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
12:08 pm
Murray Will look like Andrew Luck with this years and next years schedule, but really be Joe Cox.
SKB
December 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
45-42 NEVER FORGET
45-42 NEVER FORGET
45-42 NEVER FORGET
Dawg Gone
December 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
Can you believe it Bama has ducked us yet again!!! The begged Missouri to take their place on our scheduled in 2012….
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
Lots of morons out today. Wonder how hard is it to do research to see who controls scheduling and what team schedule 3 easy OOC games.
Hint for the last part: EVERYONE DOES
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:10 pm
HEY PAWL
December 28th, 2011
12:08 pm
No MNC with that schedule Dawgfans. You could run the table and still not get a sniff at it.
Any SEC that goes undefeated will get into title game sorry retard.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:11 pm
A person SMART enough to know……
December 28th, 2011
12:08 pm
Murray Will look like Andrew Luck with this years and next years schedule, but really be Joe Cox.
Thats not even reasonable. And shows how stupid you are.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
SKB
December 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
45-42 NEVER FORGET
45-42 NEVER FORGET
45-42 NEVER FORGET
Remember what? That Garcia is gone and Shaw is a clown and will get broken in half trying to be tebow. And will Lattimore coming off that tear……… doesnt look good for SC. Sorry little fella
10 out of 11
December 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
Hey “idiots”: UGA controls everyone and everything. Not only have we given ourselves an easy SEC schedule but we went ahead awarded the NC game to the Georgia Dome next year if they agreed to put us in it. We will be playing Tech because they also guaranteed us a victory. Freaking Idiots!
Go away Auburn and Tech fans. We own you!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
Also note that the OOCS is going in the model of Florida when they elect to not schedule to OOC games. McGarity simply borrowed the model from Foley and Meyer. Seemed to have worked nicely for UF. So let the crying begin for another year about our easy schedule.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
Also note that the OOCS is going in the model of Florida when they elect to not schedule to OOC games. McGarity simply borrowed the model from Foley and Meyer. Seemed to have worked nicely for UF. So let the crying begin for another year about our easy schedule.
Not just them, almost every other team does it. We used to have some of the toughest OOC games on our schedule, and then have to play in the SEC on top of that.
BiggDawgK
December 28th, 2011
12:14 pm
I’m sure all the pathetic dirt stupid idiots who are whineing about Georgia’s “easy” schedule were congratulating the Dawgs for the decades when the SEC East was stacked and Georgia ran the gauntlet.
SecFan
December 28th, 2011
12:15 pm
Wow. If I didn’t know better I would think Vince Dooley is still doing the scheduling.
Bama Mike
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Well looks like the scheduling Gods will get to see CMR plant a few big ones on Mrs. CMR in 2012 and if they go 12-0 Whhooooo Nellllllieee!
Bronco
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Wow, UGA should be ashamed of putting togethe that out of conference schedule. GA Tech is the best out of conference team? HAHAHAHA.
Red and Black
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Any of you idiots who are saying “…when is UGA going to play a real schedule..etc etc” need to look back at the last 5 years. UGA has had their share of top 5 toughest schedules in the country. It’s about time UGA got a break. College football, especially in the SEC is cyclical. This exact same schedule in 3 years could be murderous. Typical tunnel visioned morons.
Techster
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
What a joke of a schedule! Wimps! You play this cupcake schedule and then have to face a real team like an Alabama or LSU and you’ll just get punked again.
DC
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
You may own us in recent standards..but do you own a crystal football ball? The schedule is a joke…not UGA’s fault..but it is what it is…This year was UGA’s year to win it all and they choked..they have another chance to go undefeated..I dont think murray is that guy for you all but whatever..
Good luck in your bowl and 2012
War eagle!
TampaGator
December 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
I thought you guys had an easy schedule this year. Wow. This one is even easier. Amazing.
RolltideATL
December 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
@Dawg Gone
Now you know good and @#$* well what you are saying is not true…….. really…. lol
secbama
December 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
Don’t worry Dawgs, you avoided is in Tuscaloosa. We will see you in Atlanta.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
Well you cant have it both ways. It wasnt to long ago many in the fanbase wanted to play tougher teams so Evans went out and scheduled the Arizona States,Oklahoma States,Clemson, Louisville and Oregon. Now the Lousivlle and Oregon games have not nor will be played. The philosophy has changed in Athens and I believe it is for the better. Why go out risk playing OOC games and wrecking the season when the SEC schedules for the most part prove to be a gauntlet in the first place. Trolls are the only ones whining about this schedule.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
Bronco
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Wow, UGA should be ashamed of putting togethe that out of conference schedule. GA Tech is the best out of conference team? HAHAHAHA.
