SEC drops Bama, adds Missouri for UGA’s new 2012 schedule
TAMPA — If Georgia does not repeat as Southeastern Conference Eastern Division champions in 2012, it will not have the schedule to blame.
The SEC on Wednesday finally released its new football schedules for next season and the Bulldogs made out well. They dropped the Oct. 6 game at Alabama and picked up a road game against new conference member Missouri in Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 8. Meanwhile, UGA’s traditional SEC opener against South Carolina was moved back to Oct. 6. That game will also be on the road, as originally scheduled.
The only other change for the Bulldogs was their game at Kentucky, originally scheduled for Oct. 13, moves back one week. That will eliminate what was originally an off week before the Florida game. However, the Gators also lose their off week before playing the Bulldogs, so neither team has an advantage.
Georgia’s non-conference opponents of Buffalo (Sept. 1), Florida Atlanta (Sept. 15), Georgia Southern (Nov. 17) and Georgia Tech (Nov. 24) remain the same.
“I don’t think anybody in this conference has an easy schedule,” Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity said Wednesday. “We have nothing to base a road game to Missouri on. There’s no question going to Columbia, Mo., is going to be a tremendous challenge. just like Florida going to Texas A&M is going to be. I know within our building nobody is thinking there’s anything easy about our schedule.”
Bulldogs coach Mark Richt declined comment on the new slate. “I think the focus should be this game and that’s what we’re going to be focued on,” he said. “I don’t want to get too far down the road. Let’s finish up this season and we’ll talk about those things in the future.”
McGarity said it’s important to note that Georgia is not replacing Alabama with Missouri. The Bulldogs simply are keeping Auburn as their traditional rival from the West and had to honor their return game with Ole Miss after playing the Rebels in Oxford last season.
It should also be noted that the new schedule, revamped to accommodate new conference members Missouri and Texas A&M, is intended for just one year. The SEC will reconvene in the spring to look at schedules for 2013 and beyond.
“The SEC transition team and our athletic directors did a great job with significant logistical challenges in a short time frame in developing the 2012 football conference schedule,” SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said. “The ability to come together for the conference is what makes the SEC so strong and that was evident yet again in this process.”
Said McGarity: “The entire scheduling process was difficult and the transition team led by the SEC office had to deal with some very difficult scheduling challenges and formats. That’s why it took a long time to make it through.”
McGarity remains skeptical that the league would go to nine conference games.
“It really restricts scheduling flexibility to do that, especially when it comes to traditional rivals and having a seven-game home schedule,” McGarity said. “That’s going to be very difficult to do.”
Georgia’s players were essentially oblivious to the changes.
“I really don’t pay attention to any of it,” sophomore linebacker Jarvis Jones said. “We just watch film, look at the personnel and line up and play. We can’t help who we play. We don’t make the schedule. So we just go out there any chance we get and try to make the best of it.”
Said fellow linebacker Alec Ogletree: “I didn’t know anything about it. I’m still trying to focus on this year and getting this last game over with. I’ll worry about next year when it’s time to.”
Here’s how the new slate looks:
2012 GEORGIA FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
- Sept. 1 Buffalo
- Sept. 8 at Missouri
- Sept. 15 Florida Atlantic
- Sept. 22 Vanderbilt
- Sept. 29 Tennessee
- Oct. 6 at S. Carolina
- Oct. 13 OPEN
- Oct. 20 at Kentucky
- Oct. 27 vs. Florida in Jacksonville
- Nov. 3 Ole Miss
- Nov. 10 at Auburn
- Nov. 17 Georgia Southern
- Nov. 24 Georgia Tech
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A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
lee……………we know that is a lie from McGarity.
