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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Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
Ogletree laid wood to Lacy!
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Pass coming up
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Tampa gator et a life bro. It’s football you wimp… Please please go back to your trailer in Florida lock the door and throw away the key. Hit was at his shoulder you idiot..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Intercepted.
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
And intercepted!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Commings.
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
INTERCEPTION!!!
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
YEAH!!!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Georgia d is the mvp
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
PICK
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
PICK!
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
BOOM GOES THE D!!!!
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Woof Woof Bama!
Michael
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
Fire Todd Grantham!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:21 pm
MY DAWGS!!!!
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
5:21 pm
That was a BAD Read and Throw.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
ALL IN THE GAME YO!!!!!!!!!!!! BAMA AINT NOTHING TO OUR GREAT DAWGS
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
I felt that one coming. Way to go Commings.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Georgia is JUST BETTER……Wet Willie, Tide Roll…..and all you Tidessssss………
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Really a bad decision by McCarron. Have to get points off that drive.
Strat Cat Dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Another blow for the haters! Commings!
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Ouch!!! That hurt!!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Early Mo continues for the dogs. Now, bring on Twinkle Butt Murray
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
rivercard: I looked at the recording.
Mccarons head didn’t even move.
Come on.
No helmet to helmet.
Tide FALLING
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Buckeye and Tide rising… Eat it biys
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
right in his hand …
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
INT…BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…LOL
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
5:22 pm
HANDS to the FACE MASK too.
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaandeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrs!!!
D###
GATA Dawgs
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Holding. Stupid offense
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Georgia holds on defense, and now on offense.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Dawg luck is only going to hold out for so long. Eventually the breaks even out.
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Junkyard DOGS, baby!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Now they call holding on us.
Refs calling for Bama.
Bama holding on EVERY play.
aaron ashmore
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
Unreal. Job Well Gone UGA! Hey, if Al and FL gonna give it to you, take it.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
More luck, I suppose?
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
This looks like a game between 2 bad football teams. No wonder we get no respect.
Woooooooooooooo!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
Way to go dogs, another penalty off a big play. 1st and 20.
Ha!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
Make a call, ref.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
Browies….
You need to get glasses……….unless the neck and chin are part of a shoulder.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
McCarron dont know what is hitting him, we the real deal
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
not over..we killing ourselve right now.
Bernie Matt
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
If UGA goes misdirection Bama is beat.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
Yep, reminds me a good ol three yards and a cloud of dust. A good B1G kind of game.
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
Jimmy…let it go…
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:23 pm
we are violent
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Go gurley
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Third and six after two Gurley runs
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Falling,
We gotta needle you guys a little bit. Hell you’ve never won anything. If you win this one and then the bcs I’ll give you some respect. Still a long way to go.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Georgia has to stop beating themselves.