Which game (besides South Carolina) will be Georgia’s toughest?
Marcus Lattimore is one of the reasons South Carolina looms as Georgia's toughest opponent in 2012. (Associated Press)
This time last year, I conducted what had become our annual survey to see which game you thought would be the toughest for the Dogs, other than the showdown in Jacksonville.
Because of the Florida game’s history over the previous couple of decades, I had decided to put it in a category all its own. It was, of course, the toughest game Georgia would face. The monkey on their back. The discussion was over which game was the next toughest.
But no longer. I think it’s fair to say there’s been a sea change in the SEC East over the past couple of years and, at least for now, I don’t believe the Florida game qualifies any longer as the automatic biggest hurdle on the Dawgs’ schedule.
Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks have taken over that spot.
Consider: South Carolina, which last year was picked by 65 percent of Junkyard Blawg readers voting in the poll as the likely toughest game on the schedule aside from Florida, has won two in a row against Georgia, which beat Florida last year.
Yes, I know I said a few weeks ago that I consider the showdown with Florida a more important game than South Carolina, and that’s still the case. Because, let’s face it, the Dawgs can lose to the Gamecocks and still win the SEC East if they win the rest of their conference schedule (which admittedly is again easier than the Gamecocks’ schedule this year). Plus, winning two in a row in Jacksonville would pretty much park the “jinx” talk on the back shelf.
But we’re not talking most important game here, or the game you most want Georgia to win. We’re looking at which game will be the toughest for the Dawgs, and I don’t think there’s much argument there. Most college football observers are picking the Oct. 6 game in Columbia as the most likely loss in a Bulldog schedule that otherwise is deemed quite manageable.
The fact that many of those picking the Gamecocks to beat Georgia are also picking Georgia to win the SEC East again in spite of that drives Spurrier absolutely crazy.
Is this a great world, or what?
So, for the sake of this exercise at least, let’s stipulate that South Carolina is the toughest game on the schedule, thanks in large part to the Gamecocks’ perennially tough defense, the assumed presence of a healthy Marcus Lattimore in the lineup and the fact that Spurrier wants it practically more than life itself.
The Bulldogs certainly don’t want to lose a third consecutive year to South Carolina for the first time ever, but it wouldn’t derail their season.
So, let’s turn out attention to which game besides South Carolina looms as Georgia’s toughest challenge.
Is it the Gators, who are still going through their post-Urban renewal? You could make a good argument that because of the series’ history and the rivalry between the two programs (and the closeness of last year’s game thanks to Georgia’s awful special teams play) that the Jacksonville classic is the next toughest game on the 2012 schedule. Florida should be tough on defense, but at this point they’re still a big question mark offensively.
James Franklin could be a big challenge for a UGA defense missing several starters. (Associated Press)
From what I’m hearing, though, more fans are concerned about the conference opener against Missouri. Not only will it be Mizzou’s SEC debut — which means they’re sure to be jacked for it — but Georgia is entering the game with an automatic handicap in having several defensive starters suspended. Plus the Dawgs will be going without last year’s SEC freshman of the year at tailback. Also, recent history shows Mark Richt’s teams have a tendency to get off to a slow start early in the season, especially on offense. And Tigers quarterback James Franklin probably will be the most dangerous two-way threat Associate Head Coach Todd Grantham’s defense will face all season.
As for the rest of the non-cupcake part of the schedule, there’ll probably be a bit more interest in the game with Vandy this year, thanks to the chippy nature of last year’s visit to Nashville, but it still would require a definitely subpar performance on the part of the Dawgs for the Commodores to win in Athens.
Loading ...Kentucky has been known to be surprisingly tough against the Dawgs in recent years, but on paper it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen this year.
Ole Miss? Still pretty much a disaster.
Auburn, of course, always has the potential to be a tough game, though the Tigers remain something of an unknown at this point.
And Georgia Tech and its tricky offense are always dangerous.
So how do I vote? I’m going with Missouri as the toughest game this season after South Carolina.
What about you? Feel free to share your comments, vote in the poll or do both.
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Pat
July 11th, 2012
10:39 am
Florida. No brainer.
RxDawg
July 11th, 2012
10:45 am
Hmmm, I’ll cheat and say two of em.
Florida for historic and pshycological reasons.
Auburn for the behind the scene stories and exact opposite reasons from Florida.
Ok, one more. I’m scared to death of Mizzou. I just feel like were going to drop an L in that one.
Westicles
July 11th, 2012
10:45 am
One thing is for sure: Georgia Tech will NOT be UGA’s toughest game.
Of the teams listed on the poll, I’d have to say Florida. Last time UGA beat UF twice in a row was 1988-89.
James
July 11th, 2012
10:49 am
South Carolina game is all that matters.
If Rev. Richt gets beat by a team from a state that has a population less than metro Atl, 1 million less, for the 3rd straight year, he should be fired. We have tons more to offer a kid than USC, it’s the worst stadium and city in the SEC. Their facilities rank in bottom tier in football and their fan base is half the size of UGA’s. Would be like Bama or LSU getting beat 3 straight by Missy St. Of course their fan base would not accept that, ours likely will.
Sam
July 11th, 2012
10:52 am
Florida and Auburn. Both defenses will be pretty stout which might put the game in the hands of our special teams…and we are depending on two true freshmen.
RxDawg
July 11th, 2012
10:52 am
And for the record, I’m actually not that worried about South Carolina. We should of creamed them last year, they just won because of fluke turnover plays. Our offense and special teams gave them 28 points…thats just crazy. I think we handle them.
DIT
July 11th, 2012
10:53 am
I think Mizzou and UF are equally as tough.
Since Vince
July 11th, 2012
10:57 am
UGA should NEVER lose to the chickens. UGA will lose in both Columbia’s and to the dreaded Gators. Woudnt surprise me if we lost to Vandy as well.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
11:03 am
Missouri simply because the team will be so short-handed. Florida is the more important game.
Dawgmess
July 11th, 2012
11:10 am
Missouri. Our Dawgs had better get their ‘tune-up’ out of the way with Buffalo and show up in Memorial Stadium with their tails curled.
tony
July 11th, 2012
11:13 am
They have the players to win a nc but not sure the hc wants it.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1030472-2012-georgia-bulldogs-will-go-12-0-and-not-play-for-national-title
chilidawg
July 11th, 2012
11:20 am
Mizzou. Green-Beckham will have an impact.
SSIgator
July 11th, 2012
11:21 am
UGA has not won back-to-back games against UF since 1990. Don’t see anything with this UGA team that would indicate that this could be the year.
Paddy
July 11th, 2012
11:25 am
Dawgs will be shorthanded but not depleted. We win in Mo. but it will be real, real close
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
11:28 am
Agreed, Paddy. Even if Franklin is fully recovered from that shoulder surgery, he has to deal with Georgia’s front seven before he can even think about getting the ball off to a receiver.
lanier
July 11th, 2012
11:33 am
Fla always just because who they are
Dawggie
July 11th, 2012
11:33 am
I hate Florida
ARdawg
July 11th, 2012
11:36 am
Florida IMHO is the toughest. They want to keep the upper hand as much as we want it back. Until we again make them our beeyotch they are in our head.
If CMR can keep The Old Bawl Sack out of his head we cruise past SC, no problem. Richt can’t out coach him but we can easily out play them.
