Listen up: I like UGA over the Gators. Whaddaya think of that?
Memo to Mark Richt: Bag those black helmets forever, please. (AJC photo by Bob Andres)
Your attention, please. I’m about to recant an earlier prediction. I now believe Georgia will beat Florida.
(Let me also debit my increasingly shrinking account of credibility by noting this: I thought the Gators would win the BCS title. What the heck was I thinking?)
I know, I know. The Gators had a week off and Urban Meyer is too clever not to think of something. But the Urbanator has had a while now to get this offense going, and he hasn’t yet. And here’s what I know: Georgia will go to Jacksonville:
• With the better quarterback.
• With the better offense.
• With the better running game.
• Having won three in a row, as opposed to losing three in a row, which is what Florida has done.
I’m aware that Georgia’s three victories have come against three mediocrities, whereas the Gators have lost to Alabama, LSU and Mississippi State — all of which are ensconced in the Top 25. I really don’t care. I like the way Georgia is playing. I don’t think anybody likes the way Florida is playing.
Loading ...Here I should also note: I’ve been wrong about this game before. (Two years ago, when the Urbanator’s team won 49-10 and he called his little timeouts.) I could well be wrong again. But I’m calling it Georgia 24, Florida 17.
And now I’m asking: What say you?
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Matt
October 24th, 2010
7:04 pm
UGA is doooooomed. Bradley thinks they are going to win. That’s the Kiss of Death!!!!!!
Way Shawn
October 24th, 2010
7:06 pm
I sho do love scorin on dem ez teems. I be fumblin and stumblin when I b playin dem tuf teems like dem gaytors. watch me coff up dat ball 2 time ginst dem flawda skools. my partna king be doin da same stuf 2.
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Left Foot
October 24th, 2010
7:15 pm
Tampa, your smack is amongst the weakest I’ve ever read. UGA ain’t all that but your team absolutely sucks this year for some inexplicable reason. Spin it however you want, anyone who has actually watched Florida this year knows this to be true. Of course, Georgia’s already proven it can lose to poor teams. It’ll be no upset if the Gators win this one. Georgia’s the better team for once but this one’s a complete toss-up.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
October 24th, 2010
7:24 pm
All those past stats. don’t mean anything in the Ga. Fla. game. UGA will be up for this game, count on it. And anybody that thinks the dogs aren’t capable of whipping the gators better wake up to reality. Fla, is not a bad team by any means, but UGA is way past due.
HitaSingle
October 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
Yellow Fuzz – You don’t know what man enough means.
jeff
October 24th, 2010
7:27 pm
do I dare say….UGA 41 Floriduh 16
Neutral party
October 24th, 2010
7:30 pm
Every year the Dawg Nation pokes it’s chest out and says “this is the year”, only to go home with their tails between their legs..This year will be no different….
UF 27
Mutts 10
Wildgator
October 24th, 2010
7:32 pm
Bradley, you are worse then, I think, his name was/is Terrence Moore!!!! Get paid to not know what the hell you are talking about!!!!!!!
THE G ON THE BULLDAWGS HELMET STANDS 4 GATOR
October 24th, 2010
7:35 pm
UGA 14-FLORIDA-50
THIS WILL BE THE GAME THAT GETS MARK RICHT AND MIKE BOZO FIRED!
SKYNYRDVILLE SHOWDOWN ON THE RIVER GA. vs FL.
October 24th, 2010
7:36 pm
ok gators you think it was a nitemare 4 homecomin well waite till saturday dawgs have the edges in special teams with walsh,butler. maybe no chris or jeff well OSCAR will let chris play who’s will play qb burton/ bradley ? no timmy or percy get you some percy be @ the game 1985 get the seats from a gator booster aka bull gator last yr. by the gator band still here go gators 4real this yr. sec.132 roll h gate 3 thats by the dawgpound red boogie bus get on top & dance with the girls in black dresses oh them gator girls in t-back oh yeah baby !!!!!!! gators be nice to my family may the best team win see/ya nite nite later FREEBIRD gone play some SKYNYRD LOUD SEC ROCKS
THE G ON THE BULLDAWGS HELMET STANDS 4 GATOR
October 24th, 2010
7:36 pm
AND YOU SUCKERS HAVE LET MIKE BOZO AND MARK RICHT FOOL YOU AGAIN!
Wildgator
October 24th, 2010
7:37 pm
And uga fans, I think you all are Jessie Jackson supporters, “Keep Hope Alive!”
