Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East
HOOVER, Ala. — Georgia will win the SEC East and lose to LSU in the SEC Championship game again this season.
That’s according to the annual preseason media poll, announced Thursday at SEC Media Days.
Georgia received 132 votes to win the East, followed by 72 votes for South Carolina and 12 for Florida.
LSU drew 139 votes to win the West, followed by 72 for defending national champion Alabama and six for Arkansas.
If the media is correct in both divisions, that would set up a rematch of last year’s SEC title game. And the outcome would be the same, too, according to the preseson media poll.
LSU received 129 votes to win the SEC championship, followed by 65 votes for Alabama and 14 for Georgia. Five other teams got six votes or fewer to win the conference title, including one unfathomable vote for Mississippi.
“I hope the media is right [on its SEC East pick],” Georgia coach Mark Richt said. “I was looking at the record of picking the eventual champion, and it wasn’t real good. Maybe you guys are a lot better at picking divisional champions anyway. But it would be nice to get back to Atlanta … and hopefully play a little bit better this time around.”
The annual media poll has attempted to predict the SEC order of finish since 1992. But it has correctly predicted the eventual SEC champion only four times in those 20 years, most recently in 2008 (Florida).
PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH
SEC EAST
Team (first-place votes) Points
Georgia (132) 1434
South Carolina (72) 1358
Florida (12) 1045
Missouri (2) 797
Tennessee (4) 718
Vanderbilt 598
Kentucky 266
SEC WEST
Team (first-place votes) Points
LSU (139) 1449
Alabama (72) 1379
Arkansas (6) 1093
Auburn (4) 827
Texas A&M 653
Mississippi State 554
Ole Miss (1) 261
SEC CHAMPION
Team Votes
LSU 129
Alabama 65
Georgia 14
South Carolina 6
Arkansas 4
Auburn 2
Florida 1
Ole Miss 1
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 3 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East
- Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being undisciplined team
- Six UGA players on media’s preseason All-SEC teams
- Dooley: ‘You’re not going to have Tennessee to kick around anymore’
- Richt, Georgia have been hurt by too many recruiting risks
- Mark Richt: ‘We don’t recruit bad kids’
- Alabama vows to avoid 2010-type complacency
- It’s UGA’s turn in the spotlight
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 2 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- A conversation with former UGA quarterback Zach Mettenberger, now LSU’s starter
- Atlanta’s college-football playoff bid still percolating
- Schultz: Muschamp deserves some time at Florida
- Coaches’ sideline behavior a point of emphasis for SEC officials
- Miss. State needs to pick it up in SEC West
- Muschamp: Dooley didn’t complain about playing Florida in Jacksonville
- Kentucky coach Joker Phillips says he’s feeling no heat
- Schultz: Arkansas living with humiliation after Petrino firing
- Auburn welcomes VanGorder back to the SEC
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 1 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- SEC commissioner Mike Slive talks playoffs and a lot more
- South Carolina’s Spurrier prefers UGA’s schedule
- Missouri, Texas A&M state their case
- Jeff Schultz’s digi-blog: Welcome to Media Daze.
- Aggies excited, not intimidated, by SEC debut.
- Schultz: SEC needs to be vigilant to avoid Penn State-like scandals
- Vanderbilt coach passes on question about Todd Grantham
- The media’s record at predicting SEC champ: 4-16 since 1992
- Spurrier has no qualms about this quarterback
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140 comments Add your comment
Warner Robins DAWG
July 19th, 2012
9:45 am
you damn right we’ll win the east, but we’ll win the SEC too, Mettneberger better tighten that chin strap. Jarvis Jones is gonna be on the loose again this year and honey badger’s luck is up. This is big boy ball. GO DAWGS!! GATA
Bryan G.
July 19th, 2012
9:45 am
Who on earth voted for Ole Miss?
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
9:51 am
bryan
Must have been Spurrier since they are playing us
Ray
July 19th, 2012
9:58 am
LOL! IN WHAT WORLD IS UGA WINNING THIS YEAR?
Let’s get past Missouri and South Carolina first, and finally have a back to back beating of UF then we can talk about winning SEC East.
Trueblueeagle
July 19th, 2012
9:59 am
which means UGA will not win it! And finish 8-4.
Max Sizemore
July 19th, 2012
10:01 am
Exactly the question I had, Bryan.
Trueblueeagle
July 19th, 2012
10:01 am
Media last got it right in —- 1996! hahaha
Granthams The Man
July 19th, 2012
10:01 am
Go dawgs!!! GATA!!!
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Ray
July 19th, 2012
10:04 am
@Trueblueeagle
That’s around about where they could land at worse we have another 7-5 year at best maybe 10-2 I just can’t see us getting by South Carolina or Mizzou(underrated).
