got beat early in the season by two underdogs – SC and UT. If they had won either game, they would have faced LSU in the SECCG.
This has been an ongoing problem since Richt got to Athens. He has been a good coach, and put the national spotlight back on UGA, but his very best teams ALWAYS lose games they shouldn’t – every season.
I live in Real-viIle, therefore I don’t think UGA will get in position for the Big Game this season for the same reason. Somebody will beat us that shouldn’t (Mizzou, Vandy, UF?) and we will be on the outside looking in, again.
But I will be watching every play, hoping . . .
Paul in NH
June 23rd, 2012
1:45 pm
“that 07 team was by far the best team in the country”
A team that is “by far the best team in the country” doesn’t lose by 3 TDs to a team that finishes outside the Top 10.
We Run the East
June 23rd, 2012
2:09 pm
To be the best you gotta beat the best, and dawgs have not touched the best in many years. King, I got my eye on you. I stand by the obnoxios comment, as you always take it right to the bottom. We all like to have fun. I like whupping the Dawgs, you like taking obnoxious to the max. SC working on 3rd straight national championship! Sure its in baseball, and I would trade all 3 for 1 football NC. Sc may get the football NC this year. Much more likely than the Dawgs getting a NC this year. 45-42 We Run the East.
Joey
June 23rd, 2012
2:12 pm
That is true Paul in NH. The D of Willie Martinez kept us from greatness in ‘07 and ‘08. That ‘07 UGA team did find its stride in the second half of that season, especially the offense, putting up 40+ points on pretty good teams. Truthfully, if Spurrier had coached that offense, with half-dozen future NFL early picks, they wouldn’t have lost a game.
Cdpridg
June 23rd, 2012
2:26 pm
Paul…..at the end of the year they were……game 3 or 4 in late Sept…no. Late Nov through Dec, nobody in the nation wanted to face that Bulldawg football squad
Cdpridg
June 23rd, 2012
2:28 pm
Andy….take it easy on the caps lock
Cdpridg
June 23rd, 2012
2:30 pm
Dawg uno….silly……Richt would have already had the Dawgs on twice.
Cdpridg
June 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
Pickett…best team by richt was 2002 ….quit reading after yoir first sentence.
Cdpridg
June 23rd, 2012
2:39 pm
Pickett…beat your bama team that year as well…in case u forgot….
Girls of UGA
June 23rd, 2012
3:14 pm
Enter your comments here
realitycheck
June 23rd, 2012
3:37 pm
Woulda……..coulda……shoulda……….again and again and again on the UGA blogs. Not gonna sniff a NC as long as Richt patrolls the sidelines…….and most of us know this already.
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
4:29 pm
@We run the least,
What kind of cheese you eat with your “whine”, lol you are a character son. You got your eye on me??? Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu, boy I’ll sleep better tonight. You, YOU, YOUUUUUUU NEVER WON ANYTHING! YOU would trade YOUR 3rd NC that YOU haven’t even won yet? LMAOFF, baseball??? What an idiot. You, YOU, YOUUUUUU could win an N.C. for “ARROGANCE & STUPIDITY”. Last year we lost to Top 10 teams only, you, YOU, YOUUUUUU, LOST TO AUBURN WHO UGA DESTROYED! You squeeked out a 3 pt. win. Good for S.C., but you couldn’t put a really crappy Auburn team away. S.C. “embarrassed” the SECe! UGA lost to Top 10 teams only…So quit your whiney, crybaby, yapping and man-up son. UGA RUNS THE EAST…You, YOU, YOUUUUUU RUN THE LEAST! Stop your pouting boy…got your eye on me, LMAOFF…
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 23rd, 2012
4:38 pm
Kingdaddy,
Nick Saban has more titles than the University of Georgia. Your entire state sucks at sports. The penal colony doesn’t have the dedication and commitment to fielding championship programs. The “I’m gonna get mine” mentality runs rampant from your cheating teachers to your corrupt city officials. Not to mention your panty hiding Athletic director. Move Delta, and the entire country would be better off without GA.
Oh, and the last three years, Alabama has matched UGA’s entire championship history.
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 23rd, 2012
4:40 pm
And you probably shouldn’t talk too much smack about SC. They did beat UGA, ya know…?
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
4:41 pm
@EWE RUN THE LEAST,
EWE JUST RUN EWE’RE MOUTH BECAUSE EWE’RE A CHIK-HIN. Dumbest bird on the planet. Did ewe get that??? Chik-hens eat their own poop…
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 23rd, 2012
4:41 pm
Sorry, one more thing, Tennessee will win another national championship before UGA does
And BYU has won one since…hehe
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
June 23rd, 2012
4:45 pm
Will an SC fan simply say “scoreboard” to kingdaddy. Usually this ends arguments and he is actually making Georgians look bad…
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
4:48 pm
Tide is trolling
Yeah and we beat you and them, what’s your point moron? Right, you don’t have one. You’re on a UGA blog just to “reasure yourself” how great your cheating program was last year! Go MICHIGAN!!! WATCH OUT FOR FLORIDA ATLANTIC( they’ve been talking to LOUISIANA, MONROE, LOL…
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
4:52 pm
Tide is trolling
yeah UGA only needs to say “PROBATION” and bamas go running like roaches when the lights come on, loser…
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
4:54 pm
Later haters…
Slattery
June 23rd, 2012
5:22 pm
Sorry, one more thing, Tennessee will win another national championship before UGA does.
