College Football News ranks Dogs No. 3 — in nation
Georgia’s football team holds its first scrimmage of preseason camp this afternoon in Sanford Stadium. More on that later today. Meanwhile, here’s a quick and surprising note:
College Football News is out today with its preseason national “Top Five” rankings. No surprise who’s Nos. 1 and 2, Alabama and Ohio State, same as in the coaches’ poll last week. But look who’s No. 3:
Georgia.
The same Georgia that is No. 21 in the coaches’ poll.
The same Georgia that won’t be ranked in the Top 25 of Sports Illustrated’s College Football preview issue that hits newsstands tomorrow.
So why such a lofty and consensus-defying opinion of the Dogs from College Football News?
You can click here for the full report, but here’s part of what CFN says about the Bulldogs:
This year’s team should be back to form thanks to a deep offensive line that will be among the best in the country (if everyone stays healthy), a phenomenal linebacking corps, a strong backfield, and a future NFL star in WR A.J. Green. Throw in the best kicking game in college football, and shhhhhh … here’s your sleeper for the national title.
One spot behind Georgia in CFN’s Top 5 is . . . No. 4 Florida.
Oklahoma is No. 5.
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bitter
August 10th, 2010
5:07 pm
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bitter
August 10th, 2010
5:08 pm
WDE: 4 in a row (cough)Ya shouldnt talk sh!t if you cant even beat the team your trying to downgrade.
WDE
August 10th, 2010
5:10 pm
Last I checked we lead the series… trust me, you’re overdue. Auburn’s on the rise while UGA is wondering if it wants more than one QB.
bitter
August 10th, 2010
5:18 pm
yeah, id fall back on the series record to if i havent beaten a team in almost half a decade. kinda like you hear some of the immature dawg fans bring up the overall series with UF. its irrelevant. till AU actually does something, id keep my mouth shut. just like i dont talk trash to any gator fans. you sound no better than these delusional tech fans and thats not a category you want to be in!
Billy
August 10th, 2010
5:27 pm
Frankly, I’m surprised Georgia’s not ranked #1.
Gratefuldawghead
August 10th, 2010
5:30 pm
How Bout Them DAWGS!
chazzo
August 10th, 2010
5:31 pm
If someone has mentioned this I apologize. Polls, particularly preseason polls are generated by and for gambling and not much else. I suspect someone at the College football News wanted to create a long shot bet or upset the odds (perhaps stimulating the market for the slightly predictable outcome in Jax). Could be way off base… it’s just a thought.
dawgcrzy
August 10th, 2010
5:57 pm
jmo is dumb as a box of hammers….and a damn liar on top of that. played football under Chan for four years my ass. Your to stupid son.
WDE
August 10th, 2010
6:04 pm
Well thinks for connecting the dots for me, bitter. The whole point of bringing up the series record is to go ahead and get you to throw out the past. The difference between AU-UGA and UGA-UF is that UF has had your number for 20 years. 2006 and 2007, yes, were especially painful losses to the dogs but even in our two recent mediocre years we have played you closely. Meanwhile, UF has beaten you like their red-headed stepchild (Joe Cox?). Funny, because Auburn didn’t have too much trouble against UF the last time they were on the schedule…
Gratefuldawghead
August 10th, 2010
6:12 pm
DAWGS 46 wins UF 39
Auburn…Fear the Thumb!
bugsquacher
August 10th, 2010
6:24 pm
WOOF WOOF WOOF……… HOW BOUT THESE DAWGS!!!!!!
JELLO JOCKITCH
August 10th, 2010
6:24 pm
To be an OPTIMIST means there will always be next year. To be a PESSIMIST or a REALIST means you are forever will be depressed. CFN is an OPTIMIST, always when it comes to GEORGIA and SEC.
AltamahaDawg
August 10th, 2010
6:33 pm
WDE, if you have seen actual informed UGA fans saying that we are the sleeper for the NC, I would challenge you to post any legit copies of those. Didn’t happen would be my guess.
If you have seen sports publication saying that more than once, then Uh well, we don’t really control that, so why the lecture.
In either case, my guess is that you are just making it up.
join the tech fans, they have perfected the straw man.
Tdawg
August 10th, 2010
6:36 pm
WDE don’t worry we’ll even up that record this year.