We got the defense to win every game included SECCG, but we don’t have an offense that amounts to much of anything at all. Even our BEST QB in Murray just can’t get it done if Stafford were here with some of the stuff Aaron got around him man we’d have probably going on 3 championships.
Richard
July 19th, 2012
10:05 am
So the media, with all their wisdom, voted exactly according to the order of finish last year.
Tough job.
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
10:07 am
PRESEASON 2008 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!!
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
10:08 am
Back in 2010, Auburn was picked by the geniuses in the media to lose 4-5 games. I love watching the geniuses in the media, crumble.
c
July 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Are the 4 idiots who voted for Tennessee to win the East the same 4 idiots who voted for Auburn to win the west?
pcb football fan
July 19th, 2012
10:11 am
Warner Robins DAWG
July 19th, 2012
9:45 am
you damn right we’ll win the east, but we’ll win the SEC too, Mettneberger better tighten that chin strap. Jarvis Jones is gonna be on the loose again this year and honey badger’s luck is up. This is big boy ball. GO DAWGS!! GATA
Same Story EVERY Year, and same results, UGA FALL FLAT!
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
10:07 am
PRESEASON 2008 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!!
So True….and in UGA rabid non thinkers, they have been SEC/World Beaters Pre-Season Champions for 15 straight years.
Hotty Toddy
July 19th, 2012
10:28 am
Hotty Toddy? More like Crack.
David Granger
July 19th, 2012
10:29 am
Hope so, but of course we all know that preseason predictions don’t mean bibbidy-squat. We have a good team, and a favorable schedule. I do hope Coach Richt gets the team ready to play hard right from the very opening kickoff, and we don’t take a full half to get going like we do sometimes. We need to be prepared to play tough from the very beginning, and keep it up a full four quarters. If we can manage to do that, we’ll be OK.
Wolfman
July 19th, 2012
10:32 am
If they don’t win the East with their schedule it SHOULD be a major disappointment.
BigDawg
July 19th, 2012
10:34 am
Shoulda been 2007 National Champs till Les whined his way to the game “You should have to win the SEC championship to be in the BCS title game.” Nick Saban supported that at the time too. I bet Les still feels that way, lol!
ben
July 19th, 2012
10:41 am
Georgia has a lot of question marks, still. The only sure wins are Buffalo, FAU, Georgia Southern, and Tech.
DirtyDawg
July 19th, 2012
10:43 am
The last thing we needed…I know that the media at this thing hasn’t exactly shown that they can predict the overall winner but I don’t know about the Divisions. Guess well just have to go out and do it. We’ve beat em before and we can beat em again.
JJ
July 19th, 2012
10:44 am
Chip – you have to find out who the guy is that voted Ole Miss to win the division and conference. Kudos to that guy for mocking the idea of a media poll in the first place.
The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
July 19th, 2012
10:45 am
HA. A few high schools could win the East with UGA’s schedule.
LSUTiger_in_ATL
July 19th, 2012
10:45 am
The poll is correct in that LSU will win SEC again and most likely spank UGA in title game (again) due to their DIII strength of schedule.
LSUTiger_in_ATL
July 19th, 2012
10:46 am
LSU will win the SEC again….GEAUX TIGERS!
JJ
July 19th, 2012
10:47 am
If the Dawgs don’t win the East, there should be no questions about Richt’s future in Athens. None. It has never set up this well in my 37 years, and probably never will again. Ray Goff couldn’t screw this up, Richt sure as hell better not.
Dawg in Bama
July 19th, 2012
10:50 am
Can’t we just get past Mizzuo first? Then SC? Then FL? Then AU? Looks like we are counting chickens….
The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
July 19th, 2012
10:50 am
HA! I love how even though UGA is expected to win the EAST, Alabama is more probable to win the SEC.
Translation = all schedule
BobDawg
July 19th, 2012
10:51 am
Glad the spotlight is on us as it should be… schedule will toughen from the SEC Chmpship on… As Spurrier told Bama, it is tougher to win the SEC than the Nat’l Chmpship….
bucket
July 19th, 2012
10:51 am
UGA haters are so funny! Half of them think the schedule is so easy that UGA will back into a SEC East title and the other half think the schedule is so tough that UGA will lose 4 or 5 games! Which one is it? lol
LSUTiger_in_ATL
July 19th, 2012
10:52 am
Tide is rolling…..don’t you love reading these UGA fan comments?
Dawgsgone
July 19th, 2012
10:53 am
Before we jerk our shoulders out of joint patting ourselves on the back, remember we still have CMR and Bobo in charge of the offense and to be “generous” we have not been that well prepared or able to make mid game adjustments in the past. Love the Dawgs and always will regardless but lets play the season one game at a time, win a couple to start, build some momentum and THEN start thinking about bigger and better things. The talent is there (O.Line?) but they still have to be prepared and coached through the games and season.
