Bradley’s Buzz: UGA’s going to a bowl, but which one?
The last trip to the Chick-fil-A was yummy. Like a peach milkshake. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
The good news: Georgia is bowl-eligible. The not-so-good news: Shreveport still has a bowl. And, according to Matt Hayes of Sporting News Today, the Independence Bowl is where the Bulldogs are bound. (To face Iowa State, per Hayes.)
The better news: Four other bowl projectors see Georgia headed elsewhere. Stewart Mandel of SI.com has Georgia in the Music City Bowl against Boston College. Bruce Feldman of ESPN.com likewise tickets UGA for Nashville, but to oppose Florida State. Feldman’s colleague Mark Schlabach (who used to be my colleague) has Georgia coming to Atlanta for a Chick-fil-A date against Clemson. And CBSsports.com shows Georgia paired with East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl.
What this all means: Nobody knows. We’re 19 days from Bowl Selection Sunday, and the projected field for Georgia hasn’t been narrowed much at all. If you’re counting, the five projections show four different destinations with dates ranging from Dec. 27, 2009, (Music City) to Jan. 2, 2010 (Liberty).
As for Tech: Not much mystery there. Every projection save one puts the Jackets in the Orange Bowl against TCU. The exception is Hayes in Sporting News Today. He has Clemson in the Orange and Tech in the Gator against Notre Dame. There was a time when playing (and beating) Notre Dame in Jacksonville was a big deal for Tech and George O’Leary, but this year such a date would be a colossal bringdown.
The good news: Won’t happen. Tech will win the ACC. Says me.
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Milburn Drysdale
November 17th, 2009
3:43 pm
UGA will be in a New Years Day game if they beat Kentucky. They would wind up with a better conference record than Tennessee or South Carolina, putting them #2 in SEC East. GA-GT will be a shootout like last year with the last team with the ball winning, as neither team can defend the forward pass.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
3:44 pm
Bisher went nonlinear in an editorial when the 18th bowl game was added back in the ’60s.
Tech sucks
November 17th, 2009
3:48 pm
Tech will win the ACC but they will lose in HUGE fashion to Georgia. Richt will prove once again that he owns Tech, regardless of our struggles this year. Can’t wait to smack the Nerds down like usual and discount that lucky 3 point win we handed to them last year.
FLDAWG
November 17th, 2009
3:49 pm
Ga gaterd-who gives a rats azz about ya’lls recruiting class.T-blow will be gone next year.Maybe you can sign him up for 4 more years,since he’s only good at azz kissing,no one see’s him getting a descent shot in the NFL.Only Emmitt Smith amounted to anything after leaving uf,the rest went on to be pro bench warmers.
Reality
November 17th, 2009
3:49 pm
If you describe tech as a NERDS then everyone knows that your GED is awesome and you bleed red and black because you know someone that went to UGA and you bought a UGA stickers for your lawn service invoices that you hand out.
UGA has rebuilding to do but with the recruiting that UGA has they should be back to business in short order. TECH has built a solid program behind Paul Johnson and everyone in this thread should be excited that we will have some great games to watch in the near future (like last year). I beg of you please do not use the bye week for TECH as an excuse, they are a top ten team for a reason. I would be careful about wanting Clemson if you want to win, Clemson is solid which will require UGA to play a perfect game.
Again, people discount UGA fans because of the sore loser and trashy mentality that makes up SOME of your fan base. Grow up.
P.S. Pick up your beer bottles, the way SOME of your fans treat your campus makes the rest of us cringe with the idea of you coming to ours.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
3:50 pm
Mark’s other blog from yesterday is still racking up the comments.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
3:52 pm
Tebow could be an Andy Johnson-type back in the NFL. The younger fans may not remember Andy.
Well looky here
November 17th, 2009
3:53 pm
Reality… once a nerd always a nerd.
You going to be chiming in on the UGA blogs after the game in a week and a half if Tech loses? I’d say no.
You haven’t even won a bowl game under CPJ yet. Easy killer…
Well looky here
November 17th, 2009
3:58 pm
Are you sure he’s not a Florida fan?? I see jorts…
how2fish
November 17th, 2009
3:58 pm
Reality we will pickup the beer cans…but for the love of God please issue Kelvar vests with the laptops for the freshmen headed to your “killing field” of a school please..
Lou Vales
November 17th, 2009
3:58 pm
Unbelievable!!! I’m worrying about the utter devastation of not making it to Pasadena and people here are trying to avoid Shreveport. Wow!!! Who could have forecast this?
All is not lost. Orson got his #7 and he gets to play with Aaron. Sometimes you just have to be happy with the little things.
Of course the prospect of being demoralized by 12-1 and going to the Orange Bowl shows the vast gulf that now exists.
dawgbeater
November 17th, 2009
3:59 pm
Dwag nation – you go ahead over to Nawleens and wait. The dogs will be there. Probably in about ten years and 2 more coaches.
redandblack80
November 17th, 2009
4:00 pm
Reality-shut your pie face,the ACC is a second tier class of football,good but not great.If GT was still in the SEC,I’d give you more credit,but your strength of schedule is weak.Go DAWGS.GO MARINES>ARRRRTTTTTT.
Cuz
November 17th, 2009
4:00 pm
Just wait til next week, the blogosphere will catch fire and burn the internet to the ground. Al Gores invention will cause massive global warming and the Nobel Prize Committee will demand he return his Peace Prize.
Lou Vales
November 17th, 2009
4:01 pm
By the way, STOP IT!!!! ALL ELITE teams recruit well. Look at Southern Cal. The seperation is determined by the caliber, passion and motivational abilities of the head coach and staff.
Mark Richt is a NICE person.
Joshhh...
November 17th, 2009
4:04 pm
All we have to do is beat Tech & we might be going to Tampa!
LETS GO DAWGS!
Reality
November 17th, 2009
4:06 pm
well looky here – Yes, I will chime in after TECH wins on the 28th
Dave from GT
November 17th, 2009
4:07 pm
Go Dawgs, beat KY! Last win you get this year!!
RedandBlack80 – buttsniffer ! Can’t change nature.
Well looky here
November 17th, 2009
4:08 pm
But if they don’t you won’t is my point. Classy Tech folk like Del will be though, you should set the bar a little higher my friend and follow his lead.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
4:10 pm
Tampa..now there’s a place where Kevlar vests could come in handy.
dawgbeater
November 17th, 2009
4:12 pm
Well looky here – just got his GED and is all full of himself. First one in the family. Congrats! Hey Maw – lookin good in them daisy dukes! I’m 15 and your only 27?
XXXVII
November 17th, 2009
4:15 pm
I think UGA will beat Kentucky. Assuming LSU beats Ole Miss that would put UGA at 4th in the SEC. UGA possibly in the Chick-fil-A bowl. UGA beats UK, LSU loses to Ole Miss and Ark, Ole Miss loses to Miss St and UGA is 3rd in the SEC and a definate for the Chick-fil-A.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
4:16 pm
Good idea to wait until after Tampa before ordering the ceramic plate inserts for Miami, though.
Trembling chihuahua
November 17th, 2009
4:17 pm
GA TECH – current GA STATE CHAMPIONS! North Carolina State Champions. Virginia State Champions. 2-0 agianst the SEC this year and looking to make it three! FACTS! Go check ‘em!
Well looky here - the name caller
November 17th, 2009
4:18 pm
Hilarious! I believe you are correct. Look what you made me do … I agreed with a dawg fan.
redandblack80
November 17th, 2009
4:19 pm
dave from gt-whats the matter ?Did I pee on your peerade?Second Class Tier Team!OUCH,Reality Bites DontI?Weak Strenth of Schedule! Hey “boy” dont you Know Only SEC TEAMS GO TO NT GAMES? You got to beat MIAMI to GO ALL THE WAY.
redandblack80
November 17th, 2009
4:24 pm
Dawgbeater-I dont have a maw ,so I use yours. Anytime I need a HO,which I dont ,though my Dog might want a piece.
redandblack80's hair
November 17th, 2009
4:24 pm
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0911/campus.football.superfans.week11/images/georgia.48809111%284%29.jpg
Ohhhhhhhhhh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner.
Bob Horner stayed hurt
November 17th, 2009
4:25 pm
Suches Dawg …there’s a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on with the bowls…If the Outback Bowl thinks UT or SC will travel better than UGA then they’ll take them…..even though we may have a better record it hurts UGA that a lot of our fans spend $2K or $3K in Jax every year…..
redandblack80's hair
November 17th, 2009
4:25 pm
… Urban Meyer …
Oscar
November 17th, 2009
4:27 pm
Shreveport for Ga. Enjoy that place mutts. And have some fun with that truck.
Well looky here
November 17th, 2009
4:28 pm
Sad as it is I bet if you dug a little deeper on that site you’d find more than one photo of a person wearing a red/black G.
I can only come up with nerd video clips like the one above of the Tech student in his dorm room…
redandblack80
November 17th, 2009
4:29 pm
R&B*) hair-You wouldnt make a weiner on a Marine cadet in ROTC-,lil boy you mommy has animal cookies and milk waiting on you,run along and let the men talk.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
4:29 pm
If…and that’s a big if…Clemson and Georgia could be picked for the Atlanta bowl game formerly known as the Peach Bowl, they should schedule a track meet a couple of hours before the game. CJ Spiller and Jacoby Ford against Smith, Boykin and Green.
They could even charge extra for it and it would be fun.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
4:32 pm
redandblack80’s hair – That looks like he’s singing opera. Upgrading the Painted Pals group, for sure.
Navyfan
November 17th, 2009
4:34 pm
The Ghostbuster Peter Venkman made me throw up in my mouth, a little bit.
“The best thing about this youth movement is that it is being led by born and bred Georgia boys that have always dreamed of playing for UGA and mark my words when they get to that Tech game they are going to be hungry…”
Really? That passion of the Georgia youth movement is going to take over a very technical, precision Tech football scheme that has been perfected over 10 games? Doubt it. Passion is great. Simply wanting to win badly does nothing. Everyone wants to win badly. Expect Tech to crush Geogia.
Dawg Foot
November 17th, 2009
4:36 pm
Get ready NERDS.
redandblack80
November 17th, 2009
4:37 pm
Navyfan-second tier team might squeek by,but not crush,seems you cant beat “THE CANES”.
Reality
November 17th, 2009
4:42 pm
I guess we are NERDS – after college we work for NASA, become a CEO, CIO, your boss or your owner and UGA players sell life insurance and used cars. I am glad I am a “NERD”.
Please get back to work before I have to fire you and please fix the toliets before you go home.
college football professor emeritus
November 17th, 2009
4:45 pm
…hey, hey…I see the level of discourse is extraordinarily high this evening!
Gators
November 17th, 2009
4:46 pm
GatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGatorsGators
Milburn Drysdale
November 17th, 2009
4:49 pm
Trembling….SO, you beat beat 2 SEC teams this year, that would be Vanderbilt and Miss ST, the 2 worst teams in the SEC. Try Florida or Alabama on for size punk!
Dawgbeater
November 17th, 2009
4:50 pm
Looky – Mom passed away in April. No joke. Very classy stuff. What else would you expect out of an inbred.
Dawg Foot? or paw?
November 17th, 2009
4:51 pm
Get ready REDNECKS.
Delbert D.
November 17th, 2009
4:57 pm
Reality – to willie, you would be a Dren.
Trembling chihuahua
November 17th, 2009
4:57 pm
Milburn – I’ll put my Jethro hobnail boot up your old gray headed rear end, punk boy. We just play our schedule and we’re about to drop half a hun on the fleabags. The times are changing loser! WORD!
jumbeautiger
November 17th, 2009
5:02 pm
There is still too much football to determine the SEC bowl pecking order but here are the possibilties:
BCS-Gators/Tide
Sugar-Gators/Tide
Capital One-LSU/Ole Miss
Cotton-LSU/Ole Miss
Outback-Georgia/Tenn
Chick Fil-A-Georgia/Tenn
Music City-Auburn/SC/Ark
Liberty-Auburn/SC/Ark
Independence-Auburn/SC/Ark
Papa John’s-UK
The Cap One gets the first choice after the BCS. The Cotton has the first choice of any West team not in the BCS and not picked by the Capital One. The Outback has the same deal as the Cotton except they have priority for an East school.
If LSU beat Ole Miss they would likely go to Orlando even if they lose to Arkansas. Ole Miss would likely go to the Cap One if they beat LSU and State.
If UGa beats UK and loses to Tech and the Vols beat Vandy and UK then I believe that the Outback would take UT. The Dawgs would have a better conference record but both would have the same overall record. This would be considered a successful season for UT and thus I believe the bowl would take them instead.
Whopper Dawg
November 17th, 2009
5:05 pm
GMAC Bowl, which I understand has changed its name by government mandate to the Obama Bowl. Has a nice ring to it don’t cha think, plus the tickets are free, paid for by tax dollars.
Milburn Drysdale
November 17th, 2009
5:06 pm
We? We just play our schedule? The times are a changing?? Are you one of the players? My guess is you’re some introverted azz talkin crap from behind his machine? 1 of the last 8 is NOT times a changing
Trembling chihuahua
November 17th, 2009
5:09 pm
You gotta start somewhere and WE HAVE STARTED!!!! You a player buttmuncher? Repeat of last year – just worse!