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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Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Sack. Fumble. Georgia ball.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Got it!!!! YES!
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
YES!!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Go defense
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
YES!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Appreciate the early sportsmanship.
No spitting, No eye poking.
It’s early.
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
This ain’t Auburn you’re playing you alabammers
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
That’s good for Georgia. Like I said the only chance they have in this game is a multitude of Bama turnovers.
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Can I call it or what
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:27 pm
Jones forced it. Robinson caught it on the fly.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
have to score a TD here. have to.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
Tide Rising: I don’t get it either. Why pass when you are killing us with a run?
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
There’s some of what UGA needed!!!!
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
Time for a TD…..
Now.
jbill
December 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
Looked like..Brees
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Coverage must have been outstanding. McCarron held it a good while
ShowMeYurTD's
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Defense will keep us in the game….come on Murray
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
One thing is obvious. We can run the ball down their throats. All we gotta do is just keep bashing them. None of this getting cute crap with the passing when its not necessary. Turnovers is the only way UGA can play with us.
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Gurshall and more Gurshall
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Come on Murray…you can be THE MAN…put us up 7-0.
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Tide Rising is a doofus…..
THE REAL UGA
December 1st, 2012
4:29 pm
Go Dawgs! Time to show them the REAL UGA team.
Good idea. Have the UGA team members come with their lawyers, bail bondsmen, and probation officers, plus the arresting officers. That’s the REAL UGA team.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
@ Tide Rising, stfu
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Please don’t take a shot for the endzone yet.
GoDOGS
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Hey Buckeye and All Saints-
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phil
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Booo!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Georgia gets a false start to start the drive
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Dang Rookie
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:30 pm
Stupid penalty
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Run on first-and-15. Gets three.
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Gurley can’t run on the bama d. Fool
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
so they run on 1st and 15 brilliant.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
I say we run Gurley and Marshall, keep our D off the field, keep it close enough in the 4th to win it.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Screen pops for a first down. Great call.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Stupid penalties
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Another stupid penalty!
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Oh darn… another penalty!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Coming back on holding.
Put in Timeout by Ken Sugiura,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
HUGE BLOCK IN THE BACK………..
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
I think everyone in the dome saw that block in the back.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Refs need to call this even.
They have let Bama hold and not called it.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Repeat of rest year
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Push in back, actually. Now second and 21
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Damn Tavarres King! Damn it!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Nice discipline dogs
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
To beat Bama, you cannot have stupid penalties! Play disciplined UGA!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
mental mistakes = poor mental prep.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
Second and 19
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
Play action to obvious here
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
King chokes again