Dawg Haus
July 19th, 2012
10:53 am
Let’s focus on beating Missouri first.
P_The_Ricker
July 19th, 2012
10:53 am
Will UGA be able to handle the pressure? First time since 2004 that the media has predicted UGA to win the east.
If Richt can’t shake the recent conception (reality) that his teams can’t handle pressure and actually win the east….then he’ll be without a job come the 2nd week in Dec. The new contract makes a separation easy.
Argentina Blue
July 19th, 2012
10:55 am
Georgia will probably go 9-3 and might win the East depending on if and how South Carolina and Florida stumble along the way. They’ll lose two against the better part of their SEC schedule (Missouri, Carolina, Florida, and Auburn) and then drop one of the last two against Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech. No way they win the SEC, though.
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
10:58 am
With UGA’s schedule its not really even possible for any other team to win the east.
Stiffneck
July 19th, 2012
11:01 am
Georgia will win the SEC East?? Really? I hope so but have my doubts. Considering the last two games UGA did nothing in the second half against LSU and gave up 33 points in the second half to MSU leaves me wondering how this team /coaching staff will perform. Got to play 4 quarters. I guess we’ll see…….
Buckeye
July 19th, 2012
11:02 am
Bla bla bla
Bla bla bla bla
AltamahaDawg
July 19th, 2012
11:04 am
Guys, I think they intend on playing the teams in the same order that they appear on the schedule. No need to keep suggesting that.
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
11:04 am
HA! I love how even though UGA is expected to win the EAST, Alabama is more probable to win the SEC.
Not only that but Alabama got 44 more votes then the entire SEC East combined. They really should do something about that division.
JB
July 19th, 2012
11:06 am
unfortunately fir the media, they leave a footprint of their predictions. mostly wrong. Florida could go 12-0. Dawgs could go 8-4.
bucket
July 19th, 2012
11:06 am
The UGA haters sure spend a lot of time on the UGA Sports blogs. I don’t spend time on things I don’t care about, but that’s just me I guess.
gadem
July 19th, 2012
11:09 am
TN will win the EAST!!! GA blows!
P_The_Ricker
July 19th, 2012
11:09 am
gtbob @ 11:04
it’s cyclical! what don’t you understand?
lsu had zero sec championships in the 1990s
alabama had 1 sec championship in the 2000s
they both just happen to be good the last several years at the same time.
auburn has 2 sec championships total from 1992 – 2011. no other sec west team has won the sec champ.
the western division has hardly owned the SEC!
MS Bully
July 19th, 2012
11:10 am
State could win the East playing UGA’s schedule. Come play Bama, TX A&M, LSU, and Arkansas in 4 straight weeks with both Bama and LSU on the road. Then take a break and destroy some Teddy Bears for the 4th straight year!!
RedandBlackDAWG
July 19th, 2012
11:14 am
I would be interested to see a poll come out as to what each teams record will be this year. For those pointing at last years records as a precursor for peformance of this years team at any college, I would think you might want to remember that each team is different from one year to the next. The same players the year before might not have had the experience they needed, or a critical mistake could cause a loss, but that doesn’t mean it will happen again this year. Injuries and even off field incidents can have a profound affect on a program.
Remember, there haven’t been a lot of repeat NC’s in the NCAA in quite a while.
s. georgia native
July 19th, 2012
11:15 am
P_ricker
couldn’t have said it any better myself. be cautioned though….tech fans lack reasoning skills, unless they can use an equation to explain it.
Reebok
July 19th, 2012
11:16 am
As a Tech fan, I agree that Georgia will make it to the SEC Championship game, possibly undefeated. Georgia’s a good team playing a weak schedule. The interesting thing is, if Georgia can somehow pull out a victory against Bama or LSU (I think we can all agree it’s going to be one of those 2), they could play for the National Championship…it’s all laid out for Georgia this season, and they may not have another shot like this for many years.
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
11:17 am
The history of wrong picks relates to the overall SEC champion.
doesn’t bode well for LSU
Tommy
July 19th, 2012
11:17 am
With the easiest schedule in the SEC, they should be embarrased if they do not.
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
11:18 am
Dead on Reebok
I have said it many times, the time is now
border dweller
July 19th, 2012
11:19 am
FIRST ! (page)
Got the Talent on O? …Check
Got the Talent on D?…Check
Got the Schedule?…Check
Got the Munchies…Check
Well, three out of four ain’t too shabby.
bucket
July 19th, 2012
11:21 am
@ DawginLex – I’m with you guys about this being the make or break year for CMR. No more excuses.