Mizzou wants to do good but, they don’t have the horses. Franklin isn’t enough and the Defense is one they haven’t seen in the Big 12. Easy win in Mizzou even with a depleted squad. I’ll be at that game.
The Vols scare me. If Bray hadn’t gotten hurt last year, we come close to losing that one
SSIgator
July 11th, 2012
11:36 am
“I don’t believe the Florida game qualifies any longer as the automatic biggest hurdle on the Dawgs’ schedule”
You could be right Bill. Since UGA has lost to KY, Vandy, as well as UCF and MSU in bowl games in recent years, I guess they should not be counted as “automatic wins” either.
ARdawg
July 11th, 2012
11:37 am
SSI
All indications are that this is the year for back to back wins but, we’ve had those indications before and didn’t get it done
gomdawg
July 11th, 2012
11:41 am
I think Tennessee, Florida and Missouri.
SSIgator
July 11th, 2012
11:46 am
ARdawg
July 11th, 2012
11:37 am
SSI
All indications are that this is the year for back to back wins but, we’ve had those indications before and didn’t get it done
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ugaclassof2004
July 11th, 2012
12:02 pm
Until we can beat Florida 2 years in a row( something we haven’t done since the Dooley era), they are our 1# nemisis. Richt has gotten a handle on the rest of UGA’s rivals( and he has been kicking the ever living dog crap out of Auburn lately for some reason). But Florida? Well except for that shelacking we gave them in 2007, we have not played well against this team, even when we win. I can deal with Florida beating us if they have the better team like they did in 2006 and 2008. But when the Gators are down, like they have been the last couple of years, we need to be winning our share. I to this day with NEVER forgive any of those losses to Ron Zook. We had the better team every single year, and we were 1-2 against him. All I’m saying is that when Florida is down we need to be sticking it to them like they would be sticking it to us if we were down.
Dawg Tired
July 11th, 2012
12:12 pm
Missouri is scary at their place. First SEC game in school history. UGA secondary back in Athens eating brownies, etc.
Elise
July 11th, 2012
12:15 pm
If we get beat by SOS again, I may stop going. Coach Richt has been paid almost 25 million bucks to fall behind SOUTH CAROLINA?!
Vampire Bill
July 11th, 2012
12:17 pm
I can see losing to Vandy. You know Franklin hates us with a passion.
Chris
July 11th, 2012
12:20 pm
Until we beat Florida 3 to 4 times in a row (not 2 in a row), or at least beat them something like 3 out of 5 years, or 4 out of 6 it will ALWAYS be Florida. We have allowed Florida to dominate us over the span of 20 something years which is by far the biggest disappointment in the history of Georgia football. Until we right that ship, Florida will always be our biggest and toughest rival.
knoxdawg
July 11th, 2012
12:24 pm
Missouri and Florida in a tie. Both equally important and both being equally tough.
Desert Fox
July 11th, 2012
12:31 pm
MO. Its on the road, they’re no cupcake, those darned suspensions and no IC. I’d even put MO ahead of SC. Both games will be tough and away. I’d be more optimistic if it were not for all the attrition, suspensions, etc., over the off season and no apparent fix to our special teams play. These early games will either be CMR’s demise or his finest hour.
Greg
July 11th, 2012
12:34 pm
Bill,
Please don’t ask us for our input and then you tell us what the answer should be. Sakerlina lost a lot of talent on defense, not to mention maybe the best defensive coordinator in the league. One could make a very strong case that Florida is Georgia’s toughest opponent, including this Bulldog.
Greg
July 11th, 2012
12:36 pm
And Missouri is being vastly overrated. It doesn’t matter how excited their fans are going to be. If that mattered, Tech would be 100-0 against UGA.
Columbus Dawg
July 11th, 2012
12:40 pm
Many BIG Dawgs around here are simply fed up with the fact that Richt can not get the team ready to go out of the chute. If you don’t think that the money men had a lot to do with Richt’s less than stellar contract, you had better think again. McGarity obviously was not going to come out bashing Richt this year, but he and ALL of the boosters that I know have not changed their minds about what is expected of this team. There is no way that a team like Mizzou, even with a great passing game, should stop Georgia with the across the board talent on the Dawgs roster. The Tigers do not have an SEC type running game, nor do they possess a defense any where near what the Dawgs will field. If the Dawgs lose this game, Richt’s seat will be hotter than it was pre 2011, and he knows it.
With all this being said, I do believe that we will see the return of the old Richt, the one that hardly ever lost on the road, and the Richt that actually liked to run the ball successfully. Nobody wants to talk about UGA’s receiving corps, which will be just as good as Mizzou’s. I do not think the Dawgs drop this one. Richt absolutely MUST entrench the “One game at a time” mentality in this current group of players much like he did in 2002.
I think Bobo has received advice from more than one respected football mind this offseason, and being the DGD that he is, will do everything he can to shed the current image that most have of him as OC. Murray’s continued maturing and a running game that has lacking will help his cause. I do think that the Dawg Nation will surprisingly pleased with the improvements this season. The defense will be way ahead of where it was early in 2011, and Mizzou ain’t Boise.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
12:45 pm
Greg, good point on USCe. I was talking to an alumnus at the gym the other day and he seemed pretty concerned about losing both Coach Johnson and a pretty talented group of players. He also said the biggest concern over there, and rightfully so, is whether Lattimore will be able to fully recover from that brutal knee injury.
USCFan
July 11th, 2012
12:45 pm
You guys are going 8-4 this year … losses to Mizzou, South Carolina, Florida and Auburn.
Erin Murray for Heisman
StevoDeg
July 11th, 2012
12:50 pm
I’m tempted to say Mizzou because of our suspended secondary, but I still think our front 7 will be strong and fast enough to give Mizzou’s line all they can handle. I think we win that without too much issue. So, I chose Florida because of the importance. Like the article said, another win here would certainly move us away from the talk about how we can’t beat Florida and if we can dominate them in all 3 aspects, it will be a large step in showing our maturity.
bubba4dawgs
July 11th, 2012
12:51 pm
Tennessee is hungry and Bray is healthy along with perhaps the best receiving corps in the nation save for perhaps Mizzou. The Vols young team that Dooley took over a couple of years ago have grown up and should win 8-9 games this year. Bray is a slinger and might well turn out to be the best quarterback in the SEC this year. All I gotts say is watch out for’em!
wow !
July 11th, 2012
12:54 pm
GEORGIA TECH
DAWG258
July 11th, 2012
12:54 pm
SSI gripping to what once was……. it’s over.
A. you have no QB
B. you have no RB
C. this is the worst set of WR’s you’ve had since 90′
D. I don’t see any all americans coming back on your defense.
Just try to
A. pass your drug test
B. go .500 this season and go to Shreveport
Florida owns you Mutts
July 11th, 2012
1:15 pm
DAWG258 is the typical Dawg…all bark and no bite. Why don’t you all actually win more than 3 out of 21 BEFORE you start talking about how things are “gonna be”. Usual Dwag fans and sportswriters…always what you’re GONNA do…never what you have DONE.
SavannahDawg
July 11th, 2012
1:25 pm
Why does every writer talk of how amazing South Carolina’s D was last year? Our offense hung 42 on them. If you recall, USC’s offense only scored 17 on our D (We gave them 28 points… 1 fumble for TD, one INT for TD, one fake punt for TD, and another INT that they ran back to like the 10 yard line… so I’m not giving that one to their offense, either.)
50 ARRESTS/4 YEARS
July 11th, 2012
1:25 pm
Any arrests this week?
chazzo
July 11th, 2012
1:25 pm
UT and UF will be tough games. Anyone thinking those games are foregone conclusions is sadly mistaken. I hope the coaches and players don’t fall into that category. Mizzou will be tough because our secondary will be depleted.
GT will be the second toughest though after SC.
What I would love to see: UGA beats SC, UT, UF, AU, and GT in the same season.
chazzo
July 11th, 2012
1:32 pm
PS as far as UF goes: The Dawgs toughest opponent is the Dawgs.
UGA Insider
July 11th, 2012
1:32 pm
It is UF without a doubt. You must keep Muschamp down and keep the pressure from the fans on.
ARdawg
July 11th, 2012
1:34 pm
SSI
No doubt in my mind it is coaching. Yours and ours
dmr
July 11th, 2012
1:39 pm
Synergy. It is part of football. I don’t like the fact that Georgia refuses to hire a special teams coach. It makes me nuts. That said, it will be Missouri. Why, you may ask? Here’s why. Second game of the season. Georgia will not have been tested. Secondary in flux and missing key members. Special teams may come into play. BOOK THIS: If Mike Bobo has Aaron Murray throw the ball more than 25 times in this game, Georgia will lose. Georgia will need to focus on ball control, clock management, keeping the defense fresh, and avoid any type of shootout. Georgia can physically wear this team down, but if they start trying to chuck the ball all over the place and don’t use the clock, Missouri will make use of their talented wide receivers. This will be ALL on Bobo’s game plan in my opinion. 6 – 8 yard passes, keep moving the chains, run the ball, limit the number of plays the defense has to be on the field.
harold
July 11th, 2012
1:44 pm
UGA PLAYS ONE TOP 20 TEAM—-A CUP CAKE SCHEDULE. NON CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS LAUGHABLE.
IF RICHT CAN’T GO 13-0 WITH THIS “CREAM PUFF” SCHEDULE IT IS TIME FOR RICHT TO GO.
Clay
July 11th, 2012
1:47 pm
@Florida owns you mutts — interesting that you only chose to include the past 21 years in you conclusion thereby editing the validity of your comment… You don’t take a series and chop it off at the end… Every game counts, so why don’t you tell us the real data now? Oh wait, on a UF education you may have trouble researching all the simple words that were just used… Here it is buddy—(Georgia’s count 48-40-2, but even if you use Florida’s count we are still up 47-40-2) Good luck catching up to us with ole hot headed Muskrat over there.
Dale
July 11th, 2012
1:48 pm
UGA fans make me laugh. You act so high and mighty yet you can’t beat nobody when it really counts.
Haha jus poking you some.
I am a Clemson fan and better yet a Clemson grad and if you will quit being scared and let us in the SEC we can resume what was one of the best rivalries in the country even though I know you don’t want none of Sammy Watkins or Andre Ellington.
And the cooters are cheating bad in case you havent noticed. It won’t last long.
But for the record if we were playing this year, Dabo and the boys would take you by 7-10.
Tiger Out!
Florida owns you Mutts
July 11th, 2012
1:50 pm
Clay-
How is that leather helmet fitting you? At what point does it not become a trend for you idiots? 21 years not enough of a sample size for you? Still dreaming about 1980 and double complete rainbows Clay?
ARdawg
July 11th, 2012
1:52 pm
The Trolls are now out in full force
Dale
July 11th, 2012
1:53 pm
Haha at the Florida fans! I wish we could play you one year. You’re terrible now. Didn’t Furman take you to OT? Bwahahahahahaha!
george
July 11th, 2012
1:59 pm
FINALLY beat Florida and the sec east has changed??? HA HA HA HA. And if you win this year the jinx is over????? 5 out of 22 and the jinx is over??? Really?? You cant be that nieve. Fact is the pups have 4 games that are toss ups. Mizz,fl,usc, and AU. Split those 4 and trip up somewhere else like they always do and another average 9-3 season. Let the crying and whining begin.
dougmo2
July 11th, 2012
2:02 pm
Georgia vs. Athens-Clarke County Police
It’s hard to win when the opponents have home field and a lot more weapons.
UGA- now #6 in the Fulmer Cup Standings.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
2:05 pm
It’s an ambush, ARdawg!
Westicles
July 11th, 2012
2:07 pm
Yo, Dale!
One huge drawback of the Conference expansion over the last few years is that the opportunity for UGA to play Clemson doesn’t come around too often, unless we meet in the Peach Bowl. (Chic-Fil-A can suck it. I still call it the peach Bowl.)
UGA / Clemson used to be a great rivalry. We should all do away with the “tune up games” against schools like the University of Northern South Dakota and fill in our non-conference schedules with teams that boost each others’ strength of schedule.
Sweeny has an idea that I love; UGA and Clemson playing each other in a spring scrimmage.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
2:10 pm
Couldn’t agree more, Westicles. The spring scrimmage would be a great way to get the Clemson rivalry going again while still satisfying the AD’s appetite for cupcakes. Gotta give it to Dabo on that idea!
Cloonan
July 11th, 2012
2:11 pm
Vandy will spoil the dawgs party this year. Book it!
Dale
July 11th, 2012
2:12 pm
Haha at Dawg Haus. Your jaw would drop when you saw Sammy Watkins. He would outrun any Dawg in a hundred yard dash by ten yards, and I’m not exagerating. Youtube him and drool.
Our offense would be to stout for the Dawgs. We win by 7-10.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
2:22 pm
Dale, I didn’t call Clemson a cupcake. I said I liked the idea of playing them in a spring scrimmage so the AD can still have the cupcakes on the regular-season schedule. I actually have a lot of respect for Clemson regardless of the bowl game last year. I thought they’d kill WV, but I thought UGA would do the same back in 2005.
Abnerish
July 11th, 2012
2:24 pm
Until we can win consecutive games against Florida, that game will continue to be our toughest. Winning one game against them means nothing. We need to go on a winning streak before we can honestly say that we are over the psychological hump.
Dawg Fud
July 11th, 2012
2:29 pm
Dale,
I married into a Clemson family….actually from Clemson. If you are a Clemson grad then you must also eat lead paint sandwiches.
P_The_Ricker
July 11th, 2012
2:29 pm
UF- toughest
Mizz- most dangerous
UT- most surprising
Duncan Hines has the best Brownie Mix
July 11th, 2012
2:40 pm
Should go 11 and 1 with D and talent.However,past history and current coaching staff will end the season 8 and 4. Gators,Mizz,Vols and Chickens will be in the loss column.
Dale
July 11th, 2012
2:42 pm
So what if you married into a Clemson family, Dawg Fud? What’s that got to do with anything?
Spanky
July 11th, 2012
2:59 pm
Clay, good post! Same to dmr… This is not crazy-talk, and I do believe this, but I think the Ga/SC game will be a low-scoring game, but the dawgs take it by 10..hear me out,hear me out, before you laugh into a tissy!! 1) this game being in the middle of the schedule is HHHHHuge!! We get all of our D back and well primed! 2) By this time, Malcom Mitchell will be back on offense-with the other receivers getting plenty of reps, and he will be looking to make a big impact. 3) The D’s front 7 is the best we’ve had in a long time, with plenty of depth. This will be our best shot at controlling Lattimore, who will be forced outside. 4) Our O-line might be a bit better than a lot of folks think! Coach Friend did a nice patchwork job last year. With Theus coming in, this just might be protection Murray needs. 5) INTRODUCING CHRISTIAN LEMAY !! People, watch out for this kid to come in with some lightning! You’ll see him more and more as the year goes..By the time we play Carolina, he will develope into a difference-maker…and finally..6) Carolina lost some really good players that made a bunch of plays last year, especially on Special Teams and Offense…aaaand..with LSU coming a week later, they might get caught looking ahead!