2004 AUBURN SCHEDULE
Sat, Sept 4 Louisiana-Monroe
Sat, Sept 11 @Mississippi State
Sat, Sept 18 LSU
Sat, Sept 25 Citadel
Sat, Oct 2 @Tennessee
Sat, Oct 9 Louisiana Tech
Sat, Oct 16 Arkansas
Sat, Oct 23 Kentucky
Sat, Oct 30 @Ole Miss
Sat, Nov 13 Georgia
Sat, Nov 20 @Alabama
Sat, Dec 4 @Tennessee
Sugar Bowl
Mon, Jan 3 Virginia Tech
AUBURN finished 13-0 played 9 SEC games and had 7 home games.
McGarity is a Wimp.
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:36 pm
wade im curious who your team is??? Unless it is alabama or lsu you cannot talk
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
Wade in Marietta
December 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
I know, I know. My mommy said I have to pologize to evryone for being a dumb mass.
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
a person smart enough to know……..
THE SEC PICKS THE SCHEDULE ITS A ROTATION!!!!!!! MCGARITY DOESN’T PICK THE SCHEDULE OTHER THAN THE NON CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
RTR!!!
December 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
I can’ wait to see you delusional punks go down to Missou, SC and Auburn next year! That will be enough for me. THE most trash-talking bunch of keyboard cowboys of any fanbase in America! I prayed for your team to have a decent season because your coach is a good man who deserves a better and more loyal group of fans than you fair weather chicken littles. Now that he has signed his extension, I wish you losers nothing but misery. I’m only disappointed you won’t be getting served a spoonful from Bama! I am offended that any of you would dare put yourselves in the same sentence as Alabama. Your program isn’t even in the same stratosphere! You have 2 Nat’l Championships in the history of your whole school. I’m in my 30’s and UA has had 5 in my lifetime, with a possible 6th next week. Suckers!!!!
Georgia Pride
December 28th, 2011
4:38 pm
What a cowardly schedule! Buffalo, Fl. Atlantic, Ga. Southern. COWARDS!!!
BigGame
December 28th, 2011
4:39 pm
No excuses for the Dawgs! Go big (12-0) or go home (10-2)…
NO PRESSURE. Dawgs get to hide behind a panzi schedule for 2 years in a row…
stout
December 28th, 2011
4:40 pm
timbo (or should I say Bimbo), what proof do you have that UGA had anything to do with dropping Bama? Please explain how/why you think that UGA would have more pull than Alabama in the SEC?
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:31 pm
wow whoever was the fake true dawg fan is pathetic
its the one postin under Smart
Techster
December 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Hey dawg nuts–you schedule a bunch of cupcakes and you expect football fans to take you serious? If you pansies could, you would schedule 5 games against Duke and the rest against Division II schools.
What a bunch of girls.
LSU showed the world what a paper tiger you are. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:42 pm
Wade in Marietta
December 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
True Dawg Fan, I’ve read enough of your post to realize that you couldn’t know the truth about your team if it was slapping you in the face. You’re a blind fool with no intelligence. Your team is a bunch of pansies. Face the truth and grow up.
ahahahahahah I think you meant to give that speech to urself. Dont be mad that you got called outfor being an idiot. Thats what happens when you post something dumb
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:44 pm
A person SMART enough to know……
December 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
lee……………we know that is a lie from McGarity.
2004 AUBURN SCHEDULE
Sat, Sept 4 Louisiana-Monroe
Sat, Sept 11 @Mississippi State
Sat, Sept 18 LSU
Sat, Sept 25 Citadel
Sat, Oct 2 @Tennessee
Sat, Oct 9 Louisiana Tech
Sat, Oct 16 Arkansas
Sat, Oct 23 Kentucky
Sat, Oct 30 @Ole Miss
Sat, Nov 13 Georgia
Sat, Nov 20 @Alabama
Sat, Dec 4 @Tennessee
Sugar Bowl
Mon, Jan 3 Virginia Tech
AUBURN finished 13-0 played 9 SEC games and had 7 home games.
