The SEC in 2009: Every game picked, one or two correctly!
We’re 17 days from kickoff, and already I know how The Only League That Matters will go. I know because I’ve applied the special Bradley brand of forecasting and come up with this detailed look at the SEC in 2009. Read it quickly, lest I run afoul of the league’s new media policy. (Section 3-a-iii: No writer can mention our school’s names without first slipping Verne Lundquist 10 bucks.)
SEC East
1. Florida: I don’t know how Urban Meyer does it. Every other year he takes a bunch of no-names and wins the national championship. This year, however, he’ll fall just short. He’ll win the first 13 games and then lose No. 14. Regular season: 12-0. SEC title game: Beats LSU. BCS title game: Loses to Texas.
2. Georgia: Joe Cox will be better than Joe Tereshinski III but less good than D.J. Shockley. A loss in Stillwater on Sept. 5 will set the tone for a solid season by most standards but a middling one by Mark Richt’s. Regular season: 8-4, losses to Oklahoma State, LSU, Florida and Georgia Tech. Outback Bowl: Beats Michigan.
3. South Carolina: The Gamecocks will start 0-2, which will set off speculation that Steve Spurrier will quit after the season. They’ll get better thereafter, but not so much better that Spurrier decides to stick around in 2010. Regular season: 7-5, losses to N.C. State, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Florida. Music City Bowl: Beats Miami.
4. Kentucky: Rich Brooks has taken the Wildcats to bowl games the past three seasons, and who said he was a lousy hire? (Actually, me.) This year Kentucky beats Tennessee for the first time since 1984. Regular season: 7-5, losses to Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Auburn and Georgia. Liberty Bowl: Beats Southern Miss.
5. Vanderbilt: Every half-century the Commodores up and win a bowl game. Last year’s victory over Boston College in the Music City Bowl will have to suffice until, say, 2060. But Vandy will get a consolation prize: It’ll upset Georgia Tech. Regular season: 5-7, losses to Mississippi State, LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Kentucky.
6. Tennessee: Lane Kiffin is the new coach. He’s a humble sort of fellow. His humility will be tested. He’ll finish 4-8, one game worse than in the record that season saw Phillip Fulmer shoved out the door. But UT will win on Signing Day, which is all that counts. Regular season: 4-8, losses to UCLA, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
SEC West
1. LSU: The best hire by any SEC school over the offseason — better than Chizik, better even than Kiffin — was the Tigers nabbing defensive coordinator John Chavis, who kept Tennessee afloat the past decade. He’ll put things right posthaste. Regular season: 11-1, loss to Florida. SEC title game: Loses to Florida. Capital One Bowl: Beats Penn State.
2. Alabama: The Tide got a bit ahead of itself last season by rising to No. 1 in the land, but it’ll be in the top five when LSU arrives in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 7. Then it’ll drop out. But there’s a national title coming soon. Regular season: 11-1, loss to LSU. Sugar Bowl: Loses to Oklahoma.
Loading ...3. Arkansas: Hate him all you want, but Bobby Petrino can coach. And here’s where he gets it rolling and becomes the toast of the Ozarks. Then, being Bobby Petrino, he’ll leave to coach the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Regular season: 8-4, losses to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and LSU. Cotton Bowl: Beats Oklahoma State.
4. Ole Miss: The chic pick to win the West, but it won’t happen. The schedule sets up nicely — both LSU and Alabama come to Oxford — but the team isn’t quite that good. A Sept. 24 upset loss in Columbia will grease the chute. Regular season: 8-4, losses to South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and LSU. Chick-fil-A Bowl: Loses to Virginia Tech.
5. Auburn: Gene Chizik is the new Tiger coach, and I think I speak for everyone when I say, “Gene Chizik?” But give G-Chiz this: Alongside Lane Kiffin, he looks like Lombardi. And he does have that limo thing going for him. Regular season: 6-6, losses to Tennessee, Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia and Alabama. Independence Bowl: Loses to Missouri.
6. Mississippi State: Dan Mullen has a great pedigree, having coached alongside Urban Meyer. Dan Mullen now has a great impediment — he’s coaching the other Bulldogs. He seems a good hire. Then again, so did Sylvester Croom. Regular season: 4-8, losses to Auburn, LSU, Georgia Tech, Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss.
And now a word from Verne Lundquist: Actually, it’s still me. Due to my periodic bout of temporary insanity, I did not, in the first take of this post, have a winner in the Georgia-Arkansas, Tennessee-Florida or Tennessee-Auburn games. Actually, I had them in my mind, but I neglected to make them show up above. They’re here now — Georgia over Arkansas, which finishes 8-4; Florida over Tennessee, which finishes 4-8 and finishes sixth in the East, and Tennessee over Auburn, which finishes 6-6 but is still bowl-eligible.
Thanks to all those who pointed out the omissions/errors. I’m in your debt. And I am sorry. There’s no excuse for sloppiness. Except the usual one: That I’m a big fat idiot.
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DawgFan
August 19th, 2009
9:12 am
It’ll be fun to hear the LSU fans ranting and raving that ‘Bama gets into the Sugar Bowl and LSU goes to the Capital One Bowl, even though LSU will play for the SEC Championship.
Brian
August 19th, 2009
9:13 am
Uga and Arkansas can’t both win. I don’t love you anymore
mark
August 19th, 2009
9:14 am
You have 7 loses for Tenn but Florida is not listed as one of them.
Herschel Walker
August 19th, 2009
9:17 am
Georgia will definitely lose its 2nd in a row to Georgia Tech. Definitely. And I still can’t read. Thanks for nothing Jan Kemp.
JC
August 19th, 2009
9:20 am
So Tennessee beats Florida? Or 4-8 ?
Tech Blech
August 19th, 2009
9:26 am
Good point, Brian. I think that maybe MB should step back and give this one another run.
honest_abe
August 19th, 2009
9:26 am
looks like brad did his readin an ritin but skipped out on rithmetic…….
Tebow is a Fraud
August 19th, 2009
9:28 am
Mark,
Its going to be tough for UT to win 5 games when you haven’t accounted for their loss to Florida.
Chamblee Dawg
August 19th, 2009
9:28 am
uh-oh Bradley…. you chastised SI the other day for picking UGA and Ok St to both win their game, and then you go and make the same error w/ UGA and ARK. admit it, you just like Petrino
ashley shaffer
August 19th, 2009
9:29 am
Correction: UGA and Arkansas cannot both win their 9/19 game.
MIke
August 19th, 2009
9:29 am
I would not quit your day job with some of these predictions! Auburn going 7-5? UK beating TN? Ole Miss losing to USCe? I would love to know what stuff you are on when making these predictions. Perhaps you should stick to covering high school sports?
Mark Bradley - get some sleep...
August 19th, 2009
9:29 am
…2 of the first 3 posters ask about glaring errors in your predictions – but thanks for trying.
Andy
August 19th, 2009
9:31 am
Mark, so Fla. has somehow disappeared from Tenn’s schedule?
Joey
August 19th, 2009
9:31 am
Alabama has a national championship coming soon? If they couldn’t get it done last year with that offensive line, defense, and senior quarterback, I sure don’t see a title coming soon…
Phoque Tech
August 19th, 2009
9:33 am
You’re full of ca-ca, as usual, Bradley.
Michael
August 19th, 2009
9:36 am
Come on Mark, two days ago you rip SI for missing obvious errors in their predictions, and then you post this tripe that full of glaring errors and omissions.
Here’s a tip for all of you pundits that like to put out predictions. Try actually getting out everybody’s schedules, looking at them, and then making predictions. And as you go along, make sure you cross reference the opponents schedules and marking them oppositely. Otherwise, you just make yourselves look dumb, and everybody that reads your predictions (rightfully) discounts everything you said.
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August 19th, 2009
9:40 am
[...] Mark Bradley of the AJC picks every SEC game, one or two correctly (his words). [...]
gavol
August 19th, 2009
9:41 am
So is Tennessee beating UF and Auburn? You have UF as undefeated and dont show Auburn as losing to Tenn. Might want to scrap this and redo it.
Otto
August 19th, 2009
9:43 am
LSU winning the West? They most of the DL and need to replace some in the secondary. The QB has one good game against an ACC defense. I don’t see it. I think they fight with Arkansas and Auburn for 3rd in the West.
Arknasas will be improved but the schedule is brutal. IMO they drop a game or 2 they shouldn’t due to schedule. Ole Miss and maybe Auburn beat Arkansas. Ark has Auburn and Florida before Ole Miss. Ole Miss has S. Car and Vandy. I hope Ark. has depth, they’ll need it.
Vandy beats Miss. St and goes to a bowl again.
Auburn is due for an upset against UGA and Auburn reminds me of UGA ‘06. If Auburn comes on late the UGA game will be interesting. Keep in mind the visiting team has better chances at the upset in the AU/UGA game.
Paul H
August 19th, 2009
9:44 am
I bet Tech is glad they play Miss State instead of LSU again. Of course, Tech fans don’t seem to be bothered that their last game was a 38-3 loss in their own back yard.
PMC
August 19th, 2009
9:52 am
Wow, you think Michigan is going to make the Outback Bowl…..
CARTERSVILLE DAWG
August 19th, 2009
9:52 am
Mark Bradley… you are a MORON!!!!!!!
Sandy Springs 6 Pack
August 19th, 2009
9:52 am
Forecating? Thanks AJC headline righter, er writer.
JB
August 19th, 2009
9:53 am
Dawgs 9 -3 We beat okie st……They could not stop georgia’s scout team…….we run the ball and eat clock up while their offense get’s sores on butt’s sitting on the bench watching. BOOK IT !
Ken
August 19th, 2009
9:54 am
Dear Mark
In my opinion your a terrible sports writer. Have a nice day.
Ken
Bama Aaron
August 19th, 2009
9:57 am
I think Mark was still half aleep writing this. I see quite a few errors. Chief among them picking LSU to beat Bama..in Tuscsloosa. Not happening as LSU won’t score enough against the Tide defense. This Tide will take another series run at the National title. If they don’t get it this year, they will next year.
PMC
August 19th, 2009
9:57 am
I wouldn’t say Bobby Petrino is a good coach… he barely communicates, he’s a jerk and he’s about as trustworthy as Benidict Arnold…but
He’s an elite playcaller he’s got a great system and he recruits well for some reason… and His Brother is an excellent WR’s coach
Mr. A
August 19th, 2009
9:57 am
Mark…. How can you put this article out with so many mistakes? Wow!
knoxdawg
August 19th, 2009
10:00 am
Georgia will go 10 – 2 w/ losses to Arkansas and Tenn. A win in either one propels them to 11-1. They will play Alabama for the SEC championship. The black jerseys will prevail. Florida does not win the SEC nor the NC. Georgia does not lose to Tech. Florida looses to LSU and Georgia. You may think I am crazy but you heard it here first.
atlantadave
August 19th, 2009
10:01 am
This article makes no sense. It’s clear that you don’t do your homework Bradley. Many of the W/L’s don’t match up. Once again you’ve proven that you are truely lazy when it comes to writing your blog and reserching the information that goes in them.Please leave college football reporting to writers that really follow and know the game…. do us a favor and go start covering NBA womens basketball.
big dawg
August 19th, 2009
10:02 am
bradley, ur a dumbass.. i guess tennessee is beating uf
ugggh!
