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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DawgFan
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
GATA
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
Have to admit — that was a good drive.
RTR!!!
Roy
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
Gurley will be a legend before he leaves UGA. He’s only a freshman in his first title game, and almost has 100 yards against the #1 defense in the nation.
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
OH YEAH
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
Georgia Oline deserves some credit. They have played a pretty good game.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
Let’s get the D going now boys!
Swami SEZ
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
Dogs will fold …Bank on it!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
u couldn’t tell if knee was down but with six people on your back it had to be down..but thats ok…
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
More nerds coming to blog against UGA. PATHETIC…14-10…
dean
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
Dang. David Greene looked old. DGD he was!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:28 pm
Jimmy….
but you are not going to have those two nose tackles, Rambo, Williams, and Jones….and probably not Ogeltree either. Lots of people on D to replace.
john r smith HTTR !
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
UGA lee Gurley Girl………..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
Lacy for 17.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
Where are the Georgia LBs vs the run????? 10 yards down field….why
Spartacus
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
Now the comparisons to last year can stop. That was a dominating opening second half drive. The dawgs look determined. I think Saban is right, whoever can stop the run is going to win.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
Run it right at them. All game long.
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
D’s got to man up!
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
C’Mon Offensive Line……I am calling you out…..that national championship is yours for the taking make the dawg nation proud MAKE A STATEMENT!!
we cant stop Lacy ;0(
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
6:29 pm
Steroids
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
Sac…
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
LOCK UP DAMNIT !
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
Sack. Another terrible play by McCarron. Have to dump the ball on first down
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
I don’t get why either team is throwing on first down.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
Georgia has the best secondary in the country. Every time McCarron tries to throw downfield, there’s nowhere to go!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:30 pm
Unbelievable. We gash them repeatedly with the straight ahead run and then get cutesy with the passing. Dumb dumb dumb.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:31 pm
Sure…I was just talking about Gurley development.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:31 pm
Quick screen nets a first down
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
DAMN!!!
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
That’s waht I’m talkin’ about!
RTR!!!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
Now go back to running the damn ball. Jeez.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
Crap…
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
Isn’t a pick play illegal?
Wow.
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
Where oh where did UGA’s D go?
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
6:32 pm
Corner was playing way too soft on that 3rd down play.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
Should have been a flag on that one.
Block in the back
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
DAWGS tackling sticks
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
freakin tackle
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
The O/U on this game was 56
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
Swann needs help.
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
Run the ball. Stop the run.
RTR!!!
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
D is gettin tired trying to strip the ball
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
we cannot stop Lacy….good grief!!!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
Another hold on the rush.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
what in the hell with the 1st down passing????
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
just wrap up damn it!
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
Anybody see a blow-out??? Oh yeah, that will be later tonight with the “nerds”…
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
6:35 pm
Another first down pass. Saban definitely bet on Georgia
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:35 pm
Big down here. Third and eight
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:35 pm
It’s a 50 yd fg from here
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
6:35 pm
A very late penalty