Well, that’s my 2 cents…have a good day!
Ty
July 11th, 2012
2:59 pm
Is it just me or is it extremly comical how we now have ClemPson people talking trash on the blogs. You tools crack me up. Tech people have got to love this because how many time has tech beaten you in a row now. Series. Please do us all a favor. Beat tech at least 2 times in a row before you can start possing off!!
Oh, watch out, WVU just scored again. I mean, how embarrassing was that bowl game.
Silly ClemPson people!
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
3:04 pm
Nothing against Murray, but I’d love to see Lemay get in on the action next season, Spanky.
DIT
July 11th, 2012
3:04 pm
@Spanky
Hard for this Dawg to see LeMay getting the time needed. I would like to, but as long as Murray is healthy Lemay will not get the playing time he needs. I just hope that if Murray goes down the coaches will have him or Hutson ready to go.
It will be interesting.
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
3:11 pm
Agreed, DIT. I’d love to see Mason or Lemay in as a change-of-pace QB from time to time. I just don’t know if that will happen.
DIT
July 11th, 2012
3:19 pm
Who knows Dawg Haus if Murray can greatly mature this year and perform under preasure, rely on the rest of the team, we will not be calling for the other QB’s.
If Murray would just cut out the stupid, forced mistakes, this kid would be the best QB in the SEC. Big “IF”
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
3:21 pm
No argument here, DIT. I still support Murray, but that bowl performance was demoralizing. Getting the running game going should help Murray out a good bit.
Spanky
July 11th, 2012
3:33 pm
DIT and Dawg Haus, I’m with ya’ll on the Murray issue!! Hutson Mason will redshirt this season, for more future playing time, so it will be LeMay as back-up. I have heard (not sure of validity) that LeMay will come in for specialty plays and mop-up work….you should see him in the second quarter of the Buffalo game…alot!! LOL Also, I do think Murray is too short…I’d love to be proven wrong on this, but I doubt we’ll see him in the league!
Dawg Haus
July 11th, 2012
4:02 pm
Is anybody following this series on ESPN? Murray the #1 QB in the SEC?! http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/45685/sec-position-rankings-quarterbacks-4
sc fan
July 11th, 2012
4:08 pm
I believe that I am tired of hearing SECLeast. Look at it. Down year and Ga. was a couple of bumbling receivers from the championship. SC was one bottle of bourbon from Atlanta. Vandy scared the H out of Arky. SC thrashed #1 alabama the year befor. So let’s quit agreeing with the western clowns
P_The_Ricker
July 11th, 2012
4:30 pm
I don’t believe murray is even the best qb at UGA.
After the mistakes against LSU and MSU to end the season, does anyone really think that the other coaches in the league wouldn’t have re-opened the qb competition in the spring???
richt is loyal to a fault……and that’s the main reason a lot of you guys are expecting a 3 or 4 loss season this year. if richt coached w/out caring about the emotions of his players and embarassing them for taking away starting positions…..UGA could easily compete w/ the LSUs and Alabamas this coming season.
GTown
July 11th, 2012
4:32 pm
I’m looking at Special Teams.
Paul Johnson went out and got a full time Special teams coach.
Vandy blocked a punt, and returned a kick for a td on special teams.
Florida had 3 50+ yard kick returns on us.
Tenn went out and got an NFL guy to head their Special Teams full time.
Spurrier has the Special Teams coach of the year.
As far as defenses:
we face 8 teams that finished in the top 30 in pass defense last year.
we also face Van Gorder at Auburn.
we face Muschamp at UF.
Offenses:
Mizzou
Tenn
Auburn
Tech
South Carolina laid up 45 points on us.
Potential losses are:
Mizzou, Tenn, Vand, SC, UF, Aub, GaTech
Toughest will be Florida of course (18-3 record vs UGA), then Georgia Tech because of improved defense, great running game, and new special teams coach.
We will lose at least 3 games, simply due to special teams.
CHDawg
July 11th, 2012
4:39 pm
This is easy. Bama in the Dome will be the toughest.
BigGAdawg
July 11th, 2012
4:52 pm
Missouri, but only because of the suspensions of the selfish ones who put themselves ahead of their teammates. In terms of talent on the other side of the ball, probably Florida or Auburn.
Rob
July 11th, 2012
4:57 pm
I hear all this worry about Mizzou and our secondary but is anyone mentioning the absolute horror that was the mizzuo O-line again a good pass rush last year?!?!?! We will be rushing Jarvis jones and Corn at them all day and that QB can only be effective if Jarvis’s helmet isnt firmly planted into his chest down after down.
PREDICTION: Our d-line forces franklin into bad throws which in turn makes our scrappy secondary look better and gain much need confidence. Murray owns offense early but then Boo secures the game with 4 yard run after 4 yard run. UGA 28 Mizzou 17
Thomas Harrison
July 11th, 2012
5:24 pm
Richt is a PRIME example of an excellent coach who should NEVER be a Head Coach!!
Saw a Huge Change in Richt while Damon Evans ” panty played ” @ UGA——VERY COSTLY!!!!!
SSIgator
July 11th, 2012
5:26 pm
CHDawg
July 11th, 2012
4:39 pm
This is easy. Bama in the Dome will be the toughest
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I thought it was going to be a home and home series starting again next year?
dienlafin
July 11th, 2012
5:30 pm
Dale Yo! 70-33.
What the hell you even talking about football for?
SC players refer to your sacred Sammy as “Sammy Dropkins.”
Oh by the way, you think your sacred Sammy misses the Auburn game?
PS I understand that your #1 commit wants the Chick fil A to stay open on Sundays.
Please I’m begging you stay off this football site, you don’t deserve to be here.
bham dawg
July 11th, 2012
5:49 pm
@SSIgator… SEC championship come on
AltamahaDawg
July 11th, 2012
6:02 pm
SSI, what head-to-head position match-ups do you “see in this UGA team” do you count as UF advantages?
We Run the East
July 11th, 2012
6:13 pm
For those of you who say UGA gave SC last years game, listen to this- Late in the 4th qtr and UGA up by 4, Sc had to have a td to get the lead and we drove the ball down the field (lattimore, etc…) to get the td we had to have. Up by 3 after td and then MURRAY gave us the easy td. When we had to have it we took it. that is how it went down.
AltamahaDawg
July 11th, 2012
6:17 pm
Uh, excuse me, but Florida’s record vs Georgia is NOT 18-3. Any more than it’s 0-1. The game has actually been around quite a long time.
LogicalUS
July 11th, 2012
6:46 pm
SC game is a loss, you are correct Bill…but ones to look out for are Mizzou and another is the UT game the week before the trip to SC because though UT has many problems their one strenght is Bray and passing game vs the UGA secondary which is going to have very few reps together going into that game and UGA looking past a week. Look for this one to be a huge shootout and with Murray propensity to turn the ball over do not be surprised.
And a note to the Clemson fan, you must be lost as the board for the Ga High School league is elsewhere, this is a board for MAJOR COLLEGE football. Opps…that Big East team just scored again. .