August 19th, 2009
10:02 am
note to readers… if bradley doesn’t write something that would upset UGA fans no one would read this.. So laugh at his lack of knowledge and move on to see the other great journalism on display in this one paper town.. Rodney Ho’s 411 on the House trash of Atlanta. Journalism is dead!
AJGREENFAN
August 19th, 2009
10:02 am
Mark,
you have UGA at 4 losses: to OK ST, LSU, FLA, and Tech. Yet you have ARK with 3 losses: to BAMA, FLA, and LSU. How do you reconcile that since UGA vs ARK on September in the Ozark Mountains?
GulagCarpaccio
August 19th, 2009
10:03 am
Based on the latest online college rankings for academic achievement, UGA is ranked 12 places below Kennesaw State nationwide. Georgia Tech was the only state school to make it to the top 10 nationally. I guess UGA better make their mark in football!!
JB
August 19th, 2009
10:05 am
5 who the ACC will miss……..uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
er…..uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
uh…er….uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..I’ll get back to you !
gbal
August 19th, 2009
10:05 am
MB
You don’t have anyone loosing the Arkansas UGA game????
SimpleDawg
August 19th, 2009
10:05 am
Someone should proof read the AJC’s articles before they’re put out for public consumption and ridicule…..and I’m even referring to the content, which is also inferior.
haney
August 19th, 2009
10:05 am
As others have said, not sure how Arky and UGA can both win that game in Fayetteville. I think it is stupid to make predictions like this but I guess if you are bored, it gives you something to do. As a UGA alum, I think the key to our season is the first game-if we can somehow when that game, I can see us winning 10 games. If we lose that one, I can see us losing 4-5 games. The first month of the schedule is brutal with decent to good teams and a lot of long travel dates-Okie State and Arky-wow. But, if we can go 3-1 or 4-0 to start the season, WATCH OUT.
jp
August 19th, 2009
10:06 am
mark has to be the worst at predicting outcomes. It’s probably because of his knowledge of sports or his lack of intelligence.
G2Rhett (Colorado Springs)
August 19th, 2009
10:06 am
Is a victory over Florida and a national championship in the cards for the ‘09 Dogs?
Currently, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), in my opinion, is the greatest football conference in the nation. That being said, I know that making it through an entire season with an unblemished record is highly unlikely in the SEC, if not impossible! I’m also well aware that our ‘09 non-conference opponents are very good teams (with the exception of Tennessee Tech). Believe me, I’m a realistic individual and a student of the game. And if I were a betting man, I would put all my money on the Gators to beat Georgia this year. However, the reason that I’m not a betting man is that I might possibly lose all my money if I did something that stupid. Because the truth is (under Coach Richt), Georgia is as well coached and is as talented as the Gators. Prior to last year’s lopsided 49-10 loss to Florida, Coach Richt and his Dogs’ previous five losses were by a combined average of seven points. Georgia lost by 14 in ‘01, by 7 in ‘02, by 3 in ‘03, by 4 in ‘05, and by 7 in ‘06. Granted losses are losses, but my point is that if the Dogs had just one more turnover, one more call go their way, or had one more score in any of those games; we’d be singing the praises of Coach Richt and would have likely already celebrated a national championship in 2002.
Anyway, Georgia very well could beat Florida and if the cards fall just right they could find themselves in the national title game in Pasadena at seasons end. After all, to quote Coach Richt, “When you bang around at the top, you eventually get to the top.”
By the way, if Georgia does beat Florida this year, the series will be tied 3-3 since 2004.
DawginLex
August 19th, 2009
10:06 am
Switch UGA and Arkiesaw and add one or two more “W”’s to UGA and you will have it right.
SC loses its first 2 and finishes 7-5? NOPE 5-7 and the ole obnoxious one goes golfing permanently. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. 2009 is going to be a special year for ole stevie.
1.) Starts out the year being the only coach to not place TT on the 1st team all SEC team. no problem except for the fact that ole stevie went to school there!!!