Billy I quite agree. Number 1 sounds about right to me. Only a loser enters the season thinking they’ll end up number 3. Georgia is better than last year. Flordia and Alabama will not be I don’t care what their fans say. Oh I forgot, Ga. Tech won’t be as good as last year either. No passing game what-so-ever. The only legit reciever they had left town. That and the fact their QB couldn’t hit a wide open elephant will make it much easier to fixiate on the Tech running game. Don’t get me wrong I will most assuredly be rooting for Tech on all but one weekend. After all I am from Georgia and I root for all Georgia teams. Yea Georgia won’t be no. 3, they’ll be no. 1.
Coastal Dog
August 10th, 2010
6:52 pm
Doesn’t mean anything — except maybe UGA can be as good or as bad as we choose to be. Earn it on the field.
Delbert D.
August 10th, 2010
7:06 pm
Coastal Dog – Good point. The fans are bystanders in this. It’s all a fantasy. The time when anything counts is when those guys line up across from the other team and are determined that they are going to do their jobs to the utmost of their abilities. They have to do it for every play in every game, regardless of how the last game turned out. The coaches have to inspire and demand of them to do it again and again.
What??
August 10th, 2010
7:07 pm
It is what it is, speculation.
I believe that the Dawgs have some young players in “key” positions. Depending on how well the rest of the team covers their weaknesses, and how quickly these young players develope, the Dawgs have an opportunity to catch many teams off guard.
These folks at CFN may very well be “spot on”!
bigcalidawg
August 10th, 2010
7:11 pm
I keep reading that “every year DAWG fans think that this is the year we will win it all.”
Don’t y’all realize that the only reason you are saying this is because you are here. This is our board. Of course we are going to say this every year. We love our team and are extremely proud to be DAWGS.
I truly believe that if you cared for your teams as much as we did, y’all would be spending time on your own boards.
Quit huggin our nutzs and go home…..
Really Rival Fans?
August 10th, 2010
7:20 pm
The more you post, the better we look!! GO DAWGS!!!
What??
August 10th, 2010
7:46 pm
bigcalidawg
Don’t pay any attention to the BS. For whatever reason the GT, UF, SC, Alabam, etc. fans find it necessary to hate on the Dawgs here.
When I visit their web pages you see very little activity, meaning they have very little support.
Fans that are DAWG fans are always excited about the season and enjoy discussing the upcoming events.
It is all other teams nature to hate what response and discussions we have here on the Dawg articles.
To he_ _ with them all!!
GO DAWGS!! SICKEM!! WOOF WOOF WOOF!!
AltamahaDawg
August 10th, 2010
7:51 pm
But I dig the logic that team A beating team B is not as important as team B beating team C that beat team A.
Actually that just makes it worse for team B, doesn’t it?
What??
August 10th, 2010
7:57 pm
AltamahaDawg
I agree to a certain point.
Then they just get to be a pain in the buttocks!!
Dopey
August 10th, 2010
8:04 pm
I diggin the logic of z beating x beating y, so y beat x beat z.
Gibb
August 10th, 2010
8:08 pm
Poor ole Gator fans. Did same thing back in 79′, when people started talking up Ga, Fla fans talked em’ down. Dogs went 12-0 in 80.
Happened again in 2001. Dogs went 13-1 in 2002.
Happened again in 2006. Dogs went 11-2 finished #2 in country.
As much as Fla fans wish Georgia struggles 2 years in a row under Richt, Richt’s never had 2 bad season in a row SINCE 1986.
Dawg Stephen
August 10th, 2010
8:17 pm
If Georgia dont deserve a #3, neither does Florida.
BOTH have new D-Coor
BOTH have new QB
BOTH lost best LB, and 5 starters to NFL
BOTH have highly recruited and touted QB’s
One problem, the media loves Florida so therefore they must be better right?
http://dawgstephen.blogspot.com/2010/08/matter-of-opinionhow-good-is-georgia.html
Mobile Dawg
August 10th, 2010
8:42 pm
Dawg Stephen, the perception is that they have a better coach, x’s and o’s wise. Also the records would indicate that. A couple of years ago I stated CMR was a work in progress, well he’s regressed since then with some of the best talent in the country. He hasn’t learned to coach a team to it’s strengths IMO. That’s why the media loves the Gators over the Dawgs.
If CMR coaches this team and game plans to it’s strengths, and further sticks with the game plan, we could have a good, possibly great year. I will reserve and withhold comments about what I fear will happen offensively until it does. The success of this season rest squarely on CMR’s shoulders and how he chooses to coach this team.
Blowing Smoke up my rear end
August 10th, 2010
9:06 pm
Comical…… # 3… yeah right. The offense ranked almost last all SEC categories last year. Boo Boo is a Bozo. Dawgs have to prove they deserve the #21 ranking first. Looks like the Run D is gonna have some problems this year as well.
guy
August 10th, 2010
9:06 pm
8-4. I hope!
how2fish
August 10th, 2010
9:07 pm
We play the games to prove who is what…polls sux almost as much as Bugs!
bigcalidawg
August 10th, 2010
9:39 pm
Thanks What? Preeciate it.
My wife is not from GA, but Hawaii and thinks I’m a nut for followin’ my teams year round. When I was a liitle boy in Columbus, it took my hours to get to my best friends house and he only lived about a 20 minute walk away.
On the way, I’d sit on about 3 front porch swings, drink a good 4-5 sweet teas (I liked sun tea best) and talk to old folks about how them DAWGS were gonna do this year. Couple of those geezers were actually Auburn fans, but there was always a mutual respect and more of a partnership feel than a rivalry. Maybe cuz Aub is so close to columbus, I don’t know.
At any rate, the stuff I see here from Tech, Fla, and Ala fans is abhorrent. This is an amazing game that gives opportunities to kids who might never make it away from Grandma’s house, without football.
I will always have tremendous respect for Auburn University and the way they treated me when I used to watch games there as a kid. (Good buddy’s dad used to play there, so I watched a lot of that old wishbone during the Dye era.)
Too bad I didn’t have a friend from UGA at that time.
We should be gentlemen and behave in a well-mannered fashion. Regardless of who we root for, we are all in, or from the south, and we have an obligation to display our home trainin’ and behave in a more civil manner.
GT, Tenn, Ala, or Fla, will have respect reciprocated…………..
Football in the south is worth making changes for………
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August 10th, 2010
9:43 pm
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Nub
August 10th, 2010
10:05 pm
Beat the belly sliders and we are one win away from playing for it all…. WooF!
how2fish
August 10th, 2010
10:16 pm
bigcalidawg great post ! Your spot on ! I grew up in the ATL and 2 of my buddies dads were Tech men I went to a lot of Tech games with them and they were as we should all be models of what a “Southern gentleman or women” should be models for our children and at least make a effort to be the men and women our parents wanted us to be! Dawgs/Gators/Vols we are all members of the college football fan base and we should try and elevate ourselves to honorably represent ourselves our schools and those that have gone before us.
Bliss
August 10th, 2010
10:23 pm
We’ll save this one and serve it up to Dawg fans at the end of the season, just before we send them off to Shreveport!
Dawg $$$
August 10th, 2010
11:30 pm
Dawgs win 10, upset floida, win the SEC east—book it!
L.A. BULLDAWG
August 11th, 2010
1:04 am
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! WITH A SEASONED OL AND 2 GOOD RBS, AJ GREEN SHOULD HAVE A GREAT YEAR! WHICH ALSO MEANS AARON MURRAY WONT HAVE MUCH PRESSURE ON HIM. JUST GET THE BALL TO YOUR PLAYMAKERS. THE OFFENSIVE LINE IS THE KEY. WITH EVERYONE BACK AND HEALTHY, ITS THE BEST IN THE NATION, WHY NOT US?
seriously
August 11th, 2010
1:19 am
Brandon Smith is gonna get 5 chances to take that test and get the high enough score,,,,,, pffffff wheres jan kemp when you need her??????
seriously
August 11th, 2010
1:24 am
DAWG STEPHENS ummm the answer is NO… FLA has just kicked your ass on the field for the past 20 yrs… recruited obvs better players that take direction and BETTER COACHES that give direction…
seriously wake up… COACHING… they HAve 2 chip in the past 5 yrs and own you… and you should be ranked three and them not….. Lay of the DMT kid
12-2
August 11th, 2010
2:24 am
College Football News is Jamie Newberg Scout.com
Last year, they ranked
2009 CFN Preseason :
# 3 Southern California who ended up Final AP Poll # 22
# 4 Oklahoma who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
# 5 LSU who ended up Final AP Poll # 17 beat no ranked team
#10 Okie State who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#12 California who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#16 FSU who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#18 UGA who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#19 Kansas who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#23 Notre Dame who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#24 South Florida who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
#25 Oregon State who ended up Final AP Poll NOT RANKED
Half of CFN preseason Top 25 ended NOT RANKED at all
College Football News Jamie Newberg Scout.com is the LEAST ACCURATE of ALL PRESEASON POLLS forever.