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
11:21 am
the western division has hardly owned the SEC!
The west has won the last 3 SEC championships by an average of 30 points. The east isn’t even coming within 4 touchdowns. According to the above votes, no one thinks the SEC east really even has a chance to win the SEC. The old days are over. Quit clinging to them in an effort to convince people you are still relevant. The west completely owns the east right now.
Dawg Haus
July 19th, 2012
11:24 am
I think all of Bulldog Nation is finally on the same page with 2012 being a make or break year for this program. A lot of key players will probably be leaving after this season.
I-185
July 19th, 2012
11:26 am
BAMA
Will win West and the SEC.
They have the best offensive line in the country… No question.
They may bore some with their style. Maintain a strong ground game, do not turn the ball over. Play a strong defense at all times.
WIN WIN WIN
P_The_Ricker
July 19th, 2012
11:31 am
gt bob,
so by your logic, the sec as a whole should be broken-up as well, considering that teams from the league have won the last 6 bcs championships?
instead of focusing your concerns regarding divisional differences, maybe you should re-focus your concerns as to how far behind the rest of the leagues are.
AltamahaDawg
July 19th, 2012
11:40 am
MS Bully, I am pretty sure Georgia could do better than 0-12 playing those teams that you mentioned. Maybe you should concentrate on beating one of them, ever, then worry about our side. You would loss at least 3 SEC games playing our schedule this year so NO, you would not win the east.
azdawg
July 19th, 2012
11:40 am
There are just too many ?? to make championship claims this soon. A new and undersized OL for the most part won’t help the running game nor pass protection against SEC defenses. Loss of their best RB was a big blow toss in expecting FR to replace IC is a long shot. Attrition during the off season, suspensions, etc, thins an already shrinking back up corps. Doesn’t appear CMR has done anything to fix special teams play which cost GA a few games in ‘11. Only bright spot is the defense but can’t expect them to win games if the Offense sputters as it did in the 4 losses last season.
The MO game will be a good yardstick to measure how successful dawgs will be this season. If they struggle and we see the same problems as we’ve seen in past seasons then some heads have to roll. Lets hope for a miracle because thats what they’ll need to reach championship level.
AltamahaDawg
July 19th, 2012
11:47 am
The line is not undersized.
buckblue
July 19th, 2012
11:49 am
42 – 10 Remember pups….calm down…you are going to get spanked again….
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
11:50 am
instead of focusing your concerns regarding divisional differences, maybe you should re-focus your concerns as to how far behind the rest of the leagues are.
This blog is about the SEC and the picks for the SEC championship. If you would like to discuss how terrible college football is in other conferences I would love to, but it isnt really relevant here.
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
11:50 am
“Shoulda been 2007 National Champs”
Nope, try again, mutt.
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
11:51 am
“the western division has hardly owned the SEC!”
LSU, Bama, Auburn, Bama in the West
Florida in the East.
Owned.
SAL
July 19th, 2012
11:52 am
Well they should! They have one of the easiest schedules in the country this year. If they don’t win the east, they will NEVER win anything ever again.
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
11:52 am
“doesn’t bode well for LSU”
LSU won the SEC last year, mutt.
Kerryb
July 19th, 2012
12:02 pm
What does the stupid media know. LSU will beat us because….Why? They are LSU? They are also starting a new player at the most important position on the field and we have an experienced 3 year starter. I think that give US the edge.
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Larry Bird
July 19th, 2012
12:11 pm
Somebody said the other day that the AJC needs to set up a facebook style login and I think that’s the smartest Idea I’ve ever read on these blogs. I guarantee it would weed out some of these losers who come on here just to bash out the Dawgs. At the very least it would prevent people from having eight different names and arguing with everybody.
AltamahaDawg
July 19th, 2012
12:20 pm
Larry that would cut down on the hits when they sell the ads to: Please Buy Gator Tickets or Vote for Obama.
uscjimi
July 19th, 2012
12:22 pm
Lets all settle down a little bit! What are the chances that the SEC East division winner won’t have a minimum of two conference losses? Could the East Division winner have three conference losses?
AltamahaDawg
July 19th, 2012
12:26 pm
no
Dawg Haus
July 19th, 2012
12:31 pm
Loving your 12:20 post, Altamaha.
Bama in Atlanta
July 19th, 2012
12:32 pm
Kerryb
July 19th, 2012
12:02 pm
What does the stupid media know. LSU will beat us because….Why? They are LSU? They are also starting a new player at the most important position on the field and we have an experienced 3 year starter. I think that give US the edge.
———————–
Kerryb, the flaw in that logic regarding QB is that last year Bama was not given a chance to win anything, much less the BCS NC, because we had a rookie QB. While the percentages may support your argument, there’s never a guarantee.