2.) Gets blitzkrieged at NCSU on national TV.
3.) Gets shutout for the 2nd time in 4 years against UGA in another televised embarrassment.
4.) Struggles to beat Florida Atlantic
5.) Loses to UK for the first time ever.
6.) Gives up 6 TD’s to TT and fires the guy who filled out the all SEC ballot incorrectly.
7.) Resigns after going 4-8 as the SC students hurl insults his way outside as he walks away.
He then realizes that KARMA is something else and vows never to treat people badly ever again. Just so some good can come from it.
Ed
August 19th, 2009
10:07 am
Mark, you really mailed it in with this blog. Pitiful.
GeoffDawg
August 19th, 2009
10:08 am
You don’t have the SEC doing too terribly well during bowl season which is a bit against the trend. Also, what do they toast with in the Ozarks? Corn whiskey? Champagne from a box?
DawginLex
August 19th, 2009
10:08 am
Sorry, SC goes 5-7, not 4-8.
BenDawg88
August 19th, 2009
10:09 am
Does Tennessee not play Florida or something? Because that would be an eigth loss, right? Georgia is definitely going at least 10-2 beating both Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech, and probably LSU too.
G2Rhett (Colorado Springs)
August 19th, 2009
10:10 am
Georgia Beats Oklahoma State!
Zach Robinson, Dez Bryant, and Kendall Hunter are great ball players, but this game will be decided in the trenches and on the defensive side of the ball. In the aforementioned areas, Georgia has the advantage. Prediction: UGA 30 OSU 20
I’m excited about this year’s group of Bulldogs and can’t wait to see how they perform on the field. I truly believe they’re going to surprise a lot of people this season. This team is stacked and no one in the nation knows yet that Coach Richt is sitting on a virtual gold mine of talent. However, after his Dogs destroy Oklahoma State in Stillwater, the cat (or the DAWG) will be out of the bag!
mc
August 19th, 2009
10:10 am
When will you and others realize that Spurrier is not going anywhere after this year nor the next nor the next. It seems it makes you and others feel good about themselves predicting Spurrier will step down after this season….you do this every year!
Are you pissed that Spurrier would NEVER consider going to Kentucky…..really?! Do your research Bradley before you print/predict….or resign yourself!
Fletch
August 19th, 2009
10:11 am
Mark, I’m guessing you didn’t have anyone proof read this for you…so the UGA-AR game will be won by both teams?
RobertNAtl
August 19th, 2009
10:12 am
Tennessee is not going to be swept by SC, Ky., and Vandy, let alone UCLA. You are letting your distaste for Kiffin affect your independent judgment.
WH
August 19th, 2009
10:13 am
Hope you will apologize to Gene Chizik in print after AU surprises and wins 8/9 games
G2Rhett (Colorado Springs)
August 19th, 2009
10:14 am
Sick and Tired…
I am beyond sick and tired of hearing about Lord Tebow, Urban Meyer, and his Mighty Florida Gators. It makes me want to puke! I hope with all my heart that the Gators are undefeated when they meet up with Georgia in Jacksonville on 31 October. And I pray to God that the Bulldogs (to steal some words from Larry Munson) stomp their face with a hobnailed boot and break their nose! I hope that we crush their face!
The Truth
August 19th, 2009
10:15 am
Gulag-Georgia Tech’s football team was seventh in the ACC in GPA average…Georgia’s football team was first in the SEC ahead of even Vandy. A diploma from Tech is worthless in todays business market.Companies hire people with good business and people skills and most of all, common sense ….something that you can’t get or find at Tech. Just walk around the Tech campus and see what you find. Most of their students can’t even speak english and the rest just want to rob you or sell you drugs.
reebok
August 19th, 2009
10:15 am
Tech fan here…wait a sec…you are saying that Okie State will beat Georgia but will lose to Arkansas? I’d love to believe that Arkansas is better than UGA, but I don’t…
David
August 19th, 2009
10:15 am
Amazing piece of reporting, maybe even Pulitzer-worthy! Bravo Mr. Bradley!
