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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dean
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
Dayum
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
A great run by Yeldon. Should have been stopped
Pigskin
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
It’s over….dang.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
HOLY CRAP STILL CANT TACKLE
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
Power football baybee
Wow.
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
Why can’t they tackle that guy?
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
that should have been a loss they are running thru tackles…..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
Alabama reclaims the lead
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
Dammit!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
But I think it scored too soon
Pigskin
December 1st, 2012
7:33 pm
It’s really over now.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
OMG!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
BAll GAME!!!!!!!!
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Roll That Damned Tide!!!
RTR!!!
Jack
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Williams is playing arm waving defence. Wimp.
phil
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
And down we go…..
It is our destiny…..and it stinks.
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
T O U C H D O W N ! ! !
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Damian swan sir.. You sux
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
As I was saying McCarron sucks. Blind pig acorn or maybe I’m just wrong.
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
SWANN has cost us big time!!!!
blame game
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
UGA got time
bawbie
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
MARK RICHT CHOKES AGAIN!!!!!!!
dbc
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Did I mention before that Swann can’t cover?
me
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
No pass rush. TD.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Once again, wen we need our offense to score, they fail and the defense fails to get stops
Alan
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Goddamn, seriously, how many times in 40 pages can people say the game is over?
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Ok O. No excuses. Murray has to earn his salt right now
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
NO pressure!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Left too much time on the clock. This is it! Aaron Murray will have a chance to put himself into Georgia football lore. And if we have any more pass coverage breakdowns then we damn sure deserve to lose.
North ave. faithful
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
Swann, the weak link.
Kirby Smart
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
We wiill BEAT UGA!
The Grim Reaper
December 1st, 2012
7:34 pm
time frittering, ticking, running out… Grave is dug, who gets sent to me?
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
We get the ball last
Wow.
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
#5 got burned badly!
dean
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Time to saddle up Dawgs!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Amari Cooper ran past Damian Swann. It was off play-action, which happens when you rush for 7,000 yards.
GFY
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
I don’t think Swann is NFL caliber…….
Scrappy
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Ouch.
At least we have time to answer. Can we?
june dog
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
out coached
Kirby Smart
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
3 and out for UGA on the next series.
UGA Fans Are On Suicide Watch
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Bama can not pass… that what all u dumb Georgia Fans Just Said.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Good luck to Aaron Murray. Good kid. If he pulls it out he certainly has my respect.
SnoopyJenkins
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
SWANN HAS TERRIBLE TECHNIQUE!!!! for a DB
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
We have time. Need a score.
Our DB had poor technique on that one.
MenVsBoys
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Time for the offense. No punting now.
RunninWithTheDawgs
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
I think we’ll score again and win this one !
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
3:15 plenty of time.
kerryb
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
3:15 enough time to go down the field and kill the clock and win
DSGB
December 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Ballgame