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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falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
@ tide rison yea buddy
GoDOGS
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
bama is waaaay confused on O and the Dogs are getting into the 2nd level of the tides D. Sic’ ‘em!
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Murray is a no show in big time games. Goodness gracious.
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Our offense just has to believe.
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Murray is playing smart ball.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Isaiah, The Annointed One II,
WHERE YOU AT?
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Murray is so bad against good teams…..
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
Georgia false start again.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
On Mitchell
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
yeh. gotcha.
CANWE?
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
Man, Aaron Murray is slow as hell even for a white guy!!!
Russa
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
…. penalties slowly starting to rack up
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
These penalties are killing us
Michael
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
Penalties. Been watching these penalties for 25 years.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
They need to bounce Marshall outside.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
phil,
Because he plays against bad teams
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
Run on second and 15 is stopped.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:47 pm
Omg!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
YES!!!!!!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Great throw. Deep to Tavarres King.
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Hail yes!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Pretty pass.
BubbaGolf
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
That’s where LSU hurt them too.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Beautiful connection. Keep running Gurley.
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Not bad for a slow white guy!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Murray looks pretty good to me!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
They blew up that screen
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
Bama reads another pass to the back.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
That was a great pass. If Murray can avoid turnovers, we might be fine.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
run the ball Bobo!!!!!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Setting up for another missed field goal, dogs?
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Line needs to hold blocks a little longer on those screens.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Please no long fgs
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Third and six. Would be a 53 yard FG from here
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Losing yards on first down will spell doom for the Dawgs.
Bama Belle
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Bama 42, Dwags 10
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
Murray wanted interference. Looked clean to me
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:49 pm
C’mon, flag!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
No flag! Punt it
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
Boooooo!
Refs stink.
Another try for 3 points
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
just sayin
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
At this early stage of the game, I have to think that whichever team wins they are going to whack ND
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
The first quarter ends.
First scoreless first quarter in SEC championship annals
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
Those long routes with Bama’s pass rush are just bad.
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
4:50 pm
Should have been a flag
BubbaGolf
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
No calls going to ALA…
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
ya, ref’s stink. That’s your answer dogs
CANWE?
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
Alabama’s D looks SO much quicker than ours!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
Georgia still did important work on this series. Confidence builder.
Russa
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
punt and hope you pin them back