Everyone else does it so now we do too. Suck it up buttercup.
NFL is better than College
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
True Dog Fan
The SEC has 2 Really Good Teams(LSU & BAMA) – everybody else is the conference is average at Best. Why don’t your team Grow a Pair and play against the big boys. Oh, I forgot, you did last year.i.e. Boise State, see what happened. Play a teams like Texas, Oregon State, Miami, or Florida State. Your team should be called “Next Year”, your fans always say next year they will be good. It never happens
The NFL doesn’t play for make believe Championships. The BCS championship is as arbitrary as a chocolate tomato. You rely on computer polls, coaches polls, ap polls, and I need a beat polls. Instead of getting a real playoff system. College teams changing conferences for money, but it’s amateur sport. Only college football fans can fall for a system like the BCS. Because no true sports fan will accept a bias system that operates that way. Yes I will keep the NFL, product in the LAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hit me up when your team grow up and play with the big boys……………how about them puppies………….:-((
You know what’s dumb, is you trying to justify that schedule when your own fans even admit it’s a weak schedule.
Sit down and go watch that special on Herschel Walker, because that was the last great team you had.
Wade in Marietta
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
You have got to be joking!!! Two years in a row that GA doesn’t play LSU, ALabama, and Arkansas. The SEC office must really think that UGA is a bunch of pansies. They won’t give them a tough er schedule because they can’t handle it. Let’s just throw them some softballs underhand so they can be sure to hit. This schedule reminds me of school kids these days not getting hard test or grades because they are affraid of what happens to a childs psychy if they fail; give me a freakin’ break!
UGA is going to start being labeled the Boise State of the SEC – Lots of wins but a weak schedule not worthy of a national championship team.
WDE
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
Someone out there sure hates A&M they get Bama,Ark,LSU, UF and Auburn in their first season in the SEC…..yikes!
Jingleheimer
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
The schedule is weak. We will end up paying for it when BCS rankings come out.
Proud-Dawg
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
@Haters “UGA sucks and no one cares about them, blah, blah, blah.”
So why do you take the time to turn on the computer, read the blog and comments, then post something about a team you don’t care about? You have to care about something in order to hate it. That’s a fact. From everyone in Athens and DawgNation, we’re glad “Georgia is on your mind”
BUZZards
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
If UGA was allowed to make the schedule they would play TECH every week and go 10-1 every year.
@ True Dog Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Why play tough OOC games when you already have to play in the toughest conference. If these other conferences would catch up then maybe SEC teams would have incentive to beef up their schedule. Until then the smartest thing to do in the SEC is to schedule the weakest OOC schedule you can, try to go 12-0, try to win the SECC and be a lock for the title game. Doing anything else would be…..well uncivilized.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
Techster
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
What a joke of a schedule! Wimps! You play this cupcake schedule and then have to face a real team like an Alabama or LSU and you’ll just get punked again.
Its only a joke bc we have to play tech every year. Maybe if yall were better our schedule would be too.
WDE
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
@Jingleheimer relax UF,Auburn, UT and Bug U might not sux so bad next year…hey it could happen.
Bama13
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
Dawgs will never be elite so long as they continue to dodge the best teams. Know why LSU, Bama (and yes, Auburn) stay at the top? Because they have to play each other every year. Meanwhile Georgia plays Vandy and Kentucky every year. To be the best, ya gotta play and beat the best.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
DC
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
You may own us in recent standards..but do you own a crystal football ball? The schedule is a joke…not UGA’s fault..but it is what it is…This year was UGA’s year to win it all and they choked..they have another chance to go undefeated..I dont think murray is that guy for you all but whatever..
Good luck in your bowl and 2012
War eagle!
Your store bought NC means something to only AU. Let us know when you actually win one with players you recruit not pay.
Lane Kiffin
December 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
UGA…what a joke! I dare you clowns to ever put the real USC on your schedule. You think Tennessee put a beat down on you when I was coach, you have seen nothing yet! My guess is you finish behind Florida and the Vols in the East. Battle it out for 4th with the little USC. But yea, what a joke of a schedule. How can you live with yourselves? And for the UGA fans who claim that LSU did not destroy them earlier this month. I cant stop laughing!!!! FIGHT ON!
@NFL is better than College
December 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
Feel free to stay off of college related blogs
Dan the man
December 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
Pathetic? True Dawg, you are pathetic. Wooo you beat Georgia Tech. Congrats. If you and your Georgia buds hang your hat on beating Tech, then you need to re examine your teams priorities . WE RUN THIS COUNTRY!!! Rednecks!!!! Georgia sucks
Bama Mike
December 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
In Georgia’s defense before 2011 even kicked off. Boise State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi State and Auburn were viewed as toss ups with Georgia projected as underdogs in 4 of the 6. Nobody could have predicted the mess or total collapse of Tennessee, Florida or Auburn. Miss State looking back on it was a decent win but they did not live up to the preseason hype and stumbled during the first half. We werent crying the blues for them at that time.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
NFL is better than College
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
And you get even dumber????
U have no brain for college football thats pretty obvious. See in college football there is the powerhouse Conf called the SEC that is loaded with talent everywhere you look. So when you have to play 8 of them, you tend to not schedule the hard OOC games. But for forever UGA did while everyone else played easy teams.
But now that UGA is doing it, call the police they are cheating o wow.
Run along little boy, and go watch your overpaid cry babies.
FYI no one likes the BCS.
C from Marietta
December 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
The maturity level on this blog is 5th grade level. Grow up people.
Proud-Dawg
December 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
“We’re glad Georgia is on your mind.”
RolltideATL
December 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
The fact is that, no matter who comes out of the east. It will just be a sparring match for whomever comes out of the west be it us or LSU. Before we get to the NC.
WDE
December 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
@TampaGator please don’t tell me anything about schedules yours is a darn sight easier than it was last year, you want to sing the schedule blues trade with A&M ..
Jborodawg
December 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
LSU’s 2012 football schedule…four cupcakes if you count Washington and Idaho…
North Texas
Washington
Idaho
at Auburn
Towson University
at Florida
South Carolina
at Texas A&M
Alabama
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
at Arkansas
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
Bama Mike thank you for being the voice of reason for Bama13 and his comment that was only to incite a reaction. Quality post on your part.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:26 pm
Wade in Marietta
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
You have got to be joking!!! Two years in a row that GA doesn’t play LSU, ALabama, and Arkansas. The SEC office must really think that UGA is a bunch of pansies. They won’t give them a tough er schedule because they can’t handle it. Let’s just throw them some softballs underhand so they can be sure to hit. This schedule reminds me of school kids these days not getting hard test or grades because they are affraid of what happens to a childs psychy if they fail; give me a freakin’ break!
UGA is going to start being labeled the Boise State of the SEC – Lots of wins but a weak schedule not worthy of a national championship team.
Have you not read anyones posts you retard???
The schedule is cyclical moron. Bama will roll onto the schedule next, then LSU, then Arky.
Go cry in a corner, and come back when you are smart enough to research before posting.
Bullpupp
December 28th, 2011
12:27 pm
True Dawg, the last time your team won anything was 1980! That’s right. Georgia sucks. Always have, always will. You guys WILL NEVER be Alabama nor will you ever. I hope Georgia keeps Mark Richt forever! Mediocrity is nice in Athens, but in T-town. And I see your post towards the Tech peeps, give it a rest. They got more National Titles and more of a legacy than Georgia ever will. It’s not their fault they can’t get good athletes every year, Tech is a tough school! Roll Tide!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 28th, 2011
12:28 pm
To think, 9 months of hearing from trolls about the schedule. Going to be a long offseason…
UGA cures Cancer...GT breeds Terrorist
December 28th, 2011
12:28 pm
Haters will hate…I’m glad we are still relevant in your eyes. Thanks for stopping by.
Sincerely,
UGA fans
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
12:28 pm
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
Dawgs will never be elite so long as they continue to dodge the best teams. Know why LSU, Bama (and yes, Auburn) stay at the top? Because they have to play each other every year. Meanwhile Georgia plays Vandy and Kentucky every year. To be the best, ya gotta play and beat the best.
We are in the East, you know the division that was hands down the best for a long time with UGA Tenn and Florida dominating everyone and duking it out for the SEC East title. Do research retard!
Red and Black
December 28th, 2011
12:28 pm
Bama13
“Dawgs will never be elite so long as they continue to dodge the best teams. Know why LSU, Bama (and yes, Auburn) stay at the top? Because they have to play each other every year. Meanwhile Georgia plays Vandy and Kentucky every year. To be the best, ya gotta play and beat the best.”
Maybe we should get the SEC to pick up the state of Georgia and move it west so we can be in the west and play those teams every year. Typical Bama fan who doesn’t remember the few short years ago…and I mean few…when Bama, LSU, Arkansas and the whole West sucked…Auburn was pretty good then. The East was dominating then and the West was a joke. But hey, lets just talk about what is happening right now and act like UGA should just blow up their schedule every year and play the top 12 toughest teams in the country just to make you happy over there in Bammer. Maybe do a little recent history lesson for yourself (last 7 years) and see if you can learn yourself sumpin (doesn’t that language make sense over there)