Could mighty LSU wind up in a non-BCS bowl? Er … maybe

Saban smells too…

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First?!

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fifth!… lol… good morning, Mark!…

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Step away from the LSD Mark. Georgia has a zero chance of beating LSU.

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To support your (or your colleagues’) argument; if LSU got beat that bad by UGA, a team that EVERYONE has criticized the schedule===LSU couldn’t HELP but drop in the polls, huh?
Doesn’t it seem like a Plus 1 is the more immediate solution?

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*left their shot*

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Bradley, well played. I still say, let the best conference champs, from the 2 best conferences, go at it in the big game. Nothing else is fair or objective. All LSU or Alabama had to was WIN THEIR CONFERENCE.

If LSU can go, with 2 losses in 2007, but conference champion, you have to be FAIR & CONSISTENT, and say LSU & Bama are OUT and Georgia’s IN, because, as Jim Rome, Kirk, and so many others argued BACK THEN, you have to win your CONFERENCE.

I don’t think the MARGIN of victory matters, win by 1 point.

But to me, if Georgia wins, it’s not a CHAMPIONSHIP, if you have 2 NON CHAMPIONS playing against each other in Bama & LSU.

Saban’s wrong, it’s not about the 2 best teams, Georgia was the best team in 2007.

It’s about the 2 best CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS.

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We just need to take care of business. No “ifs” to it.

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The BCS doesn’t want LSU to lose. I would not be surprised to see some phantom “holding” calls if The Dawgs are close in the fourth quarter.

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The BCS system might not exist in a couple of years, but the SEC will. SEC champ is more substantible than BCS champ. Go Dawgs!!

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Other than a win over a three loss Penn State and an over rated Arkansas (no defense) where exactly is Bama’s “body of work”? It doesn’t exist. Bama had their chance vs LSU and spit the bit. Bama has not earned another shot at LSU, they let their shot at home

Where is Georgia’s body of work? New Mexico State, Vandy, and Kentucky is a hell of a schedule

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If professional sports followed the BCS formula NONE of the current champions (Packers, Bruins, Mavericks, Cardinals) would even have been allowed to play for their championships.

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No chance of that happening Mark. Even if LSU loses by 40 instead of 21 they are in the dance..Why even print this article?

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@rhbDAWG1: UGA will be down by 28 points in the 4th quarter.

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That would be awesome just to illustrate the utter stupidity of this system

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I think some people need to be careful with their words. All of these people saying that Georgia has zero chance of upsetting LSU may be eating their words.

LSU is a fine football team that has proven they are among the best in college football. However, Georgia has a lot to play for and quite frankly… the circumstances surrounding this game are priming Georgia to pull off an upset.

You have the death of one of the most beloved UGA sports figures. You have people dissing the Dogs and their recent success on the field. More importantly, you have a football team that has reeled off a ten game winning streak since being embarrassed in their first two games.

LSU has already been told by the “talking heads” that this game doesn’t matter. They are going to the national championship. They are the “best team” in college football.

The Dogs have the motivation and desire to prove something. LSU … not so much…

I’m predicting this to be a close game and give UGA better than a 40% shot of winning it. There have been plenty of teams that were “too good to beat” that have been upset or nearly beaten by unranked teams. Georgia certainly has the talent and the ability to upset LSU.

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LSU 48 – Blair Walsh 12 UGA goes to the Crapital One Bowl

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Send Bama to the Capital One Bowl. That’s a pretty good reward for a 2nd place team.

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As a diehard UGA fan, we will have to play a perfect game and LSU will have to help us out a little, but its football and anything can happen. But to the BCS, back in 07 when UGA went into the last weekend 6 spots ahead of LSU, but didn’t play for our conference championship, LSU beat UT and jumped us in the rankings because according to the talking heads, “no team that doesn’t play for their conference championship” should be in the NC game. Bama had their shot, they choked, missing 4 FGs, nor did they score a TD against LSU. Explain how a team that can’t score a TD, didn’t play for their conference championship deserves a chance to play for the NC. Bama’s signature win was against Arky and PennST. Well that PennSt win is right up there with the AU win as the season played out, Arky was a quality win, but nothing else screams “we deserve to play for the national championship” except the Bama fans, who will claim the championshp even if they don’t play in the game, they are taking credit for the Barns.

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Mark, you said “what if they just saw the Tigers lose 35-14 to a team that, according to the BCS rankings, is the SEC’s fifth-best”.

That’s why I said the conference should never allow the 5th best team in the conference to play in the conference title game. I said a few times in other blogs.

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rhb-conspiracy nut. NUT!

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Wow…you know, if aliens come down from the sky on Saturday and shoot laser beams out of their a$$es and hit all the LSU players UGA might jave a chance….I mean, you never know…it isn’t totally impossible…

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I remember a few years ago crushing LSU on their home turf on a saturday afternoon in tiger stadium. I was there. If I remember clearly, a lot of people said we didn’t have a chance then. It was fun watching the LSU fans leave their own stadium in the 3rd quarter.

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Going back a little farther, in 2000 Miami beat FSU head-to-head and had the same record as FSU but FSU was higher in the BCS, owed mostly to having a more quality loss (ignoring that it was a loss to the team they were being compared to), and Miami was left out (as was Washington who also had the same record but had beaten Miami). In 2001 Nebraska didn’t even win their division of the Big XII after being destroyed by Colorado at season’s end and yet they managed to keep a #2 standing before being blown out in the Rose Bowl for the BCS title. What happened to Mark Cuban? I thought he was going to fund a playoff and kill the BCS.

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you think the ‘DAWGS’ have a better chance than Alabama? You must have your head shoved really far up your “whatchamacallit”

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Roll Tide

November 30th, 2011
8:48 am

Other than a win over a three loss Penn State and an over rated Arkansas (no defense) where exactly is Bama’s “body of work”? It doesn’t exist. Bama had their chance vs LSU and spit the bit. Bama has not earned another shot at LSU, they let their shot at home

Where is Georgia’s body of work? New Mexico State, Vandy, and Kentucky is a hell of a schedule
————————————————————————————————————————————— RollTech, why did you leave your team “Ga. Tech” off that list?

I think we all know.

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Roll Tide

November 30th, 2011
9:03 am
Troll Tide, Ga is not begging to be given a second chance at a BCS title after losing at home. My question remains. Kent State, North Tx, Vandy, Ole Miss, Tenn, Miss St, Ga Southern. Ya’ll don’t deserve a title shot. Period.

And you believe your Georgia team has a shot this weekend? Try beating a sorry Boise State team that dominated the pups earlier this year. You are just another delusional fan still pissed about not getting that title shot in 2007.

Bama hasnt done anyting this year except lose to LSU already. Even Saban said in 03 “If you dont win the conference you shouldnt play for the National Title”

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I agree with rhbdawg, i think if the dawgs win the will be battling the tigers and the refs in this game. dont think foe a minute that wouldnt happen.

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Saban should look at his own quotes from a few years ago. (He should also go oversign someone).

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Two words: Playoff Tournament. It would end all “what ifs”. FCS does it and no problems at all. Clear winner, also means more football to watch. With that said, Go Tigers.

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How unfair would it be if Bama jumped over LSU in the rankings? Almost like Bama was better off losing to LSU and NOT going to the SEC championship game.

In any case, even if we do manage to topple LSU, I can’t imagine it being by a very wide margin. LSU should stay in the top two.

Now if Oklahoma State has a big win Saturday, they have the most legitimate gripe about how the BCS system “works.”

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Trojan,

Those quotes from Saban from a few years ago do not exist. Fowler on ESPN even admitted that the quotes can not be validated anywhere. Someone with too much time on their hands started it on Twitter or something.

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Hell I wish the Tide hadn’t dribbled down their pants leg at home vs LSU..we would beat the Tide by 10 points easy, it will take our best game of the year to have a chance a beating a LSU team that is clearly superior to the Tide this year…and Mark I love that we are getting the shot at the SEC title but there is no way we can beat LSU by 21 …..all I’m praying for is winning by 1.

