Might UGA, Boise State meet in the Georgia Dome?
ATHENS – Might Georgia play Boise State in a season-opening football game next year in Atlanta?
As rumors swirled Thursday about such a possibility in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity and coach Mark Richt were mum on the matter.
“I just can’t comment on it at this time,” McGarity said Thursday night.
Asked how he would feel about playing Boise State in the Georgia Dome, Richt replied with a smile: “Hypothetically? Hypothetically, no comment.”
Richt said he was told not to comment on the matter, but he did offer a hint of a possible timetable for a decision when he was asked if playing in the Chick-fil-A Game would be important because of the recruiting benefit it has provided other SEC teams.
“I’ll tell you Monday,” he said.
Gary Stokan, who runs the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, has said often in the past that he would like to have Georgia in the game whenever it works for the school. Although he has two Kickoff games lined up for 2012, Stokan has been seeking a 2011 matchup for at least a couple of years. He could not be reached Thursday.
Stokan has noted in the past that matchups are extremely difficult to arrange, particularly for games as close at hand as 2011, because of all the variables involved. He has compared the process to a Rubik’s cube. For example, Georgia and Boise State likely would have to get out of existing contracts with Louisville and Ole Miss, respectively, in order to meet next season.
Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone posted on Twitter early Thursday: “Will have a big football schedule announcement today.” Later, he posted: “Sorry about the delay announcing football’s future schedule. A lot of moving parts and ESPN has a few loose ends.”
Georgia currently has seven home games scheduled for next season, including the Louisville game.
Boise State is undefeated this season (9-0) and ranked No. 3 in this week’s AP poll.
By the way, Chick-fil-A this month opened its first restaurant in Idaho — on the Boise State campus.
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FsuNoleinDC
November 19th, 2010
9:43 am
question for Dawg fans….
seriously, are you happy with your $750,000 DC? you could have had mark stoops for much cheaper with better results….
Dogs Smell
November 19th, 2010
9:43 am
My point was to the blogger who says FSU has done nothing without Richt. Where is FSU without him today and where is uga with him? uga , wont play Boise State because that is not a win in the bag. uga doesnt play OOC games unless it is at home or a cake walk. After this season its back to the Homers telling us how they are going to win the SEC and go on from there all while having less of a team than this year.We all know UT, UF will be better. We do know as well uga will NOT be.
DuckFan
November 19th, 2010
9:43 am
HAHAHA, this match up will just show some of the teams in the SEC are over rated.
DawginLex
November 19th, 2010
9:44 am
Jeffrey bowden is the latest in along line of excuses.
Richt left and took the program with him.
You can deny it all day long.
You need to let it go.
Your program is 7-3 in the ACC which is equivalent to 3-7 in the SEC.
Enjoy
SimpleDawg
November 19th, 2010
9:45 am
In ‘04 Boise State was 11-0, but lost to Louisville 44-40 in the Liberty Bowl. ‘05 they came to Athens and were beaten 48-13, but UGA could’ve hung 60 points on them that day…Richt called off the Dawgs in the 3rd qtr. BSU lost3 games that year, and their home bowl game to finish 9-4. ‘06 is when they beat Oklahoma in their bowl game. They were undefeated that year.
If they play in the Dome to begin next year, I’ll put my money on the Dawgs. Bring ‘em on.
MS. Bully
November 19th, 2010
9:47 am
Get rid of the ugly blue field where someone could actually see Boise State on TV and an SEC team would come kick your tails!!
oklahomadawg
November 19th, 2010
9:48 am
Boise St loses most of their top players this year……UGA will role over the Bronco’s( again )
WALLACE BUTZ
November 19th, 2010
9:48 am
Not a good idea for the Dawgs. Remember we ALWAYS have several players
out for the first game due to having so many thugs on the team.
Better stick to our usual patsy unless we want this to backfire.
Don't touch my Junk!
November 19th, 2010
9:48 am
Where the he!! do you get ..”The Mighty”.?.. Dawgs. Whats so mighty about the also run dawgs. They are a joke, 5-6. hahaha
VoyeurDawg
November 19th, 2010
9:50 am
Yeah…wonder why UGA won’t go play Boise St out west? Might it have something to do with playing on blue turf, in a 1,200-seat stadium, in a town about the size of Statesboro? Maybe if Dawgs did real good in that one, they could also travel to New Mexico to play Lower Southeastern Monastary…Remember a few years ago when it was widely believed that we couldn’t slow down Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl? Gimme a break. Bring Boise back to the SE so we can bring’em back down to earth again…
SeminoleD
November 19th, 2010
9:50 am
DawgLex,
We’ll see won’t we?