Stewart Mandel
October 24th, 2010
7:38 pm
In all my travels, I’m not sure I’ve ever come across a fan base whose self-perception is so far from reality. Georgia fashions itself a national power in the vein of Ohio State, USC, et. al., based primarily off one glorious three-year run 30 years ago with Herschel Walker (
ToccoaDawg
October 24th, 2010
7:40 pm
Nice win over Bradleys Kentuck Kittys
Reality
October 24th, 2010
7:42 pm
Duh. Why not write about something people don’t already know?
Bradley and Schlabach wear UGA Underoos.
you are wrong
October 24th, 2010
7:45 pm
Georgia’s average final season ranking has been one of the highest in the nation.
Get a clue as$hole. yeah, ohio state is great. they win the big ten to lose EVERY damn bowl game.
michael
October 24th, 2010
7:45 pm
I look forward to increasing the Dawgs overall series advantage by 8 wins after this Saturday. Current series record stands at 46 wins, 39 loses, and two ties in the Dawgs favor. A lot of you young gator fans did not realize this, did you?
Saviesteve
October 24th, 2010
7:46 pm
Laying All things aside BOBO Has to GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
7:50 pm
Left foot….
Sounds to me like you are talking out of both sides of your “feet!” What is it….Gators are bad and Georgia is better….or is it an upset if the least of two teams (you are saying it is Florida) beats the better team (you are saying Georgia)…..make some sense my man!!!
….and sucking is not scoring 27 points against LSU and losing in the last 3 seconds against a top 5 team.
….and sucking is losing to MSU at home and only scoring 7 points.
If the team that played LSU or Kentucky shows up Saturday…Georgia will have its hands full…believe me.
If the team that played MSU show up and plays poorly….mainly because it had key players playing hurt (RB-Demps…played with a troublesome foot injury, QB-Brantley…played with rib and throwing hand thumb injury, RB-Gillislee…played with a hamstring injury, and Jenoris Jenkins…played with a hamstring injury….and several key players not playing at all (startomg CB-Moses Jenkins…fractured elbow since game one, starting DT-Jaye Howard…out with badly sprained ankle in the first quarter of the LSU game, RB/slot receiver-Chris Rainey…suspended for acting real stupid towards his long time girl friend, WR-Andre Debose…out early in first quarter with a badly sprained ankle, MLB-Jelani Jenkins….out with a mild concussion suffered in the LSU game, OG-James Wilson…out with knee injury, WR-Deonte Thompson…out with a mild concussion from the LSU game, OT-Matt Patchan…out all season with knee injury, RB-Emmanual Moody…out with a leg injury, ALL OF WHICH WILL BE MOSTLY HEALTHY AND/OR BACK FOR THE GEORIGA GAME….then Georgia will win easily.
But…I suspect….with all the above players back and mostly healthy and in good standing….and with a week off to get healthy and hopefully correct some things on offense….the Gators will come out playing like they are capable of playing….and played against Kentucky….and give Georgia all they want and more.
It has been a strange season for the Gators….but they are still very loaded with some very good talent…and if they put it all together next Saturday….WATCH OUT!
BUZZ ME
October 24th, 2010
7:51 pm
I’d like to see it, but MArk you are never right
LakeDawg
October 24th, 2010
7:55 pm
DIT said “If CMR beats the gators and some how beats Auburn is all forgiven with the CMR haters?”
In a word YES.
SEC Observer
October 24th, 2010
7:55 pm
Mark, apparently Vegas doesn’t share your optimism. The early line has the Gators by 1.5, and this is a team that has lost 3 games in a row.
What that tells me is:
1. The oddsmakers are giving weight to Florida’s recent history with the Dawgs.
2. Vegas is not impressed by who the Dawgs have beaten in the last 3 games.
3. Vegas believes the Gator coaching staff is better.
Just some thoughts….
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
7:57 pm
Dave…
I was talking about the Gators punter (who is truly the best punter in the country…and you will see in this year’s NFL draft)…Chas Henry….having to kick field goals in the Georgia game…because all three of the Gator FG kickers are injured.
Yes….Drew Butler kicks them far and long….but Chas Henry kicks them VERY HIGH…and VERY FAR….AND VERY LONG…..and hardly anyone ever returns a kick against him even though he is averaging over 45 yards a kick….and no one places the ball between the 0 and the 10 better than Chas Henry…and by the way….he is from Georgia.
Northern sympathizer
October 24th, 2010
7:58 pm
I say the game is a toss-up. I imagine the gators will open a 1 or 2 point favorite at the most. The key to the game is how well Florida can run the ball and whether Ealey holds on to the ball. Only the gods know. I’ll be close, I’m sure of that.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
7:59 pm
SEC Observer….
