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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bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
we like dexter have a dark passenger walter white break bad, lol our dawgs break bad
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Aaron Murray dodges right but misses Malcolm Mitchell. Punt time
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:24 pm
Murray kills me…..
Booooooooo!
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
No execution is killing us!!
Roy
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
This is reminding me too much of last year
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
That’s OK. Good punt here.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
Wow. Our offense looks like the falcons on Thursday night
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
Murray is exiting the pocket too quickly……needs to step up and throw….or run.
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
D has to know that it’s on them to win it.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
UGA fails to capitalize on Alabama mistakes again.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
Bucky, hope you got a lot of tissues for your crying. ..
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:25 pm
Jimmy I freeze framed it. Their helmets collided. No question. Get glasses.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:26 pm
We can’t stay lucky forever…
Morons.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:26 pm
Let’s go D.
Punish them.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:26 pm
Danielson may prove phrophetic. The game feels like last year. Dawgs have had the breaks and are winning. But everyone knows they don’t have the depth that Bama has for the 2nd half.
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
Tampa I replayed five times.. The hit was at his shoulder.. If the hit would have been directly on his head he would have knocked him out..he is 6-5 how else does he hit him there too.. I mean this is crazy..I played ball and we were always taught to knock somebody out..I’m just sick of these calls..
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
Champions capitalize on turnovers.
dogs go 3 and out
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
Hopefully McCarron starts throwing td passes to uga. Murray surely isn’t going to do it.
Woooooooooooooo!
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
Run the dang ball. Use your tight ends! wtf!!
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
notre dame gave us our championship and ty u midgets in green for giving us another
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
king,
No tears. I’m undefeated.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:27 pm
rivercard: bull. i did the same.
Go D.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
Georgia’s offensive line has really improved since the beginning of the year as well. To me, the story of the game is Bama’s offensive line not dominating the line of scrimage….in fact…Georgia’s DL is dominating them so far.
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
Defense back on the field, again.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
There’s the Beaver
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
If either team plays like this against Notre
Dame, Nd will win by 3 scores.
Wooooooooooo!
Tide FALLING
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
Buckeye, you are an idiot
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:28 pm
Give me the Big 12. At least they score.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
Georgia’s defense might have to pitch a shut out. Offense can’t seem to take advantage of the extra possessions.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
Bama run defense better.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
tide,
Thank you sir, may I have another.
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
Congratulations to Georgia. They have played very well so far. Hope Bama will get on-track.
It’s a helluva game — one for the record books!
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
Buckeye In the sec you would have been lucky to win 8 games..
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
bama u sing sweet home bama but we have our hero’s sing about our great state
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:29 pm
Brownies…
Go look again…….one helmet hit the other on that place….it jarred his head back….the hit was too high. On to other things.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
Good stop.
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
5:26 pm
Danielson may prove phrophetic. The game feels like last year. Dawgs have had the breaks and are winning. But everyone knows they don’t have the depth that Bama has for the 2nd half.
**********
you’re wrong, doofus.
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
Jimmy and Brownies are why it is hard to pull for GA. Great program but many fans with willful disconnect from reality. Willful disconnect from reality
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
LMAO OHIO REP OUR GREAT SEC LOSING RECORD
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
Georgia was lucky that they only played 2 ranked teams – otherwise they wouldn’t have won 8 games.
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:30 pm
Yeldon tough run to the 41
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Bama wearing D down.
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
The Int in the end zone was almost like a score for UGA. You can’t expect to drive 80 yards against AL
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
This is one hell of a football game…..PURE SEC FOOTBALL…..Notre Dame is in for some trouble….no matter which team wins this game.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Enter your comments here
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Their offense is driving
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Bama has some strong RBs.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Lacy for the TD
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
Here we go
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:32 pm
There goes alabama