Isn’t UGA better than the Capital One Bowl? Why, sure it is

UGA wasn’t penalized for falling 5 yards short. It was penalized for having an easy schedule, and losing two of three toughest games it played.

No way is UGA the third best team in the country. Oregon, Florida, K-State all played tougher schedules than UGA.

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Mark, you’ve always been quite the wordsmith, but “psychically”? Either most impressive or very misspelled.

I fear the same thing that happened last year against a clearly lesser Michigan State team. Then again, Georgia will respond the same way they did in the SEC Championship game and learn from past mistakes.

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YAWN!!!!!! Isn’t this a two week-old argument, Mark?

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U are crazy Steve.
Georgia played its schedule and beat the Gators.
We were a tipped pass away from beating Bama, who played just as “easy” schedule as Georgia, yet you don’t hear anybody like STEVE doubting their position.

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Sorry – that didn’t make any sense. Georgia = “They,” and Florida = “them.”

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How exactly is UGA the third-best team in the country when they’ve lost to USC and Alabama? Are those two teams #1 and #2, then?

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How in the world can you say that UGA should be higher than Florida? The SEC has 6 elite teams. Each one of these teams only lost to others in theh Elite 6. Florida was 3-1 in those games, and UGA was 1-2. In addition, Florida played a tougher OOC schedule (Florida State vs. Georgia Tech).

An 8 point loss on a neutral field does not overcome all of that. Not even close. USC (2-1 in elite 6 games including smoking UGA) and LSU (2-2 in Elite 6 games) also have a good argument to go ahead of UGA.

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So sad…

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Gordon, Georgia beat Florida and played an extra game that Florida didn’t have to play.

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GA beat two teams with a winning record: Vandy, and UF. And even that took six UF fumbles, including one at the goal line.

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Steve,
Interesting comment…Florida played a tougher schedule than UGA? Youmdo remember the two teams played…UGA won.

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Anybody that watched the Dawgs play Bama and come away saying that the Dawgs are “lucky’ or non deserving are just haters. Dawgs played really well that night…. and most of the country agreed. Stuck in Orlando is a crime……But so was the Sugar bowl with Hawaii. Should of played So. Cal for the title that year. Gator fans throwing peanuts from the bleachers.

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Steve

You are correct. UGA isn’t the 3rd best team in the country. They are the 2nd best team in the country.

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Georgia played 3 games with opponents of comparable resources and talent (Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina). The won 1 of them. Florida played 5 such games (LSU, Texas A&M, UGA, South Carolina, and Florida State). They won 4 of them.

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test…. Banned ?

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Gordon-good one! Why should the teams actually playing a game matter in deciding who is the better team? I’ll admit that college football is a quirky game in which good teams lose to worse teams, but you can’t ignore the plain evidence that Florida lost to Georgia (twice in a row now). Ever hear the expression, “that’s why we play the games?”

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@LakeDawg,

2nd best team….. hahaha, don’t make me laugh.
That is another example of a Georgia fan eating too much red dirt,

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When you get housed by 31 against SC and don’t even score until the last minute against their backups you kinda lose the argument that UGA is a top 3 team.

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there is a number to call …. 1-800-555-WAAH

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You always want to win and the loss to Bama in the conference championship was an obvious disappointment but we really can’t complain. Flawed as the system may be everyone knew the rules going in. Had something been changed mid stream there would be grounds for complaints but the BCS system has always worked this way: a seemingly deserving team or teams always get left out. It just stings moe whan that team is yours.

The real solution is fixing the system and that will be taken care of with the playoff format set to begin in 2014. Even then, there will be complaints. One can already hear team number five explaining to anyone who will listen why they should have been in the top four.

The flawed BCS system without a doubt accomplishes one impressive feat: It keeps us talking college football long after the season has ended. Maybe they’re not so dumb after all.

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No one is saying the UGA win or Florida shouldn’t count. That’s how UGA got to Atlanta. They deserved to be there. But an 8 point win on a neutral field does not overcome the huge discrepancy in meaningful wins (Florida 4, UGA 1) or meaningful losses (UGA 2, Florida 1). The Sugar bowl took the right team. Even if it were 2014, UGA would not deserve a spot in the final 4. It should be ND, Alabama, Florida, and either Oregon or South Carolina.

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Gordon – Agreed

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If UGA is the third best team, and USC beat them by 4 TDs, does that make USC #2?

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We beat Bama….

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Make no mistake about it. The two best teams in the country played in the SEC Championship game. The only team in the country that could’ve beaten Bama that night was UGA. The only team that could beat UGA that night was Bama. Anyone else would’ve folded under a game that physical and full of emotion. The country will see the separation when ND can’t score on Bama in the NC game. That game is NOT going to be close at all.

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When UGAg beats somebody significant, they might earn some respect. Historically, they choke in the big games. In 2012, nine of the teams they beat had a losing record. Not a real impressive resume.

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“lacking too”

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another soon-to-be 12-page blog schlog all about the whining Georgia Bulldogs!
Tell you what: You go to El Paso, and Highly under-ranked, atrociously under-regarded Yellow Jackets will go play
Nebraska in Orlando instead. It would be fitting, after all, since the LAST team from Georgia to win a National Championship played that team in that city!

But if not, please SHUT UP and just go down there and show us what you THINK you got!

bee

P.S. I hope my good friend GTBob is around for this one. Are you, Bob?

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Can we get past this talk on what seems like a daily basis. We played our hearts. Came up short. Take advantage of the practice time in December for the bowl game as well as next year. I will be hard pressed to think that Jarvis jones will not show up to play and the same for tk and Aaron Murray. Beat them and then let’s start focusing Clemson. on a side note if you are a Georgia fan whether you want to or not U better pull for Alabama to wax Norte dame or our effort looks Not as good. If you can pull for notre dame in this game more power to U but find someone else to pull for next year besides ga.

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Sorry but after going 2-2 against teams with winning records, 1-2 against ranked teams, and getting blown out by South Carolina, UGA should feel fortunate to even make the Capitol One bowl. Did they do anything at all this year aside from beating Florida in one of the worst football games ever played? Sorry, but no one really cares that they came close to beating Alabama. So did LSU and Texas A&M actually beat them. Barely losing to someone isn’t an achievement.

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What is the distance from Orlando to Miami? For the Bulldogs it is 5 yards So proud of the Dawgs this year, it was a great season!!

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LOL! While I admit UGA played way better than I thought against Bama, they were still 1-3 against real teams. They were not better than Carolina in the east, just had an easier schedule.

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All great points Mark.

But everybody knew what was at stake in that (SECCG) game. And everybody knew where the loser was gonna get.

The best commentary UGA can make on the situation, is to kick Nebraska’s butt.

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FL played and beat how many top 10 teams? GA played and beat how many top 10 teams? If GA had played LSU, Texas A&M, or Bama in regular season you wouldn’t even be writing this article.

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So even if the 4-team playoff system is in place today, UGA still cannot be part of it.

That being said, should SEC abandon SECCG?

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If almost beating Alabama counts as a positive for UGA then shouldn’t almost losing to Kentucky and Tennessee count as a negative?

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@Mark Bradley… Why would you play in the bowl game? Ask Jarvis Jones what that last game of his georgia career means to him. He loves his team and he loves UGA. You are dumb if you don’t think this game means something to the seniors and players going pro.

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It makes no difference who or when was on the schedule, it’s wins and losses Bobby, wins and losses

Then you accept that Florida and Northern Illinois were better teams than UGA was?

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Keep in mind, if that tipped pass fell incomplete, there was NO guarantee Georgia would have scored on the next 1 or 2 plays. Bulldogs played a great game but to say a tipped pass kept them from playing for the NC is something of a stretch.

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The 4-yard short theory really catches my nerve:

1. If the Bama player had his 2 hands 2-inch closer during UGA’s last drive, he would have an interception instead of being overturned. 2 inches are a whole lot of shorter than 4 yards.

2. During Bama’s last drive, they were 3-yard short of a first down compared to UGA’s 4-yard shortage. Otherwise, they would automatically kill the remaining seconds.

And the if-not-tipped theory. So the UGA player would definitely catch the ball? He was tightly cover by a BAMA player, by the way, if you didn’t notice.

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Ignore Gordon. He’s just trolling. Who else can look at a head to head loss and still think the loser has a better team? Stop giving him the satisfaction.

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@Waaaaaaaaaa…explain how we blew it? we were in position to win the biggest game of the year and the alabama defender made a great play and tipped the ball. If the ball isn’t tipped and it falls incomplete we still have time to run another play maybe two. It would have been the same as spiking the ball but by running a play you don’t give the defense time to adjust personell. Sometimes you have to give credit to the other team. What was your team doing on Dec. 1? Getting blown out and ending with a losing record once again. Remind me what bowl y’all are playing in?

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Gtbob .why in the h do. U care what they say about ga. U need to take ur team and get in the southern conference,,,oops sorry u already tried that with middle tenn.. I meant the NAIA conference . U had your chance to stay in the sec and chose not to. Now u gonna let Charlie strong come in and consistently compete for the acc championship. Let me know when that 3 game package for ur home games that will include ga goes on sell.

