Game by game: How UGA will go 11-1 and win the SEC East

I think not on that Oct. 27 predection.

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Dawgs beat SC….and lose to Florida….and still win the SEC East because Florida will lose to SC and LSU….schedule wins out again.

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I like all except, there is no way the DAGWS lose to USCjr 3 times in a row.

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losses at Missou, SC, Jax and Auburn.

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DAWGS; not what the spirits spell.

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UGA will NOT lose to SC this year. Better offense than SC, better defense than SC. The ONLY thing SC has that may be better than UGA is at the RB position. That is only if Latimore can come back from major knee surgery 11 months before and be as good as in the past. I think with Gurley and Marshall UGA can be good enough to beat SC. SC has no established WR’s and are thin in the secondary with a starting CB going down with a torn thigh muscle. SC is pretty good at D-line with Clowney but UGA has Abry Jones, Washington, Ogletree, Jarvis Jones,Jenkins, Geathers, and so on. UGA’s front 7 will be one of the best in the country.

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August 25th, 2012
10:38 pm

losses at Missou, SC, Jax and Auburn.

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You probably have no clue of what you’re talking about. Missou? They’ve lost 3 starters on their O-line the last 2 weeks and are being replaced by walk-ons and true Freshmen. UGA’s front 7 will run through their O-line. Auburn does not have the personnel this year to beat UGA. The game in Jax is always tough but it is a winnable game, and I just gave the reasons why UGA will not lose to SC.

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GT Grad, lets see if I can explain this simply enough for you. Teams do not set their conference schedule. The conference does. UGA could have just as easily played Bama as was scheduled but the SEC did not decide that. THEY took off Bama and gave UGA Ole Miss. UGA had no control of it. YOU play the teams you’re given to play. No one was complaining a few years ago when UGA was playing the 4th hardest schedule in the country.

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GT Grad, how many teams in the ACC scare anyone?. In reallity, Tech’s schedule is easier than UGA’s if you want to compare apples to apples. Tech has no excuse to finish with any less of a record than your predicted UGA record

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I dont know what is more fun to watch…UGA fans who think there program is a top tier one or the writers who drank the Kool-Aid….

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Georgia 35 SC 21. I’m calling it.

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Tired of hearing about sec toughness. Not that tough. Sure 7 ncs but from the same 4 teams that are any good. Aftr al, lsu, USC, rest is avg in any conference. Acc is less top heavy but deeper. Everyonewill see hem ncsu spamks the vols and Clemson rolls auburn for the 2nd year in a row.

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Mark Bradley –

This is about as accurate as that drivel you wrote last week about Augusta National finally accepting women and thinking that your readers would follow like sheep and agree with you. Have you ever considered reading Tarot Cards at the local carnival instead of this nonsense?

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Ok Thwg, the same 4 teams. That’s four more teams than from the “deeper” ACC as you like to say. Lets see, the deep Clemson team of who’m West Va. just scored on again just a few minutes ago? Or the Fla. St team who got showed the door by OK. Actually, the most consistant team in the ACC has been Wake Forest! Now that say’s something. OH, and the Vol’s, as much as I dislike them still beat NCSU and the AU vs Clem game is a toss up. When your conference wins a BCS bowl game then brag!. Outside that, just remember that UGA has won as many BCS games as the ACC has combined!……
OK, I’m out of breath, you guys have at it……I’m gone fishin finally!

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Dawgs will lose to Mizzou, Cackalacky, and Florida. Joke schedule doesn’t save Coach MediocRe from going back on his hot seat.

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Something that has never happened, SC beating UGA three straight. Could happen I guess because of Spurrier. Auburn is the other obstacle because it’s Auburn. UGA wins 10, 11, or 12 before a bowl. Yep, a second straight win over Florida with more to come. Getting close to overtaking Tennessee in the series which is appropriate.

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Thwg….Clemson…really??? As Jefferson Davis Hogg pointed out….when u let another team score 10 TDs against u…IN A BOWL GAME….u should have to sit the next year out! Wow…no one should talk about Clemson for a while…..man…I’ve heard it all now

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I know SC has an ok D…but why all the talk of us losing to them?? and yes i know that game is always close…but…let me give you the stats from last year if they are not already burned into the avg Dawg fan’s mind….UGA-436 total yrds (Pass=248,Rush=188)…USCjr-327 yrds (Pass=142, Rush=185)…..and our D is better this year (and so should the Off)…we scored 22 points on them in the 4th qtr!! And turned the ball over 4 times!!! And we only lost by 3!!!! they lose a key CB for the game….and NFL WR is gone…..Lattimore is Lattimore……so why again does everyone give the edge to USCjr????

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No offense….but we would rather see LSU…we have a little payback coming for last year

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Tennessee will finish 8-4 saving Dooley’s job. I think they go 4-4 in the SEC

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They’re all easily winnable. Even the one in the chicken coop at the state fairgrounds. I’m not worried at all.

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All the games are winnable. Will Georgia win them all is the question?. That Missouri game has me worried a bit. I just have a bad feeling about that one. Hopefully it’s just that, a bad feeling. Missouri seems ready to shut some people up. I hope we can match their intensity during the game, because if not, we may lose gentlemen.

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If Mark Richt uses the gameplan he used against Tech in 2009, and run the ball A LOT then we’ll beat Missouri IMO. They just don’t have the horses up front to get enough push for all 4 quarters. If we try to get all pass happy, then it’ll be a toss up. I think I’d put that game in the hands of my O-line and RBs and eat Missouri’s defense up.

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The Missouri game will tell us a lot. In the past Georgia has always taken 3 or 4 teams for granted and either the game was real close and they were lucky to have won or they lost. I hope this team is not one of those arrogant , self centered teams that listen to the press and blog hype.
I think and hope they remain focused on their goal of winning every game and going to the national title game. Richt needs to do his part by NOT filling sorry for a team if we are winning by 24 at half. He needs to keep the pressure on the entire game and beat them like a rented mule. When you take the pressure of it sends a message to your team that they do not have to try for 60 minutes. Then when they get into a game like the LSU game or the Michigan State game last year , they are not able to go 60 minutes. If Murray is having a bad day and has had a few turnovers because he just wasn’t very smart , history says that he will continue having a bad game until it is over. Before his mistakes make us lose Richt needs to take he out of the game , at least until he settles down and the Prozac has time to take affect.

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The Vanderbilt , South Carolina game might be played in a downpour. If either team relies of a passing attack they could be in trouble. If he can hold onto the ball Lattimore may carry the ball 35 times in that game. Conner Shaw may not have a very good game if it is raining hard. This game could be very important for Georgia especially if Vanderbilt wins.

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Honestly, I think the best four teams in the SEC are a dead heat tie with one another. UGA, USC, ALA, LSU, all four have the same talent and depth. Don’t try to argue with me that Bama and LSU are soooo much better. You don’t loose that much talent to the NFL and not suffer the next year. If you think they won’t, you’re dreaming. As for SC, I’ll give it to them, they are very good…especially on defense, but so are we, and I think we take a close one this year by 3…and neither team scores more than 17.

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The Cocks from Columbia have taken the Dogs out three years in a row. This year will make four years in a row as the Cocks win the east easily.

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Dawgs go 12-2 at worst, I’d say if we beat SC, we have a 50/50 shot at the National title depending on if we win the SECCG, because lets just face it… NO other conference is as good as the SEC. If the last seven years haven’t proven that, not only are you an idiot, but you can just look back at the history of the SEC. Since the old SoutWestern Conference split up, it has been by far the most difficult conference in America.

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Ah, it’s that time of year when everyone is undefeated. We can all make predictions, which is kinda fun, and we can all pontificate about why this team will win or that team will lose.

That being said, I think Mr. Bradley’s prediction of an 11-1 regular season is probably the most likely result. With this schedule, I cannot see the Dawgs losing more than one game in the regular season, but it takes a truly special team to get all the breaks and go unbeaten. That means having no disaster games with multiple turnovers, no terrible injuries that could gut a team’s resolve, and having a modicum of plain old-fashioned dumb luck (i.e. Georgia’s win over Florida in 1980, including the highly improbable 93-yard Lindsay Scott TD against the Gators in the final minutes of the game, a play which springboarded the Dawgs to the National Title and which prompted Vince Dooley to remark, “Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good”).

I put the odds of a 12-0 season at 25%, 11-1 at 50%, 10-2 at about 15% and anything worse than 10-2 at about 10%. That’s a 75% chance of making the SECCG with an 11-1 or better record–and either of those records would land the Dawgs in the SECCG, as I do not see South Carolina beating LSU in Baton Rouge under any circumstance, and they will also almost certainly lose one of the following games, as well: Georgia, Arkansas, Vandy, UT or Florida. The opening game for the Gamecocks is a problem, as Spurrier’s teams at USCe have traditionally started the season slowly, and Vandy returns everyone from a team that the Cocks humiliated last season by holding the Commodores under 100 yards total offense. With Connor Shaw having back spasms, no experienced depth at QB and Lattimore starting his first game since the knee injury, a few breaks could give the ‘Dores an upset “W” in the season opener. That being said, I think the Gamecocks will most likely finish 10-2 (50%), with 9-3 the next most likely record (30%) and 8-4 the next most likely (7%). An 11-1 Gamecocks season carries a 4% likelihood, 12-0 about 1% or less, and anything less than 8-4 collectively about 8%.

And I think the Dawgs will beat the Cocks in Columbia straight up this season. That game has been circled in red on the Bulldogs’ schedule since they gift-wrapped the 2011 game last fall. The only positions that the Gamecocks are better than Georgia are at defensive end (and that’s not by much) and at running back, if Lattimore is 100%. The Dawgs have the better secondary, better linebackers, better receivers, a better interior defensive line and a better QB. Offensive line is a wash between the two teams. And Richt’s teams have traditionally done well in Columbia; he’s 7-4 against the Gamecocks overall, but 4-1 against them on the road. If there are not special teams breakdowns and no rash of turnovers this season, Georgia will beat the Gamecocks by a TD.

And @ Buzz2011: If wishes were fishes…Tech would still lose to Georgia. Richt has the Jackets’ number. That number this year is, in fact, 11–as in 11 wins in 12 seasons. I know you guys are frustrated, and I can understand that you really, really want to believe that your team can win this game, but you can’t. The odds of a Tech “W” in Athens this season are less than the odds of Paul Johnson getting a modeling contract with Victoria’s Secret (although if there were a “Moobs Bra” craze, Johnson’s odds of the Victoria’s Secret contract would go up considerably).

