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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Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:14 pm
Good luck dogs
T-Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:14 pm
Expect BAMA to run the ball off tackle 90%.
Under The Bleachers
December 1st, 2012
6:14 pm
phil,,
go back to the barbershop, you whiner….
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:14 pm
He could have gone for Murray ( being Murray) knees.
MR is a hypocrite
December 1st, 2012
6:15 pm
I can already hear the whining coming from athens
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:15 pm
Good start….
Smack those cheaters!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:15 pm
Gurley for six to start the half.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:15 pm
Personal Foul on dogs in the near future
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:15 pm
So Bama is 48-0 since 2008 when rushing for 150 yards in a game and we are already over 150. That is an ominous omen if you are a dawg fan.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Nice!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Great pass. Greater catch by King. Georgia to the 35.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Sweet…..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Murray throws that deep comeback ball nicely
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Good run Gurley.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
I want more Gurley!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:16 pm
Todd Gurley for the first down. Good start
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Dawgs coming out banging!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Georgia coming out with a big lucky pass.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Gurley is a horse.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Another faked injury to slow us down…..cheaters.
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Georgia mixing it up well here. We need a play..
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Jessee Williams has Tatts?
SEC! SEC!
Frank
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
All the halftime is talking about is the dirty hit. UNCALLED. It’s been shown again and again and even it’s been suggested that the league may suspend the player from the championship game for it.
That’s the definition of a FAIL Zebras!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:17 pm
Looked like a strain.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
Maybe it wasn’t faked….
Hope he’s ok.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
@Stevo – I think Bobo heard you about riding Gurley.
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
“Lucky pass” my arse
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
Don’t like these injuries for either side.
I'm 1-10 against ranked opponents...and you think I will beat Bama?
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
Williams got cheap shot by Gates…cheaters!…see how stupid that sounds?
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
we need the rest..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:18 pm
Bama just lost its nose man. Major consideration
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
Cheating dang refs……
Booooooo!
GO DAWGS! TD right now, after the fake injury time out.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
Geez. They are still whining about one noncall. What a bunch of wusses. I wonder why they didn’t whine about the noncall on the block in the back on the punt return.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
@Tide Rising (or rather Falling) – what makes the pass lucky?
RunninWithTheDawgs
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
They started this dirty play. It could get ugly from here. This is something that’s not coached. This is a street fight.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
Injuries are troubling.
Hopefully they are minor.
Whoever wins this will need every man for the MNC.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
6:19 pm
Glad you told us..TV is behind.
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Everytime UGA gets momentum going a Bamer goes down. Hummmmmm.
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
The tide. The run.
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Karma? No. #90 is who I want writhing
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Mark Bradley,
Our back up Brandon Ivory is pretty good.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Smart thinking running dawg
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Phil, I sure hope none of your guys gets hurt.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
Booooooo!!!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Gurley to the 4
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
dean you are so mean
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
GA can run it too
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Better!
Yes!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Off Mitchell’s hands.
Good run Gurley.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
The Beast Unleashed!! Roll Gurley!