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What I find absolutely astounding is that even with the four team play off format UGA would NOT be included in it because they lost their conference playoff, but Florida would when they didn’t even play in it? Does that seem fair? And remember Florida and South Carolina fans, you may be on the other end of this situation in the future.

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@Waaaaaaaaaa…explain how we blew it?

Alabama played probably their worst game of the season and you didn’t take advantage of it. That means you blew it.

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The third best team in the country doesn’t lose to ANYONE by 28 points. Case closed.

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Tcunningham, who cares about UGA?? If it weren’t for Hershal, that program would be looking NAIA right now! Tech has wayyyyyyyyyyy more tradition, more national titles, etc… Keep on living in la la St. Richt land and enjoy 0 championships. You guys suck.

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UGA deserves to be in the Sugar Bowl. We were basically penalized for playing in the SEC title game.

Look at it this way. The only reason that you got into the SEC championship was because of the weak schedule you played. So you weren’t really penalized for playing in the game, you were penalized for playing such an awful schedule.

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well it looks like UGA can only brag about beating tech…it that IF again that gets UGA….IF ONLY WE HAD MADE THAT PLAY AT FIVE YARD LINE …..IF ONLY WE HAD BEAT USC…..IT THAT IF FAULT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN……IF,IF,IF A BULLDOG HAD WINGS

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GTBoob, enjoy the Sun Bowl!

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Good essay MB.

But what I find curious is that neither you nor anyone else has written a story about the impact of Richt’s several player suspensions on the Defense at the beginning of the season. For so long we have heard the haters talk about how “lax” UGA’s discipline is and how out of control their players are. Then CMR brings down the hammer – exactly what everyone has been calling for – and now those same critics are on this blog blasting the team’s slow start, and in particular the USC game when UGA first had all of their starters in the lineup.

You can’t have it both ways. Give CMR credit for his discipline, and recognize that those actions had consequences on the field.

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Again? Hasn’t this already been discussed debated ad infinitem? Deal with it. This IS the system that got you into the chance to play for the SEc and for the BCS NCG. It was NOT (repeat n o t) a semi-final. Semi-finals are played in a PLAYOFF SYSTEM. The BCS is not a playoff system. Stop whining…no one got robbed….everybody (all FBS schools) are and where subject to the same system. Not defending it…I’ve always supported a playoff…and we are getting one in 2 years. But until then, please remember which system you’re in.

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Georgia has to pay for playing a soft schedule. Of its 12 opponents in the regular season, only five of them were good enough to make it to a bowl. Another way to look at it: Georgia played only three tough opponents this year — South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. It lost to two of them. Consider yourselves lucky to make it to the Capital One Bowl.

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Sure would like to have seen..

UGA/Fla State in the Orange
FL/Oklahoma in the Sugar

there’s really only three games worth watching..
Ala/N Dame (well, not really)
K State/Oregon (should be entertaining)
LSU/Clemson (Peach, uh, I mean Chic Fil A always has a good matchup- ACC#2 vs SEC #6- that’s just funny right there, I don’t care who you are!)

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All you Georgia fans need some cheese to go with your whine? Florida beat 4 teams ranked in the top ten. Georgia beat only 1 top ten team.The Gators. As always, the UGA Mutts choked again on the big game @ the dome.Keep crying losers!

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People have you not learned yet to just ignore GTBob? He thrives off of commenting on your comments and loves more than anything a new UGA blog. That’s all he’s got and that is his life. He is an idiot when it comes to college football. Just ignore the little boy.

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Had UGA played a better team they would have had much more credibility in the sports world.

This is true. You should write the UGA AD and ask him to drop the series with GT. We would all be better off.

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Georgia Tech should be removed from Georgia’s schedule and replaced with Clemson. Not kidding. I really think that should happen.

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Gt bob. Look up jealousy in the dictionary .. It is the synonym for ga tech football fans.. Merry Xmas and if tech needs some money to defray how much they are going to lose going to El Paso? Well good luck. I donot usually get in these peeing contest but i do not even know why u are on this board…oops I do…because nobody on the hives wants to talk football.

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Georgia fans need some cheese to go with your whine? Gators beat 4 top ten teams, Georgia beat only1, The Gators Only 2 teams from the SEC can play in a BCS Bowl.. Keep crying losers!

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C’mon Bradley…enough already with the whining!…all Georgia had to do was win the damn game, but they didn’t….lets move on…

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How many players does Tech have that will be drafted this year? Anybody?

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GTBob… the blocked field goal had absolutely nothing to do with cornelius washington absolutely standing his man up and pushing him into the backfield. Had nothing to do with a great scoop and score from ogletree. had nothing to do with a great play uga made. right?

Their secondary has been their weakness all year. LSU exploited it, TXAM, even ole miss.

Oh no bama got a penalty? It was one of 3 in the whole game for bama.

Their offense went for over 500 yds and over 350 on the ground. (Terrible performance)

It was an incredible game played by both teams

Get a life. Get some KNowledge. You just got owned nerd

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How many players does Tech have that will be drafted this year? Anybody?

Its looking like 2.

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GTBob: so you are giving the defense no credit for causing those turnovers, the blocked field goal, even the botched fake punt?

According to UGA fans, every mistake their opponents have made this season were because UGA forced them. Even a penalty on a fake punt. Thats how highly they think of themselves. It makes you wonder why UGA didn’t block more field goals this season though if it was so easy against Alabama.

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Bham dawg, like I said, ignore him. He is a moron.

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Mark…UGA & Mark Richt are 3-16 against ranked teams, since 2009! That’s pretty PATHETIC! And included in that, is the Alabama loss. Georgia simply cannot beat ranked teams! You think Georgia and Richt deserve a BCS Bowl when all they can beat are the gimme teams, like Buffalo (barely), Georgia Southern (DIV II), and the like? Give me a break!

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gdawg:

GT BOB, yawn, yawn, yawn.
you sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher

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Don’t insult Charlie Brown’s teacher like that! She’s far more interesting.

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GTBoob, who are the 2? And what did they do against UGA?

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gtbob… how is getting a kicked blocked a mistake? the snap was good, the hold was good, the kick was good, but washington just made a play. you are an idiot

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GTBoob, did Alabama’s player tip that pass or did Murray give the game away? Can’t have your cake and eat it too. Teams force mistakes. Teams don’t give the ball away. The opponent makes them by forcing them into mistakes. Learn football.

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GTBoob, you said you were watching the Ohio State/Michigan game when your team is on? Some fan you are. Loser.

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If you continue losing to the ranked teams you play, every single solitary year–even with perennial top 10 recruiting classes–then you should expect to be playing in 2nd tier bowls, if any bowl at all. And you don’t deserve ANY BCS Bowl going 3-16 against ranked opponents, since 2009! You simply do not!

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GTBoob, you said you were watching the Ohio State/Michigan game when your team is on? Some fan you are. Loser.

I watched both, but it was pretty obvious after the fumble that the UGA game was going to be a blowout and im not really a fan of watching blowouts.

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In 2008 after UF beat Bama for the SEC title Bama went to the Sugar Bowl and the game meant nothing just like the Cap One will mean nothing to UGA. Don’t expect a great effort but the good news is Nebraska should be in the same mood. The only good thing is the team gets some more practice and PERHAPS some young players will get more reps during that timeframe but that isn’t always the case. These kids having been working since summer and two more weeks of practice at this point isn’t Ed Zackery what they have in mind. Eddie Lacey and DJ Fluker are going to the NFL early. Both Bama and UGA are recruiting a former MLB player that is about 28 for safety. His name is Jai Miller and he’s from Selma, Alabama. He signed with Stanford out of HS but went the pro baseball route. He will pay his way and not count against the 85 total. Nick is high on the guy for he’s 6 4 and 220 and runs like the wind. No charge.

Roll Tide

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USCe is the team that got screwed with the schedule having to play UGA,UF,and LSU all in a row. Space those games out and they win the East.

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Wonder if all UGA coaches are better than the “Capital One Bowl”?

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@GT Bob…that someone that screwed up was our TE #89. He gave a good old fashion lookout block that was half azz at best. Bama was lucky to win the game no doubt because we were not sharp at all. Bama’s biggest problem is we don’t have a defensive lineman that can beat his blocker and apply pressure to the QB without us having to send the army. This was seen vs LSU,A&M,and UGA!!!!! The good news the ND QB isn’t near the level of QB as Murray. You can’t expect the DB’s to cover good receivers all day those three games exposed not so much the DB’s but the pass rush. Nick says Dalvin Tomlinson will be a welcome addition for 2013 and would have played in 2012 if not for his knee issue.

info…Dameyune Graig will leave FSU and work for Gus at AU. He is a world champion dirty recruiter much like Trooper Taylor. He learned that in his playing days at the auburn.

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wet willie

That baseball player is Bama’s to lose I am hearing

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Georgia is, at-worst, the 3rd or 4th best team in the country, and yeah, it stings to not be in a BCS game and to instead be going to the Capital One Bowl. That being said, going to an SEC championship game is as similar to going to a BCS bowl as any non-BCS bowl game will ever be – Cotton, Cap One, CFA Bowl included.

