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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Bama14
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Maybe CBS is ready tolet this game start now that we’ve had 5 breaks in the first 8 mns of clock time…
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Nice tackle
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Corners can’t tackle. Smh. Get his legs!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
Cooper on a quick screen. First time it works for a first down. Second time Georgia handles it.
Screwball
December 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
Verne and Danielson are having a crappy start.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
Another hold by Bama. The receiver was holding on that play.
No call.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
there about to go up the middle after the two passes.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
3rd and 3.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:41 pm
Draw is short. Bama punts again
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:41 pm
Nice stop. Go defense
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:41 pm
Good D! Defense is playing well. It’s the offense that needs to stay on the field or our D will run out of gas like they did last year!
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:41 pm
This is beginning to look like it’s going to be a good game!
Douglas
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Bobo will lose this game for us. We pass on first down for an incomplete pass…we try to run on 2nd down…get some yardage…and then Bama blitzes on 3rd down because they are know we are going to pass. How Bobo deserves the Royal award for top assistant really amazes me. Why not try running the ball on 1st and 2nd down Boo Boo. If he loses this game for us, we need to cut his salary.
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Hahahahahahaha!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Wow. Saved by the penalty
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Bama faked for the first down. But Bama jumped. Mistake.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Too many nerds pretending to be upset Doggies. Pathetic losers. Your next beatdown comes starting at 8:00…
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Wowww, we dodged a bullet there! I felt like they would try a fake and they did!
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Big penalty there for bama. Could have been a huge momentum swing.
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:42 pm
Gee. AL is human. Who woulda thunk it?
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Good Bama punt. Georgia starts at the 13.
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
BS
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
dawgs got lucky there. Luck is the only thig thats going to help them.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Nick Saban not pleased at that whiff. I wouldn’t be.
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Screw Saban….
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Let’s see if the offense can put together a drive
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Gurley for eight.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Gurley can hit the hole.
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
AL can’t stop the freshmen.
Bradley Curse
December 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
“But Bama jumped. Mistake.”
yep, mistake … it was a delay of game
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
Run Gurley! He will win this game for us!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
Gurley for first down.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
Please keep running on first down. Murray makes me too nervous.
Michael
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
Gurley took a concussion like hit to the head.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
What is crowell doing niw
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:44 pm
Bring back Crowell!!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
GO DAWGS!!!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Sacked again on first down. Not a good sign if you get sacked on a running down
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Murray has no elusiveness. My goodness.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Crap.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Gurney!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
But a Gurley run on a passing down gets 12. First down.
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
First down.
Russa
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
someone needs to tell him it’s OK to get rid of the ball when he’s under pressure
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Gurley!!
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Ha ha!! AL being made to look foolish!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
Murray’s mistake was no field awareness.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
What the hell was that
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
My point exactly about running on first down. Thank god for Gurley.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Alabama can play some D. This just in