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Your either STUPID or NUTS. LSU is going to destroy UGA!!

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Love the theories, but there is no way in hell LSU loses to Georgia! They’re too deep at every position and motivated like no other team. I think UGA may hang a bit in first half, then will get crushed in the 2nd half like all other opponents we’ve played this year. Sorry to burst your bubble!

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Just got thru listening to the talking head “Experts” on ESPN and Saban/Gundy posturing for why they should be in the BCSNC game. It really does smell MB and always has.

The goal in any competitive sport that is going to declare a champion at the end of the season should be:

TO PLACE THE TWO BEST TEAMS IN A GAME OR SERIES AT THE END OF THE SEASON TO DETERMINE THE CHAMPION.

This is my position, regardless of confrence, schedule, previous head to head regular season, winning your confrence championship or not… BRING THE TWO BEST IN THE FINAL GAME TO DETERMINE THE CHAMP FOR THE YEAR. Anyone who doesn’t think this should be the goal, does not understand competative sports in my opinion.

The problem or controversy is: HOW DO YOU DETERMINE THE TWO BEST TEAMS?
The BCS system can not with any level of confidence pick two teams out of the NCAA field and say that these two ARE THE BEST.

Listen to the ESPN guru’s Herbstriet and Luganbill and they would want you to believe that BAMA and LSU are lightyears ahead of any other teams in the world and that it is so obvious that it is laughable. I call BS. How can these two KNOW this. One would think they wer GOD.

Is Bama better than OSU??? Who knows.

Was UGA better than LSU in 07? Who Knows?
(And it doesnt really matter because then, the same two EXPERTS/ESPN said you couldnt play in the NC game w/out winning your confrence.)

Bottom line, No BCS poll can sellect the two best out of the field especially with the 4-5 ESPN Experts talking their GODLY opinions and influencing the voters as they do. Their perceptions become reality. Much like the media’s perception became reality and we got Obama leading out country.

I am confident that a BCS type system could select a “best” 8-16 teams, and somewhere within that 8-16 would be the top 2-4 teams in football. Regardless of confrence, winning confrence, …. let the BCS choose 8-16 teams and then let the cream rise to the top in a PLAYOFF. Let ESPN crow all they want about who these 8-16 are. Doesnt really matter. I just want to know that the top 3-5 teams are in the field somewhere and let the teams and GOD determine who is the best!!!

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Auburn scored 14 on Alabama, only 7 on Georgia. People don’t give this defense credit but against common opponents, Georgia’s D is better than LSU.

The Georgia offense can hit you with 5 receivers who have over 40 catches:
King, Bennett, Connelly, Charles, Mitchell

The Georgia offense has Crowell, Thomas, and playmaker Branden Smith at running back. That’s more speed than LSU has faced.

Special teams has Walsh and Butler and Boykin. And we will likely kick the ball away from LSU playmakers, making other guys beat us.

Richt is 3-3 vs. LSU, this game is not a lock.

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D-1 College Football as a system is broken right now, from top to bottom. I hope we’re approaching a Tipping Point soon that will lead to a new process for big time college football.

For a good example of what amateur collegiate athletics SHOULD be, look no further than the FCS in what used to be D-1AA.

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UGA = tallest midget in SEC east

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Keep in mind that the same thing happens in a playoff system. In baseball, the Marlins won the WS twice, even though they did not win their division. The same thing happens in the NBA and NFL all the time. Sometimes its about who is playing their best at the right time of year. I would love to see Georgia upset LSU in the SEC championship game but it doesn’t bother me that they best they can do is the Sugar Bowl. If they had won their first two games, they would be playing for the NC. They didn’t, but still have a shot at the SEC which is a prize almost as good and something Alabama has no chance of claiming this year.

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Look Mark, your scenario is possible, but not probable. Why waste your time?
It’s amusing how you and Jeff always have to pat the Ga people on the back. Is that part of the formula for success? How is this for a scenario? LSU wins big and going away? Gee, I must be a smart.

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Alphare – You lost to a terrible Auburn team. Your team did very well this year and they look to be the toughest game on the schedule for us next year. You guys will probably play in the Capital One leaving us to play in the Outback. Isn’t that justice enough?

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@Gbal, you’re right. They can’t know it. Actually, even with a playoff you don’t know that you have the two best teams at the end. Some years, just like the NFL, MLB and NBA, you clearly won’t have the two best teams at the end. But what you do know is that you have the two teams that advanced on the field to get there. Can’t be much more fair than that. Can dispute who the best teams really are but there is no disputing who won the games. The BCS people like to say the current system makes the regular season a playoff. First of all, that’s clearly not true. And secondly, if it is true then you can’t have a national title game featuring a team that didn’t even win its division. Again, isn’t Mark Cuban planning to blow this thing up? Good for him if he does. And if he can add buying the Braves to his to-do list all the better.

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MB you sir, are an idiot. LSU will not lose, and even if by some miracle the bullpups win, LSU will still play for another BCS title on 1/9/12. Mark it down.

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“While all of Georgia’s defensive statistics look very impressive, one has to realize that the Bulldogs have only faced two teams all season whose offenses are ranked in the top-50.”

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LSU will be investigated by the NCAA within six months; mark it down.

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The best keep getting better: “In football recruiting news, the nation’s top-rated quarterback, Gunner Kiel, whom I mentioned in yesterday’s morning report, returned to LSU’s campus yesterday, along with his parents, for an official visit.”

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munsondawg & WDE,

whatever you argue for dawgs to be in SECCG is a technicality. If it’s not that technicality, SC should be in the game, not UGA.

Just think about it:

SC ranks higher in BCS than UGA, SC doesn’t lose a single game to SEC East teams, SC has the same record as UGA. More importantly, SC holds a tie-breaker against UGA.

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BCS: Big Crock of S—. The powers in charge came up with the BCS to try to solve the problem of determining a “Mythical” National Champion when that used to be decided by polls alone. So they came up with a one game playoff system instead. Now all of the arguments are about which two teams should be in the BCS playoff game. Notice how there’s never any arguing about who is the champion of the NFL?

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No other sport, at any signficant level anywhere in the world, decides a champion by voting. It’s sickening to see these bowl executives continue to line their own pockets at the expense of the fans, the players, and the sport.

Sponsors go along because they have no choice; all would favor a 16 team tournament. 8 games the first Saturday of December, 4 games the second, two New Year’s day, and a championship game a week or so later. The athletes aren’t even in school during that period, and the ratings – and the money – would triple what’s generated now.

I personally don’t care who winds up in a B-S championship game. The only game that means anything real is Saturday, and the Dogs have the talent and momentum to win.

Hey Mr. ATLTiger, you realize that if Bama had signed a real kicker to a scholarship, you guys wouldn’t even be in the hunt, don’t you? Bama lost that game on special teams, LSU didn’t go out and win it.

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Alphare, you don’t get it. SC lost 2 SEC games, period. If you are talking about a conference championship, then it is based on how the teams did in the conference, not outside. What #5 team did SC play outside of the conference? Yeah, that’s what I thought, none. Better luck next year. Georgia lost only 1 conference game, SC lost 2. Do the math. Should be easy enough even for an SC fan.

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Barring a total embarrassment on Saturday, LSU should be in the BCS title game. But the other team should be Oklahoma State or Stanford. Bama passes the “eye test” better, but you don’t really know how good one of those other teams is until you match them up on the field.

Remember the rematch talk between Michigan and Ohio State in 2006? Those two teams supposedly looked better than anyone else in the country, and Ohio State won a close one. But the system lucked out and got it right that year, put Florida in, and Florida proceeded to smash the eye test expectations by laying a whopping on mighty Ohio State.

Point is, you don’t know until you match ‘em up. Eye tests can be deceiving. Bama had their shot, and there are other one-loss teams that played tough schedules, had one hiccup, but otherwise don’t look too shabby.

Only a playoff would really be fair.

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If there were a playoff system, many times a nonconference winner would be matched up against another nonconference winner. Where’s the justice in that? THE BOWL SYSTEM ROCKS!

