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
7:23 pm
This is the game oline!
Punch them in the mouth!!!!!
HUNKER DOWN DAWGS!!!!!
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:23 pm
finally a STOP!!! we have got to get at least 3 first downs, run some clock and rest our defense for that last stand
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Why did we catch that punt a bone headed mistake…..
Overrated
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Just need a score here and BAMA is done because they can’t pass at all.
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Guess that stop was luck..
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Georgia winning and fans still whining about calls and grassy knoll conspiracies. Have gracious and classy ever been used in reference to Georgia fans?
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
You simply don’t fair catch it inside the 10.
Prometheus
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
“They ran for 800 yds and we still licked em”. Larry Munson
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
McCarron has a championship ring. UGA D is his problem. AL is foolish for not running
me
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Watch for a holding call on GA to make up for the no holding calls on AL.
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
……NOW THE GEORGIA OFFENSE NEEDS TO SAY……..YES WE WILL
Roy
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Georgia’s secondary is beast. The run D needs some work but it also helps that Bama has the best O-line in college football. It’s hard to stop the run. Come on O!
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
Murray needs to step up here
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
This is hard to watch.
Too tense.
I’ve got to put my head under the covers.
F. Sinkwich
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Dawgs are making me proud…tough game.
blame game
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
UGA needs to score never mind that clock, if you gotta pass PASS, just score
Wabe
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
NFL > College Football
anyday
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Brownies, is that all ya got? A 6th grade insult. Pay attention to the game. I said it beforehand. We are flat out better but that UGA can win this game with a lot of luck and Murray having the game of his life. So far Bama has turned the ball over more and UGA got a gift on a blocked kick return for a td. Some good luck is the only way you can beat us.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Georgia to the shotgun and throws on first down
MenVsBoys
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
You guys are knocking the CBS announcers too much! They’re the best combo at any level. And have been for years. Maybe you’d rather have Musburger and Herbstreit?
Bradley Curse
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
please don’t run into the endzone again
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Bama fans…..now you know why I have posted that the Florida D is better than your D…..because it is….way better.
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
No matter what happens, this has been a hell of a game and believe both of these teams can beat Norte dame..GATA
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
STUPID BOBO
Cutty
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Run the ball on 1st down CMR!!
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Mathematically, dawgs can’t win. Only a football miracle can save them.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Gurley for nine. Big down
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Please make this!
F. Sinkwich
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Need a drive – no punts!
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
big 3rd down
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
This now all comes down to coaching
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Don’t think he got there
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
STUFFED
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
That will cost us
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Arrrrggghhh. Nothing easy
Bradley Curse
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
really, a 3 and out …..
MenVsBoys
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Big stop for Bama. Damnit.
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Of course we don’t……
Good grief.
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Jesse Williams = Gain of zero.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
WHY DID YOU PASS ON FIRST DOWN IDIOTS?
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Just tell ‘em where you’re going to run it Bobo!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Oh no.
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
7:26 pm
Bo Bo suxs
me
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Wasted play on 1st down. Could have cost us the game.
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
ITS OVA
Roy
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Alright defense it’s on you now. But this time Bama has to pass because there isn’t enough time to keep running the ball. Jarvis, it’s on you!
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Bad call on first down Bozo!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Too bad….Georgia really needed that first down.
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Run too much for dawgs.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Bama starts with 5:24