Joey
July 19th, 2012
12:34 pm
As a public service…
Would that be for the Chick-fil-a bowl?
Our bowl game probably won’t be for another week or so. Maybe we can make it . . .
RE: Bryan G.
July 19th, 2012
12:36 pm
Who on earth voted for Georgia?? Oh, yeah…cupcake schedule. Now I got it; although, it won’t work.
Dawgs poop their way to a 9-3 record. Ole Ball Coach will win the East.
7576DAWG
July 19th, 2012
12:37 pm
The Missouri game will tell us a lot. If Murray can hold down his mistakes and if Morgan is accurate inside of 45 yards Georgia will be a force this year. If both of those things are a mirror image of last year then the prediction is wrong but the important part is Georgia has the personnel to win the East , the question is do we have the leadership.
The Reader
July 19th, 2012
12:42 pm
Absolutely not. No way to beat SC,FL. Also – by the end of October there will be some key players suspended for DUI, etc., and maybe their sports dir in some kind of trouble. The scandal w/ the president will be going on, too.
Nimrod Dawg
July 19th, 2012
12:56 pm
We’re sittin’ pretty to back in again. It doesn’t get any better than this!!
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Saldiven
July 19th, 2012
1:17 pm
If UGA should win the East and face LSU again, I actually think UGA would win the rematch. UGA’s defense is all returning, by and large, as is LSU’s. People forget how UGA dominated the first half of that game; it wasn’t until special teams miscues and a couple of turnovers that LSU began to have any success. It will, of course, come down to whether or not UGA can establish a meaningful running game this year. If UGA can establish that meaningful running game, they should win the SEC. If they cannot, they probably will not win the East.
To Tell the Truth
July 19th, 2012
1:23 pm
GA SUCKS!!!
NO NC in 30 + years!!!! LMAO!!
SC wins the East!!!
Joey
July 19th, 2012
1:34 pm
To Tell the Truth,
10 – 1
GA TECH SUCKS A LOT WORSE!!!
LOLOLOL
July 19th, 2012
1:42 pm
“GA TECH SUCKS A LOT WORSE!!!”
Actually, both GT and UGA suck evenly. The only difference is GT has won a title since Reagan left office.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
July 19th, 2012
1:43 pm
Here we go again, UGA wins SEC East, SEC then NC!
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 19th, 2012
1:46 pm
What is NEW? The UGa fans think “THIS IS THE YEAR” until is quickly becomes “Wait Til Next Year”.
GS
July 19th, 2012
1:55 pm
The MEDIA picked Georgia to win the SEC East division. Too bad their games won’t be played on the media’s computers and stat sheets, but actually on the field. Keep filling the We’re Gonna’s heads with more hot air.
Ticket Tax
July 19th, 2012
2:02 pm
“This is a very, very criminal situation that probably reflects poorly on a lot of folks,”
mad~catfish
July 19th, 2012
2:11 pm
you know i really am sick to death of this schedule talk crap…i mean you act like georgia decides who it plays in the sec….everything is on rotation which means every few years you will not play bama and lsu we do not decide that spurier does not decide that and never ever will…he can play ole’ miss next year….this is absurd….can we please take a look at the ga tech schedule…
Sept. 3 – at Virginia Tech
Sept. 8 – Presbyterian
Sept. 15 – Virginia
Sept. 22 – Miami
Sept. 29 – Middle Tennessee State
Oct. 6 – at Clemson
Oct. 13 – Open date
Oct. 20 – Boston College
Oct. 27 – BYU
Nov. 3 – at Maryland
Nov. 10 – at North Carolina
Nov. 17 – Duke
Nov. 24 – at Georgia
Presbyterian really???? the mighty blue hoses wow wahta barn burner…. i bet that will be offered with 4 hot dogs 4 cokes 4 programs and a gun shot wound down on the flats…duke ever really??? uga and byu only credible games on this schedule and the sad thing is we may have a off year for schedule and predicted to go 12-0…you have a off year of a schedule every year in the wac acc and still this year like any other year predicted to go 6-6….oh and yet again another loss in athens…are you getting sick or crow instead of turkey every year,,,,cause i sure love sippin fine wine out of the governor’s cup time after time…how does it feel you run the triple option…WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!
GaStateBen
July 19th, 2012
2:24 pm
Good thing the schedule is so easy this year.