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Who has UAT beaten?
Weak non conference schedule and neither of two East Division teams.

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By the way, as far as Alabama goes, no team should be considered for a national championship game that can’t kick a field goal or score a touchdown.

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I think LSU will win. I think UGA will make a great showing.

I also think Ok St beats OU convincingly. The voters will say, “we’ve already seen Bama vs LSU”. OSU will jump Bama and play for the championship.

Just my two cents.

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@Shug, Green Bay was a wildcard last year. Do you have a problem with them winning the Super Bowl? And the Cardinals were a wildcard in baseball this year. Do you have a problem with them winning the World Series? Actually, I can see an argument for only allowing the division/conference champions into the field but the other sports have the potential for non-regular season champions to win the whole thing.

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Shug…are you CRAZY????

Who the heck gives a rat’s behind about any bowl game, except perhaps the national championship???

Of course, a tournament creates debate too. The 17th ranked team is going to be PO’ed for sure, but that happens with the 64 team basketball tournament as well.

By the way, I’m not a Dog fan ordinarily. I grew up on Bobby Dodd kicking Georgia’s rear year after year…

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Got UGA 45, LSU 7, LSU just like Auburn, they ain’t all dat.

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Missed. Four. Field goals.
No. Touchdowns.
At home.
Wet. The. Bed.
Who? Alabama.
No. Division. Title.
No. SEC. Title.
Should. Equal. No. BCS game.

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munsondawg & Gary,

of course I get it: SC lost 2 SEC games. But SC has a better record than UGA in SEC East competitions. Why UGA represents the East if SC has a better record?

Why the conference don’t use overall record, or East record? doesn’t East record make more sense since you are picking the East champ? but they use conference record. That’s why I call it a technicality.

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[...] Could mighty LSU wind up in a non-BCS bowl? Er … maybe [...]

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I think a more realistic scenario is if LSU loses to UGA by a fairly large margin, is that somebody jumps Alabama and its LSU and Ok St. A UGA win would lessen the “quality loss” by Alabama and of Ok St blows OK away, they deserve to be in the championship. I am still amazed that Ark is ranked so high. They beat nobody and got blown out by both LSU and AL. They did beat SC, but that is when they were still adapting to life with out Lattimore and Garcia. If they played again, SC would win.

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@ morrison..

LOL!!! I forgot about Lee Corso & Kirk Herbstreit picking GA Tech last week!!!!!

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Herbie ought to be fired for saying Tech would beat UGA, really???? 10 out of 11 now.

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Just so I can say “I told you so” for the record. All of you LSU fans will be soiling yourselves well into the fourth quarter. There is not much difference in these teams and the Dawgs are more comfortable in the Dome than the Bayou Tigers. Aaron Murray and this group of receivers is so much better than Bama it is not even close. So, the Dawgs will score and the run oriented Tigers will not run over the Dawgs but will score also. I say a late field goal wins the game and I am certainly not comfortable with our kicker but maybe the spirit of Munson can pull him throught like 1978 in Lexington. Yeah, yeah yeah!!!! I say 24 to 21 and who knows who wins.

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LSU could come in and lay an egg against UGA and they still would be more deserving then Bama.

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This is the beginning of the downfall of college football if we don’t install an 8 team playoff quick! We should name this the ESPN Brandname National Championship. Oh and Nick Satan, you are a hypocrite!

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LSU fans are not going to Atlanta. Tickets are available for face value Dawg fans….. I don’t think the LSU team will show up either because this game doesn’t matter to them.

UGA 24
LSU 20

LSU and Bama will still play in the BCSNCG and UGA will play Houston in the Sugar. However I am going to act like a Alabama fan and crown my team UGA as national champions this year and make a t-shirt and hat. Bama did that several times in the 30’s and 40’s when all our kids were at war. Most of Bama’s 13 titles are self initiated.

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Do doubt LSU on paper is the stronger team but until they tee it up on the field, we wont know for sure and any given day….. Who knows. Just happy as he11 to be there.

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Let’s be real here, LSU should beat GA or at the very least play a close game. Second, Alabama is a better team than LSU and I think we will see that in the BCS Championship game. Anyone who watched the previous game between the two would have seen 4 missed field goals and a interception call that should have been called a completion for Alabama at the 1 foot line 1st and goal. (his back was on the ground with possession of the ball) LSU knows they were lucky to get a win at Alabama.

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If LSU give up 550 yards to UGA like da did against W Vir, could be a rout bro.

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I just want My Dawgs to look good win or lose Saturday.

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“the Dawgs are more comfortable in the Dome than the Bayou Tigers.”

I couldn’t find anything on UGA’s record in the Ga Dome but LSU is 8-1 all time there. Perhaps you could shre UGA’s record with everyone?

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MelvinH – Georgia has three, first team, All SEC players: Orson Charles, Cordy Glen, and Aaron Murray. LSU is deeper than us and better than us at most positions. To say they are better than us at every position isn’t true. No one in their right mind would say that Jefferson is better than Murray.

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Wow it seems like any team thats not winning like lsu is right now always gripes and blames it on the refs (phantom calls) dude georgia does not stand a snowballs chance in hell and as for bama you guys dont deserve a nat’l title shot you lost at home ( does anyone remember when the game was a few days away how everyone was saying that this depended on who goes to bcs title game) bama goin to bcs title game would be like somone who didnt play in the nfl playoffs going to the superbowl wow wow wow if i was a 1 loss team that played in a confrence title game and won and bama went to bcs title game i would be raising 10 kinds of hell

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How do you get invited to a beauty contest? There are no steadfast rules. The BCS and ESPN are making it up as fast as they can. Bama had a chance and lost. Invite the pretty little girl from Oklahoma. (maybe they can kick a field goal)

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We betta off than W Vir, we might put up 700 yardz stead of 550 yardz on dez clowns…

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if lsu does not deserve a title shot with a loss to dawgs then bama sure the hell dont deserve a title shot you college fans must smoke a lot of dope.

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@Chuck do you really think LSU won’t just wipe the floor with Bama in a rematch? Really?? They will pound you worst than you think you’d pound us….Bama played the best game they are capable of vs LSU and got beat, deep down they know this to be true.

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Bammer is a Tech troll. Nobody else uses “mutt” and why would any legitimate AL fan have invested so much time in a UGA blog. Nice try nerd.

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t-Roll Tide…sit at home and cap it…go cry in your toilet paper roll…

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If Georgia beats LSU and LSU and Alabama play in the BCS title game (if this happens I don’t think I can call it a national championship game), can the coaches and players honestly look at themselves and proclaim that they are the national champions, when they aren’t even conference champions. If they have even the slightest bit of integrity they can’t.

The fans will not have this dilemma at all.

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“Melvin, Everyone gives up rushing yards to Tech, they attempt like 4 passes a game. The 243 rushing yards probably account for 99% of its total offense in that game so that is really not impressive.”

53 rushing attempts, 17 passes (for 117) yards. LSU ran the ball 46 times in their last game for 286 yards.

This game is going to go like most other LSU games. UGA will be competetive ofr 2.5 quarters. By mid-3rd quarter the superiority LSU has along the OL and DL will take over and the rout will be on.

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“The only way three teams from a conference can play in BCS bowls is if two of them are playing for the national title and neither is conference champ, Scott. That’s the rule. It can be found on the BCS website.”

And by virtue of that rule even existing, the system lacks credibility.

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fred-d you are the smartest person on here thank you someone that agrees with me if bama goes to the bcs game i for one will no longer watch or support college ball its just plain dumb the way their system works is made where people who sometimes dont deserve it get it

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Bammer, you are right. That is rediculous. No ref is out there looking to put LSU in MNC game. The paranoi comes from listening the Munson for all thoses years, We won the Uncontested National Championship in 1980 and that is not several generations ago in Georgia. I can see that in Alabama you might have kids at age 10 or 11 but over here that is not even one generation. Ha Ha

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Melvin is a stats maniac! And here I thought everyone from Louisiana was like the Waterboy!

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@Bammer crap roll tide turd … go poisen an Oak Tree…you are irrelevant and do not control your destiny…sit at home and watch the two best teams in the SEC play…LSU will wipe the floor with you again if you play…hee, heee! you embarrassed the SEC enough with strippergate and your decade of .500 ball….you are irrelevant, remember that!

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Dawglasville – OK State lost to unranked Iowa State (8th out of the 10 team conference). AL lost in overtime by a field goal to the number one team in the land. Alabama was picked second by 57 of 60 coaches voting in the polls including the OK State coach. Case closed.

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Everyone that matters thinks Bama should be in the BCS game…coaches, media and the computers ALL think that way. But WAIT!!! Georgia fans don’t think it’s right! And to add insult to injury the Georgia fans are threatening not to watch college football anymore if it happens! The BCS must be stopped at once!!!

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LOL! – Ditto my last comment to Dawglasville.

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DawgDad and others. So if 2 wildcard teams meet in the Super Bowl, does that mean there is no credibility in the playoff system? I’ve never heard any complaints about how the NFL chooses a champion. If the 2 best teams have 1 loss each, regardless of when during the season they occured, it only means on that day they were not the best team on the field. How does a 2-loss Georgia team deserve to play for the NC over those 1 loss teams. I am a die hard Georgia fan but they don’t deserve to play for the NC this year even if they beat the #1 team this Saturday. If LSU and Bama are the two highest ranked teams after all the games have been played, then they should play for the NC. Plain and simple. I may not like want to watch a rematch, but those 2 teams earned it. Georgia didnt. That being said, I’m pretty sick of LSU being so arrogant as to just assume they will beat the h…. out of Georgia. The Dawgs have shown they can play with anybody, including LSU and I look forward to a very competetive and exciting game. Go Dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!

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GulfShoresDawg-
If 13 national titles and 22 SEC titles are irrelevant what does that make you Mutts? Hee hee!

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Remember 03 when LSU was #3 and UGA #13 and they played in the SEC Championship game. Nobody gave us a chance in hell. I say history will repeat itself. Go Dawgs! We got nothing to lose! Win and LSwho and Bammer will be playing a consulation game. I’d rather be a legit SEC champ than a runner-up NC champ!

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Mark Bradley, your columns have evolved into pure pot stirring idiocy. Did you ever think about doing a little actual reporting and writing something original instead of scouring the internet for something ridiculous to regurgitate?

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Here we go again! Without a playoff we have all this crap of BCS rules and BCS rules favor those who can bring in the most money. It is a business–right?

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MARK BRADLEY…….I love your BCS pot stirring, love every article of it, please keep it up!!!!

Root for UGA!! BCS killer!!

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Mark Bradley is so hard up for any victory by UGA that he has gone insane:
The nerve of this sports writer to say some crazy like this shows what a desperate program UGA is.
Mark, do you look at records UGA 8 straight wins came against 8 teams with a combine 12-51 in the SEC, there is not a sports writer in the Flordia would say something as dumb as this if Fl was in this situation, but I guess when your team as not won anything since Jimmy Carter was in office this is what you expect.””
open bids LSU by 30

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Gary – Agreed that the two highest ranked teams should play it out, but if UGA beast LSU, my point is that I dont feel Bama and LSU should be the highest ranked teams.

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Can’t believe a sports columnist has the nads to take on the BCS. I can’t recall ever hearing a anyone point to the unfairness of the BCS system. Credible. Compelling. Complete. And innovative.

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Pick whatever stats make you sound better…even though you tee hee like a little girl. Check out the SEC history books you dunce. Bama is at the top of every column there. Where is Georgia? Still dreaming of 1980? Meanwhile Bama is adding more hardware to its’ trophy case.

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Realtiy Gator I did not know that LSU was known for its offense. I thought it won by its defensive prowess. UGA’s defense stacks up pretty against LSU’s offense. I will tell you like I talk about the BCS,”Lets determine the winner on the field of play.”

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You only write this silly nonsense to stir up the delusional Georgia fan-base so that you and I can have a good chuckle at their expense.

That’s really kind of cruel of you Mark. Your grin can’t hide that devilish twinkle in your eyes.

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@ reality gator

Learn to spell “Florida” right. You gaytors that dumb??

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@GT Fan

Thanks!!!!!!!!

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you can’t handle the facts! sit at home and cry baby cry…booyah! have some great Bama friends but you are a Bammer dudsucker…you are irrelevant and you can’t stand it! LSU and UGA are on the big stage, now go to your trailer and kiss your toothless wife…

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Alabama is one that doesnt belong in title game. Couldnt even win their conference, or even play in the conference title game. Sorry tide, you choked when you had your chance

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Bama had their shot and BLEW IT in Tuscaloser…. MOVE ON!!!

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This is all I’m gonna say:

GA 24 Miss St 10
GA 45 Auburn 7
LSU 19 Miss St 6
LSU 45 Auburn 10
Bama 24 Miss St 7
Bama 42 Auburn 14

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@reality Gator
UGA is desperate? I have a great idea, lets have John Brantley not warm up before the game so that Grantham will be confused. Oh my word, John Brantley, a true game changer, how will any defense ever defend him? Sounds like to desperation to me.

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South Carolina is the best team in the SEC East. They proved it on the field of play. The SECCG this year is a joke.

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Yeah I think ALABAMA has no reason to be in the MNC game. Even if they beat LSU, LSU would still win the national championship with the AP voters.
LSU is way better than Alabama!

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South Carolina is the best team ever with 4 bowl wins!

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Gary: I never said UGA deserved to play for the National Championship if they beat LSU. I said they would have as legitimate a claim to a #1 ranking as any other team at that point.

Take the BCS madness one step further. Let’s say Oklahoma State plays an undefeated LSU team in the BCS Championship game and loses by a FG in OT. By the current logic used for GETTING to the game LSU could still be voted the National Champion.

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“And what if they just saw the Tigers lose 35-14″…

….and what if they just saw cows fly!

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GT FAN, I agree, Alabama is a media darling… Thats why they will back door in to the Nat’l Championship game.. Sad but true!

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“Crowell is gonna have to remove his tampon and be a man.”

Really? How many downs of college football did you play LOL! Huh? I thought so. Your just being a jerk.

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Bama already had a shot and lost 9-6

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BullDogMike, I agree, we’ve seen it happen too many times.

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Alabama will refuse an invite to this years’ BCS national championship game. When asked, Coach Nick Saban said “Sure, we feel like we are one of the best teams this year, but we can’t in good conscience accept this bid because Georgia fans don’t feel it’s right.” He went on to say that “Georgia has established itself as the premiere program in the country, and even though the media, coaches and computers think we should go, if Georgia fans don’t agree with us going to New Orleans then by God we shouldn’t be there.”

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NCAA, BCS & CFB Bowls are as corrupt as Boxing was 20 years ago.
Difference is people are more interested in CFB.
So that is why they get away with the garbage they have the last several years.

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2011 Facts (based on current rankings):

LSU 40 #8 Orgeon 27 margin of 13
LSU 47 #22 West VA 21 margin of 26
LSU 41 #6 Araknsas 17 margin of 24

#9 Boise State 35 UGA 21
#14 South Carolina 45 UGA 42

UGA has beaten NO ONE!!!!!!!
LSU has beaten 3 ranked teams, two top 10 teams, by an average of 21 POINTS!!!!!

This whole hypothetical conversation is exactly what it means to be a UGA fan! Delusional, unrational, and generally irritating!!!!

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@tmc

I have to agree with that.

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BAMA has no loss this season in regulations.

Can any other team claim that?

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tmc, your comment right on the money..

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Georgia 10-2
South Carolina 10-2

South Carolina vs. Georgia?

South Carolina 45 – Georgia 42

South Carolina is the best team in the SEC East. Neither team is the second best team in the SEC. Georgia has no business playing in any kind of championship game. That will become blatantly obvious next Saturday and all of this chatter will then mean nothing.

Hide & Watch

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This conversation has become incredibly boring. The actual game can’t get here soon enough.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!! GATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Please tell me that Penn Wagers crew isn’t officiating in this game.