FSU will beat UF and show you how it is done.
GT won’t win, Nesbitt is out.
Clemson will beat USCe in Clemson. They have a great defense.
Didn’t Clemson play Auburn in their house to the wire and would have won not for a missed field goal? You know, the team that destroyed you guys by 18 points or something like that?
In honor of Boss Hog, please pick up your garbage at your tailgating spot next weekend. I am sure the UGA AD is tired of the 3 feet of trash being left.
I love Mark Richt, i hope he stays at UGA a long time, he deserves it, he might not win the MNC but he makes men out of boys.
Dogs Smell
November 19th, 2010
9:51 am
role or roll ? oklahoma dog?
DawginLex
November 19th, 2010
9:51 am
I gotta go back to work.
The fries are burning.
Richt needs this game to happen and he needs to win it.
My hope is that the focus on the opening of the season with a highly ranked opponent will keep the troops in line during the summer.
Later
AFDawg
November 19th, 2010
9:52 am
Still waiting, You are full of crap. We were playing Boise State when they were first making their move and no one else dared. We also played AZ State out West when they were coming off a PAC-10 championship, Central Michigan coming off a MAC championship, Oklahoma State on the rise, etc., etc., etc. This is the first year Georgia took a breather (like everyone else) with their OOC schedule. Who do you pull for? You are full of crap man!
Dogs Smell
November 19th, 2010
9:56 am
AF Dog, Tennessee opened with Oregon. Everyone else ?
AFDawg
November 19th, 2010
9:56 am
Dogs Smell, You are full of crap too. Don’t go spouting out jibberish if you don’t have the facts. This year marks the first year in a long time where UGA had an easy OOC slate. Who do you pull for? Don’t come on here telling lies — get the facts first dumbass.
AFDawg
November 19th, 2010
9:58 am
Dogs Smell, You can’t base your commenst on one year when the dawgs have traditionally had one of the hardest OOC schedules in teh nation over the last ten years. Once again I ask — who do you pull for? You’re a fool.
wonder
November 19th, 2010
10:00 am
what happens if GT under Washinton gets fired up and beats the dawgs………does Richt resign are get fired? Do dawg fans shoot themselves? do Athens police lock up half the teams @ 3am in locale bar……damn sure would prove interesing.
Police chasing felony after game got lost in trash fans left after tail gate party at GT-uga game.
Crazed Losers
November 19th, 2010
10:00 am
Why no mention that Boise is expected to be lousy next year? They lose most of the team due to graduation. Sounds like a VERY Boring match but typical of UGA in always trying to schedule quality OOC games when those teams are at their worst.
Dogs Smell
November 19th, 2010
10:02 am
I pull for Tennessee and there is NO comparison to their OOC play V/S Ga. Look it up ! Not even close !!!!!! Hardest OOC for Ga now that is a joke when getting Ga to cross the Mississippi is like getting a win against UF !
MikeP
November 19th, 2010
10:04 am
Oh, c’mon! The Chick-fil-A committee will pick a team with a winning record to play in their showcase game, not some limp-wrist program like UGA has become. Maybe they can get Auburn, Arkansas, Mississippi State to represent the SEC. UGA would be a disaster.
Ogeechee Dawg
November 19th, 2010
10:06 am
Go for it …… great way to open the season – in basically a home field and bowl environment.
Yes -we lost to OK STATE
Yes – we lost to Colorado
If we get beat….. we get beat.
So what – opening with a very good oppoenent will benefit the rest of the season as the staff and team will have more urgency about them during summer camp.
Go Dawgs!
Time
November 19th, 2010
10:09 am
Disregarding all the Tech idiots posting 70-7 Boise predictions. This is a great thing for college football. Georgia will stomp Boise early, thereby removing their fraudulent claim to deserving a shot in the NC.
Sure Boise can sneak up on Oklahoma in a bowl game most of the Sooner players would have rather not even played. But when they play motivated powers that are actually interested in playing, they gets smashed. Just like they did in Athens a few years back.
blazerdawg
November 19th, 2010
10:11 am
Great idea, I liked the more national scheduling.
Smell – did’nt UT open against Univ of Tennessee at Martin?
Headley Lamar
November 19th, 2010
10:11 am
seriously, are you happy with your $750,000 DC? you could have had mark stoops for much cheaper with better results….
Gotta give the guy more than one year to adjust the whole program from a 4-3 to a 3-4.
lance
November 19th, 2010
10:11 am
This has no upside for UGA and they should stick with their commitment to Louisville. If they win — “they should they are from the SEC” if the lose “see UGA is just not that good anymore” and we start 0-1 (ie like we did after the okie state game). As a Falcon Club Seat holder — would love it. As a UGA fan — hate it.
DawginLex
November 19th, 2010
10:15 am
Actually, there is more risk in playing an improving Louisville team where we might overlook them vs playing a highly ranked Boise State team that we will definitely not overlook…………….
Now i really have to go.
They have me on onion rings now to.
munsondawg
November 19th, 2010
10:18 am
lance,
you going to be in spots 15 & 16 for UGA-Tech game? I’m bringing the Evan Williams.. LOL!!!!
goblue!
November 19th, 2010
10:22 am
dawg one, the game won’t end up costing ga $ cuz the tv payoff will be much larger. so dollar wize, a net gain. the notoriety of the matchup will be huge, both teams will benefit from the exposure. a bsu fan from way back, I was at the big games (ga, oky, tcu and vt, as well as OU and OSU). should be a good game that everyone can talk about for years…let it happen and be happy! and i don’t think losing at most 4 on each side of the ball will hurt the team noticeably next year. they have some other barn burner receivers to step in.
andy
November 19th, 2010
10:26 am
Allow this UGA grad to show a little respect…FSU, GT, and Boise St all are respectable programs and fun to watch. At the current time FSU and GT are down…in a few years they’ll be back. Boise St is a good team BUT there are a couple hundred high school teams all across the country that go undefeated and that is not sufficient to be a national champ. Boise St DOES control who they play and for over a decade the best they have scheduled is UGA and VTech. Their most prolific offense was no match for a UGA a few yrs back. Some say give ‘em a chance. Well that doesn’t work because every year there are a dozen schools that can say give us a chance. The season’s purpose is to determine who is the best. If BS wants to be considered as a true champ they have to play competitive teams. No less than 25 other teams if given BS’s schedule would also be undefeated.
UGA Insider
November 19th, 2010
10:26 am
The program really needs a shot in the arm and this game could give it to us if we win. Great idea! This game will help recruiting as well.
goblue!
November 19th, 2010
10:26 am
one more thing…dan hawkins was not the power behind the fiesta bowl oky win….it was his assistants, inc coach pete…he was a fraud and brought his son and a lot of baggage to colorado…they will be a lot better team now that he is gone…crazed losers…look it up, four on each side of the ball will be lost, with a lot of the backups getting a lot of playing time this year, it won’t be a down year…
Dogs Smell
November 19th, 2010
10:32 am
Yep UT -Martin was a last hour replacement for a mid west team that bailed.
GTBob
November 19th, 2010
10:37 am
I do wonder why the Chick Fil A bowl would push for this. A middle of the road SEC team that is losing talent and a Boise St team that probably wont be quite as good next year after they lose a lot of talent. It seems like they could get a better game then that. It would probably be a team ranked somewhere between 10-20 and an unranked team. Not exactly a marquee matchup.
lance
November 19th, 2010
10:39 am
Yes sir Musondawg! Have to see those lil Flag boy nerds go down!
Bodiddley
November 19th, 2010
10:40 am
Richt said it all when asked about the matchup. “Hypothetically? Hypothetically, no comment”.
Same reaction to all the invites sent out to the “big blue blood schools” from Boise State. Must be the blue field. It surely can’t be that they are afraid to get the asses handed to them. Wait until Boise has a rebuild year I guess. That would be in the year 2050.
auburn hater
November 19th, 2010
10:44 am
Lets just get through the last, maybe two games, before we even think about next season people. To even think about playing Boise right now, you should be the wiser.
