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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00mpa L00mpa dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
hands of stone
Michael
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Fire Mike Bobo!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Fire Bobo dogs
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Gosh.
00mpa L00mpa dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
our dwarf is just too nervous
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Bo bo has to go….
Idiot.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Why didn’t we run the ball at all on that drive?
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:11 pm
No 2011 seccg recap.. Keep intensity on them..
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:11 pm
Mark did u see a replay? Tv didn’t show one.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:11 pm
No Grantham sitings yet. Want to see his “Beaver Cleaver” dog cap
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:11 pm
THE ONLY THING GA LOVE FROM BAMA IS JIMMY BUFF. WHEN HE COMES AROUND
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:11 pm
Exciting game so far. Lots of people couldn’t sleep last night…
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Is their an offensive coordinator left in college football with the patience to establish the run?
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Roy, because bobo is the oc
Jimmy Crack
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
It should be 38-0 by now.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Georgia has dominated but only leads by 7 because of their wasted possessions in Alabama territory.. It will come back to haunt them. UGA should be up by at least 10, really should be up by 14.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
I like the AT&T commercials with the kids. Hate AT&T though.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
One thing you see with Bama.
They are well coached.
They adjust quickly.
Bobo will need to keep changing things up.
14 point lead would put Bama’s offense in the hole.
Look for a bama drive here.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Bring it, D!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Georgia is clearly the better team so far, especially on defense. You guys are really going to miss the two nose guards, Jones, Ogeltree, Williams, and Rambo next year.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
Tim Brando is a creepy dude…
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
We’ll see more Bama NFL stars than dog NFL stars on the sideline as the game progresses
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Brando dyes his hair
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Helloo
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
That kid can play
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Crap.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Almost a Julio Jones type snag. Over Rambo
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
You gotta LIKE THAT PLAY!!!!!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Florida needed wide receivers and Cooper signed with Bama. Too bad.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Knock it down, idiot
Roy
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Damn it Rambo!
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Rambo did the same thing against South Carolina
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
I thought that was an interception. But it wasn’t.
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Lack of offensive production is going to cost us this game if something doesn’t change
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
that Cooper kid is special…
Murray The Midget
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Rambro got burnt!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Tide to the 10. Lacy busts up the gut
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Just like that, we collapse…..sigh.
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Thanks rambo
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
Tide seems to have changed…..no pun intended.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
“Tub” Jenks moves from down to up in 4.3
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
might have woke Bama up….
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:14 pm
All you did was piss us off. Now we’re going to pound you.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
U IDIOT WITH A LONG NAME UGA GOING DO WHAT THE HECK IT WANTS
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
Hold them to a FG…
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
C’mon hold them to three
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
Phil…
“We collapse”………jezzzzz.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
dogs have no faith
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
Did y’all not see that it was too high for Rambo?
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
Odd call on second-and-8. Run at the middle. Now third and seven