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Mark, you are reaching today. First sentence of second paragraph:

“Say LSU loses to Georgia by three touchdowns. Say No. 3 Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma by three touchdowns.”

Geeze the sports day must be slow today.

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My bet is Alabama or LSU would beat any other college team. Anyone disagree?

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Wow! Listening to some of these LSU fans the Dogs should just stay home Saturday. I think Katrina left some water between your ears. All I can say is that we’re your Huckaberry and you’re a daisy if you do, but the Dogs are comin’ and Hells ridin’ with ‘em. Go Dawgs!!
LSU- Losing Saturday Ugly.

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BCS

You are full of yourself. The regular season games are suppose to count. Bama played and was defeated by LSU. A rematch in the BCS will only prove LSU to beat Bama twice. You whinny Bama fans really are pathetic

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To say that Georgia has no chance at all is just dumb. I love my Dawgs but I think it’s gonna be real dang hard to beat LSU. Stranger things have happened in college football.

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How about a little consistency here? The Georgia whiners insisting that Bama has no business playing for the NC because they already lost to LSU should apply the same logic to their own team.

BCS Rankings

Georgia #14
South Carolina #12

You lost on the field of play – now you want a Mulligan. Delusional is as delusional does.

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You would think after the yammering about the game there might be some UGA interest in actually going. I’ve got (2) 35 yard line tickets just sitting on ebay with no bids..zip..nodda!! I am only asking 100 bucks more than I paid for the tickets. In previous years the tickets were gone as soon as you put them online. Not this year…had to delist them and try again. NO DEMAND as far as I can tell.

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BCS.You really believe the system is working huh? I’m SEC all the way, but I’m sorry man. Ala. had their chance and blew it. Let another 1 loss team try to beat LSU. Like ( as I stated earlier) it will be tigers because the win in SEC game is a lock for them. By talent or not……

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After the BCSNCG, Bama will be 0-2 versus LSU. Why does that have to be a championship game. What happened to the “Game of the Century” a few weeks ago? It doesn’t count?

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Prove it must be spurrier

You lost bud. To Auburn

we destroyed them

Your team had a drunk QB who was covered for numerous times until he got booted.

Karma is something else

Enjoy watching us play in the SEC Championship Game!

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If in the last week of the season the no 12 team in the nation beats the no.1 team in the nation how is the no.12 team not then the no.1 team? To the victor goes the spoils correct? Let try this slowly if we beat LSU and yes that is a big if, how can we not be better than LSU ?? Only the blowhards at Bama think once they lose to a team on the field of play that team is not better than they are, we lost to USC the second game of the season they were better then, now 10 weeks later is that still true unless we play again yes but USC lost more SEC games as the season progressed and we passed them in the SEC standings…but now its the last week of the season if we beat LSU we are better and will have proven that on the field.

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What if Bama beats LSU? Is there a chance that LSU would still have more BCS points? Bama beat Arkansas and Penn State. LSU beat Arkansas, Bama, Georgia (ranked 14), Oregon, West Virginia. If Bama gets into the championship game, wouldn’t it stand to reason that even with a Tiger loss that LSU will still have more points than them thus deserving the title? If the BSC system is so fair to put two teams in why wouldn’t it award the championship based on the same criteria?

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Yes, dawg fans,

UGA lost to SC but UGA can represent East in SECCG. I thought SC proved they are the best in East.

BAMA lost to LSU, why cannot BAMA represent #2 in NC?

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So everyone on tv thinks UGA will lose. LSU hasnt faced a qb like Murray all year. HUGE difference.

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Forget the SEC champioship game, I’m watching the PAC-12 championship!

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Alphare you thought wrong

UGA 7-1 SEC
SC 6-2 SEC

SC or bama did not win their division

LSU and UGA did

a season is more than 1 game

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Number 14, just sold my 4 tix for $800 each. Try Stub Hub if you really have any tickets.

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Dawglasville,

if Bama beat LSU in overtime by 3 points after missing 4 field goals, LSU might have more BCS points.

Otherwise, no way.

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The sole purpose for the existence of the BCS is to match the #1 and #2 teams in a Championship Game after the regular season ends.

Georgia will not be playing in that game and the opinion (and incessant whining) of Georgia fans will have no effect upon the crowning of the National Champion. Enjoy your beat-down next Saturday – you deserve every minute of it.

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If LSU beats UGA it has won the NC.

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npgator…with a hobnail boot ?

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Nothing Alabama can do. LSU has beat 7 ranked teams. What has bama done?

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any given day anybody can beat anyone weve seen time and time again remember what uga did in 2005 i know that team was stronger at certain postions than this one is But i feel like our D is going to keep us in it an aaron murry will play his game and do his thing. if we get a solid game from crowell that will help to but come one people jordan jefferson isnt the best qb thats for darn sure and i think as a group we have better recievers than they do their defense cant do everything for them
GO DAWGS!

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CUZ as in Andrew?

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LSU AND GEORGIA WILL PLAY SAT FOR THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP-NOT SC OR BAMA-THEY HAD THIER CHANCE AND BOTH BLEW IT AT HOME -BAMA TO LSU -SC TO AUBURN-BOTH OF YOU ARE NOW DISMISSED-TIME FOR THE 2 BIG BOYS TO PLAY.

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@Alphare that was no argument you have no case the rules are the rules SC lost 2 SEC games and UGA only one..what you had was your world famous pot stirring going on…

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@WDE, I bet your team does not have a crystal football.

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UGA will find out how far they have come this season on Saturday. LSU is the best team out there. If the Dawgs can hang around until the 4th quarter maybe there’s a chance. Maybe.

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WDE,

the rule is the rule, why you guys are arguing BAMA should not be in NC? what rule says BAMA does not belong?

To others:

I was arguing the rule is not fair that puts UGA in the SECCG. I didn’t argue UGA should not be in the game based on the current rule. You guys cannot read.

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There’s a chance that Mark Bradley could be writing for the Tattnall Jounrnal. You people will say anything to get someone to read your mess. Why don’t you use your “skills” and write about something worth reading.

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Drop the divisions in a conference and let the two best teams in conference play for conference champion. Then let champion from two conferences play for NC. UGA being involved in this discussion is ridiculous. Alabama’s body of work has to include taking the best team in the nation to overtime .

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Mark, my comment didn’t get through.

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When LSU gets whipped by UGA, oh how that will tarnish Les Miles and the BCS ” only a team that has won its confernce should be allowed to play for the Natl title”….GO DAWGS!

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If Georgia pulls off a miracle and OSU beats the Sooners, Alabama, not LSU is going to feel the wrath of the ground swell of anti-SEC feeling out there. I believe that voters will tolerate one team that did not win their conference in the game. But I don’t believe for one moment that they will vote for two teams, that have already played, are from the same conference and neither of which won their conference. Ain’t happening at all.

But Okie State would have to do their part and beat OU for a change. Their SOS is much greater than Alabama’s and they would be a conference champ. The voters, whose vote will be public knowledge after this poll, will not accept the 2d and 3d place teams in the SEC meeting for the title.

Now, I think Georgia’s chances are very slim. If LSU wins, Bama might hold on to 2d place even with an Oklahoma State win. But if the Dawgs pull off the miracle, Alabama, not LSU is in trouble.

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yeah mine got devoured by the ajc blog too

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Bob,

Great point…I bring that up to Bama fans all time…….who in the hell have they beaten this year? Penn St? That is a joke. Arkansas is overrated.

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1. Team A ranks higher in BCS than team B at the end of season,
2. Team A doesn’t lose a single game to its division opponents, while team B lose 1 to its division opponents
3. Team A has the same overall record as team B
4. Team A holds a tie-breaker against team B.

Dawg fans, tell us which team should represent its division to play in the conference champ game.

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Let conference champions play for NC.

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If i’m Ok St and beat Oklahoma this weekend and win the Big 12 and do not play in the BCS Championship game… i would either sue the NCAA or lead a group to leave the NCAA.
Because it would be a joke. And the message sent by the NCAA to it’s member institutions is “we can change the rules whenever we want and there is nothing you can do about it”. period

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I love America, my family and cold beer.
Hate the BCS.

