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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HungJoJo
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
B*tches are owned. hahahaha. Crap play. Typical richt.
Yankee
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
UGA loses! Hooray! (No amount of ajc pimping can influence a game.)
Now, if we’re lucky, UGA will not be heard from for another 30 years. By then, phony-baloney Richt will be gone. He is, as always, a big-game lewser!
Senor Coughee
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
Maybe Bama will luck out and have the same set of refs in Miami to give them that one, too….
Steve
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
Told you last week that Richt would screw it up. Enjoy the Chick Fil A bowl. Go Gators!!
Ga Fan Here
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
The ball was tipped.
Dawgs
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
Georgia. good game! i appreciate the effort, hold you heads high! proud to be a dawg!
Tom1
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
Great game dogs. I’m proud of all of you!!
Prometheus
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
Not a bad call. Didn’t give Bama defense time to set up. Just called wrong pass play.
Todd grantham
December 1st, 2012
7:59 pm
The bcs championship game should bea rematch between Georgia andAlabama not Notre dame who hasn’t played an SEC team all year. The Pope would even agree.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
dogs, you remain
Delusional
Stevo
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Spike the ball and have three plays. Bobo was too greedy all night.
CHOKE! THE OFFICAL DRINK OF THE BULLDAWGS!
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
GEORGIA ALWAYS WILL BE LOSERS!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Here come all the Richt haters………stupid….stupid….stupid….your team just played one hell of a football game at the SEC Championship game….DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT
juice sourcer
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
B’dawg
IDIOTS. IM DONE.
The Bulldogs are done with you.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
It is on the coaches, you’re down by 4, a field goal won’t win it. Clock the ball and you have three plays to the endzone. It was clearly 4 down territory.
Dawg59
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
refs cost UGA about 10 points and some momentum changes, would have helped if UGA could kick a field goal.
BravesFan79
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
2 pple at fault on the last drive, coach for not spiking the ball and huddling everyone together… and the reciever for not intentially dropping the ball.
BOHICA
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Wait for it… wait… wait…
Here it comes…
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WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!
Steve
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Oh yes, let’s blame the officials. UGA is nothing more than a bunch of thugs.
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Midget Murray please graduate already
Georgia
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
You can’t win unless you can stop the power run. Dawgs are style over substance, as everyone suspected. Murray has limited range. Underthrows the long ball.
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Great game. Dawgs played to the end. I was hoping Richt & company would pull it out and have a chance for a NC. But, so to say it, Richt & Dawgs have enough talent and coaching to win with the schedule they usually play, but not so sure to ever win a NC. But, still…GO DAWGS!
jacket backer
December 1st, 2012
8:00 pm
Roll Tide!! THWG!
take it from me.
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
bad game management at the end.
Under The Bleachers
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Good Game Georgia. Your Kids played their hearts out and had a great game plan.
UGA definetly deserves to be in a BCS game over Florida. 1,2,3, 4….here comes Tampa Gator.
Prometheus
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
“They rushed for 800 ids and we still almost licked em”. Larry Munson
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Well, I hate to say it, but they still couldn’t get it done.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Let me eat my $3 wings and I’ll be back.
Fools Gold
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Hows the Kool Aid Dawg Fans?
BigDawg
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Terrible officiating throughout the game and I am not only talking about that flagrant personal foul on Murray on the interception that turned out to be the difference in the game. The spotting of the ball was horrible all night marking forward for Bama and marking back against the Dawgs. Alabama should have been flagged for holding at least 10 times.
Cedrick
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
I dont want to hear about a barely lost!!
A loss is a loss!!!
And this LOSSS was the worst one of them all!!!!!!!
Don’t give me that you ought to be proud!!!! Please, GREAT TEAMS WIN big GAMES!!!!!!
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
@me- It’s “torched” not tourched. Must be that LA education.
SqozoTheSquid
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Great game. In the end game, who cares?
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Can’t throw it to receivers you can’t see…….bummer
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Wow, sorry if I offended your delicate sensibilities, but as a Bama fan living in Atlanta, I’ve been getting bombarded with insults. Had to get one dig in…
MR is a hypocrite
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Here, hee, hee, hee. The might bulldogs fall flat on their wrinkled butts again! I guess Murray’s house will get egged again tonight
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Steve….
How exactly did Richt “screw up?”
Georgia Fans Eats Idiots Sandwiches
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Everyday!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Seriously, is it any wonder why people question Mark Richt. 99 out of 100 coaches spike the ball so they can draw up two plays to win, not some disorganized crap like that. I hate stupid football coaches and Georgia has the stupidest. Saban would have won 5 national championships with the raw talent that UGA puts on the field.
phil
December 1st, 2012
8:01 pm
Not clocking the ball = running against auburn at the 1 with no timeouts back in 2001.
Some people just don’t ever get it.
Rambo
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Nice pass NANC Y BOY!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
ROOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE ROLL!
Camp Bastion
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
you fought hard, remember that during the off season! I’m proud to be a dawg!
still better than tech!
Jake Benson
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
Georgia came up short but has nothing to be ashamed of. They played with heart and earned my respect. They gave it their all and never quit. Murray showed himself to be a quality quarterback. Even with the loss, Georgia got the monkey off their back.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
dogs,
wa wa wa
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
So close!
Ga Fan Here
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
Most of the Trolls posting here w/negative comments are not fans of GA or AL.
Bumblers
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
Looks like the tech nerds are out in force…….and all of a sudden they became Bammer fans…..
take it from me.
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
great game dawgs!
Jacket 97
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
Great game Dawg fans.
Too bad Murray didn’t clock the ball…at least you would have had another change.
Still a great team and Coach.
I hope we play as well this evening against FSU.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
8:02 pm
UGA has a great team and coaches..but some sorry a@@ loser for fans. Both teams played their guts out and you should be proud of your team.
Now watch FSU beat GT…I guess Jeff has that game..poor man!