McGarity is a Wimp.
ahahahahahahhahahahahhahahaaha so now the thing that back fired in your face is your ammo again??? Well lets see the schedule reflects an easy OCC Schedule, which you moaned about earlier. So now you accept it????? Run along and stop embarrassing yourself
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:44 pm
techster
i love it when tech fans arguement is that we lost to lsu the best team in the country that only had one close game all year and we beat yall so atleast we are better than you bugs
RTR!!!
December 28th, 2011
4:45 pm
@True Dawg Fan I am copying and pasting your drivel into a file to reintroduce next year after football actually begins. Ought to be pretty funny! You are one of a long line of dense dawg fans howling at the moon in the off season. You guys are always in the running for a championship between January and July, but something about the actual football season seems to change all that. Sucker!!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:46 pm
RTR!!!
December 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
I can’ wait to see you delusional punks go down to Missou, SC and Auburn next year! That will be enough for me. THE most trash-talking bunch of keyboard cowboys of any fanbase in America! I prayed for your team to have a decent season because your coach is a good man who deserves a better and more loyal group of fans than you fair weather chicken littles. Now that he has signed his extension, I wish you losers nothing but misery. I’m only disappointed you won’t be getting served a spoonful from Bama! I am offended that any of you would dare put yourselves in the same sentence as Alabama. Your program isn’t even in the same stratosphere! You have 2 Nat’l Championships in the history of your whole school. I’m in my 30’s and UA has had 5 in my lifetime, with a possible 6th next week. Suckers!!!!
The keyboard cowboys as you put it are bammer beating their chest like they earned something?? ESPN put u in title game period. U dont deserve to be there period. OSU got hosed period.
And Bama is a breath away from tumbling back down to bottom of the west. No richardson and the same joke of a QB hahahaha ur in for a rude awakening next year ahahaahahah. I cant wait to see Saban melt down and bolt for Texas.
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
4:47 pm
Don’t hate, cause the DAWGS are GREAT!
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
4:48 pm
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:37 pm
a person smart enough to know……..
THE SEC PICKS THE SCHEDULE ITS A ROTATION!!!!!!! MCGARITY DOESN’T PICK THE SCHEDULE OTHER THAN THE NON CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
“McGarity remains skeptical that the league would go to nine conference games.
It really restricts scheduling flexibility to do that, especially when it comes to traditional rivals and having a seven-game home schedule,” McGarity said. “That’s going to be very difficult to do.”
Chris I know the SEC does the Schedule other than OOC. The SEC can do a 9 game schedule cause in 04 Auburn did it went 13-0 with 7 home games. The 3 OOC jokes had to SUCK for the fans to pay to see and only 4 SEC home games but it can be done.The SEC and the ACC MUST go to 9 game conference schedules keeping the traditional OOC In State Rivals like GT v UGA, FSU v UF & CU v USC. That should force the other SEC/ ACC teams to play a difficult OOC opponent in kind and that would leave only 2 OOC CUP CAKES on SEC & ACC team schedules.
That is 9 Conference Games
1 hard OOC game
1 easy FBS Game
1 FCS Game
That would make the cost of season tickets worth it.
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
yes rtr sadly we havent been in contention for a championship for 4 years but in 01 to 07 we were contending year in and year out and we were a kentucky game winning missed field goal away from a national title in 07. Next year with this schedule and our returning talent we will be contenders i promise you that. You can go ahead and copy and paste that into a file
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
Techster
December 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
Hey dawg nuts–you schedule a bunch of cupcakes and you expect football fans to take you serious? If you pansies could, you would schedule 5 games against Duke and the rest against Division II schools.
What a bunch of girls.
LSU showed the world what a paper tiger you are. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ahahahahah a techie talking smack about schedules???? Ur schedules are always laughable. 1 for 11 nerd!
FYI you would think a nerd such as yourself would be smart enough to know that SEC decides the schedule for SEC and that EVERY SEC team (due to the high level of competition in the SEC) schedules easy OOCG. Just take a look for urselves morons.
U have a hard OOC schedule only bc we are on it though!
Blackoutanyone?
