No more talk, time to see what 2011 Georgia Bulldogs are made of
The countdown clock running most of this summer is almost down to all zeroes for Georgia and Boise State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. I think we can all agree that we’re glad it’s finally here.
For us sportswriters, you really do get to the point that you’re tired of writing about what might happen and what could happen and about this player and that one. We, too, just want to see a game played so can analyze things from there. We’ll all get to do that come 8:15 p.m. tonight.
Before we do that, I wanted to make sure you had everything you might want to read up on about the game. Both Tim Tucker and I have been writing about this team and this game pretty much daily for the last month and often multiple times per day. Below I’ll list the most recent and most pertinent blogs and stories so you can just click on them in case you missed them or want to revisit a certain story or subject.
In the meantime, I’ll wrap up some household chores before heading down to the Dome to chronicle what promises to be an exciting night of college football. If I don’t see you down there I’ll see you here on the blog before the game.
Now, for some Boise-Georgia talk . . .
- Details from the Idaho Statesman on Boise State’s 3 suspended players
- Jasper Sanks eager to see if Isaiah Crowell can do what he couldn’t
- Preview box
- Mark Bradley’s take on the game
- How the Georgia-Boise State matchup came to be
- ‘05 star D.J. Shockley thinks it ’sounds weird’ for UGA to be underdog to Boise State
- NG John Jenkins excited, not fretting non-starter status
- Jarvis Jones feeling blessed to get second chance to be a Bulldog
- Q&A: Catching up with Jasper Sanks, the last great back from Columbus
- New nutritionists, training table ensure the Big Dawgs eat right
- UGA’s Columbus connection paying dividends
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162 comments Add your comment
Brooksdawg
September 3rd, 2011
9:27 am
RGR–saw that in 2005…your correct sir–it was UGLY
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:28 am
R the names us listed suppose to be household names? I don’t ever hear any of them. Dawgs lose again.
ugab
September 3rd, 2011
9:28 am
It is game day! Yeh baby!! Let’s play some football. Proud to be a ga bulldog!!! Let’s beat Boise State in our home state. We must protect this house! Win or lose, I will always be a dawg!!! If gas wasn’t so expensive, I would be headed to the dome. Gotta stay home and watch the game. GOOOOOOOOO! DAWGS!!!!!
Brooksdawg
September 3rd, 2011
9:30 am
They will be in the House tonight…your team will know them by their first name afterwards..GATA
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:31 am
ugab-I think the dome belongs to the Falcons, ooh my bad it belongs to the Packers!!!
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:33 am
Is UGA getting used to being in the bottom half of the SEC?
Brooksdawg
September 3rd, 2011
9:34 am
RGR–quit the THINKING THING–it is above your paygrade…GATA
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:35 am
r all the dawg fans on dial up internet? That might explain why you haven’t heard the news that your team is terrrible;)
TECH SUCKS
September 3rd, 2011
9:37 am
Lets do it dawgs!!!!! MAKE THAT DOME ROCK FELLAS
TECH SUCKS
September 3rd, 2011
9:38 am
rgr make sure you hit up these blogs after the game and be ready to eat crow techie
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:39 am
If it wasn’t for the engineers from tech the UGA campus would look like a trailer park. Give them some props!!!
TECH SUCKS
September 3rd, 2011
9:40 am
my name is RGR, I have no friends or allegiances so i just read articles about other peoples teams and talk trash about every team one city has…. sad life my friend
Delbert D.
September 3rd, 2011
9:40 am
Looks like the best of the 12:00 start games is Utah St. at Auburn or Northwestern at Boston College. I don’t think Dan Persa is going to be able to play, though.
The Dude Abides
September 3rd, 2011
9:40 am
Is their center really only 5′11? He’s gonna have a tough time with Geathers and Jenkins.
Just hope they GATA like they did in 2005.
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:41 am
Tech sucks- I didn’t realize you wanted to be named after me.