Fair n Balanced
July 19th, 2012
2:38 pm
Expectations too high. Ga never has measured up to them. I hope we do but this schedule will be tougher than we think. If we win both games in Columbia we will win East. Lose either of them and we probably won’t. Beginning of season has to be strong. Then we have to get better.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 19th, 2012
2:42 pm
I am not sure having the easiest schedule in the east has anything to do with making it easier to win the whole SEC. I know there is some logic there, but isn’t LSU or Alabama going to be still the same team , no matter what schedule UGA has leading up to Atlanta? Would it be any different if UGA had the hardest schedule in the east and still won?
In 2010 UGA was also supposed to have had an easy schedule according to Spurrier and S.C. won the East and got their pants handed to them by Auburn in Atlanta. Did having a harder East schedule equate to winning the SEC? Is it the principle that the less tough schedule you get, the better you are in the big game? Spurrier complains that UGA had an easy schedule and didn’t deserve to be in the SECCG. If S.C. had won the Auburn game, wouldn’t they have been in Atlanta. Seems to me, they made their own fate. Or could it just maybe be the other way around?
You play the teams you are assigned except for those OCC games, and there is no way of knowing until you play those games, how good or bad the opponents or your team will be. Was Auburn a better team then S.C. was last year? I think that makes three in a row for Auburn over S.C., but was Auburn the better team last year?
I think the teams should just play their games, and ignore the other teams schedule and let it work out. If S.C. is a good as Spurrier says they are, he should win the east. He has to beat LSU, but if they are so good, he should take care of them during the regular season and then beat whatever team represents the west in Atlanta. It doesn’t matter who your conference mates are. You either are as good as you perceive or you are not. The SEC East is just a small part, of a long journey to the big game.
Michael Veli
July 19th, 2012
2:54 pm
To those who think Georgia is going to win the S.E.C. are you talking about on the XBox or on the Playstation?
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
2:55 pm
can we please take a look at the ga tech schedule…
Sure. It is tougher then the UGA schedule.
still this year like any other year predicted to go 6-6
Who is predicting us to go 6-6?
bubba4dawgs
July 19th, 2012
3:03 pm
OK, DAWGS!! It’s your turn to shine! This is the best opportunity you’ve had in a long time and you are way overdue! Go get’em! Be hungry with every game and march right on in to the dome in Atlanta and take what is yours! GO DAWGS!!
We Run the East
July 19th, 2012
3:12 pm
So UGA wins East but South carolina is the best team in the East, finishes higher in BCS standing, gets a better bowl. Just like 2011! Will UGA ever be the BEST team in the East again? Not this year.
Does anyone else notice the building hot seat for CMR on these blogs. CMR’s pants will probably be on fire after Missouri. Definetly after 3 straight losses to SC.
Alabama vows to avoid 2010-type complacency | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
3:13 pm
[...] Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East [...]
mad~catfish
July 19th, 2012
3:21 pm
your absoutley right gtbob…most people think 5-7
Sept. 3 – at Virginia Tech-loss
Sept. 8 – Presbyterian-win–closer than you think
Sept. 15 – Virginia-win???? maybe
Sept. 22 – Miami-loss
Sept. 29 – Middle Tennessee State-win
Oct. 6 – at Clemson-loss killed by 21
Oct. 13 – Open date
Oct. 20 – Boston College-loss…just because you typically do…
Oct. 27 – BYU-loss
Nov. 3 – at Maryland-win
Nov. 10 – at North Carolina-loss
Nov. 17 – Duke-win
Nov. 24 – at Georgia-loss slaughtered and made to squeal like a pig then carved like a turkey on thanksgiving weekend yet again.
come to think of it i can’t come up with 5 either…..you know the reasoon i can’t be a tech fan…other than those trashy colors…trashy dorky butt ugly girls and murder scenes on n.avenue. the joke by coke has a way of getting up big and beating someone like idk byu or florida state or clemson or once every 15 years uga then the next week falling flat on there face and getting beat by 21 by either virginia or duke…i dont get it.
VINCE
July 19th, 2012
3:24 pm
Just hope we get past MO with walk-ons in defensive backfield. What a joke.
WDE
July 19th, 2012
3:28 pm
Lets just beat Buffalo and then start thinking about beating Mizzou ….one game at a time….get a win and then move on. Let the game chickens, Vols and Barners run their mouths we have to prove what we can do on the field not in the blogs…
mad~catfish
July 19th, 2012
3:29 pm
you run the east huh….well then lets also take a look at the s. carolina schedule…..