Winner of SEC Champ game is in. They play another Conference champion deemed to be worthy. Ok State, Va Tech would be fine.

Alabama is out.

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Sure LSU is a big favorite and very well could beat the crap out of us, but I prefer to engage in ‘wishful thinking’ and go into the game thinking about how much fun it would be to win it. Kinda like how I rationalize why I buy Lottery tickets…I at least get to ‘think’ about winning. So what’s so wrong about that? You can do the ‘low expectations’ thing but I find it more fun to ‘believe’ and even if we don’t ‘pull it off’ we can say ‘we wuz there, dammit’.

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Divide the conferences into East and West. Two best conference champions in each play and then those two play for NC.

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Alphare

You would be hard pressed to find a Georgia fan that truly believed the Dawgs belong in the BCSCG this year. That’s not even a question. Two things on Bama, 1- they’ve had a shot to be #1, they were beaten. If the regular season games do not count, the BCS is a failure. 2 – Bama didn’t win it’s conference. That was the precursor as why Georgia didn’t qualify in 07. Saban himself declared on national TV, teams in the BCSCG should win their conference. Oh the hyprocracy of it all

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UGA being in this discussion in ridiculuos. They are only saved by the division.

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see how many dawg fans whining about BCS rules?

BCS changes the rules? what rules have been changed, dawg fans?

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If the decision makers at Georgia had not decided to play Boise State instead of Louisville, would this be a play-in game for the NC?

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Never understood just how jealous Georgia fans were of Alabama football until reading these blogs this week. Just know that in January we will be winning yet another national championship while YOU will be sitting at home, boycotting the game, dreaming of Herschel and eating clay. Now THAT’S pathetic.

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@Alphare: The answer to your question is Team B because you forgot to mention Rule No. 5: Team A has an additional conference loss because it laid an egg at home against a measly Auburn team. Team B beat that same team handily. Case closed. Better luck next time.

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I do not think UGA can beat LSU. If you want to ask yourself honestly, who deserves to play LSU, Alabama or Oklahoma State(If they beat Oklahoma, a big if)then imagine this. If LSU had gone to Oklahoma State on Nov. 5th, and played, LSU would have won by 17 or more. Also, if Alabama had traveled to Iowa State to play, they would have won by 24 or more, and Iowa State probably would not have scored. You all know that is likely the truth. Even the Oklahoma State coach himself said that he would vote Alabama ahead of Oklahoma State.

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“Say LSU loses to Georgia by three touchdowns.”

Say what?

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Logic and reason have a definite anti-UGA bias!

It ain’t fair!!!

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Mark, keep the heat on. I say that Alabama cannot play in the BCS, regardless of any exception. They cannot play in that game. Not under this messed up system.

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Mark, this may have been said since I don’t have time to read all the comments. The real potential loser if UGA beats LSU (and not even by a lot) is Bama. Here’s why: voters will not want to put two teams from the same conference who didn’t win the conference championship into the NC game. In deciding whether LSU or Bama should play, voters will pick LSU because they beat BAMA. Likely NC will be LSU vs. Ok. St. So…Bama goes to the Capital One bow. I’ve been saying this all week.

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Alphare, If you say so. But I don’t consider winning more games to be an excuse. It’s more akin to a qualification.

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For playing such a FCS powerhouse like Ga. Southern, Alabama should be sentenced to the “jack – rabbit” bowl. Why can a SEC power house play FCS teams? All of the BCS conferences do this, are they afraid to play each other? Why not give the paying customer a game where each team has 85 scholarship players.?….To hell with the BCS and ESPN….

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LSU has found ways to rise to every occasion by being more physical when it has to be, more athletic when needed, and more explosive when it has the chance. The formula is simple. Don’t turn the ball over, run hard for a full four quarters, and let the defense take care of the rest. The Tiger offense has to manufacture 21 points. If it can do that, it’ll be off to the national championship with ease. However, Georgia has nothing to lose. It’s gravy time, and while winning the SEC title would sweet, there’s really no pressure and it can relax and take a few chances. The Dawgs won’t fold and they won’t get blown away, but they’re about to play the best team in America.

Prediction: LSU 34 … Georgia 16

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I cannot believe some of the inane rhetoric being tossed around on this blog by the LSU people. Let’s start with the Ark being a top 5 team argument. Ark needed Vandy to miss a field goal to win and this qualifies them as a contender, yet UGA lets a punter make a game winning tackle and we suck. LSU couldn’t score a touchdown vs bama but Georgia Southern scored a few of them. The Miss state game was much closer than LSU fans would like to admit and UGA put up better stats against Auburn. Sure UGA has had a propensity to struggle against inferior opponents. Just because Miss state, Florida and Auburn were ranked in the top 25 when you played them doesn’t mean they were a superior team the day they took the field against LSU. Oregon, and Arkansas are no longer a top 5 team and certainly were not when you played them. West Virginia being ranked 23rd is much too high. Explain how Syracuse put up better numbers against WVU than LSU did. How in god’s name did Florida burn you for 113 yards rushing when UGA held them to -19 and that was with Brantley on the field. Tennessee rushed for 111 yards on LSU yet had -20 against UGA and Auburn only had 51 rushing yards vs UGA and they were all in garbage time. fact is ever common opponent UGA and LSU have faced, UGA’s rush defense has been as good or significantly better. LSU vs UGA at miss state (51-56) UK (89-23) Ole Miss (148-34). I am certainly not attempting to be pedantic but comparing Georgia’s performance against common opponents is a fantasy that LSU fans will hide behind until Saturday. I think UGA’s run defense is on par with BAMA and LSU and the Pass defense has grown up a lot in the past 10 games. I think someone needs to call Mr. Sheppard on the phone and say “yes punk, Jarvis is serious because he knows the stats”. Now enough of this prediction garbage, LSU is good, they better thank God bama doesn’t have a field goal kicker. Their defense has a lot of takeaways and there is no one better in special teams, but UGA will be just as impressive at stopping the RUN as anyone they have faced all year.

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C’mon Alphare,

We have to take what we can get anyway we can get it.

If it benefits the Dawgs – it’s good. If it doesn’t – it’s cheating.

Can’t you understand that logic? It’s simple.

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LSU beat #3 Oregon, #2 Alabama, #3 Arkansas. UGA lost to #5 Boise. That’s the difference in their schedules.

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Stop and Think, ignoring the cupcake games and common opponents, you really think a schedule with Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, and West Virginia is equal to a schedule with Boise St, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, and Vandy? Give me a break.

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@Buckeye I will be rooting for the Gators they may be down this year but they aren’t chocked full of cheaters, and they aren’t in the little 10 .

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I have no Dog in this fight(no pun intended). But if the BCS is to be the same process year to year….not FAIR just consistent then we must look at the last time something like this happened which is in 2007.

1-Missouri 11-1
2-West Virginia 10-1
3-Ohio State 11-1
4-Georgia 10-2
5-Kansas 11-1
6-Virginia Tech 10-2
7-LSU 10-2
8-USC 9-2
9-Oklahoma 10-2
10-Florida 9-3

After Championship Weekend
1-Ohio State 11-1 Big Ten Champion Idle the week before
2-LSU 11-2 SEC Champion won SECCG
3-Virginia Tech 11-2 ACC Champion won ACCCG
4-Oklahoma 11-2 Big12 Champion won Big12CG
5-Georgia 10-2 Idle(dropped 1 spot)
6-Missouri 11-2 Lost Big12CG(dropped 5 spots)
7-USC 10-2 Pac10 Champion
8-Kansas 11-1 Idle(dropped 3 spots)
9-West Virginia 10-2 Lost and dropped 7 spots
10-Hawaii 12-0 Undefeated season

As this shows that the Idle teams that did not win thier Conference dropped in the polls. And the Conference Champs that won with the exception of the PAC10 passed over Georgia. All which had the same number of losses. If LSU wins it is a no-brainer that they play for the title. But what happens if LSU loses and VT and OkSt wins and they have the same number of loses as the 2 SEC teams and are also Conference Champions? According to past BCS standards the Conference Champions are given extra credit for winning thier Conference. As one said “We played our schedule and our record speaks for itself”. The BCS was designed to level the playing field not to be fair. The right thing to do in 2007 was to place Ohio state #1 and UGA #2. Everyone moves up. And this year there is a different school of thought. Sorry that aint right….and is definately not consistent with what the BCS has done over the years. Virginia Tech and OkSt should be upset if they win the games they have left to play based on past history. LSU must win it’s way into the BCSCG and Alabama should be preparing for a bowl game instead of lobbying for a BCSCG rematch. They had thier shot. Just like Michigan did against Ohio State a few years back and the voters thought better of it. If you want to have a rematch then maybe you should start pushing for a playoff so the “BEST TEAMS” settle it on the field.