A they also think Florida’s talent is better…which it is…and they also think with the week off….Florida is going to put it all together for the Dawgs….and probably will once again.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:01 pm
All I know is this….Georgia fans are real good with smack talk during the summer and the week before the Georgia/Florida game….all the time….every summer and every week before the game for the last 20 or so years….and then want to fire their coach the day of the game…for the last 20 or so years. But the tide is changing…just like the last 20 years or so……Good night.
KME
October 24th, 2010
8:01 pm
Georgia 28 Florida 26….Mark, whaddaya think of that?
How bout them Falcons today!?
Georgia…I like Murray the QB…Washaun Ealey is coming along….AJ Green…what more can you say about him except AWESOME.
YOU GO DAWGS…AND LEROY1970….WHO CARES IF YOU ARE FIRST OR NOT, HUH? GEEZZZZZ
dawgster
October 24th, 2010
8:04 pm
TampaGator…you never disappoint me..always the sarcastic remarks about the dawg fans and tens of thousands of excuses for your gators..i think most of us realistic dawg fans by no means think we are a powerhouse and are going to steamroll the gators..i will add something to what you said however…our losses have alsom been to top 25 teams in SC..at Columbia..Ark..at home and Miss State..in starkville…disn’t you all lose to Miss State on your own field….but you are quiet right, both the dawgs and gators could have easily won everyone of those games…i don’t think either team is as bad as their record..but..i’m not going to make excuses for our losses, they are what they are..glad to see that you have Rainey back…unfortunately when our former QB, possibly starter made a stupid mistake for the first time in his life, our coach, kicked him off the team…he probably deserved another chance, but not at uga…different story i guess for Rainey, and though i think he deserved another chance also, it shouldn’t have been at Florida…but thats the decision of your school and Coach..and please don’t give me that its two different things…bottom line is that is was uncalled for incidents against a young woman…spin it anyway you like, but thats what it is…i would just ask that you don’t lump all dawg fans as being unrealistic about our team…for us that follow the dawgs closely, we know what we are and we are just proud that we have turned our season around from where we started…win or lose in Jax, we still will back our dawgs…
Delbert D.
October 24th, 2010
8:06 pm
The Georgia-Auburn talk is premature, methinks. It should be a competitive game in Jacksonville
Simon Says
October 24th, 2010
8:07 pm
This is the same Mark Bradley who thought the Braves would win the division (they didn’t), then he thought the Braves would beat Frisco in the playoffs (they didn’t).
Florida 48, Georgia 27.
Tech Sucks
October 24th, 2010
8:08 pm
Dawgs are going to crush Florida. I can’t wait to see Urban cry.
Kenai Ocelata
October 24th, 2010
8:09 pm
UGA thugs lose. Again.
Gainesville Gus
October 24th, 2010
8:10 pm
Richt’s eighth loss to us will put him right at the Mendoza line of futility. Why will Georgia lose? Because our coach is better than your coach. That is all.
tom
October 24th, 2010
8:11 pm
Enter your comments here Florida is a wounded animal. They will win this one.
dawgster
October 24th, 2010
8:13 pm
SEC Observer…I wouldn’t have thought otherwise regarding Vegas, picking the gators…i like that the dawgs are the underdogs in their minds and based on our recent past in Jax…who could blame them…this year even though neither team has performed as expected, you still have to go with the odds…the gators being off the week before surely helps…it gives the team extra preparation…the dawgs get back late from Kentucky and have less time to prepare but i don’t think that is as huge as some make it…i think the fact that we are hitting on most cylinders right now is good and taking a week off may not be best right now…i like our chances this year, but i have liked our chances many times down here, so who knows..what ever team makes the fewest mistakes will win…i think it will come down to a one possession game for one team or the other…go dawgs
Denver Dog
October 24th, 2010
8:14 pm
The Gators are good, don’t let there be any mistake about it. UGA is good too! The big difference is that the Gators are without TeBow. They will find themselves, but not unlike UGA without Stafford, there was no good replacement. The Gators will be ready, the dogs will be too! The rest for the Gators will help them, and the Gators could get 2-3 quick scores on new things. Rainey is now being highly recruited by Auburn as a transfer. Should be a good game.
Danny
October 24th, 2010
8:14 pm
Tradition, you can’t beat it!
Gators 38, Dawgs 31.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:17 pm
Dawgster….I said the game is a toss up if the Gators show up healthy and ready to play like they did against Kentucky.
Not healthy for LSU and MSU…and that is a fact…not an excuse for losing. The Gators lost because LSU and MSU were better than night.