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Pretty funny seeing Yech fans on here calling Georgia’s schedule weak. They are right the Dawgs end the regular season with Yech which makes any schedule weak.
GO DAWGS SIC EM! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!!

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2012……cashin’ checks and snappin’ necks baby!!! Dawgs win out- 14-0!

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Missouri 37, Georgia 17

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Ga can beat south carolina—they are overrated. The Dogs go 12-0 and upset alabama in the SEC title game. This is the year!!! Dogs v. usc for the national title!!

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9-3 at the most
Its the same team at last year but Fla is not nor Auburn two more losses for UGLY.

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……is UGA is at 72 D-1 players. Can they make it through the season injury free or without off-field issues?

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Hey Tampa, stop with the “schedule wins out again” bullcrap. You play the schedule that has been laid in front years in advance. You are a smarter fan than this. Gator fans have no room at all to talk about weak schedules. Your permanent west opponent is LSU, ours is Auburn. For years, LSU was down, and Auburn was not. Look at the history books. Most of the UF SEC titles came when UGA and/or UT were down. Be a different gator fan and have some class.

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14 years since we have not sold out a home opener.

Florida Atlantic not sold out.

Buffalo bills not sold out.

Sad stuff, indeed.

Hurricane Isaac is strengthening over the open Gulf of Mexico, down to 995 mb now. We expect to have significant rainfall totals in Athens everyday this week after tomorrow.

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NO INDOOR PRACTICE FACILITY
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Having gone SWIMMING Friday, again, we now face not being able to practice past tomorrow. Our preparation for the season has seen mostly BS sent out by Mark Richt.

Not recruited a fullback, of the over 200 fullbacks available every season recruited by the other football programs, for 6 consecutive seasons until we just recruited

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QUAYVON HICKS FB – PIERCE COUNTY HIGH # 3 FB NATIONALLY
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But, he is not going to start because Mark Richt wants to make injured linebacker Merritt Hall, who has never played football here, let alone fullback, walk-on and

TAKE HIS JOB.

TRANSFERRED-OUT of this program Ken Malcome is starting at TAILBACK

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NOT KEITH MARSHALL
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and, also not starting at Tailback instead either is

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NOT TODD GURLEY
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Boo Malcome, you may recall quit this football program at the end of September. Then, uncancelled his transfer. Then, a month and a half later Boo Malcome fumbled the football against Kentucky, as you might also recall. Prior to that fumble, Boo Malcome was suspended for

FAILED DRUG TEST too.

It seems as though doing drugs, quitting the team, transferring-out got him Starting TB slot here. In fact, when he was SW DeKalb, he got injured and Mark Richt kept his scholarship for him anyway, recruited injured here. As soon as he announced he, too, was

TRANSFERRING

Mark Richt started playing him and made him the starting TB at UGA. Boo Malcome is the returning Starting TB at UGA, having started the last game vs MICHIGAN STATE too.

Jay Rome, you might recall, has been seen playing some great football too, but in the on-going BS out of Athens, Mark Richt says he is NO GOOD, and is playing others less-able who have him

TOO BURIED ON MARK RICHT’S DEPTH CHART.

Note please, these are all on OFFENSE.

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Florida never had a schedule like this one. South Carolina is going to lose 4 games this season; and, that folks is not a Top 25 team, or if they end up Top 25, it will be just barely. I see South Carolina as 9-4 in a 14-game season.

Of the 5 SEC teams in the Top 5 pre-season, we have only 1 game. Name me another team with a schedule like this ?

If you cannot handle that we play 11 games who average 4.8 wins and 1 game against any opponent who made any top 25 poll, then just placate this losing staff, qb, and players – 30 of whom have transferred-out who should have been playing Saturday and are – just gone.

The rest of us want us to beat a quality team. Mizzou is certainly NOT it. Mizzou is picked # 42 pre-season and went 8-5 in the defenseless big xii. Speaking of defenseless, Mizzou has none. And, no special teams. A running QB who has an injured surgery throwing shoulder, and besides his returning running backs, lost their entire team after last season. That is not an elite football team.

You know ?

Makes the Top 10 – lost 7 in row after # 9 Auburn way back in 2006

We have not even beat an SEC team who put-up a winning SEC record starting with Kentucky way back in 2007.

2007 was 6 seasons’ ago now 2012.

As a matter of fact, we haven’t even beat a team who made any top 25 poll in 9 games in a row.

- 9 losses in a row to teams making any top 25, may not play one 2012
- 7 losses in a row to teams making Top 10, none on the schedule
- 9 losses in a row to SEC teams making winning SEC record, play none of those, either

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67 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in eligible to play Saturday

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NOT COUNTING THE SUSPENDED LIST, WHICH WE’RE SAVING TO KICK-OFF
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If you subtract the suspended list, it’s about 59 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in.

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They better win with that cupcake schedule- looks like a DII school.

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You have at least 3 more loses in here. They get all hyped up every year and every year the fall flat on their face.
Mark my words you will not finish in the top ten.

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Not going to lose to the “Carolina Whiner” this year – no way. Most dangerous games? Missouri and Florida. UGA could go 12 – 0 or 10 – 2 but won’t lose to the Game Crocks.