That’s remarkable to think about, but the inescapable conclusion is that the statement is accurate. There is zero possibility that a two-bit 2nd rate coach like Mark Richt will ever win a national championship. Indeed, the very idea is quite preposterous. It is infinitely more likely that Richt will continue to win the Fulmer Cup than the chances that he will win anything of merit.
Two Thumbs Up
June 23rd, 2012
5:28 pm
It has just been learned that Richt, Grantham, and Bobo were the stand-ins for the lead actors in The Three Stooges movie. Type-casting, you know.
Let’s give the morons a big round of applause!
Dawg Squeeze
June 23rd, 2012
5:33 pm
Brilliant observation. Of course, we know UGA would have most certainly won those national championships if only given an opportunity in a playoff format. Unfortunately, it’s till 32 years and counting.
Concern
June 23rd, 2012
5:34 pm
MLB & NFl have 25 to 30 percent of teams participating in playoff why just four for college football?
Currently and with four it’s a selection process with someone either computer, coaches, commitee or media making the call. Needs to be will defined process like the pros vs a selection process largely influenced or determined by media.
Dennis
June 23rd, 2012
6:10 pm
Over the years a playoff would have derailed so many teams and outcomes that it is stupid to even go throught the exercise. One thing I agree, you wouldn’t have got a #7 ND that just about stopped the only real NC you have smelled in over 40 years.
Andy
June 23rd, 2012
6:13 pm
We run the EastYou are right Kingdaddy is the most 0bnoxiius poster on the blog now he wants to know if he made a mistake.The 1st first one I can think of his he woke up this morning the 2nd one is he forgot to take his PMS medication defore breakfast You know it balways amazes me that UGA fans want to know why there are so many Bama fans on the UGA blog. Have you notice on the UGA blog the first ten (10) blog will be all about Saban. Saban is Satan, Saban Lies, Saban cheats Saban Pays players, Saban oversigns, Saban does not tell the recruits the facts. Without anything to backup what they say. The UGA blogs talk about Saban more than any other subject Then second they are beginning to pick on Spurrier now. You can tell which football teams they worry about by the coachs they pick on the most. What happened to THE DREAM TEAM WHAT HAPPENED TO ISABELL THE # ! BACK IN THE WORLD.I DIDN” SEE MUCH OUT OF HER LAST YEAR. Oh I know it wait till next year
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
6:23 pm
Andy= Bama English Major, lol…
Paul in NH
June 23rd, 2012
6:38 pm
Cdpridg
UGA was on a great roll at the end of 2007 but so was USC (the real one). They also lost 2 early games (by 1 and by 7) and could also claim they were the best team at the end of the year. Having said that, CFB’s big claim (compared to the NFL) is that every game counts.
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
6:48 pm
Andi, were you the Alabama state “spelling champ”? LOL, being obnoxious (BTW- that’s how you spell obnoxious, lmaoff!) Is you coming on the BULLDAWG BLOG, RUNNING YOUR MOUTH! That’s obnoxious Lu-Lu…
Jim
June 23rd, 2012
7:28 pm
Bill they have the same chance every year. All they have to do is win games.
Andy
June 23rd, 2012
7:51 pm
Joey I did like UGA at one time and quite a few players from my Hi school went to Ga on schollies Charles Ernest, Kermit Perry And the latest I recall Edgar Chandler. I have known Edgar family back defore Edgar was born He was one of if not the best Football players to ever come out of Cedartown Hi. Doc Ayers was my hi school coach back in the early 50’s who later on was the freshman coach at UGA and may still be. since I haven’t seen him in several years.Im still a half way Ga fan. I pull for Ga againest most of the other teams in the SEC except Ala of course. Some of the Ga fans are so obnoxius it makes it hard to pull for them because the way some of the fans post on this blog.
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
8:30 pm
Andy (Lu-Lu)
Just remember that I said nothing to ewe until ewe chose to trash talk me. You are also a liar. UGA fans don’t agree with troll S.C. chicklets just to attack another UGA fan. So you’re a liar, a troll and probably the worst speller on the AJC/Sports blog. You are not a UGA fan. If you’re going to keep calling UGA fans obnoxious, learn how to spell it…
kingdaddy
June 23rd, 2012
9:08 pm
Andy (Lu-Lu),
Have ewe (a female sheep) and your girlfriend (We “lost” the east) talked about tying the knot yet? Neither one of ewe can spell obnoxious and I’m sure you’ll both be happy togeather. Later dufuss…
dedog
June 23rd, 2012
9:47 pm
mark this down–the dogs win the SEC east with blowout wins over usc and fla, then beat lsu by 10 in the sec title game. these dogs are for real!
Dawg Whisperer
June 23rd, 2012
9:53 pm
Little does ‘Lil Tide realize that Georgia cast off that part of the penal colony that is now Alabama. I have read other Bammers say that Georgia would be Mississippi if not for Atlanta but what would NY be without NYC. The more relevant point is Alabama is still Alabama with Birmingham.
chazzo
June 24th, 2012
12:08 pm
Then again in the 70s and 80s, the “committee” would have chosen USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Michigan every year regardless of record.
Tim Jernigan
June 25th, 2012
3:50 pm
UGA does not need anu more shots at the NC. They need to fix that bumbling program before the thought of anything comes to their mind
Tim Jernigan
June 25th, 2012
4:03 pm
@ WE Run the East
King Daddey is an imposter when it comes to football and probably many other aspects of his life. Dont hold it against him because he needs help.