Concerning your QB that was kicked off the team…and your inaccurate Rainey comparison….your QB was charged and pleaded quilty to a crime in a plea deal to avoid a serious “hands (and who knows what else) on a female” felony conviction. Rainey was charged with a verbal assault but the charges were later dropped without a plea deal…because the women he has had a long-term relationship with and knows him best dropped the charges. Still…Meyer suspended Rainey from the team…and after the chares were dropped….worked with the players, the university, and the law to work out a program that Rainey could work his way back into the good graces of the team and the university…and Rainey has done that. Believe me, if Rainey had been convicted (as your QB was in a plea deal)…he would never play for the Gators again. That didn’t happen…he met the requirements of being back on the team…and he is. So use an anology that relates my friend….like your QB and Jamar Hornsby…and in that case…Meyer did exactly the same thing your coach did….kick him off the team for good. Meyer has always kicked players off the team that were convicted of felony crimes….Jamar Hornsby and Ronnie Wilson (the only two players ever charged and plea convicted of felonies) while Meyer has been the head coach at Florida.
jumbeauxtiger
October 24th, 2010
8:18 pm
First, congrats to the War Eagles for their big victory. I was very impressed with Newton.
The Dawgs are hot and the Gators have had an extra week to lick their wounds. This is a close game to call, obviously. I’m looking forward to seeing it and actually have always wanted to go to it.
And yes if I remember correctly, in July, when the Braves had an 8 game lead over the Phillies Mark Bradley gave us 8 reasons why the Braves wouldn’t blow that lead.
Geaux Tigers
Yellow Fuzz
October 24th, 2010
8:19 pm
Stewart Mandel
October 24th, 2010
7:38 pm
In all my travels, I’m not sure I’ve ever come across a fan base whose self-perception is so far from reality. Georgia fashions itself a national power in the vein of Ohio State, USC, et. al., based primarily off one glorious three-year run 30 years ago with Herschel Walker.
Hahahaha Stu. YOU are the one that predicted they would play in the Sugar Bowl. I copied and pasted it back in August. Hahaha.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:19 pm
Dawgster…Brandley I believe blocked my first post to you…maybe it will come later….your comparison of Rainey to your past QB is apples and oranges my friend…a more accurate comparison would be your QB and Jamar Hornsby…and Meyer did the same thing to Hornsby that Richt did to your QB…off the team forever.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:22 pm
Dawgster…also…Rainey has never been convicted of a felony…only charged and those charges were later dropped by request of the girl who knows him best. Your QB was charged, plead out as a guilty first time offender….big difference my friend.
the sec must REALLY be down this year
October 24th, 2010
8:22 pm
what will happen to daug fans if the FL team wins? So much crying (barking) about your poor coaching….again. Hope you win and get the big head!
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:26 pm
Also Dawgster….I said…at best the Georgia/Florida game is a toss up if Florida shows up like they did against Kentucky. You need to take your blinders off when you read and post. I have said all year that Georgia would be a totally different team when A.J. Green returned…and they are. I think Florida will be a totally different team…as compared to how they played last week against MSU….with a much healthier and polished team on the field next weekend against your Dawgs. Georgia is a good team now…not great. Florida is a bad team right now…but could be great next Saturday…and if they are…WATCH OUT DAWG FRIEND!!!
Yellow Fuzz
October 24th, 2010
8:26 pm
georgia will lose to Florida Saturday, I bet my Fuzz on it. I am going again just to see it happen live.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:27 pm
Now…til next time…good nite.
Flushed out of the pocket
October 24th, 2010
8:29 pm
This weekend will mark the beginning of a 6 – 6 or a 5 – 7 season for the dawgs. Go ahead scruffy thugs and start shaving……
JB
October 24th, 2010
8:30 pm
Georgia has better than Average offense. Fair defense. Florida has a horrible offense and great athletes on defense. Both teams seem to be hurting in the assit. coaching category. Florida owns the head game. They will tell Dawgs that in pre game warm ups. After watching both teams the last three weeks, Dawgs should win, but Meyer will have them jacked up and tell them that losing to Georgia is unacceptable, especially these Dawgs. It’ll be close. I ‘m scared to pick.
TampaGator
October 24th, 2010
8:30 pm
One more thing before I go…..Florida has a lot more to lose right now because they remain in control of their own destiny….Georgia doesn’t. They need to beat Florida…which is very hard for them lately…and then hope that Florida beat SC…..and I can’t see both off those factors happening….but I do see how Florida could beat both Georgia and SC and head back to Atlanta to get beat by either Bama or Auburn…the obvious class teams of the SEC…and one of those two teams will play Oregon (not Boise State) and get beat…soundly…for Oregon is the obvious class team of college football this year. Now good nite.