If it helps fans and players and coaches to get past the snub (it did me), then it’s worth pondering. We had our BCS bowl game and we get to play in Orlando now to leave with the taste of victory in our mouths. Those who know college football know this team deserves to finish in the final season top-5, should they beat Nebraska.

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Here is another stat that makes Todd Gurley such a beast. He’s not just feasting on cupcakes. He dominantes vs. SEC competition. He had 762 yards/5.8 yards per carry vs. SEC competition. Best in the SEC. As a freshman.

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Georgia is, at-worst, the 3rd or 4th best team in the country

Based on what? Is UGA better than South Carolina?

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GT is at best the 119th best team in the country.

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I’m fine with us being the 5th, 6th, or 7th best team in the country. But I’d put Texas A&M, LSU, and/or USC ahead of us rather than Oregon, KSU, or Stanford. Too bad we can’t see a top SEC team against any of those three.

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Good lord GTBob, you get more pathetic each day

A drooling, mindless old man who spends all day on the AJC blogs picking fights you never win and spewing never ending hatred toward the University of Georgia and siding with anyone or any team that has a chance to beat UGA because your own pathetic “Institute” can’t.

You must lead a pathetic existence. Why don’t you get a dog?

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GTBoob, Florida and Alabama are cupcakes? Gurley dominated against both. Rushing for over 120 yards vs. both.

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I don’t understand the point of all of this. We knew going into the championship game that it was BCS title game or bust. Most pundits had Georgia dropping all the way to the Chik Fil A Bowl if they lost to Alabama. So let’s go to the Capital One Bowl and kick Nebraska’s rear end. It could be worse. In ‘98 an undefeated, No. 1 ranked Kansas State team was upset by Texas A&M in the Big XII game and fell all the way to the Alamo Bowl. It happens. Get over it and go play football.

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Hey Heres the deal…..dont attend this tiddly wink bowl games of teams that should NOT be in a bowl period…sadly to say, UGA is my; team I wont go to the capital one bowl…boring….UGA should be in the sUGAr bowl..at the least…for playnig a championship conf game you are penalized extreme for a loss when you beat the others and conferences dont even have a champship game…BCS come on 2014!

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UGA put more points on Bama (28) than Bama had given up the first four weeks of the season. One point shy of their season high. Bama has a great defense yet UGA moved the ball up and down the field with ease. Gurley rushed for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns bullying his way through Bama’s defense. Murray lit them up for 267 passing yards and a touchdown. He was on his way to his 2nd until it got tipped.

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Gurley dominated Bama….Eddie Lacey is dominate and Gurley is very good then again you’re good old Georgiee.

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Oh man, the whining by dog fans just never ends. Fun to watch them cry. The dogs should be ranked somewhere between U of So.Car. and Kentucky. The Gamecocks are a better team than the dogs as they stomped Ga. in Columbia; so the puppies should definitely be ranked lower than the chickens. Also, the dogs struggled against Kentucky so they should be ranked only slightly above Ky.

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Roy…you do understand Gurley failed to block Moseley on that last pass play?

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Boo hoo, beat South Carolina next time chumps

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Wet Willie who said UGA was going to win the 2013 NC??? Not possible with the defense they will have. I am thinking 10-2 or 9-3. (Comment from GTBob in 3, 2, 1….)

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1. Bama
2. UGA
3. Gators
4. Irish
5. LSU
6. Oregon
7. Stanford
8. Aggies
9. Gamecocks
10. K State

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Hey, hey? Where’s my post? Is a dog fan the filter today?

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Gurley failed to block Moseley? if he didn’t block him he would have sacked murray. he tipped the pass because he was blocked and all defenders are taught to get their hands up once they realize they aren’t going to get to the qb. You and bob have a lot in common Willie.

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Let’s face it, the SEC is the toughest conference and any winning record in either division is an achievement. We attract the top talent in the country. Eight of our teams are in the top 16 2013 recruiting rankings, and only Kentucky is not in the top 40. Unfortunately, we beat up on each other all season long, and a few really good teams suffer for it. This year it was LSU and USC. Next year it could be UGA.

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Men never Cry over spill milk .Georgia and most of the nation know the DAWGS belong in a BCS game . A Florida v Georgia Sugar bowl make more sense money wise any way .

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If Mosley doesn’t tip that ball, Georgia wins. That was going to be a touchdown. It was a back-shoulder throw and Mitchell had a beat on cornerback Dee Milliner. Mosley saved the game for Bama. UGA did the right thing in not spiking the ball and giving Bama time to regroup. Bama was on their heels and UGA knew it. Like I said, if the ball isn’t tipped, Murray is a legend.

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If Mosley doesn’t bat the ball down, Georgia wins. It was a touchdown. Mitchell had Dee Milliner beat.

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Under the current “only two BCS teams per conference” rule, it seems to me that the SEC is, in some ways, a victim of its own success. If the BCS wants to keep the “only two” rule in, then they should reward the two teams from any AQ conference that play for the conference title or, if there is no conference title game, limit themselves to the top two finishers in the conference.

I don’t begrudge Louisville theire BCS berth, after all, they did win the Big East, and until things change the Big East is an AQ conference, so their champion SHOULD get a BCS nod.

You can’t really blame NIU, either. Again, it goes to the way the BCS is structured. They won their non-AQ conference, and finished in the top 16 and ahead of a conference champion from an AQ conference. That is the carrot that is currently being held out to the non-AQ conferences, so don’t blame them for grabbing it. IF you want to blame someone, blame the polls and computers for ranking them where they did.

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Your point is certainly well-reasoned, Mark. Although we knew going into the SEC Championship Game that the loser would drop below Florida and out of the BCS picture. That’s just the way the system works, and they don’t want to let one conference dominate all the BCS slots. Still, I’m glad that we got to play Alabama. At least we had our destiny in our own hands.
But now we need to take control of the Capital One Bowl game from the very kickoff, and beat Nebraska solidly. We have had problems in the past (and even some this year) with playing down to the level of our opponents…and if we go into the bowl game unprepared and lose to a team that we should NOT lose to, then a very fine season will end on a real sour note.

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What is it with DWAG fans that make them think they are better than they really are? UGAG lost and now they have to go to a crappy bowl game.

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AJ will return for his SR year…great we will be in the hunt again. See you good folks. Remember you’re UGA….

Dream Team
Ring Team
Betty Crocker Brownie Team
Finish the Drill Team
Beat Yo Girlfriend Team
Flunk Me Out Team
Up in Smoke Team
Sign 40 Players Team
1980 Great Fooball Team
We Miss Vince Team

Note….Mike Slive told old Gregg to never ever never ever go public placing Mike and the SEC in a tuff PR spot with his little girl whine! Mike says when you have one player that attempts to poke the eyes of another player and a safety going for a headshot then don’t call me when Bama player blast your little QB. Crickets is all I hear from Mike.

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UGA is still better than Florida and STILL should be rated #3 if they beat Nebraska and Bama beats Notre Dame. Predicting here that Bama will win by 17 over Notre Dame.. but could get real ugly if Notre Dame turns the ball over. Final poll should be #1 Bama #2 Texas A&M #3 UGA #4 Florida #5 LSU #6 South Carolina #7 Oregon #8 Notre Dame # 9 Stanford # 10 K-State.. Florida gets a cup cake in Louisville and that should not improve their ranking when they beat them 3 TD’s.

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Dumb Wad – Georgia is better than Florida because 17 – 9 butt whipping they put on them. Case closed. Go home NERD.

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A beat bulldog whines………next year uga 6-6 at best…..fire CMR will be heard again, again

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Bradley, you need to stop. You are clearly showing your slant toward UGA. I thought you were a KY grad that should stay somewhat impartial in your rants.

That was not a great game. Bama was exposed. ND was exposed by Pitt. Should be Bama vs Oregon or Stanford.

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Best homer column yet, Mark. What a freaking load! This ought to sell papers to the fleabags.

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Bradley, if your bosses did anything, they’d call you down for this article. Just count the number of people you turned off with this crap. At some point that translated to “why the hell should I read Bradley”. It’s like those damn Yahoo articles, nothing about nothing.

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Again, UGA has beat NOBODY, and their defense has stopped nobody…

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SC lost bad to Florida at Florida. Lost a close one to LSU at night at LSU. Georgia lost a close one to Alabama in Atlanta. Lost bad in Columbia. Should not SC be ranked as high as UGA? They beat Clemson at Clemson. If UGA beats Nebraska and SC beats Michigan, SC will stay 9th or 10th in the rankings, but UGA will move up. But, SC is better than UGA period.

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Dear Mark and all the other barking dawgs,

The AP, BCS, and USA Today Coach’s Poll all have the Gators ranked ahead of uga. You can cry, and kick, and hold your breath until you’re blue, but you’re in a very small minority. Enjoy your 17-9 for the year.

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UGA logic: Let’s use head to head when talking about Florida, but let’s use the overall record when talking about South Carolina. Also, the strength of schedule should have absolutely nothing to do with it, nor should the margin of defeat in your losses. Finally, not only should the winner of the SEC Championship automatically go to the BCS title game, the loser should get an automatic BCS bid, especially if the losing team played really well.

Did I miss anything?