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Georgia’s season depends on 2 factors, assuming of course the defense lives up to billing. First, how good will the offensive line be? IMO the biggest difference between UGA and the SEC West powers the last few years is a lack of a dominating and deep offensive line. Last year’s line was a huge, underperforming dissapointment. The ability to keep the pressure off squirrelly Aaron Murray, and more, to open up legitimate holes for the backs is imperative. Second, one or more representatives of the running back corps has to be a game changer. UGA mostly lacked a consistent game changing threat at running back last year. These two factors will be the difference between a three or four loss season or something much better.

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Mark…., I want some of what yer smoking! lol. Bulldogs are not gonna beat Auburn so that’s 2 loses

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Wow another Ga is great column, what a surprise. When Murray actually beats a ranked team maybe Ga will have something. As of yet he wets the bed when he plays real teams. Good luck with hat O-line.

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Bradley on the peyote.

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I see we got that crystal ball hokis pokis going again…I will desk top this also.

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My prediction is that UGA makes it to the SECCG then gets embarrassed, again. UGA just isn’t in the same league with LSU and Alabama. They could be if Grantham were the head coach. So y’all keep Richt.

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UGA expectations….

Another pre-season national championship.

HAHA, good luck in the Outback Bowl.

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If the Dawgs beat Sc in Columbia, then it is on all the way to the dome!
Bet that up! Then even if Bama doesn’t play in the SEc championship game ESPN and Herstreet will allow them to play for the national championship!

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What, did someone say rematch? best of three?

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“Oct. 6, at South Carolina, TBA. Both teams should exit September unbeaten. (South Carolina has a tricky Thursday night opener at Vanderbilt.) Both should be ranked in/near the top five. South Carolina beat Georgia in Columbia in 2010 and won the SEC East, beat Georgia in Athens last season and didn’t win the East. Gamecocks fans are convinced theirs was the better team in 2011. A big-time game in a big-time setting. Bulldogs lose.”

Mark, you ignorant slut! Last year Georgia drug S.C. up and down the field. We just forgot to practice punting and kicking that week, and we let a fat tackle run amok. and Clowney treated Murray like a rag doll once, but aside from that we kicked their a$$. Coach Visor said so.

This year we go 14-0……unless we lose one and then I will adjust my prediction to 13-1….unless we lose two and then I……

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Your predictions are a joke you have the dawgs as the number 2 team in the country in your top 25

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Mark Bradley: You stated that UGA would win the east again ! Great thank you for that. But didn’t say how you thought that would happen after they loose to USC. Of course I disagree with that ! Let’s say that does happen What then. I predict that they will be undefeated (both teams when they meet) UGA will win out.And again the SEC Champ will play for the Crown. Who they play ? don’t know ? I don’t think it will be the same kind of match of last year.THIS will be the greatest test for all local & national college fans , to see just how much UGA has improved during this transition period they are going through.People are looking at the surface of the program (negative headlines) to see the depth of the changes they have made to get them to where they are headed.These changes go far beyond Richt & Bobo. It’s much MUCH deeper. This year reminds the true Dawgs fans of 1980. This team has a VERY VERY bad taste in their mouth from last year.The last two games showed them what it will take to get there. Being within striking distance is just what they needed. Remember “one thing” these seniors have been through ALOT together ! LET THE BIG DAWG EAT

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Mark must not have seen Richt’s meltdown against Michigan State. Richt and BooBoo will pull defeat from the jaws of victory again this season, in spite of a cup cake schedule.

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Another year of Richts famous pool party will get him a slip up along the way with a beatdown sprinkled in too. just saying 10 -3 for the dawgs

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Mark,
Wake up and smell the coffee. UGA take care of business in South Carlonia. I hope their big back want be running scared after what happened last year with his wheels. I want no excuses, Dawgs win.

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This could be the year that………………………….Georgia puts Lattimore out for the rest of the season. Dawgs win!

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Dawgs will win.. Maybe six games in total. Weak defense, weak quarterback and no discipline. South Carolina running Lattimore will rip them by three touchdowns.

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Buzz2011, where did you just buzz in from, crackheadville? “Weak defense?” That would be your techerheads. “Weak QB?” Again techerheads.

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“Game by game: How UGA will go 11-1 and win the SEC East”

Sunshine bradley again. All he does is boost the home teams. According to bradley, all of our teams are the greatest.

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Buzz2011 = Typical tech fan with no friends, woman, or life.

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Shut up kingdaddy, and work your grill at the waffle house

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9 and 3.USCe,Auburn and some team we should beat(Vandy,Vols or Gators).

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let me say this Mr. Bradley, Georgia can very much loose to Mizzu, South Carolina, Florida, Auburn and Tenn. not because of lack of talent or experience, I believe we have the most talented team in the country! our front 7 on D without exceptions are scary and they are all NFL bound!! our weakest link in this team however is Bobo. he is so inconsistent, some times he is brilliant but many times against good competition he is pathetic. Im sure all my fellow Dawgs remember the pathetic play calling against Michigan State last year. I still cannot forgive him for the horrendous play calling! I believe Georgia should play for the BCS title but then I remember we have Bobo!!!

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Georgia’s front 7 wouldn’t even start in Baton Rouge…maybe rent-a-dawg, thats about it…

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@Predictor lets see how exactly is a Mizzou team that went 3-9 and 2-10 the last two years going to beat UGA..I mean have they hired Cam Newton and we didn’t hear about it…and speaking of Auburn we beat them 45-7 last year.How exactly have they improved enough to bridge that gap given they ran off their best offensive weapon?

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Mark, I really do not think that SC will be a loss, as this game has been one of the main sources of anger among the big Dawg alumni the last few years. Carolina has never been able to hang with Georgia, and the way the Big Dawgs look at it Spurrier being coach should make NO difference. If you don’t believe me, take McGarity out for a few drinks and ask him yourself. If McGarity heard it once, he heard a thousand times since he came back to Athens. Now Richt has heard it from McGarity a thousand times. While it is true that Richt is pissed about Spurrier’s comments this off season, he is also very tired of hearing about it from within. The SC game cost the Dawgs a shot at the BCS in 2007, and Georgia should have never lost that game. Just like Florida in 2002. SC has replaced Florida as the griping point right now. This is why McGarity did what he could to move the SC game to October. Give Mark Richt some truth serum and ask him yourself. He knows better than to lose to SC this year, and won’t. If anyone thinks Lattimore will run the ball thirty five times a game they are sadly mistaken. Spurrier has not let anyone hit Lattimore in camp, but he will be under the gun come Thursday night. I understand that C. Shaw is having back problems as well. If I were you Mark, I would adjust my prediction on Carolina game.

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After 11 years on the job, I think it is safe to say that we pretty know what we’re going to get from Mark Richt. Some Bad, some Great, and a whole lot of Good. Richt is no Nick Saban, who despite his epic failure at the Pro level, clearly knows what he is doing when it comes to building a college powerhouse. Richt is also no Les Miles, who knows how to come into an established program and keep it at peak level. What Richt IS: is a guy who can overachieve with “B-level” talent( David Greene, Thomas Brown, Fred Gibson etc.) but when he has NFL 1st rounders like Knowshon Moreno, Matthew Stafford, and A.J. Green; he just can’t put it all together. Theoretically, a team should improve when their talent improves, but at UGA that is not the case.

So taking into account that Richt overachieves with “B-level talent”( which is what he currently has), I think the Dawgs will have a decent year IF everyone can remain healthy. Overall, the 2012 schedule is very navigable. Getting Bama off the schedule is a huge break, and facing South Carolina in October will benefit the Dawgs as opposed to having to play them at the beginning of the year. Richt’s teams tend to get better as the season goes on, and I think the Dawgs will go on a bit of a run in 2012 like they did in 2011. Florida is horrible, as is Tennessee. The Dawgs will beat both of those teams again, although those games probably won’t be the blowouts we as fans will want/expect them to be.

I like the Dawgs to win the SEC East, go 11-1( losing to a Mizzou team on the road early in the year that they are not familiar with), and get to the SEC title game.Either LSU or Alabama will emerge from the West. I say the Tigers or Tide win something along the lines of 37-24 or 38-14. The Dawgs will then get hosed and end up in a non-BCS bowl( I’m thinking Chick-fil-A or Capital One) with that game being a tossup depending on how much the players actually give a crap.

I say the Dawgs finish 11-3 or 12-2, leaving the Bulldog faithful with our traditional ” What if’s, shoulda woulda’s, and wait until next(recruiting)season!”

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dogs win 11, beat fla easy, win the sec east, beat lsu for the title, sugar bowl bid—book it.

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@Dan…you know nothing about Nick Saban’s record at Miami other than he didn’t win the SB in either year. I am sure all NFL teams are waiting on Mark Richt to be open for an NFL gig…Right?

I hope UGA and Bama play this year in the SECCG….Bama will beat the sheet out of you…however you will not be there.

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pvbeachdog
August 26th, 2012
7:39 am
“Hey Tampa, stop with the “schedule wins out again” bullcrap. You play the schedule that has been laid in front years in advance. You are a smarter fan than this. Gator fans have no room at all to talk about weak schedules. Your permanent west opponent is LSU, ours is Auburn. For years, LSU was down, and Auburn was not. Look at the history books. Most of the UF SEC titles came when UGA and/or UT were down. Be a different gator fan and have some class.”

“Hey Tampa, stop with the “schedule wins out again” bullcrap.

What I meant fellow….is Georgia does not have to play LSU or Arkansas or Bama this year….and Florida and SC does….schedule wins out this year….again….as it did last year when SC beat GA and GA still won the East. Just the facts….like them or not.

Also…you comment about the Florida easy schedules during SEC title years….well….I do not have time to research so many of those titles since 1990….but here are THOSE EASY SEC SCHEDULES FLORIDA HAD in 1996, 2006, and 2008.

1996
Tennessee #2 at the time
Bama #11
LSU #12
Auburn # 16

2006
Tennessee #13
LSU #9
Auburn #11
GA #25
Arkansas #8

2008
LSU #4
GA #8
SC #24
Bama #1

And Florida beat some mighty fine Tennessee Vols teams during the Manning years when they WERE NOT DOWN. And I do not remember many years when LSU was down.

Now……go compare Georgia SEC schedules from last year and this year and see if they come close to the above……suggest not wasting your time…..the answer is a BIG NO.

And…..I did not say Georgia would not have a good team. I said they would win the East again this year……so HOW IS THAT NOT SHOWING CLASS?

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ThUGA fans are already talking National Championship without playing a single game. Face it people, your schedule is equivalent to a Division I AA school. You only have 2 ranked teams on your schedule, only 1 of which is top 10. While the other teams have 3 or more ranked teams, which includes top 5 ranked teams.

Unless you win every game by 40+ points, you’re not going to crack the top 5.

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@Red Stick and Tampa Gator as IMHO you two objective members of the LSU and Gator fan base how do you see your teams doing this year. I look for a lot of improvement at UF and LSU is well LSU so what are your thoughts ?

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Walkons, could you promise me one thing? When you run down on a kickoff and it is a touchback.
Don’t run up to the ball carrier and get in his face, flexing and embarrassing we white people.
We know we are not as fast, athletic, so you don’t have to totally embarrass us.
Can I count on your cooperation? By the way, those tats make you look real tough.

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I’m going with the DAWGS vs. SC this time! They shoulda won last year save for one no block against none other than Clowney! Kenarious, this is your time to shine and keep that beast on the other side of the line! DAWGS are better than last year and better than SC. Plenty of RB’s to not miss IC. GO DAWGS!!

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Bradley wrote another column titled, “How the Falcons will go 12-4 and reclaim the NFC South title”. That should put his 11-1 pojection for UGA in perspective.

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Any team that plays at the Willie B this year will experience so much noise they won’t be able to hear themselves fart. Uga and others have no idea of what excitement they will witness on the field and in the stands. You won’t be able to stand it. The Gamecocks and fans are so pumped this year. The team is cohesive, coached well, and what uga has not been in several years, A TEAM. This is our year, mark it down. We will have some games that will be close as no season is perfect. Uga will be a close game, but Cocks will win. Vandy will be a nail biter Thursday night and wonder about Missouri. They are out to impress. LSU could go either way, so will see. Garnet and Black comes to Atlanta in December. Playing in early October vs the traditional 2nd game of the season will be interesting. Both teams should be hitting their stride by Oct. 6th USCe 21 – dawgs 14.

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Delusional…

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Coach Richt, You know this fact. Georgia has never, will never lose to usc chickens three years in a row. Heck they are lucky to beat Georgia even once in a row. Lou Holtz beat us two years in a row and later got caught for cheating. Cheating Chicken Chits. They have to be cheating now also. sos is also recruiting Georgia harder than any state. He is trying to beat us with our own states players. Them and clempscum. Put up a fence around Georgia Coach. It will keep your job and keep our enemies down. Go Dawgs. No Way Dawgs lose to usuc.

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That second game against Mizzou in Columbia will be a L

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Georgia’s schedule isn’t as easy as everyone seems to believe. They’ll lose two SEC games and then get beaten by either Southern or Tech at the end of the season. Do you honestly think that Grantham can handle the flexbone two weeks in a row? Not going to happen.

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Prediction – UGA goes 8-4
Breakdown – Richt still HC – check
Bobo still OC – check
Murray still starting QB – check

Enough said

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I agree that Georgia needs to toughen up the schedule by booting Tech off the schedule and adding a decent team.

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I hope you are right, but I predict 6 and 5. We have seen it too much: Georgia is generally over-rated, but reality hits by the 4th or 5th game. 2 and 3 at that point. Gets worse.

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georgia bulldog 12 and 0 for the season

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There is nothing better than talking smack about how our 18 to 22 year olds are gonna whup your 18 to 22 year olds. It all comes down to coaching and recruiting and last time I checked – Saban, Miles, Spurrier and Richt are the four best recruiting coaches in the SEC (now that Meyer is gone and also Petrino). I’m a UGA fan but the last time I checked Saban and Miles have much better teams than anyone else and we could still repeat last year’s SEC East title but until UGA shows me that we can beat the Bama’s and LSU’s then we are still playing second fiddle to the SEC West.!

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Don’t state to strong of an opinion or it will be deleted as my last post was concerning UGA. No finger pointing or vulgarity but no free speech either. Way to go King Bradley!

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Lol at gtu fans. You all need to be concerned your own weak arse conference

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For the last time UGA has nothing to do with conf schedule if South Carolina would have beaten a very avg Auburn team at home last year they would have been eastern champions.Everybody fails to mention that South Carolina didnt play Alabama or LSU last year either.If you go undefeated in the SEC you will play in the national title game regardless.

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I agree that Georgia needs to toughen up the schedule by booting Tech off the schedule and adding a decent team.

I would donate 10 grand right now if I thought it might help that happen. Our rivalry needed to end a long time ago. Hopefully expansion kills it somehow.

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Let’s just play ball then we will know

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Dawgs win it ALL! the rest just shut up and go home!

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Let’s see – the writer writes an op-ed piece which the reader can comment on and either agree or disagree with the article. If the writer feels a response by a reader is either showing racism or name calling or foul language then the post is subject to being censored or deleted by the writer of the article. The writer therefore has all the power over the readers and responders because he can control which responses are printed or deleted. I guess it really gives you a feeling of power and if that is the case then I am finally figuring this blog thing out. You should be glad that the standards that apply to the readers and responders don’t also apply to the writer. Many years ago it would have but with the newspapers a dying breed – it no longer applies. Sad!

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Mark Bradley’s future column – “How it was Inevitable for Georgia to Lose to Buffalo”

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pvbeachdog
August 26th, 2012
7:39 am

Hey Tampa, stop with the “schedule wins out again” bullcrap….Be a different gator fan and have some class.
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No that would be different alright.

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NorthGaDawg
August 26th, 2012
10:03 am

You GT fans beat all I have ever seen . . . . Go have another fish fry with your Susan Boyle lookalike coach
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Susan Boyle lookalike. LOL!

Not bad, NGD, not bad.

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WDE
August 26th, 2012
12:46 pm

@Predictor lets see how exactly is a Mizzou team that went 3-9 and 2-10 the last two years going to beat UGA.
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Don’t know where you’re getting your numbers, but Mizzou was NOT 3-9 and 2-10 the past two years. Far from it. Do your research before coming on here and making a fool of yourself.

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Buzz2011
August 26th, 2012
3:20 am

The Coc*s from Columbia have taken the Dogs out three years in a row. This year will make four years in a row as the Coc*s win the east easily.
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It’s two years in a row–not three. And I thought you Tech guys were supposed to be good in math.

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Georgia loses to Missouri, SC, Florida and Auburn.

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To hell with Florida!

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Has anybody seen THEIR schedule? hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Everyone has and pretty much everyone agrees that it is tougher then UGA’s schedule. UGA might only play one ranked team this year.

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They should go 12-0 because they are not playing anyone! I mean really! This team is playing the majority of the season with teams that are not even close in their league. It is imbarrissing!

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Got UGA beating the 10 unranked teams, losing the 2 games to the ranked teams like they do every year, so 10-2. 10 meaningless wins.

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I am so pleased to read all these glowing comments about a team who doesn’t even play any top football teams 2012, and how we’re going to do so well that we can all book our hotels in Miami to eat the great Cuban food in Miami. Yuk, besides the Cuban Sandwich. You act as if having the bad press about Branden Smith being arrested in Alabama, serving his sentence and paying his fine somehow never happened because what was found in his vehicle was not his own personal but just the guy whom he was driving to Panama Beach. Yeah, it happened and he paid a fine for it.

Bad Press about beating up a girl, you first tried to say he did not hit, who plead guilty and who hit her in front of many witnesses. Now Sanders Commings is Suspended. Suspended for 2 games, Buffalo bulls and Mizzou.

Bad Press with Chase Vasser, a linebacker who hasn’t played much, arrested on DUI. A DUI I point out to you again which happened in May 2012, and was held back from the press who did not find out about until now, August 2012.

Chris Sanders, since kicked-off his next team too, Sanford Seay and Nick Marshall were kicked-off the team in February for stealing over $ 500 cash and other valuable; but the Police Chief stated that no one at The University of Georgia even so much as called the Police to report the crime. More bad press this off-season.

Then, the home games are not even sold out for Buffalo bulls or Florida Atlantic, our first 2 home games for our seasons’ tickets – thank you Greg McGarity for that, sir. Not 1 game all season at home to look forward to. This bad press will continue throughout the season, no matter what Excuses you attempt to cover up this schedule with all of 2012. This will be an issue December 1 after the 4 pm SEC Championship Game this season. This Bad Press will Never go away, not even in 2013, when we have none of the defense back and then play Alabama when they are good. Playing LSU when they put up a 3-5 Record in-conference is not a measure of this football program. We’re Top 10 All-Time in 1-A Wins. We are supposed to beat those cruddy teams. You get no extra credit for beating them 2008. You earn a demerit for even attempting to claim how great we are 2008 for beating such a lousy 3-5 SEC team.

5 of our players failed The NCAA Drug Test During Spring Practice. Those names are not going to be released. We have to scour the Participation Charts for Buffalo bulls and determine who did and who did not play against Buffalo who then plays after that. This bad press will continue on game-day when we should be getting all hyped-up about our prospects for 2012. A 1-year window of us starting # 6 pre-season. We will not start 2013 # 6.

Cootie Harrow, whom Mark Richt should never have given a scholarship to, flunked out this off-season. This Bad Press, too, shall continue for Years and Years when no other coach offered Isaiah Crowell’s running mate # 136 Safety in the nation a scholarship to college but Mark Richt.

30. A total of 30 players have transferred-out of this program whom Mark Richt signed to play here 2012. We’re down to 67 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in in our best chance 2012, starting # 6 and playing no one.

Isaiah Crowell, this off-season, was named Co # 1 Starter at Tailback by Mark Richt after the Spring Practice G-Day Game. Then, he is arrested as well. He states 5 were in his vehicle and that the reason the vehicle wreaked of drugs according to the Police, was because they had just returned from a bar in downtown Athens whom Red & Black Writers should not have named. This Bad Press shall Never End. And, what of the other 5 under-age kids whose excuse for all This Bad Press is that others at the Athens Bar were the ones doing the drugs. Were drug tests and alcohol tests run on all 5 of them, football players on the team mind you, when they returned to The University of Georgia with this Bad Press ?

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the only game that matters is Ga-South Carolina. SC is way overrated–Grantham’s D will shut down Spurrier’s QB and the Dawgs win by 13. GA blows out Tenn and Fla, beats missouri by 7 and wins the east. Ga will play alabama and can pull the upset, since alabama lost a ton of talent. This is the year for the dawg.

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Be afraid of Missouri. Very afraid.