Delbert D.
September 3rd, 2011
9:42 am
The guy can’t even come up with a good insult. Engineers design trailers, too.
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:43 am
Tech sucks-My team is actually Nebraska but i’m stuck in Geogia for the time being.
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:43 am
Delbert D.-The UGA engineers design trailers!
NC Dawg
September 3rd, 2011
9:43 am
Cleats on the gametime turf. That’s all that matters.
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:46 am
UGA Fans-Have a great time watching the game. I hope their aren’t too many tears!!!
The Dude Abides
September 3rd, 2011
9:49 am
Finally we have some guys that can lay the wood! That’s what this D has been missing for years.
Alec Ogletree and Jarvis Jones might put somebody in the hospital today.
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:50 am
HAHA RGR’s team is the CornF*ckrs!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:51 am
RGR go stick a corn cob up your @$$
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:52 am
RGR has no life. Why is he on a UGA blog? Does he really care that much about UGA? What a pathetic little piece of sh!t
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
9:53 am
UGA ‘05-Why such nasty language. I won’t reply to anymore of your uneducated posts. I know the rest of the people on this blog probably are disgraced by your comments.
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:54 am
Hey look, I’m RGR. I’m posting iver and over again. I have no life, so I like to comes on blogs and post bullsh!t on other teams.
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:54 am
No we’re digraced by your presence here.
UGA '05
September 3rd, 2011
9:57 am
I mean honestly? You come on a UGA blog when Nebraska has nothing to do with UGA? Get a life.
RGR
September 3rd, 2011
10:01 am
Can you blog without using curse words?
Jimmy Crack
September 3rd, 2011
10:07 am
FOR GAWD SAKE LOOK OUT FOR THE TRICK PLAY!!!!
Boise is like the trick play terminator…That’s what they do, that’s ALL they do!
Go Dogs!!! Woof! Chew your potatoes thoroughly!
BIGDAWG37
September 3rd, 2011
10:58 am
First play from scrimmage…Murray to M. Brown post route 28 yards! Next play bruising run by Samuels for 6 yds…next play toss sweep to Crowell he hits the sideline for another 12 yds.!!! First down Georgia!!! 1st & 10…Samuels powers trhu for 5 yards….Samuels again for 4 yards…Next play Murray fly route to M. Mitchell the Freshmen! TOUCHDOWN GEORGIA!!!! That’s how we roll!
Bama fan
September 3rd, 2011
11:31 am
Watching ESPN gameday and getting ready for football for the day. Just watched the segment on Bama long snapper Carson Tinker. He and his girlfriend were swept up and carried 100 yards during the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa. He got hurt bad but survived. She was 22, beautiful, and died. The devastation heaped on Tuscaloosa by the twister was unreal.
Lets pull hard for all the SEC teams today but keep football in perspective when doing so.
And good luck to the dawgs and the LSU tigers as they take on formidable out of conference opponents.
Steve
September 3rd, 2011
11:48 am
I read this morning that Tech still has a football team! How funny is that? I figured that little stadium was for some high school team. UGA 31 BSU 27.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
September 3rd, 2011
11:49 am
Just got back from watching 5/6 year olds play little league football, ready to start the grill. Great way to kickoff the UGA season. Lets GOOOO Dawgs!
LHarding Dawg
September 3rd, 2011
12:10 pm
Herbstreet just picked Boise. Coach picked Georgia. Personally I believe we will be to big and fast for the smaller Boise. Close first half with Georgia pulling away in the second. See you at the dome.
Numberwang
September 3rd, 2011
12:11 pm
I think the Dawgs win tonight. The real test for Richt is if he can get this team to show-up two weeks in a row with the same swag.
Dirty Dawg
September 3rd, 2011
12:35 pm
Gee, who couldn’t guess that Urban Myer wouldn’t find something to criticize about Georgia. In this case it was Aaron Murray’s decision-making as a Freshman…wonder what kind of decisions that left-handed QB he had back at Florida was making back when he was a Freshman…oh yeah, he wasn’t playin’ much and when he was the only decision he had to make was whether or not he was gonna run left, right or up the middle.
Myer still hasn’t gotten over that end-zone thing, has he? Sure he called a couple of time-outs the next year to rub it in, but on that day, with that gauntlet having been tossed by Richt, he and his team didn’t respond, and plenty of us will always remember that…the narcissistic disordered jerk.
Delbert D.
September 3rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Auburn is having trouble with Utah St.
Ga Wins
September 3rd, 2011
12:55 pm
Just came back from the time machine down at Dragon Con……….
Ga. is ahead 37-0 with 1:36 left in first half
bucket
September 3rd, 2011
1:25 pm
Penn Wages is in Auburn. Our chances just got better against Boise!!!
CHDawg
September 3rd, 2011
1:37 pm
Dirty Dawg, At the gym and missed Meyer’s comments. Was that pretty much it? What is a little funny, is looking at Meyer’s decisions during the same year. I don’t think I’d be on ESPN criticizing anybody’s decision making over the last year or two if I were him! Go Dawgs!
CHDawg
September 3rd, 2011
1:41 pm
I’m not getting personal there, talking about football decisions. Stayed with a center that must have 50 bad snaps, and he wouldn’t let his own QB line up in the same spot twice. We did have our problems, but so did he–arguably more problems with on-field decision making.
AFAN
September 3rd, 2011
1:43 pm
UGA 31 BOISE STATE 17
CROWELL 149 YARDS RUSHING 2 TD
MURRAY 257 YARDS PASSING 2 TD
BLAIR 67 YARD FIELD GOAL
SOUNDS GOOD…
CHDawg
September 3rd, 2011
2:09 pm
Sleaze man, how would you like to compare the two teams? Let’s be empirical, though. Do you think the UGA’s or GT’s (I assume that is your team) football program contributes more to the respective school? Georgia football funds an almost unbelievable amount of scholarships. Probably most student athletes can thank the football program for their schollys. How about average starting salaries over the last five years for player grads? I assume you do a little math. I have a feeling that Stafford’s 78 million, Greens millions, Morenos millions, and many, many more will put UGA way, way ahead. So, a little bit of analysis shows you are not only filled with hate, but pretty deceitful to boot. If GT isn’t your team, then tell us who your team is, and we will discuss it.
i have a question for you sec types
September 3rd, 2011
2:15 pm
i just heard that the auburn tradition of covering toomers trees with toilet paper is one of the GREAT national traditions.
at what point will they say the same thing about the dawgs ‘tradition’ of trashing their campus and urinating on their library rug during game day?
hey it stands to reason… if covering a dying tree in toilet paper (hopefully not used tp) is a GREAT SEC tradition that trashing one’s campus and urinating on your library rug will be another proclaimed GREAT SEC tradition.
A special moment
September 3rd, 2011
2:24 pm
There will be a special moment of silence to honor Saint Jan Kemp at the Dome tonight. Please, everyone, observe this moment with reverence and respect.
Pee Wee
September 3rd, 2011
2:27 pm
Since there are no hedges in the Dome, how will the UGA players know where to pee?
Same question for the mutt.
And the coaches.
katherine
September 3rd, 2011
2:36 pm
what is with all the dawg haters on this blog? do you not have anything better to do? It’s pathetic, really
WDE
September 3rd, 2011
2:57 pm
Right at this moment there are 70,000 Barners with heartburn…losing to Utah St…get the firethechiz.cpm site ready…wow
i guess that is where
September 3rd, 2011
3:05 pm
the used tp comes in. if awwww burn loses they paper the trees with used toilet paper.
in 43 arttempts utah has never beat a ranked opponent on the road. ouch.
game over…….. way to go utah. congrats.
so much for the mighty sec.