Stewart Mandel article in Sports Illulstrated disses the Dawgs
July 11th, 2012
7:03 pm
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/07/11/kings-barons-knights-peasants-mailbag/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a0
Mexdawg
July 11th, 2012
7:19 pm
Dale look out West Virginia just scored again.Do you have any idea what the Ga-Clemson record is.We own you guys.We would beat you like a red headed stepchild just like Carolina did.JUST BEAT THE GATORS BABY.LET THE BIG DAWG EAT.
shankit
July 11th, 2012
7:19 pm
Duz any of our teams have a blog like the AJC where you
can cum on line and berate the Dawgs? If iff’n any of your
Dawg players read this blog, cummin from Dosta, our ol’
coach Baze would paste this crap on his locker room fore
any rival game and use theze blogs to motivate his players
to kick arse against the opponents which use theze blogs
to berate the Dawgs. Dawgs, kick arse.
shankit
July 11th, 2012
7:32 pm
Dawgs, suck it up, quit reading these blogs. Pump the iron,
and get your arse in shape to kick arse against all opponents.
Dosta has kicked arse against all the Bama prima donna high
school schools, Bessemer, who won the Bama state championship
with one loss, against Dosta who kicked their arse, Robert E. Lee
who won the Bama state championship, but Dosta kicked their
arse. As Baze youse to say, they put on their jockey straps just
like you do, they lace up their shoes just like your do, just go out
and let them know who is the boss.
Joey Hanie
July 11th, 2012
7:39 pm
I think its Floriduh. Georgia shot it’s self in the foot with Carolina last year spoting them 28 points. The DAWGS were the better team, and will be this year
jack bull
July 11th, 2012
7:56 pm
Well, looking at recent road trips out west, Ok State and Colorado, I’ve got to go with Mizzou as the being the toughest. Normally, I wouldn’t be saying this, as my BIG 12 guru is telling me we shouldn’t have any problems at all with the Tigers(although he did say for those of us going to this game, we WILL have some issues with their fans…more on this later on our blog).
Typically, I would go with UF, but they are in trouble, big trouble down there. And yes, UT is a ‘trap’ game. Watch out for them!
kingdaddy
July 11th, 2012
7:57 pm
Missouri lost their backup qb (Glaser) and their starting qb is coming off of a surgery, Dawgs too much. Looks like Fla. because of mental block , not because they’re any good…
BabsTolstoy
July 11th, 2012
8:11 pm
Auburn. Here’s why. Late in the season when dawg’s attrition really starts to show. Auburn is young, talented, and getting better, plus has the depth now to be good late in the year. Ga. will be hurt and tired and will get spanked.
AltamahaDawg
July 11th, 2012
8:27 pm
Miss State
Gordon
July 11th, 2012
8:28 pm
Why hasn’t someone said “the team we play in the SECCG”? Don’t you think you’re going to get there?
The Professor
July 11th, 2012
8:34 pm
Here’s your Bulldog Math Problem of the Week
f(x,y,z) = 7.85x + 82.4y•π + 3z²
Solve for f(x, y, z), given:
X = the realistic probability of Mark Richt ever winning a national championship at UGA
Y = the number of legitimate college degrees awarded to UGA football players
Z = the number of UGA students who are not drunks
Congratulations if you came up with the correct answer, which is ZERO
AltamahaDawg
July 11th, 2012
8:40 pm
Here is a problem for you: What occurs 0.09090909 % of the time?
Indian Dawg
July 11th, 2012
8:55 pm
I think the two toughest (minus SCAR) will be Florida, for obvious reasons, and Missouri. We don’t have any experience playing Mizzou, we’ll be missing our starting secondary for the most part, and we’re still figuring out our offensive pieces and how to shuffle them according to the situation. We also traditionally suck at the beginning of the season. We just need to figure out how to cover the pass and we’ll be fine, but that’s a lot easier said than done.
I don’t think Auburn will be that difficult this year, mainly because they’re bringing in new coordinators. It takes time to adjust as we’ve seen.
I am actually really excited about the Vanderbilt game this year. Can’t wait to see the pay back we’re going to dish out on James Franklin and his arrogant mouth. Ah and my last Tech game as an undergrad. Time flies.
Brainiac(Dawg/Richt fan for life)
July 11th, 2012
9:10 pm
@ Elise:
Please move on to another team or another sport with my blessings!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have enough “Rainy Day Fans” without you!!!!!!!!!!!
We all call for players/recruits that really want to be a DAWG so the same should apply to fans!!!!!!
You have the nerve to badmouth CMR while he is only the 3rd winningest active coach in America.Better won/loss record than ANY active SEC coach and he is carrying an albatross called “Most Stringent Team/School rules in college football”.
UGA kicks players off the team for serious infractions and they come back a year later playing for another SEC team but I’m pretty sure you have no idea what goes on in the real college football world!!!
Bon Voyage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swamp Thing
July 11th, 2012
9:22 pm
It’s F-L-O-R-I-D-A….
Divicenzo
July 11th, 2012
9:44 pm
South Carolina will roll over UGA like a freight train. Why? Better coaching, better athletes, far more intelligence athletes, and there are no me-first stooges like UGA has, even with Crowell gone.
Bam Bam
July 11th, 2012
9:48 pm
You have the nerve to badmouth CMR while he is only the 3rd winningest active coach in America.
Right. Remind me again how many national championships your boy Richt has won.
Bam Bam
July 11th, 2012
9:49 pm
I lovs the picture of the Georgia Klowns chasing Lattimore!
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
9:51 pm
Are you talking BCS Championships? The BCS is a joke. All it is is a beauty contest for ESPN. In other words everyone that has played in one is ESPN’s bi***ches.
Beast from the East
July 11th, 2012
10:02 pm
Kerryb,
I usually agree with you on most subjects, but your disdain for the BCS is only shared by programs that have never won it all. It reminds me of the poor folks that peer through the windows of an expensive restaurant and make comments about the wealthy patrons inside. Always on the outside looking in. You’d sell your soul to win it all and be one of ESPN’s “bi***ches”.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:12 pm
Nope. That’s why I’m glad there is finally going to be some kind of playoff. Now you have to earn it instead of being selected by ESPN.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:13 pm
I think the disdain for the BCS by ALL Dawg fans started in 2007.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:14 pm
And was confirmed by what happened last year.
Beast from the East
July 11th, 2012
10:16 pm
kerryb,
How do you have to “earn it” anymore than before? You still have to be SELECTED to participate. Then win one extra game IF you are chosen. Not a whole lot of difference if you ask me.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:21 pm
Beast, the reason I put that was because of that idiotic comment form that nimrod Bam Bam. Like winning games didn’t mean much if you don’t play in a hyped up beauty contest called the BCS NC Game. Ask Okie State. You have no control if you are selected for that game. It is all up to the media.
fan
July 11th, 2012
10:22 pm
Missouri in Columbia will be tough
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:28 pm
I really am not worried about Missouri. Don’t know why some people are.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:29 pm
I think our toughest game of the year will be the SEC Championship game.
NC_Dawg
July 11th, 2012
10:30 pm
Who gives a crap about all this off season speculation? As far as I’m concerned every game matters. Georgia has a cupcake schedule this year. If they can’t beat USC, they don’t deserve to play in the SEC Championship. Shut up and play football! I can’t wait for the season to start.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:32 pm
NC_Dawg
July 11th, 2012
10:30 pm
Who gives a crap about all this off season speculation? As far as I’m concerned every game matters. Georgia has a cupcake schedule this year. If they can’t beat USC, they don’t deserve to play in the SEC Championship. Shut up and play football! I can’t wait for the season to start.
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Agree. Bill must be getting bored or running out of topics to write about.
NC_Dawg
July 11th, 2012
10:33 pm
I’ve been waiting 32 years for Georgia to win another National Championship. I hope all the pieces fall into place this year.
Beast from the East
July 11th, 2012
10:33 pm
kerryb,
Understood. You were responding to us trolls…LOL.
Have a good one!
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:34 pm
Beast, I would NEVER call you a troll. I know how to identify real trolls.
FLA DAWG
July 11th, 2012
10:40 pm
You know you asking which game in preseason is the most important is moot.
Come on Bill – space to fill?
McGarity and Richt have had a combination of luck and planning in lining up patsy teams this season.
Having said that, I am going way out on a limb (I’m sure Alta Dawg will reprint this if I am wrong) that we will lose by midseason to one or more of the following; Buffalo, Mizzou, FL Atlantic, Vandy, UT and SC.
Sorry Dawg Nation but I don’t see any improvement in Offense, Head Coaching, Offensive Coaching or Special Teams. The D should be better but that is only a hope.
Richt cannot command this ship and he has proven it in and off season to me in my opinion.
Let’s get someone who can.
Todd Grantham has the cajones to cover all bases while looking for a good, ground & air OC.
“Get’ r done!”
Mobile Dawg
July 11th, 2012
10:48 pm
I’m interested to see what plays out, but my expectations are definitely tempered. Using the past few years as a gauge, we have been unprepared at times, and spectacular at times. Consistently inconsistent. Not sure what has changed that would make things different.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:51 pm
Having said that, I am going way out on a limb (I’m sure Alta Dawg will reprint this if I am wrong) that we will lose by midseason to one or more of the following; Buffalo, Mizzou, FL Atlantic, Vandy, UT and SC.
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Are you kidding me? Are you really that paranoid of a Dawg fan? take the Dawg off your name. Get real.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:53 pm
The last two post are a classic example of the average wieners that are Dawg fans. They should call you guys wiener Dawgs. These are the Dawg fans that just make me want to puke.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
10:58 pm
I’m just going to call you guys Eeyores from Winnie the Pooh. (said in the voice of Eeyore) “Whoa me, we stink, we can’t beat anyone, our coach stinks (even though he has the third highest winning percentage the last 10 years). We can’t beat even Florida Atlantic or Buffalo”. Man if you’re going to be like that go be fans of another team.
Mobile Dawg
July 11th, 2012
10:58 pm
So kerry, you’re saying the Dawgs haven’t been inconsistent? Your insults are humorous, it’s your intelligence I have to question.
kerryb
July 11th, 2012
11:03 pm
It’s your fandom that I question. I think we had a pretty good season last year. Yea, we lost our bowl game but it wasn’t like Michigan State was UCF. They finished in the top 10. 2009 and 2010 were flukes and there were reasons for those seasons. Get on the bandwagon and quit being so negative or just get off. I don’t think any fans in college football are more negative than Georgia fans
Mobile Dawg
July 11th, 2012
11:09 pm
I don’t think being realistic is negative. If anything I said wasn’t true it would be different. Nice dodge of my question though.
Dawg Whisperer
July 11th, 2012
11:24 pm
Riddle me this Professor. Where x=GT and y=UGA, y does x always = zero when GT plays UGA?
DawginLex
July 11th, 2012
11:24 pm
UGA 45
Mizzou 28
SC game will be toughest and florida will be next. Would not be surprised to see Florida beat SC in the swamp and finish 2nd in the east at 9-3(6-2 SEC). Also won’t be surprised to see Sc go 8-4
If we lose more than 1 game all year it will be a big letdown
Red Dawn
July 11th, 2012
11:26 pm
The South Carolina game will be a great game to watch!!
The old ball coach loves to stick it to the dawgs but hope
Georgia wins this year!!
RED DOG 77
July 11th, 2012
11:37 pm
Not too many years ago, Georgia used to be the most feared road team in the SEC…………2012 Will prove to be a return to the days of Georgia whuppin’ you in your own house………………Oh and by the way, I don’t pretend to know who the DAWGS toughest and second toughest games will be, but take my word Dawg Nation………………Georgia beats the livin’ crap out of South Carolina this year…………….RED
Froggy The Gremlin
July 12th, 2012
2:07 am
The Phil Fulmer Trophy has already been permanently renamed The Richt Cup. He has established low standards that can never be touched. One would have to assume that most of the bloggers here are Wal-Mart alumni. I think real alumni would be more concerned with the tarnished image that their school now has and has brought on the entire state. Tech can only raise this image by limited amount. You hear me alumni?
drbasic1
July 12th, 2012
5:47 am
@froggy
your a moron
We Run the East
July 12th, 2012
6:16 am
So UGA beats the crap out of SC…. at Columbia….REALLY….REALLY! Yep, enjoy all this bravado before the games start. SC is Best In East for 3rd year in a row. this blog is fantasy football for UGA fans. Pure fantasy,
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paul
July 12th, 2012
7:00 am
I”d say, Buffalo ..
kingdaddy
July 12th, 2012
7:05 am
Paul
One game at a time…
Stephen
July 12th, 2012
7:32 am
Dale, The Clemson Grad:
“you can’t beat nobody when it really counts”
Dale must have been an english major.
Columbus Dawg
July 12th, 2012
7:35 am
That is correct Gamechicken, we are going to eat little gamechickens at the tailgate party AND on the field in your pathetic little stadium. Spurrier will think he is in the Olympic Visor Slinging Finals at the 2012 Olympics. Spurrier will think long and hard about his retirement after the lack luster season he will finish with in 2012. Little Gamechicken dreams dashed!
Joey
July 12th, 2012
7:35 am
Red Dawg 77, I hope you’re right about the road team stuff, but I’ll believe it when I see it. And, the Bulldogs WILL get tested on the road early on – Mizzou. They will throw everything but the kitchen sink at us to win their historic, first SEC game, and while I trust Grantham, he will be short-handed with experienced DBs, and overall depth. Not to mention, Richt/Bobo have proven for a while they can’t adjust in-game, and Richt coaches more to “not lose,” than to WIN.
I will say this, if Richt coaches every game as he did vs Auburn last season, we will have a good year. But he didn’t even coach the final 2 games last season in the manner he did vs Auburn, so that’s probably a moot point . . .
yellowfever
July 12th, 2012
7:48 am
This is the year that Tech starts another run of 8 in a row. Go JACKETS.
whiskey breath
July 12th, 2012
7:52 am
Bill, I would like to know how does Ga obtains such a soft schedule? I know the fans will say it is just the luck of the draw, but it is pretty obvious it is selected by a couple of people.
The head coach and AD? Slive either rubber stamps it or he doesn’t care.Nobody else seems
to be able to swing it.
Joey
July 12th, 2012
8:04 am
Thanks for your concern whiskey breath. I bet you worried about our schedule in ‘08 too, huh? You know, when we played the defending BCS Champ (LSU), the “08 BCS Champ (UF), and the SEC runnner-up and ‘09 BCS Champ (Bama), as well as SC, Arizona St, Auburn, Tech, etc. Did you ask Bill why UGA had such a tough schedule?
How about ‘09? Ok St, SC, Ark, Arizona St, LSU, UF, AU, Tech?
Check out all/any of UGA’s scheds in the past, it just might make you seem more informed than you appear now:
http://www.sicemdawgs.com/football/sched/fbsch_09.php
Larry Munson, Jr.
July 12th, 2012
8:26 am
The dawgs are gonna be hard-pressed to win ANY games this year ! We’re so THIN up-front. We don’t have anyone to PLAY ! Everbody’s so much BIGGER and STRONGER ! And we don’t have any SPEED !
WOW!
July 12th, 2012
8:27 am
With about 65 real ship players all of them will be very hard. I cant believe people dont understand how bad this will hurt the team for 2-3 years. What a joke this program has become.
Munson - Dead and Gone Forever
July 12th, 2012
8:47 am
Us Dawg fans should be happy with anything over 6 wins this year……I, myself, would be ecstatic if we lost less than 4 games.
Can’t wait to watch Keith Marshall (The Next Herschel Walker….MY GOD, A FRESHMAN!) play.
Toodles…….WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!
Bama Boy
July 12th, 2012
9:05 am
In 13 they get us and it aint gonna be pretty,Richt will leave for Miami as an assistant and BooBoo gets the head job!hahaha loserville once again
Fair n Balanced
July 12th, 2012
9:06 am
I never saw this as an easy schedule and I don’t understand how anybody says it is. The only way we have a good season is to be a very good team….better than last year in order to repeat winning the East. Granted there are some cupcakes on the schedule but Mo, SC, TN , Vandy, FL, Aub….and Tech can all beat us if we are not a very good team. Given the fact we have suspensions already, transfers, and felony charges to our star player who is now gone….nothing much been done with the OL, the OC position still questionable…..I say we go 9-3 at best. The defense will keep it close in all contests.
Jimmyraybillybob
July 12th, 2012
9:23 am
I’d have to say Missouri. They’re a bit of an un known to most of us UGA fans compared to the other teams we see regularly. It’s early in the new season, which often means turnovers, missed assignments, and mistakes. The Dogs will also be playing without some key starters (bone heads!) that we need for that game, and I’m sure Missouri wants to prove they can play against the big boys in the SEC. I’m just uneasy about that game. Like the fact that the SC game has been moved back a bit. Hopefully that will help. That is surely the toughest game on the schedule.
Eleanor
July 12th, 2012
9:27 am
Enter your comments here
Eleanor Rigby
July 12th, 2012
9:28 am
Ah Where do all the lonely sheeple come from?
shankit
July 12th, 2012
9:37 am
Toughest game for Georgia should be with LSU for the SEC championship,
even tougher than the USC Trojan game for the NC.
Just hope we don’t have to play Washington State (Leach) or his
disciple (Holgorsen at West Virginia)
Eleanor Rigby
July 12th, 2012
9:39 am
All the sheeple buying into Todd Granthams defense is so comical. Get this…. Too many points given up to Boise, SC, LSU and Mich. State. All good teams = all losses. Dont come on here and give us inflated defensive stats by playing NeW Mexico State and Mickey Mouse University. UGA still stinks, so learn it, like it and love it if you want to keep Richt as the coach at UGA.
Sharkman
July 12th, 2012
9:55 am
Answer Bill, ALL OF ‘EM!
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
July 12th, 2012
10:39 am
Buffalo could hang around for 3 quarters or so….We just think UGA will be out coached again.
Newnandawg
July 12th, 2012
11:28 am
The thought of losing 3 in a row to South Carolina is crushing.
Dawg fans, we don’t have to accept something like that.
LogicalUS
July 12th, 2012
11:32 am
I just have to last at all the delusional UGA homers still crying about “giving away” games.
Well, silly people, here is the TRUTH….the players and team who turned the ball over vs SC\LSU\MichState ARE YOUR TEAM so they are back again this year.
How stupid and lame is your argument when you have go about talking about “spotting” teams points as if it was your sorry players\team who contributed to those turnovers and guess what you still have those crappy players to return for another go around.
History would tell us that it looks pretty ugly for UGA in Columbia for the SC game as your crappy players were turned over for 21 pts at HOME and now those same crappy players have to go away to SC where UGA averages about 9 pts a game for the past decade. Just how many more turnovers will UGA have in Columbia? SC by 10.
UGA won’t be playing LSU this season but the same goes against the best defense returning in the SEC, they are only bigger and stronger so how many more than 44 would UGA give this time?
Still say watch out for Mizzou\UT\UF.
Al
July 12th, 2012
11:35 am
Missouri – better hope its not a night game
South Carolina – on the road, nuff said
Florida – need I say more
Auburn – UGA should win but playing not to lose gets ya everytime
Al
July 12th, 2012
11:41 am
The more I think about it all the games will be tough. With Richt,Bobo, & Murray at the helm, they are capable of keeping any team in a game.
Eleanor Rigby
July 12th, 2012
11:44 am
Thankyou Al ! you are no sheeple!
Lindsey
July 12th, 2012
12:05 pm
As I read more and more about our off field issues and suspensions, I am getting worried about this Mizzou games for a number of reasons. This will be their first SEC game, they are going to come out wanting to prove that they belong, plus it is at their home. Then over the last couple of seasons the Dawgs do not start off that great, with this game being in early September I fear they could get us. I am hoping CMR road record and they guys playing like champions will get us the win, GO DAWGS!!
Resident Georgia Fan
July 12th, 2012
12:17 pm
SC by far.
Ace
July 12th, 2012
12:31 pm
Depends on the arrests and suspentions. You know there are more to come.
badlands dawg
July 12th, 2012
12:49 pm
Missouri is going to give UGA a lesson in football boys..Ga never can put thier best team on the field..Missouri knows this,HELL everyobody know this….Murray will find away to drop it like he always do in big games..Spurrier know better then anybody that Ga never have their best team on the field at same time!!!!!!!!
harold
July 12th, 2012
1:11 pm
UGA SCHEDULE IS LAUGHABLE AND A JOKE. IF RICHT DOESN’T GO 13-0 WITH THIS SCHEDULE IT IS TIME FOR RICHT TO GO!
harold
July 12th, 2012
1:12 pm
ANY ARRESTS TODAY?
Red Day
July 12th, 2012
1:16 pm
USC destroys Georgia, 45 – 10 on a glorious fall day in Columbia!
Isaiah's Mommy
July 12th, 2012
1:34 pm
My precious baby boy Isaiah, bless his little heart, should be at UGA helping his team instead of wasting his valuable time at that no-name school in Bama. I don’t know what happened to him, he was always such a good boy, at least until that horrible Coach Richt corrupted him.
Please fire Coach Richt so I can send my boy back to Athens to lead his beloved Dawgs on to victory!
Yours truly,
Miz Debbie
Joey
July 12th, 2012
1:54 pm
45 points? Whew! Easy on the Wild Turkey, Red – though, I guess it’s 5:00 somewhere!
SC’s offense scored 24 points on our D last season, 17 if you don’t count that 4 yd drive. Our O scored every one of our 42 points.
You want to re-calculate? If not, better get those fake punts and reverse KO returns ready . . .
DunwoodyDawg
July 12th, 2012
1:54 pm
I am 100% with all the people who say Florida. The Dawgs have won back to back games against the Gators since ‘88 and ‘89, so this is the big game. This is toughest for purely psychological reasons.
AltamahaDawg
July 12th, 2012
2:59 pm
No, Fla Dawg, why would I take issue with you guessing that we might lose to one of the (MO, TN, SC) games? That’s basically the best guess from about million other people.
And if you are wrong and they don’t, I certainly have no bragging rights. IN fact I don’t disagree. Its very possible. And I’d be pleasantly surprised if not. I do probably do put the % of will win all those, higher than you
When I give/gave you grief about predictions, you were picking the Dawgs to lose, blatently hoping in some cases, pretty much every week last year, then completely diminishing the victory when that didn’t happen.
Really?
July 12th, 2012
3:14 pm
AltamahaDawg
July 11th, 2012
8:40 pm
Here is a problem for you: What occurs 0.09090909 % of the time?
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A UGA student/student-athlete/faculty member DOESN’T get arrested……
FLA DAWG
July 12th, 2012
3:24 pm
kerryb,
You think we had a pretty good season last year? Two opening season losses against a good team and a mediocre team followed by 10 wins against absolute nothing teams ended by two losses by good teams.
The team / coaching did not improve during the season by any measure that I can think of.
It’s fans like you that accept mediocrity and keep this program down. Go an puke all you want. Wallow in mediocrity and puke.
It was the demonstrative outcry by fans like me that helped unload Martinez and get Grantham. That resulted in the only improved team play area I know of – Defense.
By the way, I think Aaron Murray is a heck of a good QB. I think our O Line couldn’t block an Easter Parade Bunny Rabbit and our running backs fall at the first touch.
But if calling it the way I see it means it makes you puke then at least I have the satisfaction of knowing you puked.
AltamahaDawg
July 12th, 2012
3:26 pm
Wow! I have to ask: Did you not realize I was asking how often that guy posted an original thought, and you walked right into it………………or you knew thats what I meant and just mocked him for the pure irony?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
July 12th, 2012
3:42 pm
No arrests today thats good
Just waiting on the Pre-season National title posts to start posting on here
Not many of those this year
I guess the last two humiliating losses of the year with no Dream Team/Ring Team talk this off season has calmed that delusional crowd down
Eleanor Rigby
July 12th, 2012
3:44 pm
Did our defense really play that well? Yes against the Mickey Mouse teams and the celller dwellars of the sec west. Against Boisewith hands on hip midway throught the 2nd qtr. LSU opened a can of W A in the 2nd half of the SECCG. Michigan State was visions of Willie when they tied us to go into OT and eventually winning the game. So… did our defense really play that well Sheeple?
Nothing Could Be Finer
July 12th, 2012
3:49 pm
Until the dogs figure out how to tackle Lattimore, they’ll run home with their tails between their legs.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
July 12th, 2012
3:53 pm
Eleanor Rigby
We solved the problem
The coaching staff got contract extensions
Now we can realax win our national title this year and secure recruiting
Didnt anyone ever tell you to fix a problem you throw more money at it
FLA DAWG
July 12th, 2012
4:06 pm
Eleanor,
Yep, the LSU Game was an absolute blowout. But despite the woeful lack of Offense the D kept us in the game in the first half. Time after time they absolutely shutdown LSU. In fact they set an SECC Game record by shutting out a team for an entire first half.
If you watched closely though you saw the D getting tired just before halftime. I knew then that if the O couldn’t begin to control the game in the third period that we’d end up losing.
Give the D some credit for trying their best in that one anyway. Now about the Michigan State Game!? Ya got me there.
dawg in another state
July 12th, 2012
4:30 pm
Never overlook the short handed game @ Mizz. Go DAWGS!
Dawg Squeeze
July 12th, 2012
5:59 pm
UGA football….32 years and counting.
Dawg Squeeze
July 12th, 2012
6:01 pm
If championships are handed out for the highest number of transvestite professors posing as prostitutes, you guys are in good shape. Another bulldog point of pride.
Brainiac(Dawg/Richt fan for life)
July 12th, 2012
6:12 pm
@ EL IN ORE RIG BEE:
Where were you during the Salem Witch Burning????
Bill King
July 12th, 2012
6:31 pm
Whiskey breath:
If you’re asking about the nonconference schedule, yes, that is put together by the athletic department. And it’s pretty typical of the type of nonconference schedule that many SEC teams play. If you’re talking about the SEC schedule, that’s done in BIRMINGHAM. So figure that one out if you don’t believe it’s a rotating thing.
satxdawg
July 12th, 2012
6:33 pm
Seems to me everybody forgets malcom Mitchell was one the top CB in highschool . Matter of fact he’s a Cb naturally that was converted to a WR. Not to mention we still have the team leading tackler safety shawn willams ,Corey Moore should be ready to rock in roll along with branden smith and damian swann .
SOUTHGADAWG88
July 12th, 2012
9:31 pm
Missouri will be lucky to win 5 games this season.Has anyone actually looked at their schedule?
Rooty Tooty
July 12th, 2012
9:50 pm
Who gives a rats arss…..
UGA man here
July 13th, 2012
8:07 am
How mnay games do we play? 11? All 11 will be the toughest games. UGA has to suit up very game and go out and play focused and hard nosed and mistake free. Aaron Murray has got to act like a 4th year Junior QB and play mistake free ball or we end up around 8-3 and CMR will be gone. UGA at 9-2 will possibly have CMR BACK and barely hanging on to his job.
ALL 11 games will be tough.
UGA class of 71 & 73
DogD
July 13th, 2012
8:13 am
florida will be down again, so missouri is the toughest game after sc. tenn will suck so ga beats them easy. Auburn? they don’t have anything—another dog win.
AltamahaDawg
July 13th, 2012
8:25 am
Not exactly sure who these make believe people are that talk about Pre-season NC’s, but I do know the real people who never have anything original to say and just whine all pre-season vastly outnumber them.
kingdaddy
July 13th, 2012
8:59 am
UGA must win @Missouri! If we stumble coming out of the gate, it will get very ugly in the fanbase with fans calling for CMR & CMBs head. We win that game and we have momentum on our side when we meet the chickens…
Joey
July 13th, 2012
9:07 am
….5 out of 22 and the jinx is over??? Really??”
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George, if UGA wins in Jax this season, guess what the record would be for the past 6 years?
3-3.
Like I gently told SSIgator this week, Tim and Urban ain’t in Gainesville anymore . . .
Brainiac(Dawg/Richt fan for life)
July 13th, 2012
10:56 am
@ Cloonan:
Judging from your contributions on here the correct pronounciation of your name/handle is CLUE NONE!!!!!!!
tony
July 13th, 2012
11:00 am
kingdaddy
July 13th, 2012
8:59 am
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Yes – Everyone in the country knows that we have a very easy schedule this season except for a few fans in this state. We should win a nc this season but felt that way last season.
Here’s a thought. Which team on our schedule can beat Alabama, LSU, OU, USC Troj or Oregon? I don’t think neither.
Brainiac(Dawg/Richt fan for life)
July 13th, 2012
11:04 am
@ Altamaha DawG(8:25am post)
You nailed it Bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously way too many people have little or no life other than college football and rely on teams that have “VERY INTERESTING BLOGS” such as UGA to keep their feeble/weak/malfunctioning minds from driving them over the proverbial cliff.
RPh DAWG
July 13th, 2012
12:00 pm
I think that just about all of them will be tough for us to win; probably lose at least 3 of those, possibly even 4. Dawgs are just not a good team. Richt will be back “on the hot seat” if not gone….