Phil Steele is the MOST ACCURATE and he has us at # 19
# 19 is where we have been over the last 4 years won/loss at 38-14.
How do I feel about it # 3 ?
DISNEYdawgs.com
12-2
August 11th, 2010
3:05 am
bigcalidawg
August 10th, 2010 7:11 pm
“I keep reading that ‘every year DAWG fans think that this is the year we will win it all.’ ”
“Don’t y’all realize that the only reason you are saying this is because you are here. This is our board. Of course we are going to say this every year. We love our team and are extremely proud to be DAWGS.”
DISNEYdawgs.com bigcalidawg
No sir, that is a TOTAL LIE.
I do NOT think that we will WIN IT ALL.
In fact, there are ONLY JUST A HANDFUL of DISNEYdawgs.com fans who SAY THAT EVERY YEAR on here, and it has JUST GOTTEN TOO MUCH TO TAKE ANY MORE by EVERYONE, me included now too.
I am FED UP WITH IT.
Coach Richt is GREAT with 18 teams the last 4 years whom Coach Richt does NOT have more wins than at 38-14.
B.S.
12-2
August 11th, 2010
3:15 am
Total unadulterated B.S.
Best run in Georgia Bulldogs’ history at 27 LOSSES this 9-Year Coach Richt Era of nincompoops on his coaching staff compared to only 21 Losses by Wally Butts 40-48 and only 21 Losses by Vince Dooley 80-88 BOTH with Consensus National Championships.
Aaron Murray for Heisman
August 11th, 2010
4:53 am
Hell, let’s just be honest about it. Why sip it when we can chug it:
MURRAY FOR THE HEISMAN!
two guns
August 11th, 2010
6:01 am
I now officially go to CFN for my college football insight.
ESPN is full of nothing but overpaid groupies anyway. GO DAWGS!
12-2
August 11th, 2010
6:55 am
Branden Smith has to pass an entrance exam, a year after admitted ?
Huh ?
WDE
August 11th, 2010
7:51 am
AltamahaDawg-
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2010/08/10/college-football-news-ranks-georgia-no-3-in-nation/comment-page-2/#comment-70638
You asked for an example…. you clearly didn’t check right under your nose.
UGAfan18
August 11th, 2010
9:11 am
Finally somebody got it right!!
UGADAWG30
August 11th, 2010
9:59 am
JMO is irrelevant….
Go back to playing your Dungeons and Dragons Techie… Or maybe just continue practicing kissing a girl with your gay roommate at the dorm….When your ACC championship Tech team cannot even beat a middle of the pack SEC team in Georgia last year…well…I guess that makes your Tech team irrelevant as well….
So why don’t you and your Frodo looking roommate go on down to Swinging Richards and enjoy what you like best…..
or better yet why don’t you do what Paul Johnson said to do….”Punch them in the mouth”……Oh…yeah right…you only do things like that when you are playing video games…cause in real life a DAWG would put your ass in the hospital really quick…
30 -24…..suck on it JMO
coach smith
August 11th, 2010
10:09 am
I said this before
Why should the Dawgs NOT be ranked #3 when the Gators are consistantly ranked too high based on nothing
The Gators have to replace:
Tim Tebow
Carlos Dunlap
Aaron Hernandez
Major Wright
Joe Hayden
Brandon Spikes
Markice Pauncy
Jermaine Cunnigham
Riley Cooper
Dustin Doe
Brandon James
David Nelson
Ryan Stamper
and 2 other offensive lineman
while Georgia returns 7 thats right 7 guys who’ve started on the O-line and therefore 13 offensive starters (since Ealey and King play equal) and upgrade at QB even though he is a RS freshman AND they have upgraded defensive coaching and scheme and have plenty of returning talent on the defensive side
If one were objective and not giving UNPROVEN guys at Florida a free pass to the national championship because they play for the Gators, then based on the FACTS and proven experienced personnel, you would HAVE TO rank UGA higher!!!!
Ray Barone
August 11th, 2010
10:15 am
I told my wife Debra the Georgia Dawgs were for real this year. She, like so many “Alligator” fans lost in self importance, thinks UF is close to heaven, of course dissagrees with me.
Gary
August 11th, 2010
10:54 am
You forgot to mention the best part, the rate Tech #40! I hope both predictions come true. Let’s play football! Go Dawgs!