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Listen – I think all real UGA fans would agree if the thought it thru –

I do think the BCS is a joke. No way to know if it picks the 2 best teams.

The best 2 teams should play in the final game. Should have in 2007 and should in 2011 as well. I say this regardless of confrence, regardless of whether you win your confrence.

If Bama and LSU are the best teams in the nation then they should play in the NCG regardless of whether they win their confrence.

UGA should probably have played in the NC game in 07 and not had the fact that they didnt win their confrence held against them.

The problem is the system that determins who the best 2 teams are. There is no way for voters to know they got it right.

Im fine with Bama and LSU in the NCG if LSU beats us on Saturday. It’s as good a guess as any.

If UGA should pull an upset, I dont think these two could be voted as 1&2. OSU should come in for sure.

Two teams from the same confrence can play for the NCAA Bball finals?? And not win their confrence….

Gotta go to an 8 tm playoff minimum and I would not agree to winning you confrence being a requirement to getting there. The best football would be taking the top 8 BCS ranked teams.

Louisville getting in???? as an 8 seed Vs LSU???

Not a game.

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GIVE ME A BREAK

Your right about the numbers. What I’m saying is that if the SEC is the best in the country and both play in the SEC why is one’s schedule weaker than the other when both of them have the same record for half the schedule. they play 12 games and both were 6-0 over common opponets then half thier schedule is the same. Right?

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Alphare

November 30th, 2011
12:21 pm

it does not make us superior or better than SC, but it does put us in the SECCG. Cheers

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@Bill from you tone I’m thinking one of those “nobody” teams we beat was yours.

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That’s why I think the divisions should be removed. Without the division, we would only be talking about LSU, Alabama, Arkansas and SC. How would UGA’s schedule look if they had played all common opponents?

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UGA would probably be 7-5 and out of this discussion.

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I’d kinda like that scenario to pan out just to see all the chaos that what ensue in the land of BCS.

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LOL @ the idiot trolls saying UGA has “zero chance”. They’re what, 10 point underdogs? How many points was Oklahoma State favored by over Iowa State? How did that turn out?

If the UGA that throttled Auburn shows up, it’ll be close. If the UGA that nearly laid an egg against Vandy shows up, it’ll be ugly. Simple as that.

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Hey – say what you want haters – UGA fans are not being arrogant. We know we have a really tough game and are the dogs…only a couple of nuts really calling a W.

But we are IN THE GAME …. AND GLAD TO BE THERE. Got a better chance than anyone else other than LSU of winning the SEC!!!!

AND IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR ALL IF WE COULD PULL THE WIN OUT AND BUST UP THE BCS!!! EVERYONE SHOULD BE BEHIND THE DAWGS IF NOT FOR THIS REASON ONLY!

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Then UGA would have one more victory but a weaker schedule. Still didn’t beat a top 10 team.

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Will we ever see the day where common sense prevails? Not the answer but something like…..

The second weekend in December, after the conference championships are decided, BCS #1 plays #8, #2 plays #7, #3 plays #6, and #4 plays #5. The BCS SHOWDOWN WEEK. Now we’re down to our true final 4 by bowl season. Surely the bowls and the networks would make this profitable for everyone.

On a rotating schedule, the 4 major bowls share the playoff. Maybe this year Sugar and Fiesta get the final 4 and the Orange gets the BCSCG. The bowl left out (this year the Rose Bowl) gets BCS #9 vs #10 or their pick of the 4 losers from mid-December. Next year, everyone moves up a notch in the bowl rotation, top bowl goes to the bottom of the list.

Yes, there are multiple problems with this, (extra games for teams, extra travel, MONEY distribution, etc.) but it can all be worked out.

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Murray completed passes and Washington didn’t. Good game.

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@Bulldog59

The only problem that I see is that it still leaves Georgia out of the picture.

Oh well… Back to the old drawing board.

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@OneMoreDawg

I agree. Letting the two best teams play for the NC just sucks!

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UGA won the SEC East fair & square. We don’t care if we lost to the best team in our division. The point is MOOT!

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Dang I wish I could be in the Dome come this Weekend. I shoulda done a better coaching job.

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@GIVE ME A BREAK now which top 10 team did SC beat again?

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Nah. I tried that last year. I don’t want no more of that. Why do you think I lost to Aubie? You really think they’re good enough to beat my team?

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

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No. LSU is not ending up in a non-BCS Bowl. Jeez Louise. We are. The Outback Bowl. What is all this junk ?

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Does MB actually get paid for writing this dribble?

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@Play Me Off! WE?

LMAO!!!!

LSU will OWN you this weekend!!!

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LSU vs BAMA is THE most profitable game that can be produced for a NC game. It is like a Home and Home in single season since the NC game is in N’awlins’ Super Dome. Everyone wants to see 1 vs 2 for the NC and Bama/LSU will be a great game…The hype will be overwhelming but you will look forward to the NC game with baited breath. UGA had a great season after dropping their first 2 games, but I DO NOT think their OL can handle LSU’s Front 7/8 for a full game. Crowell(run game) will be neutralized leaving them one dimesional, which means pin the ears back and go after Murray.

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“Does MB actually get paid for writing this dribble?”

You meant drivel. Dribble is what collects on your chin when you watch your cousin undress.

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The Outback Bowl. What is all this junk ?

UGA is better off with the Outback Bowl then the Cotton Bowl this year. Although I agree that all of the non BCS bowls are pretty useless.

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Keep dreaming.

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I think LSU will be ranked ahead of Alabama in any scenario, seeing they won at Alabama. So I see Alabama with the most to lose in an LSU loss scenario and a OSU blowout type thing. The voters may give OSU a break, because they lost in the same weekend as the plane crash killing two Women’s basketball coaches. We’ll see.

I still say it’s LSU – ‘Bama regardless however…

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When OSU loses or struggles with OK this weekend, it doesn’t matter what happens with the LSU-UGA game. It will be LSU-BAMA in the NC game.

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We (UGA) will lose, and it will be because of turnovers. I like Aaron Murray, but even against Auburn, he fumbled, but it went out of bounds. Against Tech, Charles fumbles, but recovers. Malcome, Harton, look like fumbles waiting to happen. And getting back to Murray, he can take a hit better than any QB i’ve ever seen his size – see Auburn and Nick Fairley. If he stops the Interceptions, takes care of the football, and our RB’s do also – we got a real chance in this game.

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I said we would lose in our last post – I should say that’s just my thinking – I did end the post saying if we don’t turn the ball over it’s really anybody’s game.

And if LSU really believes there in regardless of the outcome, they may not play full throttle either. I’m not counting my Dawgs out, just trying to be realistic. Hard to do as a fan sometimes.

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Mark Bradley….you sir are an idiot. We are coming to the dome to take care of the puppies so get the upset out of your mind.

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Have to admit it, UGA89 is spot on. There’s no denying it.

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If LSU end’s up in a non-BCS bowl I hope they keep their starters in for 60 minutes. Announce before they are matched with anyone that you better think before you accept a bowl invitation because we are going to play hard for 60 minutes with no mercy. Who know’s maybe the effort will get LSU moved to the top team after the bowl games.

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Just don’t let Orson Charles anywhere near the SEC championship trophy…He broke UF’s National championship trophy on a recruiting visit there!