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I cannot say tha we are 3rd, but I can say we beat Florida on a neutral site. Who cares about the BCS, it is so screwed up, just the fact that a 16th ranked team goes ahead of a 5,6 or 7th place teams wrong. Oh Yeah, I forgot we live in the “everyone gets a trophy” era, so why not let NW Illinois get to play? Who cares after number one anyway. We did not lose by 5 yards, we lost to Alabama. Are we as good, most think so, was Vegas concerned if UGA played ND, you bet. So anything after the game for number one does not matter because you have chumps like Kirbstreet and granddad hating us. Who cares, let’s learn to win the big games and let the rest take care of itself. UGA is a great team and no one can take that away from them, we just have to get a bit better. This is so similar to politics and look at the group we have making those rules. GO DAWGS.

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@Steve “UGA wasn’t penalized for falling 5 yards short. It was penalized for having an easy schedule, and losing two of three toughest games it played.”

Bawhaaahahahah.

And you wonder why everyone calls you a damn fool? UGA played 3 teams in the top 5.

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Whew….too close to 1980 for me. Hopefully another 32 years before they even get close to a National Title Game!!!! Now….GO IRISH!!!!!!

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I don’t believe that anyone is saying Florida should not be in the BCS and Georgia should. Rather the argument is that Northern Illinois and Louisville shouldn’t be there. However, to answer the Florida fans lets flip the scenario a bit. Lets say Florida beat Georgia in JAX and Georgia had beaten Carolina. Florida having to play the extra game would have had two losses. (Florida doesn’t beat ‘Bama either) There would be great howling from the Jean-Short Nation over Georgia’s BCS bowl. Just food for thought.

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I am thinking 10-2 or 9-3. (Comment from GTBob in 3, 2, 1….)

9-3 or 8-4 sounds about right for UGA next year. Although with Richt it could go lower than that.

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outside of the SEC, find me a team that KNOWS, with confidence, they could sweep Tennessee, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt.

Are you kidding? Just about every team in the top 25 would sweep those three teams without breaking a sweat.

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Good point GTBob, what was I thinking? 0-12 or maybe 1-11 sounds about right. Gosh I am stupid! Did you cry being away from the UGA blog for a few hours? I bet you just could not wait to get back on the ole computer!

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@ Tcunningham:

I looked up “jealousy” in the dictionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It had a picture of GT Bob beside the definition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Flo-ri-dah is an idiot. News flash brainiac, FloriDA beat LSU, South Carolina, Florida State, and Texas A&M. 5 great wins tops 1 good win any day. Plus they turned it over 6 times and beat themselves in Jax. Stop crying and say hi to Mickey for me.

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@ GT Bob:(7:10 pm post)

Yep, and all those teams(except mabe Auburn) would have demolished GT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@ Bammy Stan:

It seems that a lot of teams “turned it over” against UGA. Saban ranks UGA ahead of everybody except Bama and ND but out of respect for your GENIUS IN ALL THINGS FOOTBALL I will concede that you are way ahead of Saban!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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UGA is the Cap One Bowl.

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They played three top 25 teams and lost to two of them. Get over it MB,

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I need a hug

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Georgia should be in the Orange or Sugar no doubt . Why N Ill and Louisville get in is a joke.

This is coming from a Pac10 , UCLA man !

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“At worst, Georgia is the nation’s third-best team.”

Now THAT is funny!

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Florida’s body of work is simply superior to Georgia’s. They deserve the Sugar Bowl. And forget the head to head. Anyone who has a bad day and turns it over 6 times is going to lose. Dawgs were just plain lucky that day.

What I want to know is why the dawg fans so quickly forget 2007. Wasn’t it them that got to go to the sugar bowl ahead of a UT team that won the division but ended up losing to LSU in the seccg. And the dawgs went to a bcs bowl? How quickly they forget.

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“Hey Braniac, A top 3 team does not get it’s a$$ kicked by 31 on national tv.”

True dat. Championship caliber and elite caliber teams may lose a game. But they don’t give the living crap beat out of them by 4 tds.

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Nor do they lost at home to an new SEC team : )

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Awww don’t be sad little boy.

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HA HA. Shows how much you know about college football. Music City Bowl huh? Did not know that is where they are playing this year. Amazing that UGA has been to the Music City Bowl ONE time and that was in 2001. Yup, usual place for sure.

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sarfdawg

December 12th, 2012
4:30 pm

GTBob, 42-10. I know you’ll have some excuse or clever remark that will make you feel better or try to seem smarter, but 42-10 is where it begins and ends for you.
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Don’t forget 51-7 and all the other lopsided UGA wins in the lopsided series.

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when will this crying ever stop !!! the water is over the banks on lake lanier and the hooch can’t take much more !! Please stop with the tears already…we get it you think UGA really won and should get Bama’s spot in the big game….UGA has the world’s largest cay baby fan base !!! Get over it !!

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We do have a lot of fun talking trash but nobody is serious…right?

John Mcenroe…”You can’t be serious”.

The good news for the returning UGA defense….Eddie Lacey is going pro……..

Forest Gump..”I ran clear across Greenbow County”
Eddie Lacey..”I ran clear across Fulton County”…”then I ran back”

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“Never before have we had in one place such a collection of dimwits and delusion, with the possible exception of when David Pollack dined alone.”
John F Kennedy

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Here’s why the SB picked FL and why they’re ranked ahead of UGA.

Georgia’s 12 opponents: 72-72
Florida’s 12 opponents: 92-50

a. Georiga played 8 teams that finished with 6 or more losses (2 of the remaing 4 teams were GA SO and Vandy [both wins]. Against UF and USC, they got blown out and needed 6 turnovers to “hold on” at the end of regulation (Jarvis is a beast). All teams have a bad game. Does anyone really think USC is 4 TDs better than UGA. I don’t.
b. Florida played 8 teams headed to a bowl.

c. Geogia had 1 win better than the Vandy win.
d. Florida had 4 wins better than the Vandy win.

e. Remove USC and UF (21 wins) from UGA’s schedule, and the remaining 10 opponents finished 51-69 (18 games UNDER .500, and that includes 9 win GA SO and 8 win Vandy).
f. Florida played 5 teams in the top 12, and were 4-1 against. By any measure, Florida played arguably the most difficult schedule in college football.

At the end of the day, UGA was 1-2 against teams they have to beat to win a NC. Yes, the SECCG was one of the most-exciting games I’ve ever seen (1985), but GA fans seem to just be content to have competed with BAMA. CMR will likely never win a NC at UGA. Look at the last 10 NC teams, and most have won it in year 2-5. This is the closest CMR’s come, and he’s in like his 15th year? It’s rare to put together a team like UGA did this year (solid to outstanding on BOTH offense and defense) AND to get a favorable schedule. Need to capitalize when this occurs. UGA did not. And don’t look now, but look who has the #1 ranked recruiting class.

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Some of you guys may not like having so many bowls. Try telling that to the team/coaches/bands/alumni/fans and the host city….everybody has a good time and they sure help the local economy.

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You are exactly where u were last year: the sixth best team in the SEC.

1. Alabama
2. Fla
3. LSU
4. Texas A and M
5. South Carolina
6. Georgia

U lose to each of the Western leaders. U r lucky u aren’t in the Peach Bowl.

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Funny how Tide Rising comes here spouting s__t. I was at the SEC game and bama fans were very gracious and respectful leaving the dome. I suspect they were mostly alums as they don”t act like the wannna be fans of both schools…They knew how close they were to being in our position.

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Another Steve
December 12th, 2012
6:42 pm

The SEC is going to have to address the inequality in scheduling or our conference championship will lose its value. Both bama and georgia had very soft schedules. Is it too late to go back to 12 teams. A home and home schedule requiring 12 years to complete is too long.
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Good points, but no need to return to 12 teams. Just play a 9-game SEC slate–and stop scheduling OOC marshmallows.

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Funny I wached the Georgia / Florida game this year and I saw the Dawgs have more yards of offense,and thier defense created the gators six turn overs . …and if I’m not mistaken isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Florida got their ass whipped by the Dawgs plain and simple. You idiots that that come on hear and try to make excuses are nothing more than trying to justify the loss. The gators have lost two years in a row to the Dawgs….I think they better get used to it….its gonna happen again next year….you can count on it!

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Florida beat SC by virtue of the turnover also. SC got behind so fast due to fumbles that Latimore only had 3 carries. Ga is better than Fla and should be ranked as such.

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BamaStan
December 12th, 2012
7:17 pm

Flo-ri-dah is an idiot. News flash brainiac, FloriDA beat LSU, South Carolina, Florida State, and Texas A&M. 5 great wins tops 1 good win any day.
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Let’s see now, BamaStan: (1) LSU, (2) South Carolina, (3) Florida State, and (4) Texas A&M. And you call that “5 great wins”? LOL. Worse yet, you have the gall to call someone ELSE an idiot?

That’s why you Bama fans earn so much respect.

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I’d rather play in 10 straight SEC Championships with winner take all like this year than not…. I really don’t care where we ended up in the Bowls. Nothing else matters but the SEC and the NC.

Can we all move on, Puleeze……

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Football rules, I think you need a hug too. And a binky.