gtforever
August 19th, 2009
10:16 am
UGA will blow OKS away! Joe Cox is a winner. I still think our game is a toss up, but UGA is much better than everybody thinks…
gtforever
August 19th, 2009
10:17 am
The Truth, Are you that STUPID!?
jumbeauxtiger
August 19th, 2009
10:18 am
Mark, it’s 15 days from today and not 10 days when the first games are played on Thurs, Sept 3.
Any of us can make predictions but as we will find out the season will have its share of surprises. LSU could be great, good or average like a handful of other SEC teams. It should be an exciting season for all us of though.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
Honestly
August 19th, 2009
10:20 am
…how do you justify Georgia losing to Ok State, but Arkansas beating them in the bowl game? Arkansas’ defense is terrible compared to Georgia’s (and we all know how badly we played defense last year). Unless you’ve decided that Robinson, Bryant, Hunter, and their offensive linemen have all be injured at this point, your prediction doesn’t even make sense, just mindless rambling. You have actually looked at the teams right, or do you just pick them based on which one has the prettiest colors to you?!?!
who's the editor for this cr*p??
August 19th, 2009
10:21 am
Sloppy journalism…..like a hack wrote this
have some respect for your profession. i’m not sure who’s more responsible for this garbage, you or your editor?
Ryan
August 19th, 2009
10:24 am
Mark predicts LSU to lose to UF twice but miraculously finish 11-1. How can you predict games when you can’t do math?
Nativebird
August 19th, 2009
10:26 am
Not bad MB! however, if my beloved Gators stumble, it’ll most likely happen at LSU or another mighty mistep in a trap game, like Ol’miss last year. But if the mighty Gators get to BCS title game, they will not lose it. They just don’t do that. Texas should hope they stumble long before then, Mcoy will be good in the title game, but irrelevent, as was Bradford last year.
braves4ver
August 19th, 2009
10:26 am
this is the dumbest thing i have ever read there is no credibility i would be surprised if you knew anything about football at all. kentucky will be garbage and ole miss will not lose 5 games with their cupcake schedule and south carolina has no offense what to speak of with an underachieving QB and no RB’s at all. might want to do a little research before writing your articles
Knibb High Principal
August 19th, 2009
10:26 am
Mark, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
bowman
August 19th, 2009
10:26 am
Sad. Since the AJC sportswriters have gone blog first, print second, the quality of journalism has fallen dramatically. This blog is a sad example, written to drive readership rather than to inspire debate. Really sad. You can do better, Mark, and we have more respect for you when you do.
bowman
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“Art will always be Art.” – Goethe
murfdawg
August 19th, 2009
10:28 am
Mark,
I know you have a difficult job trying to write something meningful about football, but I appreciate your effort.
How long before basketball practice starts in Kentucky?
Lars Taint
August 19th, 2009
10:28 am
Mark Bradley,
You’re crazy. I like you, but you’re crazy.
dellrott
August 19th, 2009
10:30 am
Wait, wait, wait, wait, WAIT. Vandy beats Tech, but Georgia doesn’t?
Ugafan
August 19th, 2009
10:31 am
Mark, you sir are a choch bag
N.GA.DAWG
August 19th, 2009
10:38 am
mark, u r a DA
confused
August 19th, 2009
10:39 am
LSU beats Bama and each finish 11-1, but Bama goes to the Sugar Bowl & LSU plays in the Capital One?!
Monte Kiffin will keep the UT defense sound, if not better, and the Vols finish a respectable (comparatively speaking) 8-4. Orgeron is a solid asst. coach and will get the guys motivated enough to win a few games they would’ve lost in recent years. Give Lane credit enough to hire good coaches around him.
Alex H.
