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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Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
Nice stop.
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
That first down call by Bama was idiotic
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
TIDE MAKE US MAD AND GET SOME WE THE NEW BAD BOY FANS IN THE WORLD AFTER THE UMP STOLE FROM OUR BRAVES WE GOT MAD EVIL
Murray The Midget
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Easy TD.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
MCarron misses his man. But there’s a penalty.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Ha!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Whiner.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
BULL
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Stupid…..
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Bad, Bad, Bad penalty!
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:16 pm
Mark says “bullcrap”
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Not helmet to helmet.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Awful call!!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Stupid hit by Ogeltree…..really stupid. He was trying to hurt the QB. No place for that.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Roughing the passer.
Probably was. Richt said, “That’s bullcrap.”
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Game changing BS call
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
THAT IS A BS CALL
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Typical Georgia. Dumb dumb dumb. Helmet to helmet blow to the head. Same ole dirty thug football team. Shoulda been a td anyway
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
good call…punk move…
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
nice discipline dogs (again)
1st of 3 Personal Fouls against the dogs I predicted.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Mccarron is a sissy boy whiner….
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Lacy to the brink. But not in
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
QB’s have turned into prima donas at every level of football.
Tim Brando
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Payback call for that block in the back…
BubbaGolf
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
Again, lack of discipline kills us…
Put in Timeout by Ken Sugiura,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
TREE…………….thank you……
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
That was no BS call….it was very obvious high hit…you can’t do that. Stupid.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:17 pm
wa wa wa bad call
boo hoo dogs
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
Refs call for Bama.
Ogletree led with his shoulder.
No hit with helmet;
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
Our dawgs are turning into pups and its not even the 2nd half.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
Fumble. But McCarron gets it.
Third and goal from the five
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
WE ARE BIGGER AND STRONGER THEN BAMA, GET SOME
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
“Tub” Jenks must have taken a bite
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
Punk Bama swine!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
Georgia has one of hell of a defense right now. Other than that lucky pass. Bama is able to do very little on offense. Georgia looks stronger, faster, and tougher to me right now. I can’t believe I am describing a Georgia defense that way.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
Forward progress was stopped. Should still be at the one.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
The only thing you can’t do is go helmet to helmet.
There was NO helmet to helmet on that play.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
UGA POP U IN THE MOUTH AND THE BALL WILL POP GET SOME
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
This is the discipline that I’ve come to expect with from the dawgs.
Woooooooooooooo!
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
Tide rising, lol. You a scary dude…fumble…bwaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa…
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
That’s no TD…..
Cheating refs, booth people, etc.
aaron ashmore
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Unreal. Alabama is making GA look like they know how to play football. This is SAD and pathic!!!!!!
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
UGA GETTING NASTY CALL US SOFT AND GET SOME, WE NOT SOFT
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
This is like an NFL game……it might be.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Play stands as called
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Georgia fans that can’t admit that was a bad hit are simply delusional. Nice goal line stand so far.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Forward progress stopped ONLY if whistle occurs before a fumble.
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
let it go Jimmy…let it go…
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Hear the Spielman reference tom brown?
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Wrong again, Tide Falling…..doof