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@Flat

As someone who actually attended UGA, you are the type “fan only” I see in the stadium on Saturdays only wishing we could lose you as a part of our “punk a– fan” base. And, pick up your trash when you leave my campus…

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wooooo
December 12th, 2012
3:55 pm

When you get housed by 31 against SC and don’t even score until the last minute against their backups you kinda lose the argument that UGA is a top 3 team.
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From AP’s recap of the UGA-SC game: “Spurrier kept his defensive starters in, yet the Bulldogs drove 75 yards to score on Ken Malcome’s 3-yard TD run with 1:55 to go.”

So “wooooo” apparently is stooooopid. How else would he be able to make four errors in such a brief sentence:

It’s “hosed,” not “housed.” Dope.

It wasn’t 31; it was 28. Imbecile.

The SC defenders were starters, not backups. Dimwit.

UGA scored with 1:55 to go, not at “the last minute.” Mouth breather.

Go ahead and take shots at UGA if it makes you feel proud, but don’t compound the idiocy of your posts by filling them with lies.

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Beast from the East
December 12th, 2012
9:35 pm

Like the Semis?
Sorry, couldn’t help it.
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Now Beast, don’t act like Tampa Gator.

But hey, you earned it this year. That one in Tallahassee will sting for a long time.

And believe me, I absolutely HATE that we’re in the ACC.

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CornHuskerDude
December 12th, 2012
10:00 pm

Nebraska is gonna make y’all quit worrying about which bowl the Dawgs got invited to…….gonna make that loss to Boise State look like one of the better days in UGA football history…
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Whoa, a Husker’s in the house. Welcome aboard, Husker. You’re pretty brave showing up after that 5-loss Badger bunch dumped 70 on your guys.

But you’re right that the Dawgs will need to change their bowl stance of the past two years if they want to hump the Huskers. It’s the third straight year UGA will be entering the bowl as a heavy favorite. Gotta forget about that stuff and just get out there and crack heads.

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Florida sucks and will continue to do so in the future….their fans are the biggest puss’es in the SEC.Ever notice that its always someone elses fault when they lose? They cry about everything.. The Dawgs whipped your ass admit it….they whipped your ass. They forced you to turn the ball over six times…six…great teams don’t turn the ball over six times….let’s face it …the Dawgs aren’t scared of the gators anymore…get used to losing to Georgia every year….just like it used to be …..an annual butt kicking by Georgia in Jacksonville every year……everything is back to normal……I think I’ll go buy myself a new pair of Gator boots for Xmas!

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@ Techster:

Got your Bowl Game tickets for your 6-7 team???

First time ever to have to ask for a waiver from the NCAA to break the rules to back into a bowl game for which GT obviously DID NOT qualify!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When was the last time your Bunglebees won a bowl game??????? or beat UGA???????

Got to give you credit though coming on here and making noise after your trainwreck of a season!!!!!.

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Big D,
Get back to me after UF wins walking away next year. Your defense is lousy against quality offenses right now. Imagine how bad they will be next year with all those NFL prospects gone. No depth on the front 7…at all.
Yeah, things should be back to normal with UF slapping the Dawgs around and y’all hollering for Richt’s head on a platter.

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Dawgnole……

Still mad at me because my Gators bombarded your Noles this year. Better coaching….was obvious in that game……and playing in the SEC does prepare players for those type of games….and the Gators were a better prepared and a lot more physical team than your Noles.. Beating LSU is a little better than beating Clemson…..as Clemson will likely find out in the Chick FIl A Bowl.

But I would bet that the Noles will win their last game this year…..vs. the power program known as Northern Illinois…..I do believe that is the team they are playing…because I have never heard of them before…..but they are deserving of the ACC champ….because the Noles beat a powerhouse in that Ga. Tech team to get there. Congrats.

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To the idiot that said Ga was lucky to be in the Bama game and only was because of a blocked punt, well hell if the ref do not cheat Stanford ND would not be unbeaten, they with the right roll of the ball woulds have and should have lost, to Mich,, Pitt and BYU. They scored 38 points on Wake forest, heck Vandy hung 55. As forthe SEC chanpionship game, Alabama had the ball for 40 minutes and Ga had it for 20, Bobo called a bad game, Ga had chances to score at least 14 more points in the first half. Ga had 5 straight 3 and outs that equals BObo bad play calling

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To all you idiots on here arguing whether Ga should be here on there, got a news flash for you go to yahoo sports under NCAAFB look at the ND stories and read how they make fun of the SEC, how weak Fl, Ga and SC is along with the rest and the teams outside the conference that SEC teams schedule, and how ND will beat bama and it will not be close, and how ND defense would stop any offense in the SEC and their offense would score 30 points on any team in the SEC, It does not matter who is going where , you take care of your business and you go where you want to, If you do not take care of your business you go where they send you

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Alabama should have won by 17 to 21 points. That’s a fact.

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Hey Tampa gator your coach graduated from where?

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Braniac, you are a disgrace. Every post of yours is dumber than the one before.
You actually rooted for Florida? You make me sick and maybe you should change your name to Benedict Arnold. Have fun shopping for matching panties with Jane Fonda this weekend.

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@ Moit D:

I plainly stated why I pulled for Fla. It would hurt or strength of schedule if that middle school or Junior College or whatever beat the Gators. None of our patsies came within a gnat’s hair of beating us.

MEMO TO GATORS: It is okay to schedule patsies but DON’T let them beat you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@ Beast:

A patsy is a patsy whether they be 8-4, 12-0 or 0-12

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UGA got hosed.

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@Gordon…Florida played one less game, and they only won many games by a slight late comeback. UGA is a better team this year and should be ahead of Florida. I respect the SEC but hope both Florida and Alabama lose.

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It was not UGA’s schedule that hurt them. They played SC, UF and UA. It was the 2 losses over UF’s 1 loss and nothing else. Had UGA not played in the SECCG and UF had, then it would be reversed because no way UF comes close to Bama at the end of this season.

People talking about all the turnovers in the UGA/UF game as being why UF is better are homers for UF only. UGA’s defense caused just abotu every turnover especially the LAST deciding one. That is a defense PLAYING great not the other team GIVING them the game. it was TAKEN. Case closed. UF ALSO had turnovers that caused them to WIN games this year so if you want to somehow rationalize that UF is better than UGA for the turnovers only, then you must give UF a loss or 2 for turnovers they got during the season that caused them to win games they would have LOST. BTW they got SEVERAL FROM UGA in the game and they still lost….was it 4 UGA turnovers UF got? UF fans forget that part of the game….so dont talk about turnovers in the UGA/UF game. You dont have a case because the ball was TAKEN away by the UGA D and you received a boatload yourself…..and still lost.

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[...] Bradley: Georgia deserved better than Capital One Bowl [...]

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hey hey hey,welllllllll the way I see it….the bulldogs will always play a little league schedule and try and claim a big league trophy….never gonna happen

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Deserves aint got nothing to do with it. They got what the current system says they should have gotten. It’s quite simple really.

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georgia—easy schedule, blown out by south carolina–no bcs bowl–enough said.

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With murray coming back and the best running game in the SEC, the dogs will be loaded in 2013! Mark this down, the dogs win the SEC east easy again and this time will upset alabama for the SEC title!!! Dogs win SEC!!!

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Redfern on Capella V

December 13th, 2012
6:57 am

I sure hope you don’t bet money for a living.

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Is it too early for your first Ga. will be the best team in the world “next year” column? They should have won at least a dozen national titles according to this rag.

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But is Georgia good enough to put Oregon back on its schedule after UGA cancelled the upcoming series with the Ducks>

I’m sure Oregon would give UGA back the $250K the Dawgs paid to cancel the game.

Come on Bulldog Nation — demand better out of conference games. If Oregon is willing to play at Athens, why is UGA afraid to play in Eugene? Or don’t you want to play any games where you might lose?

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UGA is paying the price for completely arriving in Columba as a flat ball club. They got caught up in the electrified air of the SC stadium and were blown away. We were never in that game. That is the MARK of a coach Richt ball team. We were very immature in that game and it has COST US with the Cap One bowl, instead of another bowl game.

UGA man class of 71&73

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Tired of UGA fans, saying they have been robbed. Just WIN,fact, UGA has won the East the last two years and played for the SEC crown…..and lost, whether playing 1 half, or a tipped pass, 5 yards short, it’s two LOSSES. UGA had the perfect opportunity to win it themselves, and DID NOT. Really #3, #4, at the end of the day WE all remember the #1, the CHAMPIONS. Just worrying about WINNING, and take the speculation out. And don’t let an obviously overmatched Nebraska team beat you like Michigan State did last year. Shut up and JUST WIN……

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Steve … your are a dumb ass.

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“Isn’t UGA better than the Capital One Bowl?

Only in Mark Bradleys mind.

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“Tired of UGA fans, saying they have been robbed. ”

That’s all they know how to do. It’s not like they can win big games or anything.

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“But is Georgia good enough to put Oregon back on its schedule after UGA cancelled the upcoming series with the Ducks”

No, because the last time UGA went up against a good non-conference team they were embarrassed on national tv. It also didn’t help that they tried to play in Power Ranger costumes.

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“Bleeding heart liberal socialists like Barks Madly and the Bulldog Nation need to understand that when you LOSE a game you drop in the polls. ”

Nah, he wants other teams to pay their “fair share” and give the DWAGS a trophy. It just isn’t fair that other schools can win and UGA can not.

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I am not convinced that Bama is definately going to beat ND. Most folks are convinced it will happen except for the ND Players. This reminds me of the 2006 Championship Game when all of the “so called” experts said that Ohio State could not be beaten and they would throttle the Gators.
I was there, and the arrogant suckeye fans kept flaunting their arrogant yankee attitudes towards us Gators before the game. Half way throught the 4th quater they were all on their way to the airport to get back home. I sure hope the Tide does not fold because their fans seem as arrogant as were the OSU fans that year. Go SEC!

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UGA fans have a memory as short as their Johnson. Where were all you homers in 2007 when UGA got pounded by Tennessee in Knoxville, lost at home against Spurrier and then went to the Sugar Bowl instead of UT after they lost to LSU by a touchdown in the SECCG. See why no one outside of the state of Georgia has any respect for the Leghumpers?

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The problem of course is the limitiation of teams in big games based on conferences.

If you want matchups, you have to become a pro football fan.

College does not, and will almost never provide the matchups people really want to see at the end, because the system more resembles hungry hungry hippos, than a sporting contest.

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GET REAL…..THE DOGS HAD THE EASIEST SCHEDULED IN THE SEC EAST….DID NOT PLAY LSU…DID NOT PLAY A&M…..DID NOT PLAY BAMA (REGULAR SEASON)…..AND TO TOP THAT OFF GOT SPANKED BY USC….NO WAY THEY BEAT LSU, A&M…..ADD 2-3 MORE LOSSES ON THAT SCHEDULE….AND BE THANKFUL THEY ARE GOING TO A BOWL GAME…..BAMA RAN ALL OVER THEM….LIKE RUSH HOUR ON 400….AND THS SAME WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH LSU AND A&M…..I GUESS YOU FORGOT ABOUT LAST YEARS SEC BEAT DOWN BY LSU…..HOMER

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mike punk slive, Bama might have RUN all over UGA but the game came with in 5 yards of flipping and who knows what might have happened if the Georgia receiver had not caught the ball with 5 seconds left. Assuming you are a Bama Redneck, Bama had an easy schedule also, they did not play S. Carolina or Florida and the East was just as tough this year as the West so go back to your trailer and dream of NASCAR.

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If UGA wants nice things they should learn how to tackle.

They are where they deserve to be.

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Donald

December 13th, 2012
7:48 am

But is Georgia good enough to put Oregon back on its schedule after UGA cancelled the upcoming series with the Ducks>

I’m sure Oregon would give UGA back the $250K the Dawgs paid to cancel the game.
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Since both schools wanted out of the series, no buyout was involved, McGarity said.

“It had to be a win-win,” McGarity said. “I don’t feel comfortable at all about buying out contracts. . . . If [Mullens] had said, ‘We really need to play these games,’ then they would still be on the schedule. We would not [buy out contracts]; I don’t think that’s the right thing to do as an institution.”

From the AJC, Sept 27, 2010.

Try again

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No Georgia should not be in the Capital One Bowl. They should be in the Outback or Chickla bowl. South Carolina should be in the Capital One bowl because they blowed Georgial all the way back to Athens 35-7.

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Easy Easy Schedule and the third staight loss to South Carolina, which was an embarrassing blowout, should have put the dawgs in the chikin bowl against Climpson instead of LSU.

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The only whining on this blog is by all the Doggie hateing trolls. One thing I agree with is the Dawgs just need to beat Neb. and slam the door on a HUGE RECRUITING YEAR! 12-2 with a TOP 5 finnish in the final rankings will be just fine. The losers from Tech couldn’t even beat Middle Tn. St., but they want to savor our two losses to top tier teams, what a joke. Nerds are so jealous it’s really funny.
Dawg fans…enjoy your success and look forward to next year. You will only make the trolls happy if you givein to them and their ridiculous taunts. Even if we won the NC, they would diminish it somehow. Who cares what they think???

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Having a dwarf QB that gets passes deflected is why the dawgs are in the CRAPITAL one Bowl.

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Nerds, lol…pathetic crybabies whining about the team that owns them…

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Mark, do you have a trademark on use of the word “alas”?

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So any team not in the SEC is “clearly a lesser team”, whether they beat you or not, right?

You can’t argue with an SEC Kool-aid drinker. They win, they thump their chest. They lose, it’s because they had no motivation.
It’s as if the other team is merely a bunch of tackling dummies, and the outcome depends 100% on how the SEC team performs.

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Boy….more Dawg hype. Have you booked your hotel rooms to next years national championship game yet? Let’s cover the season before we answer. You played a weak schedule and saving Gator and Gamecocks the winning percentage of FBS schools the dawgs played was less than 40%, not exactly front page chatter. O.K. let’s turn to two key SEC East games. Gamecocks embarrassed the Dawgs on national television. Enough said, Dawgs didn’t even show up. Then Florida….Gators beat themselves but we won’t play the could’a, would’a, should’a card. Dawgs won so we’re at 1-1 in key SEC East games with Vols program in a state of disarray so no competition there. Florida takes care of a top ranked inter-state rival and Georgia takes care of unranked inter-state rival. Edge to Florida. Dawgs go to SEC Championship and plays #2 team in the nation in a hard fought and exciting game. There are no moral victories at this level and the Dawgs couldn’t get it done. So…..the answer is you’re lucky to be in the Capital Two bowl. Enjoy it and book the hotel room now for next years MNC game. Keep your confirmation number and remember the cancellation penalty is 24 hours prior to check-in.

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All of this is achient history. Games have all been played so move on. I was glad to see MCR out recruting the day after the SECC. No scores will change. Good luck to Bammer. Keep the NC in the SEC. The joke is the pairings in the Sugar and Orange Bowls. 14 & 15 pt spreads what a joke. A lot like when the Sugad Bowl took Hawai vs, UGA game was ___________. Fill in the blank I can’t think of a word to describe it.

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you people talking about our easy schedule, let me explain the reason we keep scheduling the likes of buffalo, ga southern etc. is becuase they are easy W’s and easy paydays and as long as you people are dumb enough to keep paying to see these games we’ll keep scheduling them, thanks greg mcgarity

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You sound like a bunch of whiny little girls.. “We lost by a small margin, which means we should be given a moral victory”. If you want to dance with the big boys on a big stage, you have to earn it on the field. That means not losing 2 games, regardless of when or to whom. You can’t seriously argue that Ga had more quality wins or fewer losses than UF. Doing so immediately discards any credibility. If the tables were reversed and UF won the reg season matchup and Bama beat UF- thus putting Ga in the BCS- you mutt fans would be calling UF fans whiny babies. Don’t be hypoctritical

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” Then you accept that Florida and Northern Illinois were better teams than UGA was?”

Don’t be silly GTBobby, of course they are not better. UGA is already proven to be better than FL. However, No IL and FL are more deserving of the bowls they are in because yes their record is better and they fit the established criteria. Wins and losses Bobby, wins and losses

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There is a reason the regular season games are played

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Don’t be silly GTBobby, of course they are not better. UGA is already proven to be better than FL.

You proved my point for me. A team having a good record does not really mean they are better than other teams that had worse records. Therefore this notion that UGA deserves greatness bestowed upon them when all they did was beat up on a bunch of really bad teams is a little silly. I also would question whether UGA is better than Florida. Sometimes the better team plays a bad game.

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Another cardboard-tasting, stir-the-pot-to-get-hits filler column. Nothing to see here, move along.

Bisher continues to roll over. And over.

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Mutts Lack Brains:

Make up your mind GENIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first most of us heard about “We didn’t lose to UGA by much” was after the Jacksonville Gator beatdown (A moral victory for the Gators I’m sure). It was only 17-9 but as you said “Itt doesn’t matter where or to whom”. I guess if UF had lost 2 games you, a complete, fullblown, batsh- – crazy Nincompoop would have said “If you lose More than 2 games”

Nother thang. If it doesn’t matter where or to whom why do you harp on who beat who and what was the strength of schedule??? Can you say HYPOCRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nother Thang, Jr: If CMR had not prayed to GOD for devine intervention and allowed UF to block a punt after they trailed We B Patsies Junior College for 99.44% of the game you couldn’t find a loudmouth Gator like you and your ilk on here. Y’all owe Richt BIGTIME!!!!!!!!!!!

It would have been worse than the BamaNation silence after their loss tp Texas A&M.!!!!!!!!!!

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@ GT Bob:

Using your logic the regular season records should be thrown out and EVERYBODY placed in a pot similar to the College Basketball Tournament. Sounds reasonable. Then we could have College Football 52 weeks of the year kinda like the NBA.!!!!!!!!!!

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Bradley
Your filters are crazy…

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Pick apart my statements any way you’d like. You forgot to address the Quality Wins vs Loss(es) part. How many quality wins did Ga have? Desperation and Underachieving are stinky colognes. New Orleans- here we come

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Buzz
I have no problems with us at Cap 1…
Does UNI deserve a BCS BOWL?
How about Louisville?
How about Tech even going to a bowl, lol…

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Brainiac(Dawg for life)(CMR fan for life)
December 12th, 2012
10:36 pm

@ Techster:

Got your Bowl Game tickets for your 6-7 team???
First time ever to have to ask for a waiver from the NCAA to break the rules to back into a bowl game for which GT obviously DID NOT qualify!
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NOT the first time, as I’ve told you before. UCLA set the precendent following the 2011 season.

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Mark bias Bradley failed to mention puppies lost by 28 to SC could have been 50, other then Florida who had the dogs played with over 6 victories?

Mark Bradley is one of the reason UGA has not won anything in 30 years, instead of questioning why Mark R. with all the talent in the last 15 years has not won anything, you blame the system, typical loser, bias, sportswriter, team, state.

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” If UGA would have lost to Kentucky which they came close to doing then would you have said Kentucky is a better team?”

You’re living in a world of “what if’s” Bob? That answer is yes. If Kentucky had beaten UGA, KY would be the better team. Proven on the field of play, the only place it counts Bobby. Wins and losses

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LSU, not Georgia, should have been sent to a better bowl game…played a tougher schedule (who doesn’t!) than Georgia…3-2 vs latest BCS top 25, while the dummydawgs were an impressive 1-2…both lost twice, LSU is better…

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Proven on the field of play, the only place it counts Bobby.

So in your opinion, at no point in the history of college football has the better team just played a bad game and lost?

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Who cares what bowl the Dawgs play in! Under the current system, only one game matters. All the rest are just exihibition games for the fanbases.

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Yes bob,
Everyone involved in rankings and polls thinks so. They have more pull than your little hurt feelings whiney self. Pollsters have had many weeks to change their minds, but they didn’t. Why is that, because they hate LSU, TA&M & SC??? LOL, try to get in line with everybody else bob…

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Tampa Gator
December 12th, 2012
10:47 pm

Dawgnole……
Still mad at me because my Gators bombarded your Noles this year.
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Not mad as much as disappointed that you came on here after UGA stuffed you and blamed it on bad calls. I had thought you were one of those rare gators with class–like Beast–but you showed your azz with that disgraceful whining. I should’ve known better.

And then you followed that up by coming on after beating the Noles and claiming that I’d “guaranteed” an FSU victory. That was a lie, and you know it.

You showed your true gator colors after those two games, tg, and it was shameful.

By the way, you’ve won one of your past three vs FSU now. Not sure there’s a whole lot there for you to brag about, but you just keep running that yapper.

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GTBobby

” So in your opinion, at no point in the history of college football has the better team just played a bad game and lost?”

C’mon Bob, are you really that dense? It doesn’t matter if a team just has an off day, just happens to play bad or well beyond their normal play. There is a reason they play the game rather than just sit around and talk about who is or should be the better team. Don’t you think?

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Actually, their bowl game is right on the mark if you ask me. They got to the SEC Championship by NOT having to play Bama, LSU or A&M during the regualr season. Johnny Football would have smashed them just like Spurrier Football smashes them every year. So Car is better. Florida probably is too – minus 6 turnovers. UGA was about the the 5th or 6th best team overall in the SEC. Why is this bowl not the proper place for them?

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Bradley was questioning wheather it was right for crappy teams to get automatic bids reguardless of rankings. Makes perfect sense to meand most others, but gives you “butthurt” losers another reason to cry like babies. Good job Mark, you hit one out of the park…

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Yes Fl did benefit from the S.C. turnovers! They had 21 points at the half, on a total of 29 yards total offense! Even thoug the score did not indicate it, S.C. totally dominated Florida! They also beat UGA like a wet paper bag, and, if Ace Sanders had not slipped late in the game allowing an interception by LSU, they would have beaten LSU at Baton Rouge! S.C. is and will be the “beast of the East” !!

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There is a reason they play the game rather than just sit around and talk about who is or should be the better team. Don’t you think?

Once again, answer this. When LSU beat Bama last year did that mean LSU was a better team than Bama was? I am surprised that anyone would argue that the better of two teams might not play well and end up losing. It seems like a pretty easy concept.

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GTBobby
LSU was the better team after the regular season game and were up until Bama beat them in the NC game. Why is that so difficult for you to comprehend?

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LSU was the better team after the regular season game and were up until Bama beat them in the NC game. Why is that so difficult for you to comprehend?

Ah, they were better until they weren’t better. That is some nice dancing. One of those two teams was better than the other. Who was it? If UGA loses to Nebraska by 1 point after turning the ball over 10 times and missing 5 field goals will you say that Nebraska is a superior football team?

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Coward
no wonder you’re so butthurt, everybody had LSU at #1 beginning of the year, what a joke. Who didn’t beat you this year? Guess you’re 3rd or 4th best in your own division,lol…you’re still a lying nerd, lswho my butt…

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South Carolina didn’t beat LSU…35-7 beeotch…

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Take exception to Bradley’s “at worst, Georgia is 3rd best team”. South Carolina was better on the field, had more wins against top 25 and was stuck with a schedule of playing Georgia, at LSU and at Fla in consecutive games. LSU was 2 -2 vs top 10 teams and also played Bama close. Texas A & M was 1 – 2 against top 10 teams and actually beat BAMA on the road.Oregon was # 3 in multiple polls and could argue they were better. Stanford had the one flaw of a loss to an unranked team, but the other loss was to #1 and they had 5 wins over top 25 teams vs. 1 for Georgia. There were 9 teams that had more wins against top 25 teams than Georgia. Granted they played well in the SEC championship game, but after playing only 3 games against quality opponents, they should have been healthy and well rested. Go better than 1-2 in real games and then talk about being the 3rd best team.

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…2weeks past, here we are again talking should’ve-could’ve we deserve better yeah right but we lost and its the mickey mouse bowl for what; the capital one visa card bowl instead of the BCS college football national championship bowl…… (((-…playmakers make plays in key moments its no 2nd guessing the it factor but in our case under pressure the word improvising…-think how you spell it- you watch the big games but the only real talk we have here for the season of the 2012 georgia football team & forever in bulldawg nation, IS WHY IN THE !@#$, we didnt spike the ball with 14 seconds inside the alabama ten yard line….-)))…..but hey i’ma cut on my tv & watch the georgia bulldawgs last game if god willing…-then watch alabama vs. norte dame for the chip, the championship-…..”since we believe in god & strong faith, then why risk a tip pass when you practice pump-fake, boom over the middle plays all year……” god would’ve- should’ve told me, this is our best scoring play & we have enuff time to try it

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…think how you spell it, the improvise plays get lost

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LSU was better until they weren’t better.

I am glad that you admitted that because it proves my original point. One team can be better than another for one day. It doesn’t mean anything about the teams in general or how they will do in the future.

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UGA can’t win the big one.

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Gordon, you can continue to make up whatever mythical criteria you want “elite 6, comparable resources 5″. whatever… Bottom line is head to head, UGA has stopped the Gator streak and started their own. You have a Dawg running your program. Expect more of the same…

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Georgia lost because they have no run defense. Mark, to argue that a two-loss team deserves to be ranked third in the country is laughable. Between ND and Alabama, Alabama is the team that needs to be worried about whether it can effectively run the ball. With Alabama’s defense giving up 29 to A&M and 28 to UGA (ND only given up more than 17 pts in a single game), they will be lucky to outscore the Irish. Take off your crimson sunglasses and look at the facts.

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I haven’t read all of the comments, but it’s probably clear that the conference championship game should not count as a loss when considering bowl games. Without this game UGA is in a BCS bowl. The logic behind the present system is stupid.

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Coward
you speaking for UF now, lol. Are all your games rivalry games, lmaoff. You are an idiot moron and a dum-bass. I’m sure the Gators don’t mind losing to us genius…

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“Coward of Bulldawg County

December 13th, 2012
12:19 pm
LSU, not Georgia, should have been sent to a better bowl game…played a tougher schedule (who doesn’t!) than Georgia…3-2 vs latest BCS top 25, while the dummydawgs were an impressive 1-2…both lost twice, LSU is better…”

The SEC determines 8 of the yearly games. We’ll always play GT (#9). Therefore, the Dawgs ONLY have 3 teams that they can control who their opponent is & 1 of them was an FCS school (GSU).
Florida has the same schedule setup, played an FCS school this year (BTW, plays GSU next year).

These schedules were set up years in the past, so nobody knows who will be hot any given year. FWIW, Arkansas was #10 preseason.

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Im sure the chinese have already shipped the we were short by 4 yrds T-shirts

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good one flat…

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So Georgia beat Florida, and that makes them the third best team in the country? We’re # 7, and South Carolina is # 10. This is just a case of the most FLAWED SYSTEM ever! It’s simple, no team in the TOP 10 should be left outta a Bowl BCS BOWL GAME period. I know N. Illinois is decent, but who on this blog would take them against UGA, LSU, FLA, SC, OR TEX A&M ? Most will complain about the SEC having to many good teams to compete against, to them, I say, Come OSU, PENN STATE, WISCONSIN, ALL THE ACC, BIG EAST, PAC TEN, BIG TWELVE, AND WAC. It’s simple, to be the best, you have to be the best.Six time National Champions, and here the SEC IS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

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3 of the 4 BCS match ups are a joke….only K ST and Oregon are deserving matchups.