December 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
“had to honor their return game with Ole Miss” well Aubarn isn’t going to honor UF with a return trip to the swamp.
“I don’t think anybody in this conference has an easy schedule,” lol your AD is almost as big a joke as the UGA schedule.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:51 pm
RTR!!!
December 28th, 2011
4:45 pm
@True Dawg Fan I am copying and pasting your drivel into a file to reintroduce next year after football actually begins. Ought to be pretty funny! You are one of a long line of dense dawg fans howling at the moon in the off season. You guys are always in the running for a championship between January and July, but something about the actual football season seems to change all that. Sucker!!
ahahahahah ok you do that retard.
Please show your face here next year, I really hope you do and bring the old posts with you so I can laugh in your face (Through the computer) about how stupid you are still.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:52 pm
Blackoutanyone?
December 28th, 2011
4:50 pm
“had to honor their return game with Ole Miss” well Aubarn isn’t going to honor UF with a return trip to the swamp.
“I don’t think anybody in this conference has an easy schedule,” lol your AD is almost as big a joke as the UGA schedule.
kind of like bamas schedule this year that somehow proved they should be in NC hahahahahahahhahahahahaha now thats a joke.
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
4:53 pm
Is tech considered a hard OOC game for UGA?
Oh, the whining!
December 28th, 2011
4:53 pm
Some of you people need to man up, and cut out the griping and whining about the Dogs’ schedule.
1. You do realize that the SEC games are set by the conference and not Georgia.
2. The teams from the west rotate on and off except for permanent opponent.
3. Every single SEC team has their share of “cupcakes.”
4. RTR- you mention delusional fans- without exception each school has them. And Bama has had their share or more over the years. If you were around a long time ago, and listened to Atlanta radio you would have heard talk that Lennie Patrick was as good as Herschel. That talk kind of ended after one season.
Again, remember Freddie Kitchens and the hype.
5. Considering Mark Richt is 3-1 against Bama, the Tide may be the lucky ones not having to face the Dogs next year.
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:54 pm
again i say it. Black out anyone? obviously are schedule is easy this year and it will be next year too but we can’t control it other than out of conference schedule and this year we had tech and boise st as our out of conference idk but that sounds pretty tough to me
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:54 pm
Alright folks enjoy the freedom to post all the retarted stuff you like im out.
10$ says smart is immediately back within 10 mins posting about me knowing that im not here. Gotta love how little kids talk smack (AKA say a fact and pray to God it back their side of the arguement)
Go Dawgs!
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:55 pm
great post oh the whining
FINALLY!!!!
BG
December 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
THE SEC DROPPED ALABAMA NOT UGA!!!!!!!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
LSU got lucky beating us 42-10. We should be playing them again for the National Championship because Alabama got drilled by LSU. We only lost to Boise State and South Carolina because the referees cheated, and we couldn’t get the SEC to replace Boise State and South Carolina with Morehouse and Bethune-Cookman.
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
4:58 pm
Alabama is the lucky one not getting to play UGA!
Chris
December 28th, 2011
4:59 pm
Fake true dawg fan and all the others yall are acting idiotic on these blogs go onto your teams blog. Im out
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
5:01 pm
Pay no attention to Chris. He is actually me (True Dawg Fan).
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
5:01 pm
True Dawg Fan I don’t post under other peoples names. I truly hate that. I would never pick your Crappy Name if I was going to steal a name.
Rationale
December 28th, 2011
5:01 pm
By the way, the schedules will come around in a few years, and we will be playing the tougher schedules again. It rotates from year to year, just like the competitiveness of the conferences. A couple of years ago, the Western Conference NEVER was competitive, and the Eastern COnference took it all, every year.
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
5:02 pm
True Dawg Fan it is Posting or Post’n
LSUTIgerinATL
December 28th, 2011
5:02 pm
This schedule will give a false sense of greatness to you dawgs. You can skate through this easy schedule and then get hammered again in the SEC championship game by either LSU or Bama (most likely LSU again next year).
