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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Raiderbeater
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
I wish Larry was calling the game!
Man….win or loose its a good one!
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
It is an epic game. No doubt.
blame game
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
rotate the dline fresh is better than tired
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
The only and mean only thing bama has got going for them is a nfl offensive line.. Take that away and they would sux..
Gil in Mechanicsville
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
I must say, one really entertaining football game.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
Tide Rising….
I have watched the Bama OL do that same thing over and over again…and never get called on it. It happens
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
Should have taken more time to score. Im glad we did though
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
Not a fumble, is the call
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
There was the Thrilla in Manila. Now we have this
juice sourcer
December 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
It is a great game. And quit be so negative Georgia fans…your whining and negative comments when everything doesn’t go just right is so pathetic…you are playing the best football program straight.
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
Cheaters……
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Unsportsmanlike conduct on Alabama. That’s a terrible penalty to take.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Georgia needed that turnover. That is the only way they can win is some lucky breaks.
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Uncharacteristic for Bama to get an UC call.
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Yep, about time refs. Need a turnover D!
aaron ashmore
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Barn Burner
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Actually, it was a fumble. But Tide got it
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Too bad that ball did not bounce out into a Georgia player’s hand….but heck….Georgia gets all the luck and Bama none
Saban sucks
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
Dawgs are looking good. Win or lose, proud of them!
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
The tide. The run.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:16 pm
At this point, Bama has one penalty for five yards.
Now this makes two.
This is why we say it is not being called fairly.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Dawson started that BS..
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Its like wrestling, the refs always see the 2nd guy…
MUNSON
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
DEFENSE IS WEAK
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
WHY DOES TODD GRANTHAM STILL PUTTING GILLIARD OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
SOMEBODY WRAP UP!!!!
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Oh… I see…. The thug hit him in the face.
Pigskin
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
We’re trying to strip everything.
Just TACKLE!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
It is nothing short of bizarre that UGA is leading this game the way we are gashing them.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
We can’t stop the damn run
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Don’t know why they would pass at all.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Yes….Bama….pass the ball….yes….pass the ball….pass the ball
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Why is Swann celebrating?
Idiot!
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
SWANN finally made a tackle
Roy
December 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
Defense needs to wrap up! They’re trying to strip the ball!
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Stop show boating!
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Tide rising shut the yuck up with that luck crap..your lucky your sister dated you because you would have never gotten any if it wasn’t for her..
blame game
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
swarm of dawgs?
since Vince
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
We need a T O
Bradley Curse
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
alabama should not pass again for the rest of this game
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Jarvis Jones has completely disappeared………did he go to th NFL already
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Alabama sets a record for rushing in SECCG
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Another stupid first down pass call.Saban stoned?
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
First Down!
RTR!!!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
FIGURE SOMETHING OUT GRANTHAM YOU OVERPAID ….
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
We need to recruit better on the lines.
Wow.
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
It’s l ike GA’s defense is made of wet paper.
juice sourcer
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Bama is going to end up with 400 yards rushing.
since Vince
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
our D is out of shape
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:18 pm
Just run the damn ball. There is nothing the dawgs can do. They have submitted to our will.