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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Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Nothing on first and goal
Roy
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Need a touchdown here.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:21 pm
Touchdown on second and goal
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Gurley the beast!
Roy
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Gurley is an All-American. There’s our RB.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Beast Beast Beast!!!!
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Dean is mean? No. Dean believes in justice
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Run it down their throat!!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
HOLY COW WHO REPLACED BOBO AS OC AT HALF?
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Reviewing it
Jimmy Crack
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
BIG BOY FOOTBALL!!
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
Damn impressive drive. I bet on Bama. Got a feeling I won’t be collecting.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
No question in my mind who the best RB in the SEC is…..and he does not play for Bama.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
That’s a statement drive!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
His forward progress was clearly stopped. I wonder if the dawgs are gonna whine about that.
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Somebody has been doing some leg presses.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Looks like a score
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Not conclusive.
Will stand.
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Dogs want this game
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Looks like his knee hit the ground to me.,,
RunninWithTheDawgs
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Malcom Mitchell could have caught that one. He’ll get those kind as he matures just like Tony Gonlazes !
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Count it, boys!
Of course, the refs are for Bama…..so
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
His knee was clearly down a yard short. No doubt.
Left Coast Dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
Amen @ rivercard
buzzDawg
December 1st, 2012
6:23 pm
UGA! UGA! UGA!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
Can you imagine what Gurley with this freshman year behind him?
He’s still growing.
Beast.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
Knee down
Refs give the dogs a bone.
No pun
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
Cheaters.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
….I take that back….you really can’t tell
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
Touchdown. UGA leads again
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
There you go!!!!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
You didn’t build that TD…the Govt did.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:24 pm
Damn refs must be paid off and cheating for Georgia. Oh my gosh. I sound like a dawg fan now.
RunninWithTheDawgs
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
And somebody posted. We need a big running back like they’ve got. TOUCHDOWN GURLEY!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Morgan is a true adventure kicker.
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Forward progress only counts when the whistle is blown.
buzzDawg
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Sorry, not “clearly down” Tide Rising – wishful thinking on your part. Dawgs want this one.
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Tide Rising
You can always “blame it on tthe refs.”
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
phil….
you have a paranoid personality don’t you
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Gurley buried 33 there. Part of that superior Bama depth, of course.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Gurley did what we need.
He made a play.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Jimmy,
History suggests Gurley will not be around long.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
………and the world is out to get you, phil
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Can you believe that Bama has run for 152 yards…….dayum!! C,mon dogs you are in a real uh….”dogfight” let’s strap up, knock some folks down
GIVE GURLEY THE DAMN BALL!!! %$#@@#$%$#
GTJohn
December 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
Would some of you Dawg Whiners please let the rest of us in on who you would rather have foe a QB, a coach, an Offensive coord, and whtever else you don’t like?
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
So much for not driving 80 yards on AL
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
Looked like it was down..however great great drive for UGA..now get ready for the off tackle runs..
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
Buckeye,
He can’t leave before his junior year.
He is going to be a bigger, meaner beast next year.
phil
December 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
Nope. Not me.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
They called that td for Georgia??? But but but the dawg fans are saying the refs are cheating for bama along with the ncaa so that we can have the bigger name in the bcs title game.