2012-2013 SCHEDULE
08/30/12 at Vanderbilt # TV
09/08/12 vs. East Carolina
09/15/12 vs. UAB TV
09/22/12 vs. Missouri #
09/29/12 at Kentucky #
10/06/12 vs. Georgia #
10/13/12 at LSU #
10/20/12 at Florida #
10/27/12 vs. Tennessee #
11/10/12 vs. Arkansas #
11/17/12 vs. Wofford
11/24/12 at Clemson
you play missouri , kentucky ,uga, lsu, florida, tennesse , arkansas all back to back with one off week in there after tennessee…i will be honest with ya there it is a real good possibility to loose 5 or 6 straight right there,,,,may not happen i will say prob won’t happen but you guys come through that with only one loss or none at all…hell i will bring you the sec east trophy and bow down to you myself in person, good luck
bitter spoiled recruit
July 19th, 2012
3:31 pm
Look at all the leadership in the SEC at QB——JORDAN ROGERS–VANDY
————————–METT—-LSU
———————————BAMMA’S SENIOR QB
—————————MURRY—JAWGER
——————————————SHAW———-CHICKENS
———————AR/KANSAS———WHAT’S HIS NAME
————————–TEXAS A/M—–6′5″ QB
———————————-MIZZO————-FAST AND CAN THROW
—————–THE SEC IS LOADED———-DONT FORGET THE GREAT ARM AT —TEEN-UR-SAY
————————-GOING TO BE UPSETS EVERYWHERE—–GET READY FOR THE BEST
———————–YEAR EVER—————IVE SPOKEN TROLLS
bitter spoiled recruit
July 19th, 2012
3:49 pm
JORDAN ROGERS IS MY –DARK HORSE —FOR TOP COLLAGE QB—-
HE WILL BE BETTER THAN HIS BROTHER AT GREEN BAY
WDE
July 19th, 2012
3:50 pm
@bitter spoiled recruit I’m sure hoping he plays the best game of his life in the opener !
bitter spoiled recruit
July 19th, 2012
3:52 pm
VANDY WILL WIN 10 GAMES THIS YEAR AND FRANKLIN WILL TAKE OVER AT
———————————————-FLA—RA—DAH———-GATORS GO 4-8
Alexis
July 19th, 2012
3:56 pm
Big Orange Country…GO VOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GTBob
July 19th, 2012
4:07 pm
your absoutley right gtbob…most people think 5-7
If most people think that then it will be easy for you to provide a link. Show us all of the great minds out there that are predicting GT to go 5-7. The over under in Vegas is 7.5 wins, but what do they know?
Rooster
July 19th, 2012
4:08 pm
wrong again!!!!!! hehehhahahahahohohoho
Ticket Tax
July 19th, 2012
4:12 pm
‘I probably shouldn’t have said that. I’m just a regular old coach,”
Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being an undisciplined team | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
[...] Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East [...]
I dropped my fried twinkie
July 19th, 2012
4:31 pm
Red Panties full of hash browns and pot brownies makes the season go so much better.
TampaGator
July 19th, 2012
5:01 pm
What the media thinks in July means little or nothing about what will really happen in the fall. How many days until kickoff?
Go Gators!
TampaGator
July 19th, 2012
5:03 pm
@Bitter spoiled recruit……
You keep on posting and believing that.
Richt, Ole Miss coach respond to Spurrier’s schedule shot | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
5:16 pm
[...] Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East [...]
bitter spoiled recruit
July 19th, 2012
5:50 pm
No offence tampa” cigar” gator but– Coach Will– is running off 5 star players faster than
@a person so dumb cook’s burgers at the varsity———-hahahahaha–fry cook
trueblueeagle
July 19th, 2012
5:58 pm
mud catfish
1 the U lost most of starting football team last year
2. Tech has Clemson number
3 once tech gets past VT nobody else should beat them
bitter spoiled recruit
July 19th, 2012
6:00 pm
This year will be the most outraygous of any year on recrord, –we may have a 2 loss SEC Champ
—————–look at the shed—uall, the last 2 weeks will benifit UGA
georgia will lose to the chickens and possible vandy, but we will squik in due to chickens lossing 3
Bamma will lose 5 this year and saban will have a stroke on national T.V after tyler bray lights
them up for 50 points.———-ar-kannas will score 60 on the tide in front of the home folks
and SABAN will suffer 2nd STROKE on national T.V.—he will then RETIRE
Tide will lose last 3 games—————-THE SWAINNIE HAS SPOKEN
Ray
July 19th, 2012
6:10 pm
Again Georgia will back into the SECCG for a second straight year people talked about Florida Schedule a few years ago when Tebow was there and they faced The Citadel. Looking at our Schedule Georgia Southern are you freakin kidding me? That’s a load of crap if we do go undefeated mark my words we’ll be the most scrutinized team in the history of the SEC because just how soft our schedule is.
I honestly don’t want that, and AARON MURRAY IS NOT A HEISMAN QB GET THAT TALK OUT OF HERE!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
July 19th, 2012
6:23 pm
LOL
They are picking us to lose against Missouri
LOL
This coaching staff loses to Missouri they better have their bags packed
TampaGator
July 19th, 2012
6:40 pm
Bitter Recruit…..
What 5-star player has Muschamp “run off?” If you mean, asking players to leave the program for repeated drug arrests and another player for physically attacking a girlfriend….. well yes….Muschamp is “running those players off” and out of the program. Frankly, I don’t know a single person in GatorNation that has an issue with that approach. But I guess you do….as a non Gator.
Mark Richt
July 19th, 2012
8:37 pm
SHUT UP hoot dawg
Dogs Smell
July 19th, 2012
8:38 pm
Cant wait for the season to start and after the first 2 SEC losses the request for CMR to be fired !
Dogs Smell
July 19th, 2012
8:43 pm
hoot dog has never been to a college on a weekday.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
July 19th, 2012
8:45 pm
hoot dawg
lay off the brownies ok
Rooty Tooty
July 19th, 2012
8:52 pm
Hot off the press…Uga will play Ft Valley St for the SEC East title. CMR will say that if all the players had been there, several had to clean up trash off the highway that day, they would have won.
Boneheads
July 20th, 2012
5:04 am
You want see a joke Missouri wins East in first year in SEC plays LSU for SEC title and beats them in atlanta Georgia dome knockin God sent me to LSU out of game in 2nd quarter as Mizzu routs Kittys 44-14….win first SEC title….mark that down SEC people!
Deepdiver
July 20th, 2012
5:36 am
It would be embarrassing is Georgia had an 8-4 season with this cupcake schedule.
Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being an undisciplined team | SEC Football
July 20th, 2012
10:44 am
[...] Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East [...]
Answer man.
July 20th, 2012
1:38 pm
Refer back to this list at the end of the season.
Blah
July 20th, 2012
1:42 pm
Agreed, Mizzou and SC…focus, focus, focus-
Reporter Dawg
July 20th, 2012
4:35 pm
As a 40-year fan of UGA, I can usually gauge a Georgia team. Although this team is multi-talented, they will not win the SEC East this season. South Carolina will. Georgia will lose at least twice, possibllity three times. I have a very uneasy feeling about games against Tennessee (I sense some overconfidence there similar to 2004), Auburn and South Carolina who is at least as talented and much better coached. I see a South Carolina-LSU championship game, and won’t surprise me if SC wins their first SEC title (and likely last) under Spurrier. I hope I am wrong, becauss a 9-3 finish for UGA will firmly place Richt on the hot seat for 2013 (he will HAVE to win an SEC Title within three seasons or depart).
Reporter Dawg
July 20th, 2012
4:39 pm
Boneheads, Missouri will not win an SEC Title at anytime over the next 20 years. Make it 25. A&M at least has a chance, but doubtful. Misso will be lucky to win 7 games in 2012. The SEC is not the defense-less Big 12. Bama would have beaten OK State by 50 last season. Seriously.
Reporter Dawg
July 20th, 2012
4:41 pm
Apparently there are a number of drunk people posting today. Swainnie a great example.
David
July 20th, 2012
7:32 pm
Yeh overrated Georgia team picked AGAIN you had the easiest schedule in the east last year and still got blown out in the Sec Championship game and lost the Bowl game to a team that had to kick a field goal to beat “Ohio State 10-7 …….You will lose to Vandy this year……
gt4ever
July 21st, 2012
9:47 pm
The beauty of being a UGA fan…. Pre season all stars, and end of season under achievers….. Priceless….
haha
July 21st, 2012
11:51 pm
preseason national champions your Georgia Bulldogs. Someone forgot to tell the media that there is a regular season where you actually have to do your talking on the field. haha.
Stan
July 22nd, 2012
10:00 am
How can anyone predict how Georgia will fare when you dont know who will still be on the team at the end of the season
The Factor
July 22nd, 2012
11:42 pm
@GTBob
How old ARE you, 12? If you look at the history of SEC divisional play, you will see the EAST has been the more dominant side with the exception of the last few years. Should we have broken up the East? And, even when Tech was a part of the SEC many years ago, the conference rotated it’s schedule without the influence of the local school (as I see you have commented more than once on our conference schedule this year). What a pinhead! That is like saying FSU or Wake can determine who and when they play different schools in the ACC. Many a title has been won when the schedule sets up right. Just ask SoCal…
The Factor
July 23rd, 2012
12:14 am
By the way, Las Vegas has UGA at # 7 and 12/1 odds at winning the 2013 BCS NC. Five SEC teams in top 10 odds. Bama 2 at 9/2, LSU 2 at 6/1, UGA 7 12/1 , UF 9 at 20/1. SoCal odds-on fav at 3/1.
Alphare
July 23rd, 2012
8:40 am
UGA East and LSU West? Do you mean Alabama will win NC again?