August 19th, 2009
10:40 am
Mark…ouch…you obviously hit a nerve with this blog. There must be a lot of SEC fans who are auditors, because they demand absolute numerical precision. I generally agree with your team rankings, although I hope that Kentucky goes above and beyond this year and wins a few more than expected. It’ll oughta be a fun season to watch. I hope you predict the ACC soon as well.
TROTTINGHOMETUDD
August 19th, 2009
10:41 am
CAN’T BELIEVE THIS ARTICLE GOT CLEARANCE TO BLOG ON.
MB is another Herschel Walker(9:17 post). Except MB thinks Jan Kemp actually helped him.
HH
August 19th, 2009
10:42 am
If you are correct about UGA, poor old Willie is history, despite his Significant Other, and the seat of Significant Other’s breeches is going to heat up considerably. He may even want to learn the words to the old song, “Ring of Fire”.
clemsonfan01
August 19th, 2009
10:44 am
clemson should join the SEC and show you all how to play some football
TROTTINGHOMETUDD
August 19th, 2009
10:44 am
Alex H. …..You aRE a brown noser, boot licking, heaD BOWING, PORK CHOP BONE SUCKING gEORGIA TECH GRADUATE!!!!
Buck Strickland
August 19th, 2009
10:44 am
I predict UF, UGA, OK ST., LSU and Bama will all go 12-0, win the SEC championship and defeat a 13-0 Texas in the National Championship game. Bradley math, gotta love it!
Spivey
August 19th, 2009
10:45 am
Do you even have a degree in Journalism???? Check your facts dumb a$$!
Go Dawgs !
Joe
August 19th, 2009
10:45 am
What games are next weekend? How are we only 10 days away? My schedule says the first game is Sept 3.
utfaninga
August 19th, 2009
10:45 am
Dude you SERIOUSLY need to proof your work. Is Auburn and UT going to play like 30 OT’s and then just quit and call it a tie? There has to be a winner Mark. HELLO? And if you think UT is going to lose to UCLA at home..and Vandy…and SC…ALL AT HOME? Dude..I know we are rebuilding…but seriously…
Okefenokee Dawg
August 19th, 2009
10:47 am
Don’t worry Mark, I still like you. You make me feel smart.
Buck Strickland
August 19th, 2009
10:48 am
Seriously though, I think Auburn goes 10-2 or 9-3 and surprises some folks. Just hopefully not the Dawgs. Auburn always seems to have a pretty good year when you least expect it…
jddawg37
August 19th, 2009
10:50 am
Did you take your Seroquel today?
David
August 19th, 2009
10:52 am
The Peach Bowl gets the 3rd pick from the SEC school, depending if the BCS takes two teams from the SEC. They will take UGA if they have an 8-4 record.
Matt
August 19th, 2009
10:53 am
Dawgfan@ 9:12— no complaints here from an LSU fan. That’s how the bowl system works. The loser of the SECCG game usually goes to the Capital One Bowl with the #3 or 4 team from the SEC jumping up to the Sugar Bowl. It didn’t happen last year because Bama was a clear cut #2 in the SEC (and the Media loves them). But it has happened before to LSU. Actually, LSU lost to UGA and got sent here to the Peach Bowl in 2005. I’m sure Miami remembers that game!! No biggie, plus, there just some joes predictions.
Otto
August 19th, 2009
10:54 am
I can see Tenn. beating Vandy but I think they get swept by Bama, UF, Ole Miss and UGA. Auburn is a question mark.
I didn’t see SOS being on the hot seat but after looking at the schedule if he does not start 2-0 he could very well be gone after this season. However, who does S. Car get to take over? They have facilities but no recruiting base and no iconic history.
hsf
August 19th, 2009
10:54 am
Tennessee will likely be the most improved team in the nation, but they will not win at Gainesville. 8 games at Neyland will be 8 W’s. Look for 9-3 at worst.
Will
August 19th, 2009
10:54 am
Mark, we are all more stupid after having to read this blog. Try double checking your work before you post it.
GT B Smash
August 19th, 2009
10:54 am
That was an awful piece. Should have been titled, “Proof I have no credibility and no idea what I’m talking about.”
reality check
August 19th, 2009
10:55 am
The media’s love affair with Oklahoma State tells me a lot of them have never heard the axiom that it is defense that wins games and championships…at any level.
Oklahoma State has excellent offensive stats, but they are putting up those numbers in the Big 12. Even more important, nobody is saying their defense is very good. They give up almost 100 yards a game more than the Martinez led offense at Georgia. Mark, you are a big time Martinez basher, but you give Oklahoma State a pass on that? HMMM….
Oklahoma State has a glaring weakness on defense. Their pass defense has been terrible and this year they have to replace everybody but Perrish Cox in the secondary and both tackles. I believe we will do very well against them.
Otto
August 19th, 2009
10:55 am
Neyland was an advantge for the Wyoming game wasn’t it?
richtfan
August 19th, 2009
10:55 am
a. no way uga loses 4 games or to tech again
b. no way uf goes through the season (13 games) unscathed. their exorbitant arrogance will trip them up at least once.
c. no way south carolina wins 7 games
d. no way ole siss winds up lower than 3rd in their division, and i’d pick them 2nd.
e. as for UT you can’t win on signing day unless you win during the season. and just because you sign some blue chippers doesn’t mean you’ll be a good team. with kiffin at the helm they’ll always underachieve because he’s never done anything of significance as a coach.
Brother
August 19th, 2009
10:56 am
How can Georgia beat Arkansas but yet Arkansas beat Georgia?
Study the schedules before you make these terrible predictions.
Andrew
August 19th, 2009
10:57 am
I’m sure this has been mentioned but it is 17 days, not 10. Add that to the numerous arithmetic errors and this is just sloppy and unprofessional. This is the AJC not the Hickville Advertiser, come on Mark.
BIG UGLIES WIN GAMES!!!
August 19th, 2009
10:57 am
So UGA gets beat by OK.ST but ARK beats OK.ST?????? Mark JUST SAY NO!!!
Scooter
August 19th, 2009
10:59 am
Wow! Bradley, this is a pretty good set of picks. Who did them for you?
LittleJoeHamilton
August 19th, 2009
11:00 am
Herschel’s worth $200 Million; doesn’t need to read. He pays me and other GT flunkies to read for him………
RxDawg
August 19th, 2009
11:02 am
Hmm, you have Arkasas going 9-3, losing to LSU, Bama, and UF. Yet you have UGA down as beating Arkansas. Well that wont add up.
However! Replace UGA losing to Okie St with Arkansas (which is actually quite possible) than your predictions will look a little bit better. Don’t buy the cowboy hype…it’s just that. Arkansas’s schedule set’s up to beat the Dawgs. UGA starts off hard all the way to Ark. Ark has been planing for UGA all summer, it’s their first tough game.
Otto
August 19th, 2009
11:02 am
Oregon and Colorado held Okie St to 31 or less. If the game was played on week 3 UGA wins easy. However it isn’t. Okie St returns playmakers, most of the OL, and will be opening a brand new stadium expansion. In short they will be pumped and know how to play with each other.
UGA has to start fast and can not afford any early season mistakes. UGA has the talent to win it just depends on how together the team is coming out of camp. CMR’s best seasons have started with a tough opener. Lets hope the trend continues.
braveman
August 19th, 2009
11:03 am
bama wins the west….then wins the sec. it will be a tough road to atlanta but if we do get there, no way saban and co. loses to florida two years in a row.
bama is “supposedly” a couple of years away from a national championship…
but bama will win it all in 2009.
The Murf
August 19th, 2009
11:03 am
You have Vig Tech in the Peach Bowl, so who ends up in Gator and Orange from the ACC???