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Mark,

To my earlier post. Even if LSU loses they will remain in top 2. Even if they lose by 40 they will stay ahead of Bama in polls and computers because of strength of schedule and head to head. Ok St can still get in BCS championship but it will have to be at the expense of Alabama and not LSU

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All I hear from the LSU fans right now are “what academic ineligibility?”

Huh?

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Tell me who you have beaten that is worth a damn? I’ll be waiting.

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UGA89,

Sorry, I don’t watch ESPN or Les Miles.

Were they part of BCS formula back in 2007? I know they are not in 2011.

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Answer my question….who have you beaten that is worth a damn??

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geaux, I hope the only team we have beaten that is ‘worth a damn’ is lsu

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Well….I’m still waiting on you puppies to tell me who you have beaten that is worth a damn? Oh yea…NOBODY

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They beat Tech.

Oh… wait – never mind.

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Geaux,

I am in agreement with you about the weakness of our schedule – The Dawgs that is.
Though Auburn and GT were ranked lowly they both stink.

Boise State has a very good football team and they whacked us. SC is average and though Garcia tried to give us the game many times we just couldn’t execute to beat them.

The rest of the schedule was weak But no one knew what it would be like when the schedule was decided years ago and I think even you’d agree the team that played GT and Auburn is vastly different from the one that lost to SC.

I hope all LSU fans, players and coaches are as cocky as you boy.
That, and my Dawgs playing flawless ball might just get us a win!

Thanks and keep up the good work!

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has anyone ever been to sec fanfare? I thought about taking my girlfriend is it worth it?
Thanks

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The sad thing is you puppies really think you are good because of the crappy teams you have beaten.

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Geaux Tigers,

Do you remember the last time you were favored big against us at the dome?

I remember Jamarcus Russell showing the NFL how well he handles pressure

Go Dawgs!! Woof! Woof!

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In 2007, LSU beat two (2) teams who finished in the AP Poll Top 10.

Mark Richt here at UGA beat zero (0) teams who finihsed in the AP Poll Top 10 and LOST to a sorry South Carolina 6-6 team not even in any bowl game.

LSU # 1
UGA # 2

Get over it and quit with the crudola that LSU jumped us because we didn’t win SEC Championship Game, didn’t even win our Division.

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Geaux Tigers, if you anger the football gods and LSU loses I hope you realize that it is your fault

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By my recollection, Georgia lost to LSU the last time they played.

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old yeller mom,

I meant in 2008 when they came to LSU and beat us at home. I didn’t go to the away game in 2009.

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GIVE ME A BREAK
Please re-read the article.
The article is not about UGA winning the game,( clearly states very very unlikely), it is about how the BCS has too many flaws that get exposed throughout each new season.
In your post you say SC deserves to play in the SEC Championship game, but using your logic it would be impossible to figure out who plays in the NC unless there were two undefeated teams each year.
Do I think if UGA will beat LSU in the SEC Championship they deserve to play in the National Championship?
No way, we already have 2 losses, but I also do not believe Bama deserves to play in the NC instead of a one loss Conference Champion from one of the other conferences.
The BCS is BAD, and will never ever give us a TRUE champion.
I never hear anyone argue about who deserves to be called the National Champion in College Basketball at the end of March Madness.
Why is that?
Because it all gets settled in a playoff system.
All of you need to read the book Death to the BCS, and you will see that corruption and greed are all that keep College Football from going to a playoff system.

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@Geaux Tigers damn son tone it down a few degrees. Your bunch is a legit no.1 team and we are honored to get to play you for the SEC title, bring your best game and lets see who the best team is no need to get angry leave that for the fans of the schools we already beat. See ya in the Dome.

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@timthebrave, maybe the football gods have already heard geaux and he is destined for a big bellyful of delicious crow! I know I won’t have to eat any if UGA loses. This stuff is funnier than “I love Lucy”.
Ooogitty-boogity, give me a crawdad head to suck on!

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has anyone ever been to sec fanfare? I thought about taking my girlfriend is it worth it
Thanks

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UGA89 that’s not what happened in 2007, sir

Who did LSU get beat by in 2007 and at what point in the season?

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Too bad we can’t blame it on Ray Goff, we blamed everything else on him. Maybe we can get a Ponzi scheme going and Jim Donnan can run it. We have a really great coach, and these fair weather bulldogs want his scalp, even after this year.

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you UGA fans are something – you better hope LSU wins or it will cost your school about a $1.5M payday when two SEC schools show up in the BCS – besides, you won’t know what hit you in the frst quarter – Hell’s coming to the Ga dome and although Sherman was the first President of LSU in 1860, he won’t be with them this time.

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You better get some more titles if you want to be on our level.

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UGA89, I couldn’t find where I said SC should play in the SEC championship game. What was the time of my comment?

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Geaux Tigers,

No dispute Tigers are good.

But I want to correct some spellings: “WE WON’T LOSE” should be “WE WeauxN’T LeauxSE”.

Let me know if I am wrong, Cajun language is not my strong subject.

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SEC fanfare IMO not worth it either. I would rather be tailgating

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Bama would go to the title game over LSU? That is just stupid. Both will have 1 loss, LSU will have beaten BAMA and only lost in the championship game to a team that will have won 11 in a row at that point. I think LSU-OSU is more likely in that instance.

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The score will tell….

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Will the puppies ever win a National Title?

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munsondawg – I was there to in ‘08!! Yup, so many tiger fans yelling “tiger bait” to me before the game, but afterwards…not a single word.

I think it’s time to kick-out the bcs and look at play-offs – only way it really can make sense.
i mean a “possible” team who doesn’t win their conference vs. a team who didn’t win their division. dumb.

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I hate to say it, but yes, the bulldogs have won a national title. Please don’t embarrass yourself.

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I meant to say will they ever win another one? I’ll answer that….they won’t.

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Mike Bobo 17 INT, Did you bet your house on your yellow jackets last week? How long before they foreclose your house and cut your internet so we won’t have to hear you anymore? Just curious?

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Most LSU fans are usually fun to tailgate with. I’m looking forward to the game this weekend. The last SEC championship I scored tickets through a sports writer I know for the Times Picayune. I found a bottle of makers mark going into the dome that somebody left still unopened and the dawgs won big.(lucky me) Since I got the tickets from a LSU guy I was surrounded by tigers….Walking in all I heard was tiger bait…tiger bait…..but they were really cool and we had a great time with them….The makers mark shots didn’t hurt either

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UGA 89

I agree with you about ESPN and what they said in 2007. If LSU was in Bama, VT, or OSU place they’ed be screaming again about a team that didn’t win it’s conference let alone play for the CC they should not be in the NC game.

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StungByAYellowJacket, thank god you don’t even get suspended for smoking pot at tech.

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You guys are on crack. Georgia has ZERO victories over decent teams. LSU will win by three touchdowns. The same thing will happen to Georgia that has happened to all teams but Bama. It will be close for a quarter. Shortly thereafter Georgia will understand that they cannot run the ball and will become one dimensional, at which time the pass defense will take over. Sacks and turnovers will happen every few downs. Then the big backs that LSU has will start pounding the ball for seven, eight, ten yards a carry. LSU wins by three touchdowns easy.

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@StungByAYellowJacket really that’s only happened once in the last decade..

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timthebrave,

That would only be about $99.95 for him!!!!! Yeah, bet it all….

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Alphare

tsk tsk tsk. Stretch, bend, turn the truth any way you please. Georgia beat Tech and Georgia won the SEC East. Hurts don’t it

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@BigDawg4 because a TON of us enjoy Mark’s writing…most of the time…smile.

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LSU by 24.

Early pressure on Murray causes a couple first half INT’s. UGA wears down in the 3rd and gives up.

Les’s post-game comments make absolutely no sense.

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WDE,

guys don’t do their nails.

You must know where Crowell gets his hair done.

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timthebrave

November 30th, 2011
3:07 pm
StungByAYellowJacket, thank god you don’t even get suspended for smoking pot at tech.

Amen!!!! LOL

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