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@Coward…you’re on a roll today! You’re lucky DawginLex,Flo-ri-dah,and Lakedawg are out playing golf.

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Willie, don’t forget the worlds smartest man, AltamahaDawg…

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DawginLex Flo-ridum and the other kool-aid crowd are busy dusting off their photo’s of Richt and bobo in their homes

They are way too busy to ever play golf; they are either dusting off their photos or busy hanging a new one

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Coward…out…

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“The Facts Only……

December 13th, 2012
2:43 pm
So Georgia beat Florida, and that makes them the third best team in the country? We’re # 7, and South Carolina is # 10. This is just a case of the most FLAWED SYSTEM ever! It’s simple, no team in the TOP 10 should be left outta a Bowl BCS BOWL GAME period. I know N. Illinois is decent, but who on this blog would take them against UGA, LSU, FLA, SC, OR TEX A&M ? Most will complain about the SEC having to many good teams to compete against, to them, I say, Come OSU, PENN STATE, WISCONSIN, ALL THE ACC, BIG EAST, PAC TEN, BIG TWELVE, AND WAC. It’s simple, to be the best, you have to be the best.Six time National Champions, and here the SEC IS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!”

I partially agree with you on that. HOWEVER, I also feel that if you win your conference’s championship game, you should be rewarded somehow.

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UGA,USCe,UF,LSU,A&M,and Bama are all good teams and very close to being about he same. Coaching gets you over the hump sometime and then again a great talent (Johnny Football) can make a average coach appear great. The Old Ball Coach and his team need to be the shat out of the AD for the way their schedule is setup because having to play UGA,UF,LSU all within such short period will get you into the BlueBonnet Bowl instead of the Sugar Bowl. Steve has beat the crap out of Bama many times and we got him just a few but I like the guy. The SEC is just damn tuff at this time and will only get worse. You will never have an unbeaten SEC Champ again. Roll Tide I remember the good old weedwacker bowl days with Joe Kines telling us all “We got to stop that inside trap”. It’s good to recall the tuff years for that makes the great years what they should be.

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@GT Bobby…Do you see that admin looking to hire another coach after the 2013 season or will the buyout be too large.

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kingdaddy

Im trashing the delusional fanbase; so get used to it

You want to talk about whinning fans its fans that come on here and blame the refs or bama was lucky or we were 4 yds short

Im tired of the delusional next year talk; the we have everyone coming back on offense garbage

Give me a break

no Im a dawg fan and will always be one but I refuse to embarrass myself by coming on this blog spouting delusional garbage that isnt going to happen

keep living the dream and wear your Knocking on The Door To Greatness T-shirt with pride this coming year

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GTBob

” UGA will always be the better team when they play GT. Whether they win or lose.”

No Bobby, now if I let you end it with that, that would mean our entire discourse today would have been for naught. When, that’s “when” GT beats UGA that is a clear indicator that GT is the better team. Unfortunately for you Bob, that’s just once every 13 years or so

It’s proven on the field of play Bobby. Wins and losses on the field of play. The fantasies in the minds of the balding, aging overweight fans and their opinions mean nothing. It’s determined on the field. Wins and losses Bob. If that is the point you were trying to make with the “such and such plays a soft schedule and lost to such or such so that means all of the teams they beat, are better than them. Do you see just how silly you look Bob?

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@GT Bobby…Do you see that admin looking to hire another coach after the 2013 season or will the buyout be too large.

It depends on our record next year.
6-6 or worse: Hes probably gone
7-5: He is in trouble
8-4 or better: He is probably safe

Beating UGA or winning the ACC would keep him around also, regardless of the record.

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If Georgia had the one time out back that was used at a bad time, on defense, they would and should be playing for the national championship.

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Sometimes such as the recent Georgia/Bama game we would like to believe we’re better than Bama but, we’re not. This time
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how about not anytime soon…

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They dont even deserve that bowl. The only people that think they are are Ga. fans. Everyone is not as hung up on them as the Atlanta Constapation Urinal is!!! Go Bama!!! Go Clemson!!! Go Gators!!! Go anyone except Ga!!!!

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“Wait until next year”, the Georgia Mantra for 30 plus years….

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Let’s review:

Before the BCS:
Rose Bowl was PAC 10 (now PAC 12) champion vs. Big 10 (now B1G) champion
Sugar Bowl was the SEC champion vs. best they could get
Orange Bowl was the ACC champion vs. best they could get
Fiesta Bowl was Big 12 champion vs. best they could get.
National Champs: whomever the polls said after the bowl games were played

With the BCS, the arrangements are the same, but with some additions:
The same basic tie-ins to conference champions exist, unless a conference champion is number 1 or number 2 in the BCS standings, in which case they go to the BCS Championship game. When that happens the BCS bowls that lose the conference champion to the national championship game get to pick who replaces the conference champ in their bowl game. In addition to the champions of the five conference mentioned in the pre-BCS section, the conference champion from the Big East is automatically in (which explains why Louisville and FSU are in a BCS game), as is Notre Dame, if they are ranked high enough. The BCS bowls will generally try to honor the pre-BCS tie-ins they have with conferences. but they cannot take more than two from any one conference. Champions of non-qualifying conferences can be picked for the national championship game, if ranked 1 or 2 in the final BCS poll, or if they finish in the top 16 and above at least one chamion form an AQ conference (NIU did exactly that).

It isn’t a perfect system, and it won’t be even when it goes to the four-team, and 1 system, as there will almost always be somebody who can make a strong case they got left out. The one improvement over the prior system is that you always get 1 vs.2 on the field in the national championship game, whereas that didn’t always happen under the old system. In that system, if #1 squeaked by #20 in the Rose Bowl (where they were playing because that’s where their conference champ had to play), while #2 slaughtered # 5 in the Cotton Bowl, who’s the national champ?

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the two per conference rule allows a team such as Florida to move ahead of a team that edged them out to play in the conference championship game by virtue of having the same record and the tiebreaker. It not only got Florida into the Sugar Bowl this year (and if you’re really honest with yourself, Florida did play a tougher schedule than UGA this year) , it got Alabama into the national championship game last year. The fact that Alabama won convincingly last year is probably indiciative that they belonged there. If Florida wins the Sugar Bowl convincingly (and I suspect they will), then the same logic applies. This would be especially true if Georgia struggles with or loses to Nebraska. If, on the other hand, Georgia soundly thumps Nebraska and Florida falls to Louisville, then Bulldog fans have a legitamate gripe about being passed over by the Sugar Bowl.

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Nothing whines like a bulldog! We are so good, we could beat most NFL teams, who cares that we are 1-11 against ranked teams, we just ran out of time, were 5 yards short, or they cheated. Grow up! Quit whining, strutting or bobble-heading when you actually do something and act like men. Georgia fans are the biggest crybabies I have ever seen.

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Oh yeah, I almost forgot another classic bulldog whine: “The refs hate us and have cheated us in all those loses against ranked teams.”

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Tech steer, that will be great. I hope it happens. Pups will be whimpering then!

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What’s up Nerdsters?
We can’t wait to hear the Tech fans (both of you) after USC destroys the bugs. I can hear it now,”well they beat us by 40 points, but we had 500 yards rushing, lol, we showed them…”

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I love that Gordon guy and Gt boob. They both have good arguments don’t they? But one smal little bitty fact: their teams got BEAT, BEAT, BEAT by GEORGIA! Cry over this and that but your teams were suckers. We are yo daddy! Shut up and go to your own blog! BEAT BY GEORGIA!

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If a meteor had struck Eddie Lacy and AJ McCarron and Nick Saban simultaneously just prior to the game, Georgia would be in the championship game.

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@GT Bob…at the end of 2013 Tech money folks need to send Paul packing and hire Mike Leach. You can’t allow the program to fall much lower. With as many good HS players in the state GT should be able to get off the mat and back into the game. If Mike can attrack enough talent to TT then he should be able to do well in the state of Georgia. Get rid of the russel southern uniform BS. I am sure Paul is a good person but these HS kids don’t want any part of the Bone anymore so give them the spread and get back into the race. Bama just finished paying off Mike Shula in 2012 for his 3 million we owed him so it can be done.

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Mark Bradley:

You know what’s funny? Georgia revisionist history. You bitch and moan about UF, but totally ignore LSU.

I won’t: Both UGA and LSU have 2 losses. Both lost to Bama. LSU beats USC, GA gets humiliated by USC. Squashed. GA was losing by 35 points with 2 minutes left in the game.

GA QB threw for 109 yards in the loss.

Better than UF? hell georgia isn’t better than LSU OR SC

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kingdaddy

and as for nebraska if we lose to them that will be almost as bad as the UCF loss Nebraska is terrible;

and as for the recruiting bandwaggon;

UGA has brought in more top 10 recruiting class than any school in the FBS since 1998 and guess what we still lose 2 or more ballgames every season

keep dreaming troll and wear that Knocking on The Door To Greatness t-shirt with pride

and again seek help for that last comment what a sick individual you are

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