Time
November 19th, 2010
10:48 am
GTBob – Middle of the road SEC team wins 42-10 next week over a supposedly good team from just Another Crappy Conference.
aprilglaspie
November 19th, 2010
10:49 am
48-13. That was the last time they played a real game against a top-flight team. Yeah, I know they squeaked by VaTech while surrendering 30 points, but VaTech lost to James Freaking Madison the next week.
Boise never plays anybody, and they play their home games on a field that exactly matches the color of their home uniforms. That’s disgraceful. Know what, invite Boise into the SEC. Vandy needs some bragging rights.
AFDawg
November 19th, 2010
10:50 am
All right Dogs Smell — here is just a quick look: This year TN has UT Martin, Oregon, UAB & Memphis. GA has Louisiana Layfayette, Colorado, Idaho St., and GA Tech. So, by virtue of Oregon on your schedule — you guys have it tougher this year. Last year, you guys had W. Kentucky, UCLA, Ohio Univ., and Memphis. We had Oklahoma St., Arizona St., TN tech and GA Tech — our OOC schedule was by far tougher. In 2008 you guys had UCLA, UAB, Northern Ill., and Wyoming. We had GA Southern, Central Mich., Arizona State and GA Tech — once again ours was tougher. And this is only looking at the last three years to speed things up. The further you go back — UGA’s OOC looks even tougher. Next year you guys have Montana, Cinncinnati, Buffalo, and Middle TN. Looks like ya’ll are taking a breather next year — and boy does your program need it. We have Lousiville, Coastal Carolina, New Mexico State and GA Tech — so once again our OOC is tougher. So shut your pie hole until you know what the heck you’re talking about.
Dirty Dawg
November 19th, 2010
10:52 am
Sure we’ll play Boise State. It might even offer Mr. Green an excuse to hang around another year…play in what should be a pretty high-profile game and make up for the games he cost us with his ‘poor judgment’. I’m not real optimistic about that but maybe. Plus, as has been said, such a game should provide more incentive for four and five star recruits to ‘hire on’ – particularly if they think they’ll not be red-shirted. Of course if it were left up to me I’d rather be playing USC. We need to get another shot at that Kiffen guy.
How good we’ll be next year? Who knows, but it’s for sure we better figure out how to better utilize whatever speed we’ve got on the defense if we’re gonna have to chase those waterbugs around like we had to West Va that time.
Willie Martinez
November 19th, 2010
10:55 am
Buck Belue confirmed on Twitter that this game is going to happen. Announcement is Saturday
Rich
November 19th, 2010
10:56 am
Dogs Smell: So apparently playing at preseason ranked #9 Oklahoma State and at preseason ranked #15 Arizona State qualifies as “cake walks?”
I don’t get how we’ve suddenly become a “middle of the road” SEC team when we’ve had two bad seasons. An 8-5 record in 2009 is bad by our standards but realistically a lot of teams would like to have that many wins in a season. People say it’s because we haven’t won the SEC/division recently but we won it in 2005 and were co-chamions of the East in 2007 (you can debate if you want that Tenn won the East but the SEC officially states that we were Co-champions).
azdawg
November 19th, 2010
11:04 am
Dawgs would begin season w/a loss. Thats how much faith I have in next seasons team and coaching staff. BSU is a good team and can play w/any team in the country.
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Headley Lamar
November 19th, 2010
11:12 am
BSU is a good team and can play w/any team in the country.
On a given day. Let them play an entire SEC schedule of LSU Auburn Alabama UGA Florida South Carolina, Miss St and lets see how they hold up.
Rich
November 19th, 2010
11:14 am
I also like how Boise fans think they are world beaters just because they beat one or two BCS opponents a year. Statistically in the Petersen era you guys have only beaten BCS opponents by an average of 6.7 points per game and you guys want to play for the national championship? Trying playing a full schedule of BCS opponents and with those numbers you might go 7-5.
Gratefuldawghead
November 19th, 2010
11:20 am
Richt is 1-0 against Boise!
Nurse Rachet
November 19th, 2010
11:23 am
http://www.ajc.com/sports/the-bcs-formula-cupcakes-745859.html
It’s a way of life in the SEC- especially with the Gators!
Dawghater
November 19th, 2010
11:25 am
I’d love to watch the Dawg’s get beat down right out of the gate. Sounds good, book the match up. It will be fun to watch. Next summar, CMR may want to take all the car keys away from the players before the season starts though!