Live from the Dome: Favored Bama meets hungry Dogs!
That famous jokester Nick Saban leaves Mark Richt in stitches Friday. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
At the SEC Coaches’ Luncheon at the Hyatt on Friday, emcee Dave Neal asked Nick Saban if it was easier to keep a team motivated as a favorite, or if being an underdog was preferable. Whereupon Mark Richt said, “What does he know about being an underdog?”
Saban’s Crimson Tide is favored today by eight points over Richt’s Bulldogs, but an awful lot of folks — this correspondent included — are picking Georgia. Still, this matchup couldn’t have caught Saban unaware.
“Last summer I was at the lake (Burton, where every big-name college football coach has a summer house) and I was fooling around in the yard, and two guys rode up on JetSkis,” Saban told Richt at the luncheon. “One of them was your quarterback Aaron Murray and the other was your center (David Andrews). And they said, ‘We’ll see you in the SEC championship game.’ ”
And here both teams are, Alabama ranked No. 2 to Georgia’s No. 2, Alabama favored but not nearly a lock, Georgia trying to seize its biggest football moment in three decades. But you knew all that already. So enough of me talking.
I’ll be here until someone is the 2012 SEC champ, and I’d appreciate it if you’d join the fun and frolic. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Roy
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Got him!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
That’s some D baby!
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
BOOM FOOL SACK, NOTRE DAME DON’T WANT NONE OF US
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Bwaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa…
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Todd Grantham going nuts on the sideline.
Duck Soup
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
BOOM!!!!!!
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Sweet!
More luck!!!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
“Tub” Jenkins moved more than three yards. WHo knew?
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
BLOW OUT!!
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Good field position coming,
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Fiddlin John Jenks janks em gata
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Wow. A no call
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Georgia at midfield. Touchdown changes the game. Field goal doesn’t quite.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:05 pm
Block in the back.
No call for us.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
Huge block in the back!!!!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
your ref’s was sleeping..
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
“Tub” Jenks eats entire cows
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
The dawgs got a free call on that illegal block
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
Let’s don’t get carried away, but I like it so far.
Don’t you too, Tide Falling?
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
SCORE AGAIN!!!!
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:06 pm
Dawgs d In beast mode..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
That wasn’t a block in the back. That was shoulder to shoulder
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Far from over. The early mo makes me nervous.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
NOBODY STOP OUR LOVE THE FALCONS AND UGA ONLY UMPS THAT ARE DRUNK STOP OUR BRAVES, IT FEELS GREAT TO BE A FAN THESE DAYS
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
“Tub” Jenks is on work release
00mpa L00mpa dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Enter your comments here
Bernie Matt
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Over/Under on tabs for this blog. I got 99.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Buckeye
Give it up man. You sound lame…”Beware of the eary Mo ” oooooooouuuuuu, the boogieman gonna get ya…bwaaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaa…
Tide FALLING
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Dawgs have the Mo. They ain’t the least bit intimidated by the pachyderms
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
Just be cool Murray!
Put Gurshall on the field.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
Knockahoma,
Right on. Beware the Early Mo. One score game, 2Q.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
yes it was
lee
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
It’s clear Bama is going after Swan
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
Stop whining Sam….you sound about as bad as Verne Lundquist!
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
TD here is crucial….
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
u got a replay Mark?
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
Pass tipped on first down.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
GET SOME TIDE, WE LEARN A LOT FROM THAT BLACK OUT IN ATHENS, GET SOME NOW
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
Alabama Georgia
First downs 3 6
Rushing 1 2
Passing 2 4
Penalty 0 0
3rd Down Efficiency 0-3, 0% 2-5, 40%
4th down efficiency 0-0, -% 1-1, 100%
Rushes-Yards 6-24 11-30
Passing Yards 46 92
Return Yards 48 0
Completions-Attempts-Int 5-9-0 8-12-0
Sacks-Yards Lost 1-2 2-7
Punts 2 1
Fumbles Lost 1-1 0-0
Penalties – Yards 1-5 3-20
Tide FALLING
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Buteye you are mighty jealous of the Dawgs and SEC
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Now that was effective
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Third and 12
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Need a td
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Let’s go Bobo.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
And now a drop. Would not have been a first down.
Major missed chance there.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
3 and out…..
Boooooooooo!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Why does Bobo stop running Gurley? He outsmarts himself. Always
Another terrible possession.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
drop behind the first down line. Go dogs.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
That’s more like the UGA we all know and love!!!!
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:09 pm
Horrible sequence.