Live from Athens: Me, I’m thinking UGA wins easily and calmly
"You, sir, are no gentleman! And furthermore, I'm not even sure you're a real commodore!"
Athens – I can’t imagine Todd Grantham and James Franklin renewing interpersonal hostilities tonight. Such things don’t happen two years running. Did Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz get all huffy over another handshake when the 49ers and Lions met again last Sunday? Nope. Did John Chaney threaten to kill John Calipari more than once? Nope.
I expect this to be a well-mannered game on the part of the coaches, if not necessarily the players. (Young men will, as we know, be young men.) I also expect Georgia to win by at least two touchdowns. I can’t see a team, meaning Vanderbilt, that lost by 11 points at Northwestern two weeks ago coming here and keeping it close.
But I’ve been wrong a time or two, and tonight could be another of those occasions. Vandy could win. Franklin and Grantham could trade bon mots, or something approximating them, at 10 paces afterward. Whatever happens, I’ll be here to watch, and I’d appreciate your company. I thank you in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Not So Fast
September 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
If I remember correctly didn’t UGA have Vandy down by 17 at one point last year? Richt needs to keep his foot on the pedal!
Time and Tide
September 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
Alabama will eat this sorry bunch alive.
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
Where is Swami with all that “Struggle” talk?
Hot err
September 22nd, 2012
8:35 pm
U know Gurley wants to rip a long one bad now.
deadrednecks
September 22nd, 2012
8:35 pm
@timetight – got that right…
catlady
September 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Stupid question: Can’t Richt ask for video exam on that fair catch?
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Poor block Conley
trishaDishawareagle
September 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
AU leading #2 LSU at half! just sayin…
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:37 pm
Shoestring tackle from another TD for TG
deadrednecks
September 22nd, 2012
8:37 pm
timeout ga, parole board has arrived…
KDS
September 22nd, 2012
8:37 pm
I said in Dec not right now
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:37 pm
TD for TK!!
Mark Bradley
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Tavarres King. TD. Getting out of hand.
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Back from Gainesville……Georgia looking good.
@Since Vince…..how is a 7-7 score ripping someone…??????
deadrednecks
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
mury got lukky. fire rict!!!
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Swami Sez Struggle…….yeah right!!
WDE
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Wonder how many trolls just turned their computers off just now ?
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Make that 14-7 Clemson now…..but that is not ripping someone.
Hot err
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Time and tide if you’re lucky we’ll settle that in the Dome.
Since Vince
September 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Clemons 14 Fla State 7
Since Vince
September 22nd, 2012
8:39 pm
I was saying ripping down the field with ease
WDE
September 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
@Tampa Gator your bunch is looking really good congrats.
deadrednecks
September 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
deeze ford komercial stink! fire rict!!!
headley lamar
September 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
Now ill go do that voodoo that I do
So well …………
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:41 pm
My prediction earlier this week was an easy win for Georgia tonight when so many of you were posting worries about your Dawgs being troubled by Vandy. There QB is not that good…..nor their defense…..but their QB is a lot better than the second string QB at Kentucky (Newton). He is maybe the worse NCAA QB I have ever seen….just below one John Brantley.
KDS
September 22nd, 2012
8:41 pm
Georgia VS Alabama !!! In due time
Hot err
September 22nd, 2012
8:42 pm
Man this kicker.
Mark Bradley
September 22nd, 2012
8:42 pm
If penalties were points, Vandy would have a shot.
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:42 pm
I think Swami has UGA confused with Tennessee…..they are struggling with Akron
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:43 pm
WDE……
Kentucky would barely beat Marietta High School. Their second string QB is absolutely horrible.
deadrednecks
September 22nd, 2012
8:43 pm
ga deefence stink! fire ugga!!!
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:43 pm
Nice hard hit by Branden Smith
Mark Bradley
September 22nd, 2012
8:44 pm
Big John Jenkins with pressure. Pretty good D.
Cdpridg
September 22nd, 2012
8:44 pm
Swami?….Postmaster???????
Cdpridg
September 22nd, 2012
8:45 pm
Dawgs looking really good!! Sicem!
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:45 pm
Funny…..
Grumbling about the play of the Dawgs last week vs. FLA Atlantic…..and now…..beating a Vandy team that was crushed by Northwestern….and the Dawgs are now national champs……the world of Dawg fans is one of a kind.
WDE
September 22nd, 2012
8:46 pm
@Tampa Gator I was really talking about the season overall I watched part of the UK game today…Joker is sadly appropriate..
KDS
September 22nd, 2012
8:46 pm
necks; the people on this little site just say what they feel and it seems as if your still pissed from last year!!!
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:46 pm
Kanas State beting the Sooners right now
astrouga
September 22nd, 2012
8:47 pm
Found is on espn radio — thanks KDS!!!!
Mark Bradley
September 22nd, 2012
8:47 pm
Vanderbilt can’t even handle the shotgun snap.
Terrible-looking club.
davidinloganville
September 22nd, 2012
8:47 pm
Gator
What happened to Mack Brown from ATL have not seen anything from him ?
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:48 pm
WDE……
South Carolina evidently looked very good today as well. Big battles looming between Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida to determine the trip to Atlanta. All are very good teams.
No rocket scientists in Athens
September 22nd, 2012
8:48 pm
Mark Richt: We’ve got to be to be a little bit smarter…
That’s a joke, right? Richt recruits low class dummies, and he thinks they’ll somehow smarten up under his inspired tutelage.
Yeah, it’s a joke, like everything else about UGA, better known as The Cesspool of the South.
Hot err
September 22nd, 2012
8:49 pm
We’ll see what’s funny down in Jacksonville.
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:49 pm
Well at least UGA is not playing down to the competition like the have been guilty of in the past.
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:49 pm
Mack Brown is coming on strong. He made several big plays today in the second half….two long runs that we called back by penalty. His light has finally gone on…and he is getting better and better each week. Matt Jones looked very good today as well. So did the fourth string RB……Driskel is special
KDS
September 22nd, 2012
8:50 pm
Tampoon, I really don’t think Florida is good enough to put up a fight againist Georgia
Tampa Gator
September 22nd, 2012
8:51 pm
@Hot err…..
The “funny” reference had nothing to do with my opinion of the Georgia football team. I have said from day one that Georgia is one of the better teams in the country.
Left Coast Dawg
September 22nd, 2012
8:51 pm
@No rocket – your pitiful little bugs lost to a probation bound Hurricane team and you’re on here talking trash? How smart we’re the bugs in winning today?