Live from Columbia: Georgia aims to bag the Big Chicken
I'm guessing this Gamecock fancies his team's chances, too. Other Gamecocks do. (AP photo)
Columbia, S.C. – Big game here. Maybe you’ve heard.
Listening to the pregame show on the radio riding in — and here let me note that it took Team AJC nearly 2 1/2 hours to negotiate the final five miles — was to hear a heaping helping of Gamecock bravado. Every interview (including one with the famous South Carolinian Darius “Hootie” Rucker) went thusly: Interviewee paid tribute to Georgia’s talent, then opined that there was no way the home side could lose.
I think the home side can lose. I picked South Carolina to win this game several months ago. (I also picked Georgia to finish 11-1 and still win the SEC East and the SEC title.) But Georgia has been the better team to date, and I say this largely because, as a Kentucky graduate, I’m leery of any team that trails the Wildcats by 10 points after two quarters.
Beyond that, I’ve got nothing that you don’t already know. Whoever wins will be in Position A to claim the East — yes, I realize Florida is again looming — and I’m fairly confident someone will win here. I invite you to join me as we ride along tonight, and I can only hope the game itself moves faster than the inbound traffic. And, as ever, I thank you in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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BigBob
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
For the love of God. Will someone please FIRE Mark Richt?!
I am so tired of the Outback Bowl every year! We are a joke, year after year after year after year after year! All the while…Richt makes $ millions! Very sad!
same old same old
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
This team sucks…the coaching sucks, the players suck…man do these guys ever meet the challenge of a big game without folding like a cheap lawn chair–answer…”NO” F these guys, this coaching staff, and this team…I’m sick of this shi^
Diggitydawg
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Ouch
Big Dog 89
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Georgia is playing like GT!
Ward
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Grantham should put the gun in his mouth and pull the trigger.
Richt Is As Good As Fired
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Somebody please fire this half a$$ coach. Richt MUST GO. He cannot win a big game anymore.
Bat Masterson
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Holy moly!
Mark Bradley
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
It’s a bit closer to over than it was about five minutes ago.
Been a long time since I’ve seen Georgia dominated like this. Maybe the first half against Alabama in ‘08.
DAWGFAN13
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Spurrier will try to score 50 tonight
Laurel
October 6th, 2012
7:46 pm
Hey, an anti-Romney ad on during a UGA/USC game. I like it but I don’t think the audience is the right demographic.
Savannah Dawg
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Once again Cmr fails to have his team prepared
Keep Drinking the Kool Aid Dawgs Fans
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
SC 21 And dawgs 0 (:
KDS
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
I wonder if K-mart will take my Georgia shirt back
Orange12
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
“AGAIN, Rambo makes that interception……what a game changer that would have been.”
Or at least knock the ball down.
Michael
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Fake Dawg fans suck. Suck it hard.
Hooty Goot
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
SC was blatantly holding one of our players on the punt return!
Uncle Tom
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Typical Mark Richt team. We don’t compete in the big games. Call KIRBY SMART now! Before the half ends……..call him and get his name on a contract if all this madness is ever to end.
Since Vince
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Folks we need a culture change at UGA along with a coaching change.
Cocky Cock
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
This is AWESOME
Truthiness
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Special teams breakdown again. We are, if nothing else, consistent. 40-10 simulated game result looks right on track, or maybe 84-0. We’ll see.
Observer
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Did no one see the block in he back?
Big Dog 89
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Don’t worry…the Dawgs will win this game!
jerry
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
I’m thinking maybe it wasn’t Willie.
George P Burdell
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
How bout them COCKS! DAWGS SUCK!
BigBob
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
I am sick of this crap every single season! We are a joke! The coaching staff is a joke! The President is a joke! The Athletic Board is a joke! We will never win anything!
Basstringerfish
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
We have to get first downs. Run the ball. Pay our game. Get something here. Relax.
BUT that defense has to get their stuff together.
Scoop
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Take a breath. There are 50 minutes left.
Maxwell the free-range chihuahua
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Hear comes the pick machine…
Richt Is As Good As Fired
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
And please take Murray with you. He’s a choke artist in big games.
Keep Drinking the Kool Aid Dawgs Fans
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
Where is Kat at?
Predictor
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
At least Tech kept it close, eh?
Ward
October 6th, 2012
7:47 pm
I hate Murray…I hate Richt…I hate Grantham…I hate Rambo…see a theme?
They are embarrassing my college.
kerryb
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Lets see, Rambo has an INT taken away from him. Blown assignments on TD passes. Stupid Bobo calls a moronic reverse after Gurley gains 15 yards on the first play. Looks like one team wants it and the other is a bunch of pretenders.
Mark Bradley
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
And now a false start.
Which I guess beats an awful start, which this has been.
T-Bone
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Yeah, let’s block Clowney with a tight end!
kbb
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Hey Laurel between Romney and UGA, i think the Appalachian Americans that make up the UGA fanbase will be doing alot of crying in their Pabst Blue Ribbons!!
Rob
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
the players are playing scared
same old same old
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Mark, please, please, please take you sorry a$$ program elsewhere–we are sick and tired of you letting down this proud football family…how can you collect a $3 mil paycheck when this is the product you put on the field–you should absolutely be ashamed of yourself…ashamed.
phil
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Lolol
This is uglier than usual!
I told you turkeys!
Don keeballz
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
That’s a really cool mic mr. Ref..
Since Vince
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Some of you apologist need to go pull for you local pee wee teams. Yall need to expect and demand better!
Al
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Where’s all the Disney dawgs with their bold predictions?
jerry
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Richt looks sedated.
Little Aaron Murray
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Mr Gurley – meet Mr Clowney
Mark Bradley
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Clowney. Wow.
The Truth
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Can you think UGA will be on Top 20 tomorrow> It’s really over.
Doug
October 6th, 2012
7:48 pm
Laurel – Think of this: Probably 85% of the people in the stands will vote for Romney …. and 85% on the field will vote for Obama.
cptzzggyy
October 6th, 2012
7:49 pm
Has any team ever fallen from the top five completely out of the top 25 in just one week? If not, that could be a new record claimed by UGA if things don’t improve.
Sid
October 6th, 2012
7:49 pm
and what do those idiots in Athens do……give that fool Richt a raise and an extension.
Victor Hill
October 6th, 2012
7:49 pm
The Dawgs are collapsing.
Its over.
Final Score SC 73 UGA 0