LSUTIgerinATL
December 28th, 2011
5:04 pm
“LSU got lucky beating us 42-10. We should be playing them again for the National Championship because Alabama got drilled by LSU. We only lost to Boise State and South Carolina because the referees cheated, and we couldn’t get the SEC to replace Boise State and South Carolina with Morehouse and Bethune-Cookman.” ~ I sure hope this was a joke……..if not, this is the most delusional UGA fan comment I have ever seen and I’ve seen plenty! UGA is a 2nd rate SEC team.
beanster
December 28th, 2011
5:04 pm
“Chris I know the SEC does the Schedule other than OOC. The SEC can do a 9 game schedule cause in 04 Auburn did it went 13-0 with 7 home games. ”
Of course they played 9 SEC games. They won the SECCG. That one, the ONLY game in December, is fairly easy to schedule, don’t you think?
Neither UGA, nor USC, nor UF play SEC schools as their end of season rivalry which compounds the issue. I am not saying it (9 games) can’t be done, but I wouldn’t point to “Auburn did it before” as my reasoning since no one schedules the SECCG before the season and they play a divisional foe as their biggest rival.
I wonder if there could be pressure in the future to move UGA v UF to home-and-home if the rest of the league wants 9….
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
5:05 pm
48 48 48 48 48
is in the HOUSE
Air Force down 14.
a TD 1 play after the Air Force TO.
I was going Air Force by 4 but i think I will be losing that one.
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
5:09 pm
@48……it is like the Fried Twinkie. Tech could be a hard and Hot OOC game or it could just ooze out in the end.
4.29
December 28th, 2011
5:09 pm
True Dawg Fan is upset about this :
15,000,000,000,000 National Debt 15 Trillion
55,000,000,000,000 Total US Debt 55 Trillion
04,000,000,000,000 just interest on the Debt 4 Trillion
00,010,000,000,000 True Dawg Fan 10 billion only says
True Dawg Fan wants to legalize drugs because he says it will generate $10 billion a year for the government – never mind what it does to our youth.
Then, our players won’t get arrested for drugs.
True Dawg Fan tells Flat Tire that $ 10 billion is a lot of money.
Yeah, enough to pay off our Total US Debt in 5500 years
Saban Never Sleeps
December 28th, 2011
5:11 pm
What dribble. ..the SEC did not drop Bama, UGA did and whining all the time when the ADs and their reps set out to do this one year schedule. 36-25-4 is the all time record. Not the selective history you little pups like to count the 2 while we were on probation and forget the rest. Bama has and always will own you just like that last butt whooping you got in your own back yard.
4.29
December 28th, 2011
5:15 pm
LSU
LOSES
to Alabama
Because Alabama is only going to miss 1 field goal this time
they could have missed 3 last time and still beat you.
They win by 6.
bitter QB
December 28th, 2011
5:15 pm
will mason be our QB???—murry is our 3rd best QB——-fact—–0-12 against top 25 teams
beanster
December 28th, 2011
5:16 pm
It’s hilarious how many Bama fans think UGA had a choice in the matter. Maybe it’s the active voice of the headline that’s so confusing for them.
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
5:16 pm
Looks like a shoot out in the military bowl!
If I was a player this would be the bowl I would want to go to!
It has a great gift package!
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
5:18 pm
Bitter
Answer me honestly……what makes you think Murray is the 3rd best QB on the team?
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
5:19 pm
48 i told you the swag was great. Thanks for looking it up the other night on the Tech blog. To Hell with what this Bowl is ranked. The Swag is better than many of the Christmas presents the parents can afford for their SEC football playing sons.
4.29
December 28th, 2011
5:21 pm
AIR FORCE
what a joke, they cannot even beat TOLEDO.
Next up we have 2 teams with
LOSING RECORDS in their lousy conferences
TEXAS
CALIFORNIA
Dawg48
December 28th, 2011
5:22 pm
Tech is just like a twinkie they will always be around!
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp