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
1:18 pm
This Schedule has the making of a COACH KILLER. How long was Richt’s extension? If UGA isn’t in the DOME with 1 loss or less it should surprise everybody. If the Dawgs are not in the DOME at all Richt & Bobo really have to go. The Dawgs better win cause Murray, Jarvis, and Charles will be gone for sure after next year and 13 will be stiff.
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.
Those defending 3 easy OOC game at home are Fools. Why in the hell would you want to PAY Good Money to see Ga Southern, Buffalo, or Coastal Carolina? Don’t you know you are getting ROBBED and you are smiling and bending over gladly taking it. That is just STUPID.
9 Conference Games make the price of tickets worth it.
Well you did say this IS BIG BOY FOOTBALL so Pay to see it and Play it too.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Wet Willie…keep on smiling
December 28th, 2011
1:17 pm
What a complete DA! Bama plays LSU,A&M,Mizzso,Ark and you saw Bama is lucky not to play the loser Dogs. No matter what the teams in the East do they will get the living sheet beat out of them when they play the West winner. Getting to Atlanta from the East side means nothing other than you will get blasted by 40 by the West. Enjoy being the best college team in America from March until August…again little pups.
ahahahahhahaha. You have no clue do you??? Where we the west teams when UGA, UF and TEnn were winning the SEC every year?????? Hmmmmmm……
Another DA, congrats on being a retard!
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Bama did not want UGA on its schedule at all. Look at the last several meetings.
BAMA does not deserve to be playing LSU in the TITLE game!!!!!!!!!
Rooty Tooty
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Watchout, they will have Valdosta State and Albany State on the schedule before years end..Talk about a cupcake schedule. The mighty dawgs are no better than the 4-5th place team in the SEC West
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Bama did not want UGA on its schedule at all. Look at the last several meetings.
BAMA does not deserve to be playing LSU in the TITLE game!!!!!!!!!
Aint that the truth, Ok State should be playing.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:20 pm
Rooty Tooty
December 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Watchout, they will have Valdosta State and Albany State on the schedule before years end..Talk about a cupcake schedule. The mighty dawgs are no better than the 4-5th place team in the SEC West
Ur an idiot, go back through comments and see bama and floridas easy OCG schedule. Move along retard
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:20 pm
BAMA will get CRUSHED in the TITLE game!
LSU 35
BAMa 17
DIT
December 28th, 2011
1:20 pm
@True Dawg Fan
Very true. I still hate the easy schedule. I’d rather play a tough schedule to prove our worth.
Look at at LSU this year. Their schedule was the hardest and hence, no one is arguing who the best team in the land is.
mizzorydawg
December 28th, 2011
1:20 pm
It is gonna be fun to see these boys really learn how to tailgate. Been to several big 12 games & They aint gotta clue how to do it. I guess we’ll just have to teach em.
wade
December 28th, 2011
1:21 pm
Bama don’t want UGA on schedule at all….lol!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:21 pm
A person SMART enough to know……
December 28th, 2011
1:18 pm
Well seeing as ours would be tech It would still give us 3 cup cake games
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:22 pm
THanks to Mike Slive for allowing us to have a schedule similar to the dead beats in the west!
Most of you forget/ not old enough to know that UGA, UF, and UT mashed the west for a decade!
Mountain DAWG
December 28th, 2011
1:23 pm
There was a time when UT, AU, Fla games were powerhouses and almost guaranteed losses for the DAWGS. I didn’t include Tech as they are usually just a cut above New Mexico State. Just a bowl game scrimmage. The east is definitely down, but can’t fault UGA for that. Welcome MIZZ! Glad to have you in the best conference in the USA- winners of 5 (guaranteed to be 6, soon) straight national titles. Sorry ACC fans, you are still just the ACC.
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:24 pm
BAMA lies, cheats and steals! They have the lowest class fans in college football history!
They do not deserve to play for the national title this year!!!!!!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:24 pm
DIT
December 28th, 2011
1:20 pm
@True Dawg Fan
Very true. I still hate the easy schedule. I’d rather play a tough schedule to prove our worth.
Look at at LSU this year. Their schedule was the hardest and hence, no one is arguing who the best team in the land is.
I see your point and yes it would be nice to not hear all the haters, but go back and look at some of the previous winners and see how they won it. Lots of those you will see 3-4 cup cake OOc games and then getting lucky with which SEC teams they were forced to play that year. Not many have had to go through what LSU did this year. (Bama def didnt even come close to as tough a schedule)
crusherdawg
December 28th, 2011
1:24 pm
True Dawg Fan. If half of the ACC teams would go undefeated with the schedule then why aren’t they in the SEC. The pathetic conference in football is the ACC. Besides Va. Tech you don’t have a team that is a consistent winner.
Get a life………………………………….
Alrighty then...
December 28th, 2011
1:25 pm
Depending on one’s point of view this is wonderful or terrible. If UGA blows through this schedule the talking heads will say they should and rank them low because of a “light” schedule; however, if we tank on a few then we will be overrated and the “Fire Mark Richt” contingency will be gnashing their teeth. IF all of our non seniors come back and we get a few good recruits plus BoBo taking “In Game adjustments 101″, we might do just fine. There is no excuse for us not repeating as SEC East Champs though.
Mtn Dawg
December 28th, 2011
1:25 pm
I say we go :
Sept 4 – 1
Oct 3 – 0
Nov 4 – 0
11 – 1 and SEC East Champs
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
December 28th, 2011
1:26 pm
UGA Deam team and Fans! Show us your trophies….I thought so!
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:26 pm
Saban will start to rethink his future in the lousy state of Alabama once he get pounded by LSU!
Jimmy Crack
December 28th, 2011
1:27 pm
The Mizzou game will not be easy by any stretch. Their mobile passing QB will be a Junior and he has alot of yards both passing and rushing. Their #1 RB is also a Junior (their QB is the #2 rusher). Their #1 & #3 WRs will be Seniors, however they are losing their #2 receiver, who was their TE. Still, a veteran college skill set. The bad news for them is they are losing Seniors on the offensive line (LG, RG, RT). It should be a great game.
Sad, sad little tech fans
December 28th, 2011
1:30 pm
To the Tech fans on here pretending to be other SEC team fans, here is an education for you. S. Carolina’s annual SEC West opponent is Ark. Since USC joined in 1992 they have only faced LSU 6 times. UGA has seen them 9 times during the same time span. LSU is UF’s annaul west rival just like how Bama is for UT. And UGA’s is obviously Auburn.
Make better sense now cheats???
BAMA got LUCKY
December 28th, 2011
1:30 pm
never met a succesful bama fan!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:31 pm
crusherdawg
December 28th, 2011
1:24 pm
True Dawg Fan. If half of the ACC teams would go undefeated with the schedule then why aren’t they in the SEC. The pathetic conference in football is the ACC. Besides Va. Tech you don’t have a team that is a consistent winner.
Get a life………………………………….
First off get it straight who you are trying to address as I am a UGA fan and think the ACC is just barely above the big east in terms of conf.
Roll TRASH!
December 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
Enter your comments here
DawnTiger
December 28th, 2011
1:34 pm
And this is why strength of schedule is a factor in the BCS…
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:36 pm
I think the Bulldogs have a pretty good team, but when are they going to make the schedule reflect it. They really shouldn’t even have a loss going into the SECCG with this schedule. Mizzou looked good, but not SEC good.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
A Tek fan passing judgement on someone else’s schedule strength is as laughable as Obama calling simebody else a Communist!!! Lol!! Both are comedy gold!!
Where's the beef
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
I guess some will figure this 2012 schedule will be an easy road to a title, but not playing Alabama or LSU only hurts us, doesn’t it? See another season of negative slamming by ESPN commentators and others. Too weak of a schedule.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:36 pm
I think the Bulldogs have a pretty good team, but when are they going to make the schedule reflect it. They really shouldn’t even have a loss going into the SECCG with this schedule. Mizzou looked good, but not SEC good.
How hard is it to understand that we dont make the schedule. All you have to do is read the article. Good lord people!
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Bama got Lucky – So OSU is better I guess? SOS matters in these picks. When was UGA’s last ’ship. Fill me in.
wade
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Thanks Chip for info..Happy year!
Tunesmyth
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Poor Georgia….doing all they can to avoid real football teams…
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:39 pm
Where’s the beef
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
I guess some will figure this 2012 schedule will be an easy road to a title, but not playing Alabama or LSU only hurts us, doesn’t it? See another season of negative slamming by ESPN commentators and others. Too weak of a schedule.
ESPN would bash us if we played a top 10 team every week and won. thats how they work. How do you think Bama got into title game???? bc ESPN said so thats why.
Utah Dawg
December 28th, 2011
1:40 pm
There are no cupcake schedules in the SEC. There are only degrees of hard. If you are not ready to play, anyone can beat you on any given day. This is not the Mountain West or the Big Least. That said, it is one of the less difficult schedules in the SEC.
And why do Tech fans feel the need to come over here and antagonize especially after they got there arses handed to them. I don’t care enough about them to even look at the articles related much less post a comment. They are irrelevant.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:40 pm
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Bama got Lucky – So OSU is better I guess? SOS matters in these picks. When was UGA’s last ’ship. Fill me in.
Yes OSU is better and played better teams. Bama should be in Sugar bowl if any BCS game period.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
Tunesmyth
December 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Poor Georgia….doing all they can to avoid real football teams…
Learn to read before posting
wade
December 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
Happy New Year..everyone good luck in Bowls to all Georgia teams.
The schedule is done by SEC …just play the games and be happy..same for ACC just play and shut up!
A person SMART enough to know......
December 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
Q…..If the SEC is so great then WHY when UGA wins the SEC don’t they get a shot at the BCS MNC?
A…..because NOBODY respects UGA schedule.
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
Bama got Lucky. I remember the last time UGA played Bama. The much hyped Bulldogs down 31-0 at Sanford Stadium. Yea, that’s a good look. That’s why UGA removed Bama. If I’m not mistaken, the headline reads “UGA drops Alabama.” SMH at some UGA fans.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
A person SMART enough to know……
December 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
Q…..If the SEC is so great then WHY when UGA wins the SEC don’t they get a shot at the BCS MNC?
A…..because NOBODY respects UGA schedule.
Actually it was back before the SEC got the recognition as being the best conf in the country. Do some research retard!
NFL is better than College
December 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
@True Dog Fan -
IF IF IF IF, we(uga) played those teams right now we would beat them this year. Fool, you played Boise State this year and YOU LOST. If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle. You don’t know anything about college football. Look at the non-conference schedule that LSU has. No one can complain about teams that they have beaten inside/outside of their conference. They are a better team for it. LSU would play anybody – anywhere. That’s why the are playing for the NC and you are not!!!!!!!!
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:44 pm
BamaFan
December 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
Bama got Lucky. I remember the last time UGA played Bama. The much hyped Bulldogs down 31-0 at Sanford Stadium. Yea, that’s a good look. That’s why UGA removed Bama. If I’m not mistaken, the headline reads “UGA drops Alabama.” SMH at some UGA fans.
read the article moron. No one dropped anyone the SEC made the schedules.
Yea and thats the only time you have won hahahaha. We even came back that game and almost beat you ahahahhaaha.
John
December 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
Gee, it takes a lot of guts to drop Alabama in exchange for Missouri and to delay the start of any conference games. Now, if UGA can just get rid of the Gators and Auburn they’ll pretty much be able to write their own ticket to the SEC championship game. The Bulldogs have done nothing to help their image by this maneuvering.
munsondawg
December 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
I love reading the posts about how UGA makes its own schedule.. For all you fools who believe that, you need to do some homework before posting nonsense here.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
NFL is better than College
December 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
@True Dog Fan -
IF IF IF IF, we(uga) played those teams right now we would beat them this year. Fool, you played Boise State this year and YOU LOST. If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle. You don’t know anything about college football. Look at the non-conference schedule that LSU has. No one can complain about teams that they have beaten inside/outside of their conference. They are a better team for it. LSU would play anybody – anywhere. That’s why the are playing for the NC and you are not!!!!!!!!
Well actually they are playing for the NC bc they are undefeated not bc they had a tough schedule you tool.
We would beat boise right this sec if we played. We learned a lot from the loss and became a much much better team bc of it. Hence why we would beat them NOW.
And yes we could take on USC no problem. They play in a sissy conf. Learn the game then come back retard.
FYI you were the one talking ifs I just responded so you really just made fun of yourself, Congrats!
KD
December 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
Wow! If there is such a thing as an easy football schedule in the SEC, then this is it.
mcdaviddawg
December 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
need to get rid of the high school games. 9 SEC games would help fix that. Full price to watch them practice is getting old. And to top it off Richt wants to count them as wins.
True Dawg Fan
December 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
John
December 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
Gee, it takes a lot of guts to drop Alabama in exchange for Missouri and to delay the start of any conference games. Now, if UGA can just get rid of the Gators and Auburn they’ll pretty much be able to write their own ticket to the SEC championship game. The Bulldogs have done nothing to help their image by this maneuvering.
ahahahahahha another moron, read the article DA.
SEC made the schedule
Paul in NH
December 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
The schedule isn’t a surprise – the rumor of Mizzou replacing Bama has been around for weeks now.
If the SEC stays with 8 games where you play 6 division rivals, one tradional rival in the other division (e.g. UGA-Auburn, ALA-Tenn, UF-LSU, etc) you’ll only get a home game against one of the other 6 teams in the conference every 12 years. Slive and the ADs will love it – the fans, not so much.