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“How UGA will go 11-1 and win the SEC East”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am not making any predictions on UF this season because the offense was horrible last year. If it does not improve this year, Muschamp will be in trouble which is too bad because I like him. If the Gators loose to TAMU and UT, they will spiral downward which is reality. I hope not.
Everyone who is high on South Carolina’s defense should factor in the reality that Ellis Johnson who was the brains behind their defense is now the head coach at Southern MS. A lot of Kool Aid is being consumed in Columbia, SC these days.
Good luck to all.
Go Gators!

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11-1

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We’re approaching that time of year where delusional dogs face reality.

The reality of not beating a top 25 opponent will continue.

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We have buckeye bushes on our hunting property. It is amazing how much a buckeye resembles a butthole. There is actually a buckeye on an SEC football blog running his mouth to one of several SEC teams that have crushed your little joke of a program. I’ll bet you think that p.o.s. you have hired for a coach is going to change that. Georgia has played the Buckeyes, the over rated Wisconsin Badgers, (Ron Dayne was a joke), and Michigan State a couple of times, and yeah we gave it to them in the meaningless bowl the last time around, but they play with more heart than your little team, and will more than likely beat your Buckeyes in 2012.

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“And a Buckeye talking smack about any SEC team is hilarious, considering their record against UGA and the SEC in general.”

Irony. A dawg fan telling a fan of a team that has won 5-6 national championships that their school isn’t relevant.

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1- Mark Richt will only win 9 games in 2012
There are 2 ways we can be confident this is true.
a) Richt has always won less games the next year all 4 times he has won the SEC East.
b) 9 out of 11 UGA Olines with this little experience won less games than previous season

2- 9-3, losses to whom?
a) Florida, Coach Richt has never won 2 games in a row vs. UF
b) South Car, Coach Richt is 0-2 vs. Lattimore, and Spurrier hired a Special Teams Coach. Connor Shaw is 7-1 as starter and has beaten a 9. 10, and 11 qin team. Murray has never beaten a 9, 10 or 11 win team.
c) Auburn. Van Gorder & Willie get revenge, they know the offense, they’ll show all the flaws.

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Georgie tek, no one looks forward to playing that crappy team. In fact, no less than a dozen times on this blog already right here you are posting to has it been mentioned that Georgia tek should be removed from our schedule. Look forward to play ON NCAA PROBATION back-to-back repeat violaters on the Major Infractions Database cruddy Georgie tek.

You’ve got to be kidding me that I should be happy about spending $ 10,000 a year following this football team every year because I get to pay to sit and watch us play Georgie tek. That is your ONLY statement as to why I pay all these monies to for seasons’ tickets. Georgie tek.

Good Lord, son.

And, as for 2012 again a 14-game season, if South Carolina goes 10-3 or 9-4, they did not win enough games (compared to our cupcake schedule) to play the 14th game because they play instead of just them for us : Arkansas, Clemson, LSU and Georgia while we play only them.

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Neither Georgie tek nor the vols are ranked by

ANYONE.

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I won’t believe that we can line up and pound an opposing SEC defensive line until I see it. So I see a rattled offense unable to get into a rhythm, leading to turnovers, leading to 2 or 3 losses this season. And everyone will once again start blaming Bobo’s playcalling, not understanding that SEC football is won or lost in the trenches.

Sure hope I’m wrong. Our defense should keep us close in every game, so maybe old lady luck will be on our side.

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9 Losses in a Row…
August 27th, 2012
11:38 am

“Neither Georgie tek nor the vols are ranked by ANYONE.”

Did I say they were ranked? Absolutely not. So quit citing irrelevant drivel.

9 Losses in a Row…
August 27th, 2012
11:44 am

“Maybe you derive pleasure by us playing cupcake city. I do not. I know that we will never get any national pub until we start beating some teams who make the Top 10. Until then, take your pitifully sorry excuses about why you don’t even go the games and chat-up someone like yourself who doesn’t go to the games, to be unconcerned about us having not one home game worth driving to Athens to see.”

Did I say anything whatsoever about taking pleasure from our cupcake schedule? Absolutely not. Did I offer any excuse at all about why I don’t “go the games”? Absolutely not. I do go to games. I’m simply not brainless enough to spend $10,000 for season tickets and then whine on a blog about how I got cheated by the soft home schedule.

You’re sinking fast, Thomas. Looking more ridiculous with every post. Why is no one surprised?

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“I’m simply not brainless enough to spend $10,000 for season tickets and then whine on a blog about how I got cheated by the soft home schedule.”

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So, you admit you don’t.
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“Did I say they were ranked? Absolutely not. So quit citing irrelevant drivel.”

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You did state that the Georgie tek and the vols’ game should be enough for the season ticket holders.
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Hey 9 losses I would suggest not buying season tickets, especially for ten grand. Since UGA has sucked according to you since 2007 or more precisely forever in your eyes I think after five years you would have learned. If I were you I would burn all my UGA gear and sell the season tickets. Then you wouldn’t have to come here and whine. Poor freaking baby with 10,000.00 to spend on football tickets there are a lot of people who wish they had that problem.

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I think you are really overlooking the GSU game. Don’t write that off as an easy win. This UGA team had lots of issues in the offseason and doesn’t look that improved over last year. GSU on the other hand is another year wiser, stronger and coming off a season where they were played Alabama very well and actually scored the most points of any team who played them last year. This game could be really interesting to say the least.

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