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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rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
MenVsBoys – Actually I would. Danielson is mentally challenged.
Russa
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
I don’t think they’ll be passing on this drive
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
BOBO is an IDOIT
CANWE?
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
our offense is PATHETIC…can’t get one GD yard to go to the national champiuonship game–they deserve to lose this f’ing game!!!
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Bobo suxs
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Good play on the punt. Come on, Bama!
RTR!!!
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:27 pm
Another block in the back missed
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
boy we really needed at least one first down
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
turn out the lights the party is OVER
Raiderbeater
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
This is the GAME D!!!!
MAN UP AND HUNKER DOWN YOU HAIRY DAWGS!!!!!!!
me
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
Watch for #75 and the arm grabs around the waist of Jenkins.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
Can’t get the first down, that may have been the game?
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
Man I wish this game was 5 qtrs. If it went 5 qtrs I would give us a 100% chance of winning. Right now I only give us a 70% chance of winning. Such is life.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
YOU ARE SO STUPID MIKE BOBO
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
7:28 pm
Another block in the back no call
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
This will take an epic stand by our D.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
me…lol
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
Seen this too many times. Can’t get a 3rd and 1 deep in your territory late in the game, lose the game.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
I don’t understand why Bobo elected to pass on 1st down when you have an All-SEC back in the backfield in Gurley. Run him and try to kill clock.
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
Why did they run the ball when Ala had everyone on the line.
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
Up to the D…..
This is cruel torture.
30 years we’ve waited. 30 years.
Whadda ya say, boys?
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
No Georgia fan better post to fire Richt after this game. If you do….you ARE NOT a Georgia fan.
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
our offensive line just stands around and watches
me
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
Not sure why we throw a deep out route on 1st down, when we have been running the ball well. Nice stop on 3 and 1, but that could have been 2nd and 1.
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
clock management our defense is getting gashed and we can’t get 1 yard???
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
This is the part of a football game that separates the men from the boys.
Roll that Tide!!!
Falcons4Eva
December 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
FINISH THE DRILL
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Here comes the power run. Dawgs defense can’t adjust. Expect long run dead ahead.
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
FIRE MARK RICHT! STUPID COACHING
GFY
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Looks like bawbie is going go bed…..we’ll leave ligths on and watch UGA win this game, bawbie. Tell your mom night/night.
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Time to man up defense
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
me,
In case you missed it Danielson and the replay showed clear, blatant holding on Gurleys last td. The refs are letting them both play.
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
keep the faith phil
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Alabama faces another third and long — and it’s getting late
Overrated
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
Like Mark B said we win this game BAMA is toast.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
God what a hold by Bama on that pass.
Falcons4Eva
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
FINISH THE DRILL DAWGS
The season is on the line.
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
Thank you for calling the pass there bama.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
Georgia calls time. Whew
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
Burn that time out……
Falcons4Eva
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
FINISH THE DRILL DAWGS
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
Classic football game by two tremendous teams
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
Got to have an epic stand here.
Do it D!!
me
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
me,
In case you missed it Danielson and the replay showed clear, blatant holding on Gurleys last td. The refs are letting them both play.
Ok, i missed that.
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
All Saban has to do is run the ball two plays
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
good time out
Bumblers
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
Am I banned?
blame game
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
Penetrate that backfield
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:32 pm
McCarrons awfulness and Gurleys determination major factors in this game.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo